Dosei Mansion

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Synonyms: She Came to Earth

Japanese: 土星マンション

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 7

Chapters: 64

Status: Finished

Published: Nov 25, 2005 to Jun 25, 2011

Genres: Award Winning, Drama, Sci-Fi

Theme: Space

Demographic: Seinen

Serialization: Ikki

Authors: Iwaoka, Hisae (Story & Art)

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Score: 7.47¹ (scored by 1,233 users)

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Ranked: #3272²

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Popularity: #3549

Members: 5,825

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Jan 17, 2018

Mayuka

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Saturn Apartments is a delightful slice of life set in space. It delves into many topics such as equality, class systems, chasing after the unknown, family values, finding yourself and many more. It's about life and how a young boy finds his value in this strange world. The cast are fun and colourful and support his journey as a window washer.

What I enjoyed about this series was how they all live in their world and how there was a class system. How everyone lives for different reasons and they are all trying to find why they are here and what they need to do. It's ...

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Oct 2, 2012

stocksatron

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Preliminary (6/64 chp)

Wanting to take up his fathers career and curious about the circumstances surrounding his disappearance, Mitsu takes up a job cleaning the windows of the huge ring like structure orbiting the earth which all humanity now inhabits due to the Earth having been turned into a nature reserve. Mitsu soon finds that his new job enables him to take on an outsiders view on the strange world of Saturn Apartments.
Whilst many parts of the story can’t be argued to be groundbreaking, the way in which Saturn Apartments society is divided holds the story together and makes each new client more interesting. Rather than focusing on ... society as a whole Hisae just looks at individuals making it interesting and creating a much more character driven story. She also doesn’t spend to much time explaining parts the world she has created in the narration (Though sometimes Mitsu and other characters do have out of place lines explaining how this world works although they are few and far between), this makes the ring much more mysterious and I found it allowed me to piece details together for myself. However it’s the art work which really brings the story into its own. Hisae’s unique art style gives each panel character. She has also used light and darkness in an ingenious way: the lower levels of the complex are filled with darkness which bring out the despair of many of the characters who live there, the light on the second level gives the impression of hope and immense brightness of the rarely seen upper levels really show the prosperity and wealth belonging to its inhabitants. Hisae’s drawings of space and the Earth itself are all genuinely beautiful and do create a hypnotic sense of aw and beauty reminding me of the reactions to the first photos of Earth that captivated humanity when they were taken in the late sixties.
All of the characters are constantly striving to have more. The vast difference between what those of the lower levels and those of the upper levels want suggests that Hisae is really trying to make a statement on both society’s many social issues and how we can never accept our lives as they are – no matter how privileged.
Whilst Saturn Apartments storyline isn’t groundbreaking its art style is where it really shines and it’s the art style that often makes the book itself more interesting and keeps the pages turning. Overall I would thoroughly recommend this book to any reader who has become tired of the clichés of the average shonen/shojo art style and wants to find something more original and inventive or a reader who has left manga for a while and would like to read something mature but isn’t quite sure what title they should pick up.

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Feb 2, 2016

CaptainPirate

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Dosei Mansion (a.k.a Saturn Apartments) is on the surface just another slice of life with a wacky twist; This time they're in a giant ring surrounding the Earth (the Ring System) because the Earth was turned into a nature preserve. Just on that it doesn't seem like much to follow the every day life of a window cleaner didn't seem all to exciting. That was my attitude going in, and after finishing the manga, I can say that I was totally wrong. Beneath the slice of life guise that Saturn Apartments holds in a beautiful story that all of its readers can relate to.
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May 3, 2022

PenguinboiG

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Saturn Apartments is not a perfect manga and has many flaws, but I think it's a manga worth reading because of it's characters and story. I could tell that the author really did having everything planned out for the story because the ending was perfectly in place and the story does not go on too long or end short. The art gives a sense of how small the apartments are, but how big they feel. It really suits the story. This is a short series and I found it very enjoyable. This is a series where the main character is a window cleaner and it's ... probably on of the most interesting things I've read. If you're looking for a short series with an overarching story with some slice of life, this is definitely it.

My favorite character from the series is the main character, Mitsu. Mitsu is my favorite character in this series because he sees the world in a very unique way. During the series he thought his father killed himself to go down to the earth, but later on in the series he sees that his father fought to survive. This made him change his perspective on his father and make him want to go to earth and find his father's body to thank him. Mitsu also learns about things very quickly and adapts to them quickly. He generally cares about people and will do anything to help them, even if they are mean to him. Mitsu Is a very kind character and doesn't really dislike anyone, even the person who almost tried to kill him. I would say the only person he dislikes is his father because he abandoned him when he was little, but that changed later on. This character can be flawed, but he is generally enjoyable to read and makes you want to read more about him.

My favorite part of the plot was when everyone was in the Saturn apartments and instead of being in space and hanging out there just normally hanging out for a festival. This is one of the few moments where all the characters are together in the story. During this part of the series most of the characters know each other and have all developed a friendship, so it’s fun to see them all hanging out together and having a good time. During the festival, Mitsu wears a costume similar to his dad when he was younger and all the side characters know this. So Mitsu wears it differently than his dad so he can not just be exactly like him. During the end of the festival Mitsu makes a promise to his friend that they’ll come again next year. This may be the most simple part of the series, but I would have to say this was the most enjoyable part to read. The series has very complex plot points, but they don’t have all the characters in them and they don’t hit as hard as this chapter does.

More moments in this series happen, but near the end it stops to focus on it's plot. The final arc is very good because the main character's dream is coming true and the Saturn apartments is in dismay. The series ends very well and all the characters story come to an end. I wish I could spend more time with the characters, but all things must come to and end. Saturn apartments really left an impression on me and It's definitely one of my favorites of all time. My only problem with this series is that it's too slice of life for the earlier volumes. It really breaks the pace and the author should've sprinkled more of the story throughout those earlier volumes. This is still one of my favorite reads and I highly recommend. Overall this is a 9/10

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