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Maison Ikkoku (1986)

Animation · Comedy · Drama

Godai is a ronin (someone who has failed university entrance exams) living in a run down apartment house called Maison Ikkoku. Among the other residents are the nosy Ichinose, the sexy Akemi Roppongi, and the mysterious Yotsuya. The others are given to having wild parties which makes it difficult for Godai to study. Into this mayhem comes the recently widowed Kyoko as the new live-in manager. Godai falls for her, but doesn't have the nerve to tell her. As time passes, their relationship slowly develops amid life at Maison Ikkoku, despite all sorts of romantic hurdles.

IMDb rating
8.2 (1,466 votes)
Episode average
7.7 -0.5 vs IMDb
Seasons
1
Language
JA
Type
TV series

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Cast

Seasons

Season 1 (1986)

7.68 avg 96 episodes 7.7 → 9.1 25 min avg

Ep 1: 7.7 · 41 votesEp 2: 7.2 · 31 votesEp 3: 7.5 · 30 votesEp 4: 7.4 · 29 votesEp 5: 7.5 · 29 votesEp 6: 7.8 · 30 votesEp 7: 7.5 · 29 votesEp 8: 7.9 · 32 votesEp 9: 7.3 · 30 votesEp 10: 7.5 · 29 votesEp 11: 7.5 · 27 votesEp 12: 7.6 · 27 votesEp 13: 7.8 · 26 votesEp 14: 8.0 · 28 votesEp 15: 7.8 · 27 votesEp 16: 7.2 · 26 votesEp 17: 7.4 · 27 votesEp 18: 7.6 · 26 votesEp 19: 7.3 · 26 votesEp 20: 7.3 · 26 votesEp 21: 7.4 · 26 votesEp 22: 7.7 · 26 votesEp 23: 7.6 · 26 votesEp 24: 7.1 · 26 votesEp 25: 7.2 · 24 votesEp 26: 7.9 · 25 votesEp 27: 8.2 · 29 votesEp 28: 7.6 · 24 votesEp 29: 7.4 · 24 votesEp 30: 7.3 · 24 votesEp 31: 8.3 · 26 votesEp 32: 6.9 · 22 votesEp 33: 7.4 · 23 votesEp 34: 7.1 · 23 votesEp 35: 7.3 · 23 votesEp 36: 7.4 · 24 votesEp 37: 7.7 · 24 votesEp 38: 7.5 · 23 votesEp 39: 7.6 · 23 votesEp 40: 8.6 · 30 votesEp 41: 7.7 · 23 votesEp 42: 8.4 · 26 votesEp 43: 7.8 · 23 votesEp 44: 7.5 · 21 votesEp 45: 8.3 · 25 votesEp 46: 7.3 · 22 votesEp 47: 7.5 · 23 votesEp 48: 8.0 · 23 votesEp 49: 7.6 · 22 votesEp 50: 7.8 · 23 votesEp 51: 7.6 · 22 votesEp 52: 7.8 · 22 votesEp 53: 8.0 · 26 votesEp 54: 7.7 · 23 votesEp 55: 7.6 · 25 votesEp 56: 7.8 · 23 votesEp 57: 7.4 · 23 votesEp 58: 7.6 · 23 votesEp 59: 7.2 · 24 votesEp 60: 7.4 · 23 votesEp 61: 7.5 · 23 votesEp 62: 8.0 · 24 votesEp 63: 7.5 · 24 votesEp 64: 7.4 · 23 votesEp 65: 7.4 · 23 votesEp 66: 7.7 · 23 votesEp 67: 7.6 · 23 votesEp 68: 7.8 · 22 votesEp 69: 7.5 · 22 votesEp 70: 7.1 · 23 votesEp 71: 7.5 · 22 votesEp 72: 8.0 · 22 votesEp 73: 7.6 · 24 votesEp 74: 7.7 · 22 votesEp 75: 7.6 · 23 votesEp 76: 8.0 · 23 votesEp 77: 7.8 · 22 votesEp 78: 7.1 · 23 votesEp 79: 7.3 · 21 votesEp 80: 7.6 · 22 votesEp 81: 7.2 · 22 votesEp 82: 7.0 · 23 votesEp 83: 7.5 · 22 votesEp 84: 7.7 · 22 votesEp 85: 7.9 · 21 votesEp 86: 8.1 · 21 votesEp 87: 8.4 · 24 votesEp 88: 8.0 · 24 votesEp 89: 8.5 · 28 votesEp 90: 8.3 · 25 votesEp 91: 7.6 · 24 votesEp 92: 8.2 · 26 votesEp 93: 8.6 · 36 votesEp 94: 8.9 · 45 votesEp 95: 8.7 · 39 votesEp 96: 9.1 · 51 votes
