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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: 8.141 (scored by 60306,030 users)
1 indicates a weighted score.
Ranked: #5112
2 based on the top manga page. Please note that 'R18+' titles are excluded.
Popularity: #1044
Members: 18,988
Favorites: 768

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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. The publisher later rereleased the series as 10 collector's edition volumes. It was also released in Spanish by Glénat España from May 2004 to January 2013; and in France by Tonkam Edition from January 2001 to January 2003.

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Reviews

Mar 24, 2010
"What we've got here is... failure to communicate." - Cool Hand Luke

Misunderstandings are brought about by a failure to convey what one truly wants to say. In many cases the problems caused are nothing more than trivialities, but in certain situations a misunderstanding can have damaging consequences. Relationships can end, families can turn against each other, friends can become enemies, misunderstandings can even spark wars.

Maison Ikkoku is probably one of the most well known and influential romantic comedies in the history of manga and anime. Created in 1980 by the reknowned Takahashi Rumiko, the manga was serialised in "Big Comic Spirits" for its entire ...
Jul 16, 2022
Mixed Feelings
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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 ...
Dec 23, 2017
While not the worst manga I have ever read, Maison Ikkoku is certainly the manga I hate most. A seemingly unthinkable opinion given the reviews and recommendations that seem to drip of this work in buckets worth. Any and all of those reviews seem to take what I view as the reasons that this manga is a god awful piece of shit as reasons that it is amazing and wonderful, or give the manga a great rating while acknowledging how glaring these issues are. I'll try to cover them, and I can on some of them understand it is simple a difference of taste, but ...

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