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Una de las mejores obras de una de las principales autoras de manga de todos los tiempos. Maison Ikkoku cuenta la historia de amores, desamores, encuentros y desencuentros entre Kyôko, la nueva encargada de la pensión Ikkoku, y uno de los inquilinos, un estudiante llamado Godai.

368 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 1, 1992

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Rumiko Takahashi

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Rumiko Takahashi (高橋留美子) was born in Niigata, Japan. She is not only one of the richest women in Japan but also one of the top paid manga artists. She is also the most successful female comic artist in history. She has been writing manga non-stop for 31 years.

Rumiko Takahashi is one of the wealthiest women in Japan. The manga she creates (and its anime adaptations) are very popular in the United States and Europe where they have been released as both manga and anime in English translation. Her works are relatively famous worldwide, and many of her series were some of the forerunners of early English language manga to be released in the nineties. Takahashi is also the best selling female comics artist in history; well over 100 million copies of her various works have been sold.

Though she was said to occasionally doodle in the margins of her papers while attending Niigata Chūō High School, Takahashi's interest in manga did not come until later. During her college years, she enrolled in Gekiga Sonjuku, a manga school founded by Kazuo Koike, mangaka of Crying Freeman and Lone Wolf and Cub. Under his guidance Rumiko Takahashi began to publish her first doujinshi creations in 1975, such as Bye-Bye Road and Star of Futile Dust. Kozue Koike often urged his students to create well-thought out, interesting characters, and this influence would greatly impact Rumiko Takahashi's works throughout her career.

Career and major works:

Takahashi's professional career began in 1978. Her first published story was Those Selfish Aliens, a comedic science fiction story. During the same year, she published Time Warp Trouble, Shake Your Buddha, and the Golden Gods of Poverty in Shōnen Sunday, which would remain the home to most of her major works for the next twenty years. Later that year, Rumiko attempted her first full-length series, Urusei Yatsura. Though it had a rocky start due to publishing difficulties, Urusei Yatsura would become one of the most beloved anime and manga comedies in Japan.

In 1980, Rumiko Takahashi found her niche and began to publish with regularity. At this time she started her second major series, Maison Ikkoku, in Big Comic Spirits. Written for an older audience, Maison Ikkoku is often considered to be one of the all-time best romance manga. Takahashi managed to work on Maison Ikkoku on and off simultaneously with Urusei Yatsura. She concluded both series in 1987, with Urusei Yatsura ending at 34 volumes, and Maison Ikkoku being 15.

During the 1980s, Takahashi became a prolific writer of short story manga, which is surprising considering the massive lengths of most of her works. Her stories The Laughing Target, Maris the Chojo, and Fire Tripper all were adapted into original video animations (OVAs). In 1984, after the end of Urusei Yatsura and Maison Ikkoku, Takahashi took a different approach to storytelling and began the dark, macabre Mermaid Saga. This series of short segments was published sporadically until 1994, with the final story being Mermaid's Mask. Many fans contend that this work remains unfinished by Takahashi, since the final story does not end on a conclusive note.

Another short work left untouched is One-Pound Gospel, which, like Mermaid Saga, was published erratically. The last story to be drawn was published in 2001, however just recently she wrote one final chapter concluding the series

Later in 1987, Takahashi began her third major series, Ranma ½. Following the late 80s and early 90s trend of shōnen martial arts manga, Ranma ½ features a gender-bending twist. The series continued for nearly a decade until 1996, when it ended at 38 volumes. Ranma ½ is one of Rumiko Takahashi's most popular series with the Western world.

During the later half of the 1990s, Rumiko Takahashi continued with short stories and her installments of Mermaid Saga and One-Pound Gospel until beginning her fourth major work, InuYasha. While Ran

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31 reviews3 followers
February 8, 2022
More slapstick cartoon sitcom shenanigans! More very confused gender politics! More incredible top of the line comic making! It’s all very mixed and confusing but just like the last one I had a great time reading and can’t recommend it to anybody. The character development in this volume was layered and interesting, and I don’t know if that made me like it more or less! Still a wonderful time that’s made me very happy and I love spending my breakfast reading time hanging out with these characters who I hate 💜
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112 reviews2 followers
August 9, 2022
The loosest storyline to follow that I ever did attempt to read by Rumiko Takahashi, but not a complete surprise if you've ever read anything written by Rumiko Takahashi. I won't hold my breath that any progression or character development takes place for our main characters, the manager and Godai, any time soon (if at all), especially considering this is one of her older works from the 80s.

