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Maison Ikkoku (TV)

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©1986 Rumiko Takahashi/Shogakukan • Kitty Film • Fuji TV


[ adapted from Maison Ikkoku (manga) ]

Related anime:
    Maison Ikkoku: Through the Passing of the Seasons (special) (1988, compilation)
    Maison Ikkoku: Kanketsuhen (movie) (1988-02-06, alternate ending)
    Maison Ikkoku: Shipwrecked on Ikkoku Island (OAV) (1991-01-31, spinoff)
    Maison Ikkoku: Prelude, When the Cherry Blossoms in the Springtime Return (special) (1992, prequel)

Alternative title:
Cara dolce Kyoko (Italian)
Juliette je t'aime (French)
めぞん一刻 (Japanese)
相聚一刻 (Chinese (Taiwan))
Age rating: Older Children (May contain mild bad language, bloodless violence)
Plot Summary: 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.
User Ratings: 400 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 157 votes (sub:127, dub:21, Ita.dub:5, raw:2, ?:1, Rus.sub:1)
 Excellent: 92 votes (sub:61, dub:24, Ita.dub:4, Por.sub:1, Spa.dub:1, Rus.sub:1)
 Very good: 64 votes (sub:51, dub:8, Fre.dub:3, Ita.edit.dub:1, raw:1)
 Good: 37 votes (sub:27, dub:4, Fre.dub:3, Ita.dub:2, raw:1)
 Decent: 21 votes (sub:12, dub:7, Fre.dub:1, raw:1)
 So-so: 14 votes (sub:11, dub:3)
 Not really good: 6 votes (sub:3, dub:2, raw:1)
 Weak: 6 votes (sub:5, dub:1)
 Bad: 3 votes (dub:2, sub:1)
 Awful: -
 Worst ever: -
Seen in part or in whole by 967 users, rank: #636
Median rating: Excellent
Arithmetic mean: 8.533 (Excellent-.46), std. dev.: 1.7375, rank: #118
Weighted mean: 8.439 (Very good+.43), rank: #132 (seen all: 9.04 / seen some: 7.68 / won't finish: 5.11)
Bayesian estimate: 8.417 (Very good+.41), rank: #73
Running time: half hour per episode
Number of episodes: 96
Episode titles: We have 96
Vintage:
1986-03-26 to 1988-03-02
1988-09-05 (France)
2006 (Spain)
Opening Theme:
#1: "Kanashimi yo Konnichiwa" by Yuki Saito (eps 01-23,25-37)
#2: "Alone Again (Naturally)" by Gilbert O'Sullivan (ep 24)
#3: "Suki sa" by Anzen Chitai (eps 38-52)
#4: "Sunny Shiny Morning" by Kiyonori Matsuo (eps 53-76)
#5: "Hidamari" by Kouzou Murashita (eps 77-96)
Ending Theme:
#1: "Ashita hareru ka" by Takao Kisugi (eps 01-14)
#2: "Ci-ne-ma" by Picasso (eps 15-23,25-33)
#3: "Get Down" by Gilbert O'Sullivan (ep 24)
#4: "Fantasy" by Picasso (eps 34-52)
#5: "Sayonara no Dessan" by Picasso (eps 53-76)
#6: "Begin the Night" by Picasso (eps 77-96)
Official website:
Links: We have 2
Trivia: We have 6
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Related reviews:
    Maison Ikkoku VHS 19
    Maison Ikkoku: Present From The Past

Related releases:
    Maison Ikkoku - DVD Box Set 8 (DVD) 2006-07-04
    Maison Ikkoku - DVD Box Set 1 (DVD 1) 2003-07-01 (from $29.99)
    Maison Ikkoku - DVD Box Set 2 (DVD 2) 2003-11-18 (from $29.99)
    Maison Ikkoku - DVD Box Set 3 (DVD 3) 2004-04-06 (from $29.99)
    Maison Ikkoku - DVD Box Set 4 (DVD 4) 2004-11-23
    Maison Ikkoku - DVD Box Set 5 (DVD 5) 2005-05-17 (from $29.99)
    Maison Ikkoku - DVD Box Set 6 (DVD 6) 2005-10-25 (from $29.74)
    Maison Ikkoku - DVD Box Set 7 (DVD 7) 2006-03-07 (from $29.99)
    Maison Ikkoku - Dress You Up (Sub.VHS 19) 1996-01-01
    Maison Ikkoku - Present From The Past (Sub.VHS 20) 1996-01-01

Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Director:
Kazuo Yamazaki
Naoyuki Yoshinaga
Takashi Anno

