Maison Ikkoku Ikkoku-kan is a comfortably run-down boarding house in the middle of Tokyo, housing a strange assortment of tenants: the chain-smoking, hard drinkin' mama Mrs. Ichinose, the mysterious bachelor Yotsuya, whose comings and goings are known to no one, Akemi, the night-shift bar hostess who spends her sleepy-eyed days wandering the building in her flimsy nightie, and Yusaku Godai, a shy, struggling college student who has fallen in love with Maison Ikkoku's beautiful manager, Kyoko Otonashi, a wistful widow just now learning to love again. |