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Maison Ikkoku

Alternative Titles

Japanese: めぞん一刻
English: Maison Ikkoku
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Information

Type: Manga
Volumes: 15
Chapters: 162
Status: Finished
Published: Oct 14, 1980 to Apr 6, 1987
Genres: Comedy Comedy, Drama Drama, Romance Romance
Theme: Adult Cast Adult Cast
Demographic: Seinen Seinen
Serialization: Big Comic Spirits
Authors: Takahashi, Rumiko (Story & Art)

Statistics

Score: 8.161 (scored by 53195,319 users)
1 indicates a weighted score.
Ranked: #4692
2 based on the top manga page. Please note that 'R18+' titles are excluded.
Popularity: #1037
Members: 17,200
Favorites: 726

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Volumes: /15
Chapters: /162

Synopsis

In the town of Tokeizaka stands the old, worn-down boarding house known as Maison Ikkoku. For the last few years, the building has been home to a rambunctious group of tenants, including 20-year-old college applicant Yusaku Godai, its most recent resident. Recently, however, Yusaku has grown impatient with the noisy shenanigans interrupting his studies and has decided to move out. However, as he is preparing to leave, a beautiful woman named Kyoko Otonashi introduces herself as the new property manager. Falling in love with her at first sight, Yusaku changes his mind and decides to stay to court Kyoko instead.

Though he initially believes he is making progress with Kyoko, Yusaku soon discovers that she is a widow still mourning the loss of her late husband. Despite her growing feelings for Yusaku, Kyoko states that she has no intentions to remarry or even date, as she still loves her late husband. Empathizing with her, Yusaku seeks to free Kyoko from her sadness with the help of the other inhabitants of Maison Ikkoku—all in the hope that she will one day see him as more than just another tenant of the building.

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Background

Maison Ikkoku was published in English by VIZ Media from October 24, 2003 to February 14, 2006. It was published in Spanish by Glénat España from May 2004 to January 2013.

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Sep 14, 2023
There were times I loved this story, and times I hated this story. You can say I have a love/hate relationship with this story, because honestly, the characters are some of the worst humans to exist, and the best. This manga is a paradox, it is both bad and good. It's a slog that you can't stop reading.

I don't like Shoujo, but I read it because it's a famous manga. I don't regret having read it, and now that I have I hope to purge it from my memory and never think about it again. It's a story that's worth reading once. Never again tho.
Jul 16, 2022
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Subjectivity matters most to me when rating anime. As a result, despite a lot of high praise and beloved ratings, in my eyes, this manga is only a 6/10. Due to its lack of character development and characters with much likability, lack of a satisfying build up of the main couple's relationship, and its nature to take an unnecessarily long time to reach a conclusion which could have been brought much sooner amongst more reasons, I could not help but notice these things and not enjoy it as much as every one else did. This works better as a slice of life manga than a ...
Apr 3, 2020
This was my first experience of a Rumiko Takahashi work. And boy, what a disappointment this was.

Maison Ikkoku is a failure of a slice-of-life/comedy about indecisive love interests and a band of friends who makes things worse for everyone - because it is supposed to be ''funny''.

(For most parts) Everyone in this series is a selfish jerk, and I mean everyone!

Yet, these same characters are tightly tied together by the notion of being a community. Perhaps, this was how we were back then (maybe still are) as a society - forgiving everyone's shortcomings, even if their whimsical actions & indecisiveness constantly hurt others. However, ...

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