Series Composition:
Hideo Takayashiki
Kazunori Ito
Tokio Tsuchiya

Script:
Junki Takegami
Tomoko Kanaharu

Screenplay: Kazunori Ito

Episode Director: Tomomi Mochizuki

Music:
Kenji Kawai
Takao Sugiyama

Original creator: Rumiko Takahashi

Character Design:
Akemi Takada
Yuji Moriyama

Art director: Chitose Asakura

Sound director: Shigeharu Shiba

Director of Photography: Tsuguo Ozawa

Executive producer: Hidenori Taga

Producer:
Makoto Kubo
Toshifumi Yoshida
Yoko Matsushita
Yuko Kato

Editing:
Masanori Sakamoto
Seiji Morita

Ending Animation:
Keiko Shimizu
Kooji Nanke
Noboru Furuse
Tsukasa Abe
Yasutoshi Nakamura

In-Between Animation: Toshihiro Kawamoto

Key Animation: Shinji Otsuka (ep 39)

Opening Animation:
Kooji Nanke
Noboru Furuse
Yasutoshi Nakamura
Yumiko Katayama

Original Arts: Kenichi Maeda

Planning:
Shigekazu Ochiai
Tadashi Oka

Recording Adjustment: Kunio Kuwabara

Sound Effects: Yasufumi Yoda

Theme Song Composition: Gilbert O'Sullivan (#2 OP, #3 ED)

Theme Song Performance:
Anzen Chitai (#3 OP)
Kiyonori Matsuo (#4 OP)
Kouzou Murashita (#5 OP)
Picasso (#2,#4,#5,#6 ED)
Takao Kisugi (#1 ED)
Yuki Saito (#1 OP)

 

Issei Futamata as Yusaku Godai

Sumi Shimamoto as Kyoko Otonashi

Akira Kamiya as Shun Mitaka

Chika Sakamoto as Kentaro Ichinose

Hiromi Tsuru as Asuna Kujo

Kazuyo Aoki as Hanae Ichinose

Miina Tominaga as Kozue Nanao

Norio Wakamoto as Cha Cha Maru Master

Shigeru Chiba as Yotsuya

Toshio Furukawa as Sakamoto

Yuko Mita as Akemi Roppongi

Yuriko Fuchizaki as Ibuki Yagami

Akiko Tsuboi as Kozue's mother

Akira Kamiya as Mitaka's Father

Asami Mukaidono as Ibuki Yagami's mother

Atsuko Mine as Ikuko's mother

Fumihiko Tachiki as
drunken man (ep 80)
noodle shop cook (ep 5)
rugby club member (ep 20)
schoolmaster (ep 56)

Gara Takashima as
Asuna's mother
Hiyoko (ep 92)
Midori (eps 25, 95)

Hideyuki Tanaka as Soichiro Otonashi

Hiroshi Masuoka as
guest A (ep 2)
Toshizo (8 episodes

eps 1, 9, 18, 29, 39-40, 52, 68
)
yakuza (eps 30-31)

Hiroshi Ohtake as Saotome (Puppet theater club president)

Hisako Kyouda as Yukari Godai

Houchu Ohtsuka as Nakamoto (ep 93)

Kae Araki as Nursery schooler

Katsunosuke Hori as Zenzaburo Mitsukoshi

Kazue Komiya as
Kasumi
Shun Mitaka's mother

Kei Tomiyama as Iioka

Keiko Hanagata as principal of Wakaba nursery school (ep 93)

Kouji Tsujitani as student A (ep 93)

Kousei Tomita as Mr. Chigusa

Kumiko Watanabe as Yusaku Godai (childhood; ep 34)

Kyooko Hamura as girl A (ep 11)

Masahiro Anzai as
guest C (ep 2)
Teruhiko (ep 1)

Masako Katsuki as
preschool teacher A
Yuko

Mayumi Shou as Ikuko

Megumi Hayashibara as
Atsuko (Ibuki Yagami's friend)
female college student (ep 5)
girl B (ep 11)
Koizumi (Puppet theater club member)
preschool teacher B
Taro (Kasumi's son)
waitress (ep 18)
Yousuke Nanao

Minori Matsushima as Mrs. Chigusa

Minoru Yada as Hanae Ichinose's husband

Mugihito as Shun Mitaka's uncle

Naoki Tatsuta as principal of Shiinomi nursery school

Nobuyuki Furuta as meat shop salesman (ep 11)

Rokuro Naya as Kozue's father

Ryuuji Saikachi as Kyoko Otonashi's father-in-law

Saeko Shimazu as Sayoko Kuroki

Sanae Miyuki as Etsuko

Satoko Kitô as hostess A

Shigeru Chiba as Soichiro-san (dog)

Shingo Kanemoto as Ibuki Yagami's father

Sukekiyo Kameyama as
Asuna's father
guest B (ep 2)
Mitsuo (5 episodes

eps 1, 9, 39-40, 52
)

Takurou Kitagawa as Kobayashi (Yusaku's friend)