I will say that Takahashi's accomplished art even this early on in her career and reigning title of nonsensical shenanigans master make this not a completely impossible read per any other artist/author.
683 reviews
April 9, 2021
Maison Ikkoku is such comfort food to me. I love entering this world and hanging out with the residents of Maison Ikkoku and watching the relationship between Godai and Kyouko mature.

Looking back on this with modern eyes, it seems both pervier and more innocent than something written today might be.

In this volume we have Godai getting closer to Kozue-chan and her family than might be comfortable and Kyouko realizing her feelings for Godai might be deeper than she first suspected.
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163 reviews11 followers
December 16, 2024
desperately need an apron that says piyo piyo.

still having a very fun time reading this series and it is quickly becoming a comfort read for me. it's wonderful to see kyoko work thru her feelings for godai as she continues to grapple with what it means to be a widow at such a young age. and the hot tennis coach? oh i love the drama love the mess especially as a fellow girlie who never knows when someone is into her.

3.5
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135 reviews3 followers
November 28, 2022
i like everything but idk how long they’ll remain fresh cause the will-they-won’t-they is already nagging on and the tennis coach is such a plug
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222 reviews26 followers
September 4, 2020
Je ne suis pas très fan des dessins, c’est un ancien style, moins souple que le style de dessin manga actuel. Mais l’histoire est sympa et se déroule sous forme de chapitres, de petites scènes du quotidien. Une lecture agréable que l’on peut lire en plusieurs fois. J’aime bien Godaï mais j’avoue que Kyoko m’énerve un peu avec ses manières d’antan mais elle a des côtés sympathique. Sinon les autres perso sont drôles et pimentent le récit.
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1,959 reviews30 followers
May 31, 2022
Family Feud

With so many classic Rumiko Takahashi series being put out there certainly is no lack of choices including this classic reaching volume 2 in the omnibus series. With hard life choices, a cast of characters that continues to grow, and a tight knit community to mix up the unique people in the main characters life there is rarely a dull moment. For me it is not only the great art capable of clearly allowing each character to be easily identified but also the fact that we see Kyoko deal with real problems as the cast has a way of forcing her to consider certain things that she might not consider if she continued to focus on Soichiro.

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1,041 reviews44 followers
June 19, 2021
MAISON IKKOKU #2 pivots toward discerning whether Kyoko Otonashi will come to final terms with her husband's passing and invest in a different, more family-focused future. The young woman's mother and father fear their daughter is doomed to the life of a spinster and so urge her to remarry as soon as possible. It's not as if she has any decent suitors nearby, right? And even if she did, it's not as if they'd care for her seriously enough so as to wield her emotional baggage with the finesse she needs, right?

The rivalry between coach Mitaka and young Godai earns a new wrinkle when Kyoko Otonashi's parents slink into the picture. At turns bothersome, conniving, stubborn, and goofy in their earnestness, Ms. Otonashi's parents make their daughter's life a veritable hell. And all to secure the young woman's future on her behalf. For experienced manga readers, the family's interference toes the line of this capricious narrative with caustic guile. Kyoko's mother is interminably shrewd and almost unbearably aggressive (until she isolates a line of reason that's convenient for both her and her daughter). Kyoko's father is comically, disastrously distracting (until he gets drunk).

MAISON IKKOKU #2 focuses on the intrusion of Otonashi's parents, and so necessarily neglects other, secondary characters. Mrs. Ichinose appears in a number of chapters and both helps and hurts the case for keeping around the manager of Maison Ikkoku (the woman's hunger for gossip shall not be sated). Regrettably, aside from Godai, she's the only house member who has a notable role in this volume. Akemi Roppongi appears in but a handful of panels. Mr. Yotsuya, undoubtedly the funniest character in the whole cast, also has limited influence on the story.

