Maison Ikkoku

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Alternative Titles

Synonyms: Ikkoku House
Japanese: めぞん一刻
English: Maison Ikkoku
French: Maison Ikkoku: Juliette Je t'aime
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Information

Type: TV
Episodes: 96
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Mar 26, 1986 to Mar 2, 1988
Premiered: Spring 1986
Broadcast: Wednesdays at 19:30 (JST)
Producers: Kitty Films, Fuji TV
Licensors: VIZ Media
Studios: Studio Deen
Source: Manga
Genres: ComedyComedy, DramaDrama, RomanceRomance
Theme: Adult CastAdult Cast
Demographic: SeinenSeinen
Duration: 25 min. per ep.
Rating: R+ - Mild Nudity

Statistics

Score: 8.201 (scored by 1875518,755 users)
1 indicates a weighted score.
Ranked: #3662
2 based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.
Popularity: #2505
Members: 72,694
Favorites: 1,722

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Animeby TeKSMeLater

If there's any person who defined the archetypal 80s anime character art style, Akemi Takada would be a strong contender. Debuting in the industry as a guest character designer for Ippatsu Kanta-kun, Takada would be assigned as the main character designer only a year later for the sequel of Science Ninja Team Gatchaman, a show she was a fan of during her university years. After four years of working for Tatsunoko, Takada went freelance and truly hit her stride with her involvement in the adaptation of Urusei Yatsura, adapting Rumiko Takahashi's art style to an anime format (she was responsible for turning Lum's rainbow-colored hair into the trademark teal it is known today). Takada would later work on another Takahashi adaptation, taking after Yuuji Moriyama stepped down from the character designer role in Episode 28 of Maison Ikkoku.

Takada has a quite interesting evolution in her art style over the years. One way of comparison is through how different her character design of Lum looked from Episode 1 in contrast to her appearance in the later episodes of the series. Over time Takada's style would get more individuality, her characters more model-like, their eyes getting softer and gentler, their fashion sense more pronounced and elegant. This is most evident in her character designs for Kimagure Orange Road in 1987, which can be considered a culmination of her style and possesses many of the features that her characters have had ever since.

Like other interest stacks I have created, the following list is a selection of her most important works in chronological order. She is one of my favorite character designers ever, so I hope you consider checking them out. Or at least buy one of her artbooks.

Halcyon Realms's La Madonna artbook review - http://halcyonrealms.com/anime/la-madonna-takada-akemi-art-book-review/
Character design sheets for Maison Ikkoku - https://www.catsuka.com/gengal/artworks//maison_ikkoku
Lum's character design + a podcast about Urusei Yatsura in the thread - https://twitter.com/bunnycartoon/status/1260227769298026503

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Animeby Hachii13

A list of Romance/School focused animes. There are also some comedy animes, besides some drama but not a heavy one.

I wrote a note in every anime I've watched.

Check the other rom-com stacks for more recommendations.

Part 2: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/3212
Part 3: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/3214

50 Entries · Jul 10, 2023 12:49 PM

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Animeby skap-attack

25 Entries · May 4, 2022 10:29 PM

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Anime series or movies with a fair amount of realistic scenery of modern Japanese cities (starting from the '80s) like Tokyo or any other, with a remarkable romantic or nostalgic feeling, like those depicting cities centre, schools or distant suburbs with typical residential streets during particular moments of the year or of the day, like an autumn or cherry blossom scene, or even a beautiful sunset for example, with Japanese crows and black kites in the sky making singing their beautiful call, or a typical Japanese train passing along a road or a bridge, why not with the Fujiyama in the background. Anything providing a romantic and nostalgic feeling of Japanese cities is very welcome to this Interest Stack.

17 Entries · Sep 27, 2022 8:14 PM

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Anime series produced before 2000s with a fair amount of scenes depicting Japanese cities in the '80s or'90s providing a remarkable nostalgic feeling, both cities centre or especially suburbs and residential areas.

13 Entries · May 6, 2022 5:18 AM

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Any anime which is popular not only for its story, visual art or characters but also particularly remarkable among both fans and anime critics for its unique and special soundtrack.