TARAKO as
Akemi (ep 93)
Asami
boy A (ep 11)

Tetsuo Mizutori as Takeshi (ep 1)

Tomohiro Nishimura as
rugby club member (ep 20)
sushi shop itamae (ep 14)

Tomoko Ikoma as hostess B

Tomomichi Nishimura as Yusaku's father

Toshiko Sawada as Kamiogi (Ibuki Yagami's teacher)

Tsutomu Kashiwakura as student B (ep 93)

Yoshie Asai as Yusaku's mother

Yoshiko Sakakibara as Ayako (eps 30-31)

Yoshino Takamori as Kanzaka

Yuusaku Yara as middle-aged man in a stall (ep 78)

Bin Shimada

Eiji Maruyama

Ikue Ohtani

Jun'ichi Kanemaru

Kazumi Tanaka

Masami Kikuchi

Megumi Hayashibara (eps 1,4,7,8,12-14,16-17,26-etc)

Urara Takano

Japanese companies 

Animation Production: Studio DEEN

Broadcaster: Fuji TV

Production: Kitty Films

English staff 
English cast 

Translation: Trish Ledoux

Executive producer: Seiji Horibuchi

Producer: Hiromi Makepeace

Adaptation: Trish Ledoux

Assistant Engineer:
Daniel Lambert
Ian Emberton
Robert Crang

Casting Director: Randi Reidiger

Dialogue Director:
Karl Willems
Sarah-Anne Dafoe

Dialogue Editing:
Aaron MacDonald
Chris Cleator
Cisco McLaren

Editing: Michael Iske

Post-Production Coordinator:
Diana Gage
Donna Kwon
Janet Kendrick

Post-Production Manager: Diana Gage

Production Coordination: Geoffrey A. Rosen

Re-Recording Mixing:
Jan Deny
Keith A. Goddard

Recording engineer:
Chris Cleator
Karl Willems
Michael Iske
Robert Crang

Video Post-Production:
Elisa Chee
Keith Crosley
Michael Hey
Pierre de la Roche

Wordfit Editor:
Ian Emberton
Robert Crang

 

Brad Swaile as Yusaku Godai (ep 37+)

Ellen Kennedy as Kyoko Otonashi

Jason Gray-Stanford as Yusaku Godai

Alexandra Carter as Yagami

Rochelle Greenwood as Kozue Nanao

Saffron Henderson as Kentaro Ichinose

Terry Klassen as Sakamoto

Andrea Libman as Ikuko

Cathy Weseluck as
Housewife 1
Ikuko's Mother
Koizumi
Pre-School Teacher 1

Daphne Goldrick as
Godai's Grandmother
Hanae Ichinose

Don Brown as Godai's Father

Gerard Plunkett as Yotsuya

James Blight as New Dad

Janyse Jaud as Akemi Roppongi

John Payne as Shun Mitaka

Kathleen Barr as Kyoko's Mother

Lynda Boyd as Godia's Mother

Michael Dobson as Kozue's Father

Paul Dobson as
Freeloading Husband
Saotome

Robert O. Smith as
Akemi's Boss
Kyoko's Father
Mr. Ichinose
Planeterium Voiceover

Terry Klassen as Grandfather Otonashi

Trevor Devall as Restaurant Owner

English companies 

Casting: Interpacific Productions

Dubbing: Ocean Studios

DVD Production: Video Arts, Inc.

Licensed by: Viz Media

Recording Studio: The Ocean Group

Subtitle Translations:
JN Productions, Inc.
Studio Nemo

French staff 
French cast 

Theme Song Performance: Bernard Minet

 

Annabelle Roux as Léo

Déborah Perret as Juliette

Pierre-François Pistorio as Hugo

Christine Delaroche as Pauline

Michel Blain as François

Amélie Morin as Charlotte

Annabelle Roux as
Hortense
Marina

Catherine Laborde as Suzanne

Danièle Hazan as Clémentine (eps 53-56)

Déborah Perret as Elise (2nd voice)

Ginette Franck as Grand Mère d'Hugo (2ème voix)

Jane Val as Grand Mère d'Hugo (1ère voix)

Jean-Philippe Puymartin as Hugo (eps 34-35)

Maïté Monceau as Lola

Marie Vincent as Mme Léontine

Michel Blain as
Georges
Marc

Patrick Messe as Mr Paul

Raphaëlle Schacher as Clémentine Bardin

Virginie Ledieu as Lola (eps 79-80)

Lionel Melet

Michel Bedetti

French companies 

Broadcaster:
AB 1 (2005)
Mangas
NT1 (2006)
TF1 (1988)

Distributor: AB distribution

Dubbing Studio: M2D

Spanish staff 
Spanish cast 

Dubbing Director: Azucena Díaz (Spain dub)

