Happy Marriage?!, Volume 10 manga review

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Happy Marriage?!, Volume 10 manga review
By Leroy Douresseaux
February 5, 2015 - 19:19

Viz Media
Writer(s): Maki Enjoji, Tetsuichiro Miyaki, Nancy Thislethwaite
Penciller(s): Maki Enjoji
Letterer(s): Inori Fukuda Trant
ISBN: 978-1-4215-5943-8
$9.99 U.S., $12.99 CAN, £6.99 UK, 192pp, B&W, paperback
Rating: M (Mature)

Happy Marriage?! Volume 10 cover image is courtesy of barnesandnoble.com.

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Rated “M” for “Mature”

Chiwa Takanashi never had any girlish fantasies about courtship and marriage, but she found herself in an unlikely scenario. The 22-year-old married a total stranger in order to get her father out of debt! Her husband, 28-year-old Hokuto Mamiya, was the President and CEO of Mamiya Commerce. Their marriage, for a time, was a secret, with only Hokuto’s personal assistant, Taeko Soma, knowing of the union’s true nature. Two years later, Chiwa and Hokuto are trying to be a real married couple.

As Happy Marriage?!, Vol. 10 (Chapters 37 to 39 to Final Chapter) opens, Chiwa recovers from the would she received when she tried to protect Hokuto from a savage knife attack. Even after that, she still cannot reveal to Hokuto the letter she received from her his now-deceased father, Seiji Mamiya, that revealed a secret.

Her reticence will not stop the turmoil within the Mamiya family. Hokuto will learn a shocking truth about his mother, Yoko Miura, and about himself. The revelations could ruin Chiwa and Hokuto's marriage.

THE LOWDOWN: I am not happy about saying goodbye to the Happy Marriage?! manga. However, I must accept that Happy Marriage?! Volume 10 is the final volume of this series that I have come to really enjoy reading.

I don't want to spoil anything, but I will admit that there are some some explosive revelations and that there are some character revelations that are worse than some readers my have expected. I can say that Happy Marriage?! has a happy ending. It has a celebratory last chapter that will remind readers why this typical shojo soap opera romance manages to be something different and also something especially lovable.

POSSIBLE AUDIENCE: Readers looking for shojo romantic drama will be happy with the Shojo Beat title, Happy Marriage?!

Rating: A/10