14 Entries · Aug 1, 2022 2:24 AM

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Animeby meganium

32 Entries · Jul 6, 2022 1:40 PM

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Animeby Gosplan14

Many of these known by proxy or heard about, but not that commonly actually watched beyond a few exceptions. Anime from the past millenium hides many gems that are worth watching.

47 Entries · Jun 3, 2022 4:12 AM

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Animeby GRozek

50 Entries · May 21, 2022 2:48 PM

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Animeby Gosplan14

Some 80s anime with openings I really like. I'll probably add more to the list with time.

31 Entries · Jun 2, 2022 6:59 AM

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Animeby Hatul

Only series that are ranked below 2,000 in 'Popularity' on MAL.

50 Entries · Jun 2, 2023 9:33 PM

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Animeby jkim

Includes very good anime that are older than 2010 and has less than 30k completed. Hidden gems.

28 Entries · Feb 8, 1:51 AM

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Animeby krmnnn

Anime aired in Spain's TV channels (public or private), listed with the Spanish title. Might be missing some or be messy: I wanted to add the most important but also the less obvious. Excluding most sequels & movies.

IMPORTANT: Check part 1, 3, 4, 5 + OVA.

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ES: Anime emitido en los canales públicos o privados de la televisión de España, con sus títulos en español. Pueden faltar algunos animes o estar desordenados.: he querido añadir lo más importante pero también lo menos obvio. Excluyendo la mayoría de secuelas y películas.

IMPORTANTE: Ver parte 1, 3, 4 y 5 + OVA.

key words: canal sur, animax, k3, tve, neox, clan, tele5, jetix, buzz, boomerang, tvc, cuatro, lasexta, antena 3, cartoon network, castilla la mancha tv, televisió de catalunya, canal plus, autonómica, local, canal 9, locomotion.

part 1: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/7348
part 3: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/7361
part 4: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/7562
part 5: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/8140
OVA: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/8137

50 Entries · Jan 7, 2023 3:19 AM

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Animeby Squarrel

[Please let me know of any errors]

Hello everyone, I will try to list here a long list of anime that have been broadcast on French television, being as faithful as possible.

The 80s represent the very first generation of successful Japanese cartoons to land on televisions of the time.
This wave is mainly marked by the youth program "Récré A2" broadcast from July 3, 1978 until June 29, 1988 on the Antenne 2 channel.

There are also some films and series that date from before 1978 in this list but they did not have a huge impact in France, the year 1978 especially marks the arrival of Grendizer [UFO Robo Grendizer] who was a real pop-cultural tidal wave for years, which we still see its influence today. It will of course be accompanied by equally cult anime throughout the 80s and 90s.

(Sorry for some missing anime, usually it's because they're not on MAL)

(And also I'm doing this whole thread by translating it on google translate, sorry in advance for the bad turns of phrase)

50 Entries · Apr 17, 2023 3:22 PM

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Animeby Denfinker

Anime that licensed English songs for their Opening and/or Ending music

29 Entries · Sep 18, 2022 2:27 PM

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Animeby AstralSky

For the most part one entry per series. Subject to change as some are unfinished.

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Animeby ShimyBear

The bottom 50 of the top 100 anime gathered from TV Asahi's Japan-wide survey, conducted with multiple age-groups, into the best animated series.

(No. 85 is Tom and Jerry)



(https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2005-09-23/tv-asahi-top-100-anime-part-2)

48 Entries · Jul 17, 2022 5:04 AM

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Animeby Fararara

the First to get a shows Angel Cop

28 Entries · Oct 9, 2022 1:32 PM

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Animeby RobertBobert

An anime about the everyday life of adults, from the first steps of young students to the serious work of mature men and women. There are no special rules, you can also find here some historical and moderately science fiction works, as long as they are devoted to the daily life of adults.

50 Entries · Aug 27, 2022 2:21 PM

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Animeby korix_

Non-baseball anime that feature baseball.

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Think there's an entry that should be added/removed? Let me know.

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