CARA DOLCE Kioko (Maison Ikkoku) 
am happy to talk about another great work of mangaka Rumiko Takahashi (remember, it's the same creator of Ranma 1 / 2, Urusei Yatsura and Inuyasha) and with a very simple style and clean design can create exciting stories by adding a unmistakable touch of irony in all of his characters! In the specific case of
Maison Ikkoku, Takahashi our wishes to put aside the surreal situations and figures of the first two manga that I have mentioned, penetrating more into the real world, choosing as its frame of daily life in Tokyo, and as protagonists of a widow (
Kioko Otonashi ) and a university student (
Yusaku Godai ). Love remains an essential ingredient, as always, is the engine of the story and is hindered by something and someone: a job and he / admirers of the beloved.
Godai university studies (a kind of science education), is perennially penniless and living from part-time jobs .. in short, is a very normal boy who becomes a nice bunch!
Her life seems destined for mediocrity, just like the other wacky tenants of Maison Ikkoku, an old building built before the Second World War and is now on the verge of falling apart, until a new administration comes the day: beautiful young and sweet, Kioko makes his entrance with an elegant dress and her hair gathered blacks, leaving all the tenants be amazed! Godai is electrocuted if he falls in love at first sight and from that moment his thoughts will be devoted exclusively to her, almost obsessively.
Initially the girl, who has only a couple of years older than Godai does not seem to notice its attention, and in fact soon we will understand that his thoughts have understandably turned to other things: Kioko is a widow, her husband , Soichiro
Otonashi , has died of an illness and to help her get out of the depression in-law (who is the owner of the building), has all'Ikkoku advised to go to work. Godai is initially scolvolto after this news, but do not lose heart, and as much to be jealous of the dog Kioko, which bears the same name of the deceased husband!
Apart from this little gag, Godai must contend with an opponent far more worrying, that the beautiful and rich from tennis teacher smile:
Shun Mitaka.
latter will not lose this opportunity to woo the girl insisted, that after all does not seem completely indifferent to her charms (Ed: I would like to see well!).
But do not think even the real old Godai can boast a number of admirers often goes out with his former colleague
Kozue Nanao although nothing concrete ever happens, and later, during a substitution in a high school , will lose his head to one of his student, Yagami Ibuki
.
A further make life impossible for the poor guy think about dell'Ikkoku tenants, not by chance that I called "weird." Assuming that the favorite pastime of these characters is disturbing Godai alcoholic organizing parties in his room the night before an exam, I passed them in review one by one:
Ichinose overweight is a lady who drinks and smokes like a Turkish, although this appears to be a caring mother, even if the child rassegnatisssimo
Kentaro, who attends elementary school, is often in embarrassing situations because of him.
Ichinose's husband is always absent because he works night and sleeps during the day, but we have a chance to know him during an episode: it is a shy man, rather shy that he married his wife, almost by accident, but who has learned to love over time.
Then there
Yotsuya, probably a man leading a double life, no one knows his past (or even what it's like to deal in this ...), spy on people in the house through cracks in walls, cracking his dinner Godai, and he can not give up a fair amount of beer and sake along with Ichinose and another tenant particular: it is
Akemi , that female character with red hair and eyes that are perpetually at half mast around the house with a transparent blue petticoat.
During the second part of the story will be found the last tenant dell'Ikkoku,
Nozumo Nikaido, a young student who hangs himself gossip and love affairs of the house. Clearly
revolve around the protagonists many other figures, but I think I'm longwinded enough, and I conclude with good news: after misunderstanding, misunderstandings, and several attempts to approach and Kioko Godai finally declare their love openly convoluted happily to the wedding and giving birth to a beautiful little girl named Haruka
, which translated means the scent of spring
& MORE INTERESTING ': nothing to say on the animated series, which was impeccably made and was further enhanced by numerous acronyms, so beautiful, that I decided to likarvele below all, the opening and closing, because that is really worth to hear you (my absolute favorite is "Cinema")! But guys, the manga is something else ... especially the last episodes reach an emotional tension and an internal growth of the characters really incredible in the cartoon was omitted the passage in which Godai and Kioko, exhausted after ' another misunderstanding, they throw down their arms and agree to consummate their love in a hotel in hours is in the shower, slipped into bed, but Godai can not end the relationship because it is convinced that she thinks more in Soichiro; disappointed and embarrassed you are of and come home .. only need further clarification, after which the manga gives us a beautiful scene: Godai Kioko shaking hands, and the two make love while outside the rain falls. All this does not appear in the anime, or at least is implied.
As for the beautiful Mitaka, we will put aside after having knocked up a girl of noble family from whom he had two children twins with the same unmistakable smile!
One last point: throughout history we will never have the chance to see the face of Soichiro; only in the last episode, the day before the wedding, Kioko show a picture of his first wedding ... but even Godai On that occasion we can satisfy our curiosity!
Opening Credits:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kPTFSuRGf4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiJKbjo8buM http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=ak629fVb3AM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NpMOFuTa7Q http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQJIA0n8YGQ Closing Credits:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vepQiz_j8XY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqkZm7DhmDw http: / / www.youtube.com/watch?v=rH3fYE_Yi3Q http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=La4B_Dayazw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YtsG_kdkc4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v = 5CCYRD2q1B4 .
am happy to talk about another great work of mangaka Rumiko Takahashi (remember, it's the same creator of Ranma 1 / 2, Urusei Yatsura and Inuyasha) and with a very simple style and clean design can create exciting stories by adding a unmistakable touch of irony in all of his characters! In the specific case of 
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