Season 1 episodes - IMDb ratings
#TitleRatingVotes
1Sorry to Keep You Waiting! I'm Kyoko Otonashi!7.741
2Love Is in the Air? Which One Does Kyoko Love Best?7.231
3Hearts on Fire in the Dark! All Alone with Kyoko7.530
4Kyoko's Heart Goes Pitty-Pat! Godai Is Put to the Test7.429
5Kyoko's Climbing the Walls! Godai's Headed for the Hills7.529
6Shocking Springtime! Kyoko's Secret7.830
7Godai's Agony! The One Kyoko Loves7.529
8Godai's Unspeakable Declaration! If You're Going to Do It, Do It!7.932
9The Mysterious Tennis Coach Is the Rival of Love7.330
10Love Panic on the Beach7.529
11Kentaro's First Love! What's Age Got to Do with It?7.527
12One Entangled Evening! I Thought You Said You Loved Me?!7.627
13Godai the Gigolo...? Are You Going to Get That, or Shall I?7.826
14Way to Go, Godai! The First Date with Kyoko8.028
15The Play's the Thing, Not the Playing Around! The Show Must Go on!7.827
16Sympathy Scramble, If I Should Stumble.7.226
17The Story of Kyoko's First Love on Rainy Days Like These7.427
18Kyoko's Gift! 'What, You Mean It's for Me?'7.626
19Godai and Kyoko! An Evening for Two Means Double the Truoble7.326
20Kyoko's Ticking Time Bomb! Godai's Extended Absence7.326
21Godai's Panic! The Cat Who Came to Ikkoku7.426
22Godai Gets a Shock! Kyoko Calls It Quits7.726
23Kyoko's Brush with Danger! Mother's Nefarious Plot7.626
24Godai in Confusion! Kozue's First Kiss7.126
25It This Corner: Godai vs. Mitaka! The Clash of the Proposals7.224
26Godai's Out of It! Kyoko's on the Rampage7.925
27Soichiro Gone! Yakitori Memories8.229
28Even Kyoko's Surprised! 'I'm Kentaro's Father'7.624
29Fall Festival Four-Up! All Swell That Ends in a Well7.424
30What! Kyoko Married!? Godai's Tearful Goodbye7.324
31Scandal at Ikkoku! Godai's... Shacking Up!?8.326
32The Incredible, Unfogettable Egg! Yotsuya's Dangerous Gift6.922
33The Case of the Shocking Diary. My Husband Had a Sweetheart!7.423
34Overpowered by Love! The Grandma Yukari Gold Tooth Gauntlet!7.123
35The Great Date Race! Kyoko and Godai Have Left the Bulding7.323
36A Kiss is Just a Kiss... But a Woman's Love Is Priceless7.424
37Crazy Costume Constest! Kyoko's Amazing Transformation7.724
38Godai's Dumped! Kozue Falls for Coach Mitaka!?7.523
39Love Takes Guts! Godai's Part Time Job Ploy!7.623
40A Bittersweet Favor! Budding Christmas Love?8.630
41Kyoko's Hot Spring Heart Stopper: Peeping Wars at the Outdoor Baths!7.723
42Godai Breaks His Lag! Chance for Love at the Hospital!8.426
43Love Speaks! Godai and Mitaka Duke It Out at the Hospital!7.823
44Kentaro Freaks Out! Yotsuya's Frightening True Identity7.521
45A Shocking Revelation: Kyoko Declares Her Love to Godai8.325
46Race for Kyoko! Skating Risk is Love's Battleground7.322
47Kyoko Loses It! Drunk and Crazy!7.523
48Godai's Confession! I Want You to Know How I Feel!8.023
