I don't know that the name You Higuri spells instant success in America, but with five, count 'em, five other titles licensed and published in the US, I think it's not out of the realm of possibility that Ludwig II will get licensed eventually. Since I love Higuri even at her crackiest, campiest, and most melodramatic--it helps that looking at her art is a little bit like having sex--this thought fills me with joy.

Seconding the Anno love. Even in something as cracked as Happy Mania, there is something pure and refreshing about how her 20-or-30-something female protagonists aren't housewives, even the ones who want to be.