Maison Ikkoku, Volume 12
Story and Art by Rumiko Takahashi
Coach Mitaka is dashing, athletic, financially set, and extraordinarily popular with the ladies, but there`s one little aspect of his personality that has curtailed his success with the lovely Kyoko from day one--his crippling, petrifying, and all-around embarrassing fear of dogs (Kyoko`s dog Soichiro in particular). Mitaka has gone into seclusion to cure himself of his phobia, promising that he will return as a new man...But will he emerge from his canine-chrysalis in time to win Kyoko`s heart, or will his lot be forever thrown in with the shy, patrician, and multiple dog-loving heiress Asuna?