Translation: Esmeralda Barreyro (Spain dub)

Mixing: Raúl Echeverría (Spain dub)

Music Director: Jordi Vila (Catalan dub)

Theme Song Performance:
Atzur (OP #1, OP #5, ED #6 Spain dub)
Cristina Gala (OP #1, Catalan dub)
Llorenç (ED1, OP2, ED2, ED3 Catalan dub)
Lydia Cuestas (OP-1)

 

Elisa Beuter as Kyoko Otonashi (Spain dub)

Hernán Fernández as Yusaku Godaî (Catalan dub)

Marta Barbará as Kyoko Otonashi (Catalan dub)

Roger Pera as Yuusaku Godai (Spain dub)

Berta Cortés as Akemi Roppongi (Catalan dub)

Daniel Albiac as Sakamoto (Spain dub)

Gemma Ibáñez as Kozue Nanao (Catalan dub)

Jordi Hurtado as Shun Mitaka (Spain dub)

Maria Rosa Guillén as Hanae Ichinose (Spain dub)

Marta Padovan as Hanae Ichinose (Catalan dub)

Núria Trifol as Akemi Roppongi (Spain dub)

Ramón Hernández as Yotsuya (Spain dub) 

Roser Vilches as Kozue Nanao (Spain dub)

Teresa Soler as Kentaro Ichinose (Catalan dub)

Victoria Ramos as Kentaro Ichinose (Spain dub)

Xavier Cassan as Shun Mitaka (Catalan dub)

Ana Orra as Kuroki (Spain dub)

Angel del Río as Policeman (Spain dub)

Antonio Pujós as Mitsuo (Spain dub)

Azucena Díaz as
Midori (Spain dub)
Ritsuko (Spain dub)

Carmen Ambrós as Ikuko (Spain dub)

Elisabet Bargalló as Ibuki Yagami (Catalan dub)

Francesc Figuerola as Soichiro Otonashi (Catalan dub)

Francisco Alborch as
Toshizo (Spain dub)
Waiter (Spain dub)

Jordi Pineda as Teruhiko (Spain dub)

Julia Chalmeta as Grandmother (Spain dub)

Ramón Rocabayera as Father (Spain dub)

Spanish companies 

Broadcaster:
Antena 3 (Spain)
K3 (Televisió de Catalunya)

Distributor: Jonu Media (Spain)

Dubbing Studio: Dubbing Films (Barcelona)

Italian staff 
Italian cast 

Director Of Dubbing: Bruno Cattaneo

 

Alessio Cigliano as Godai (1st voice; eps 1-52)

Ludovica Marineo as Kyoko (2nd voice, from ep 53 on)

Monica Ward as Kyoko (1st voice; eps 1-52)

Sergio Luzi as Godai (2nd voice, from ep 53 on)

Alessio Cigliano as Sakamoto (2nd voice; ep 5)

Angelo Maggi as Yotsuya (1st voice; eps 1-52)

Bruno Cattaneo as
Proprietario del Chachamaru (1st voice; eps 1-52)
Signor Otonashi

Daniela Caroli as
Akemi (1st voice; eps 1-52)
Ichinose (1st voice; eps 1-52)
Ikkuko (1st voice; eps 1-52)
Kozue (1st voice; eps 1-52)
Nonna di Godai (1st voice; eps 1-52)

Gabriella Andreini as
Ikkuko (2nd voice, from ep 53 on)
Kozue (2nd voice, from ep 53 on)
Madre di Kyoko (2nd voice, from ep 53 on)
Nonna di Godai (2nd voice, from ep 53 on)

Ludovica Marineo as
Akemi (2nd voice, from ep 53 on)
Ichinose (2nd voice, from ep 53 on)

Massimo Milazzo as
Mitaka (2nd voice, from ep 53 on)
Yotsuya (2nd voice, from ep 53 on)

Renata Biserni as Madre di Kyoko (2nd voice, from ep 53 on)

Sergio Luzi as
Padre di Kyoko (2nd voice, from ep 53 on)
Proprietario del Chachamaru (2nd voice, from ep 53 on)
Sakamoto (3rd voice, from ep 53 on)

Stefano Onofri as
Mitaka (1st voice; eps 1-52)
Sakamoto (1st voice; eps 1-4, 6-52)

Bruno Cattaneo as Padre di Godai

Gabriella Andreini as
Atsuko
Yagami

Monica Ward as
Kentaro (1st voice; eps 1-52)
Madre di Godai

Italian companies 

Broadcaster: Junior TV

Distributor: CRC Compagnia Realizzazioni Cinetelevisive


Chinese (Taiwan) staff 
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) companies 

Licensed by: Proware Multimedia International Co., Ltd.

Chinese (Taiwan) cast 
(none)
 
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