Jun 12, 2021
Maison Ikkoku is an anime that will leave a deep impression inside you, so much that you will keep thinking about it for a very long time, and you will probably want to watch it again.
I knew about it back in 1990 but at the time I was a little boy who wasn't interested in that kind of anime, instead I wanted more action. And then I always thought it was a comedy for kids, but this year I decided to watch it, and I was so wrong! Kids will certainly enjoy it, but adults will love it.
The show is sometimes comic and sometimes serious,
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and it can get very serious, and when it happens, you will feel it, probably have tears because those moments are emotional and beautiful.
You will also feel other emotions including anger, pain and especially frustration at some of the characters. However, this is not a negative because this is also what the characters had to go through, so you will feel their own pain and joy, and the painful moments will make the happy ones even better. Please do not give up, and you will be rewarded!
Story 8/10 - The story is nice, but it's nothing special, but that's fine. What makes the anime great is not the story itself but how it is beautifully executed.
Art 9/10 - First, I should say that the art gets better after episode 28 about, the characters are drawn more realistically, especially Godai and Kyoko.
Second, I think the art is beautiful (Blu-ray), it looks like a painting in motion, with so many details carefully drawn, and the expressions are very well rendered, you can really tell what people feel using body language. To me, this is a big improvement over the recent anime which look too robotic and too clean, like computer generated.
Sound 10/10 - All the voices are nice, but 2 of them stand out: Yotsuya and Kyoko.
Yotsuya is voiced by Shigeru Chiba, and has the perfect deep voice for the character, who sounds always serious, yet says funny things :)
Kyoko is voiced by Sumi Shimamoto, and I'd say that by herself, she made the anime a 10/10 instead of a 9/10. Her voice changes depending on the emotional state of the character, and always perfectly so, so you can really tell if she's happy, sad, angry, surprised etc. And for some of those emotions, she has the most beautiful voice I've ever heard.
Music is also nice, and at its best when it's melancholic.
Overall 10/10 - The average episode is maybe an 8/10, but the great episodes are so great that they make the whole show a 10/10. Now I feel sad because I'm not sure I can experience this again with another anime.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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