But what makes this volume so interesting to read from start to finish is it's continuous, overlapping of splintering ironies. Mitaka is older and financially stable but lacks maturity. Godai is younger and somewhat mature but lacks resolve. Godai confesses to Kozue his whimsical vision for a humble nuclear family. But it's evident that Otonashi, still grieving her husband, wants nothing to do with starting a family, and merely wants peace above all else. The construction of these related but opposing needs is a clever way to force characters to depend on one another without any of them truly realizing it. One hopes future episodes will maintain these relationships as nimbly as they were first assembled.
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544 reviews117 followers
March 23, 2025
Still fun, still fluffy, still romcom.

It’s been a year since Kyoko came to Maison Ikkuko. Godai is a university student now. He gathers his courage and asks Kyoko out on a date! Will this date go as Godai planned? Well… The neighbours and tenants of Maison Ikkuko, remember them? They are just as obnoxious, annoying and nosy as ever!

The handsome tennis coach Mitaka is still around. There is a sparkle in his eye, aimed at Kyoko. The guy is a sleaze bag! I don’t like him. To complicate things, the love triangle is turning into a love rectangle. No, actually, considering Kyoko’s back story, it’s a love pentagon. Very tangled!

The are lots of fun episodes in this volume. The chapter in which Kyoko and Godai end up doing a puppet show together is great. I laughed so much! Godai also happens to promise to take care of a friend’s cat for a few days. The cat’s name is Kyoko. A lot of hilarity ensues (you can imagine).

We meet Kyoko’s parents in this volume, and the story becomes darker. If Kyoko’s parents were my parents… I’d move to another country! I’d move to a different hemisphere! I’d change my name! I’d have plastic surgery! Wait, am I behaving like an over the top manga character? Rumiko Takahashi, what are you doing to me?

Anyway, next volume should be fun too.
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1,368 reviews32 followers
September 15, 2021
Containing Chapters 17-33

I am so happy I finally finished this. I will update the date of when I started once I find out lol

Godai is still trying to win Kyoko over so they plan on a date but the residents of Maison Ikkou have their own ideas.

Two years since her husband died, Kyoko does think about marrying Godai or the tennis coach after he proposals to her, but she knows she is not ready.

Kyoko's parents meddle in her life and try to make her quit being the manager. Her mother even moves her things and make the tenants think she abandoned them.

Godai starts casually dating Kozue Nanao, though he knows he should end it, he does like the two meals a week from having dinner with her family. He sees himself marring Kyoko while Kozue is okay with being on a budget. Her family is funny and enjoyed the interaction. The manager acts like she is not jealous but it is obvious that she is.

Atleast we know that Godai has impure thoughts of Kyoto. Yotsuya states what he hears Godai doing in his room at nights. XD even worse is that Kyoko does hear is when she is standing on the stairs.

I do plan on continuing the series. I am waiting for volume 3 now. I thought I could binge this series and catch up, but there is too much to read.
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715 reviews13 followers
November 20, 2023
k-kya... uwu........ : 3

i ... i am sad the sexism continues terribly into this volume too. i am still enjoying these. & this one i liked even more for many reasons 1) kyoko is brash & stubborn & petty & so so lovely to watch. she is so immensely compelling on every page--you can feel her yearning for lives she has not chosen & lives she still has the chance to choose 2) godai is growing & making real moral choices (by also sustaining awful ones) & his relation to kyoko is shifting from the initial objectification which is a treat 3) the series has such a lovely, neat set-up for why the "will-they-won't-they" is prolonged... it's a way of honoring kyoko's feelings within narrative structure. i did not expect this series to be so tightly trying to answer the question "do/should we die with the ones we love?" that's such a heart-wrenching question to me

