Lisa returns for a brief appearance. Young Hiroshi and Marie & Mari's reaction to him is cute. Rest is about Marie's first love, Mitsuishi Mamoru. Things really start to move now. In fact, I feel bad about not reading them sooner. I was bored by some of the earlier volumes, so I put the whole thing on low-priority list. I would've skipped volumes 3 through 6 if I knew 7+ to be so good.
By the way, there's a picture of Miyamura Yuuko with her autograph inside the front jacket. For the life of me, I can't tell if it's printed on or if the original owner of this book actually got her autograph at some event. The fact that it protrudes into the photo area even though there's plenty of room below makes me think that this is a real autograph. Can anyone confirm? If it's a real autograph, "lucky!" As I mentioned in volume 1 listing, I bought these used.