49Mitaka Trains! Lover Boy. Can't Be Afraid of Dogs!7.622
50Kyoko in Love at First Sight!? A Strange Man Moves Into Mezon Ikkoku7.823
51Even Yotsuya's Shocked! The Day Mezon Ikkoku Disappears7.622
52Forgive Me Soichiro! Kyoko's Tearful Decison to Remarry7.822
53High School Girl Power! A War Against Kyoko's Love8.026
54Bare-Faced Attack! Operation Seduction7.723
55Pajama-Girl Charges In! Mezon Ikkoku in a Love Panic!7.625
56Yagami Is Determined! I Won't Give Up My First Love7.823
57The Princess Cometh! Mitaka Is Her Prince Charming7.423
58Godai or Mitaka? A Woman's Heart Is on the Line7.623
59Be Still, My Beating Heart! Asuna Kujo's Very First Time7.224
60Caught in the Act! Kyoko and Mitaka, Hot and Heavy!7.423
61Come After Me, Godai! Kyoko Journeys Alone!7.523
62All Right! Alone in the Bath with Kyoko8.024
63Yagami's Back! Just When You Least Expect Her!7.524
64Godai's on the Edge! Trapped by a High School Girl!7.423
65Yagami's Scream! The Dangers of Private Lessons with Yotsuya!7.423
66Yagami's Challenge! I Won't Lose to the Widow!7.723
67Even Yagami Is Shocked! The Return of the Gold-Toothed Grandma!7.623
68Grandma Yukari's Fighting Spirit. The Baseball Battle!7.822
69Underwater Confusion! Godai's Suspicious Hickey!7.522
70Farewell Grandma! Party on Down at Ueno Station7.123
71A Midsummer Night Dream! Godai Finds a Job!7.522
72A Baby Is Born. Godai's Tearfully Happy Life8.022
73Hostage Crisis at Ikkoku! Yagami Makes Herself at Home7.624
74All Quiet on the Job Hunt Front! Godai's Eleventh-Hour Save7.722
75One-Track Love. Yagami and Asuna Never Say Die!7.623
76I'll Wait! Kyoko's Double-Duty Declaration8.023
77You Go, Godai! Yo Do Have Pride, After All!7.822
78I'm Not Sayin! The Cabaret Chronicles7.123
79I'm So Sorry, Kyoko! I Don't Deserve to Eat Your Lunch7.321
80Godai Goes Ga-Ga! Yagami's a Bunny Girl Now!?7.622
81Obsessive Love! Asuna Just Won't Give Up!7.222
82Perfect Papa! The 'Mister Mom' Godai Story7.023
83Off to the Yokohama Border! Kyoko's Doing a Runner7.522
84'One Thousand Percent Suspicious!' Kyoko's Scandalous Night7.722
85This Is the Critical Point! Godai and Mitaka's Duel of Fate!7.921
86Shocking One Night! Asuna's Salad Day8.121
87Asuna's Pregnant? Mitaka's Surprise Marriage Announcement!!8.424
88Love Again?! Taste of a Kiss That Kozue Left!8.024
89Unrequited Love! Godai and Kyoko, It's Over Today?8.528
90Kyoko-san Quitting! Ikkoku-kan's Memory Far Away?8.325
91Kyoko in Shock! Akemi and Godai's Unexpected Relation!7.624
92Kozue-chan's Wedding! Godai's Love Is Forever?!8.226
93Sight of Spring? The Two's Hearts Are in Warm Feeling!!8.636
94Alright! Godai-kun's Courageous Proposal!8.945
95Ah, Excitement! Grandma's Love Embosomed in the Ring8.739
96As Long as This Love Lasts! Ikkoku-kan Is Forever...!!9.151

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