rumiko snapped with this one imo
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154 reviews1 follower
July 24, 2022
With its continuation of Godai and Kyoko’s personal growth and complicated relationship, this second volume, surprisingly, seems to slow itself down when it comes to character development. Had it not been for Kyoko’s parents now in the picture, a lot of what it has to offer is more on the line of amusing vignettes. The story doesn't support itself due to the persistence of its supporting characters being an active barricade of their relationship; they have now reached a point of being a nuisance for the reader. I have great interest in seeing its protagonists grow, but given the sparse allowance for such a prospect, I can’t help but feel underwhelmed.
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Author 2 books30 followers
April 29, 2021
Continues to be lovely and charming and funny and lighthearted, which is all I can ask for. As an artist myself, I love seeing how Takahashi's earlier style of faces had many of the key elements that came later, while still looking distinctly different from that later work. Facial features in this era are a bit more loose and rubbery, where they would later become a bit more refined (by which I literally mean her pen stroke became finer with time, her lines here are much bolder all over), but all those familiar trademarks are already there.
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166 reviews
December 30, 2022
Rumiko Takahashi is one of favorite Japanese manga artist. Incredible how her stories and characters originally catered to Japanese audience reached global popularity. I remember watching couple of episode of the anime adaptation of this manga in 2015-16 , and said to myself I need to read the manga and quit watching the anime. Reading the Volume 1 and 2, I can the anime is a faithful adaptation this is a slow burn where you the plot is character. This is a fun read. Recommended to slice of life fans.
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582 reviews6 followers
July 11, 2023
Dans ce deuxième tome, l'histoire n'avance pas vraiment, pourtant elle a bien commencé par une invitation à diner de Godaï. Mais elle a vite tourné court par une incompréhension.
L'humour et les quiproquos sont bien présents.
L'auteure a en revanche mis en avant l'entraineur de tennis créant ainsi un triangle amoureux. Elle a également donne des informations sur les familles de Kyoko, quelque peu loufoque, et de Godaï, qui parait être une famille acharnée dans le travail.
Il ne reste plus qu'à lire la suite.
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328 reviews5 followers
June 24, 2021
Now THIS is the Maison Ikkoku I've been waiting for. We have so much more to do with Kyoko this time around, she's no longer just a Cypher, she has deep grief over her husband, resentment to her family, and conflicting feelings about where she wants to go next. Godai is significantly more mature than the last volume, and is starting to become a bit of that heartthrob you know Kyoko could eventually find herself loving. Now if only that pesky coach would get out of the way! 🤣
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1,585 reviews19 followers
July 22, 2021
A cute continuation of the goings on in Maison Ikkoku. This volume focuses primarily on the manager's struggle with being pushed to move on from the memory of her dead husband and to remarry while she probably feels like she needs more time to grieve. At times this volume focuses too much on that and doesn't take the time to develop the other characters as much which was what made the previous volume more enjoyable.
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141 reviews2 followers
September 10, 2021
Trata-se de uma comédia romântica com pitadas de drama envolvendo um excêntrico e divertido grupo de pessoas que vivem numa pensão em Tóquio, nos anos 1980.

Os pais de kyoko começam a aperta la para deixar a maison e buscar um novo marido para seguir com sua vida

O treinador faz lhe um pedido de casamento

Godai e sua “namorada” ficam mais sérios contra vontade dele e acaba por conhecer os seus pais
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11 reviews1 follower
February 24, 2024
With the loose storyline of this book, I'm always left wanting to know what will happen to all these characters. I always find myself rooting for Godai in hopes he will become a better, stronger person. The development in this was heartwarming, because you can see Godai start to win :) Couldn't put it down; had so much fun.
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2,256 reviews8 followers
October 21, 2021
Perkembangan cerita khas Takahashi sensei. Kesalahpahaman sederhana, eksppresi2 yg kocak serta penanggapan berlebihan yg berakhir seru.
Kali ini terlihat hubungan Kyoko dengan orangtuanya serta keberadaan Mitaka yg makin mengancam Godai hha
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227 reviews
May 27, 2023
Basically an old school sitcom in manga form. Takahashi is a master at this kind of storytelling, and this volume doesn't disappoint. The inclusion of some new characters also keeps the plot feel fresh. Highly recommended.
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1,680 reviews47 followers
February 5, 2021
More amusing than the first one! I don't want to have to wait until March for the third 😰
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3,221 reviews349 followers
March 24, 2021
I continue to enjoy this series a lot! It's full of silly shenanigans!
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2,970 reviews15 followers
June 15, 2021
I love the simplicity of this series. Every chapter makes me laugh. It’s a great slice of life to read in between all the dramatic shojo and shonen series I’ve been reading!
274 reviews
July 20, 2021
I am still love this! It is so cute and so fun! I almost feel like a voyeur watching someones life play out! I cant wait for the next one!
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76 reviews3 followers
April 10, 2022
Enter family drama, and love mix ups. I think that this is one of the most uniquely drawn series that I’ve ever read.
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