I am quite new to all this making a post and writing your opinions on whatchamacallit but here goes I initially came across the show when I saw this reel about an anime called the girl downstairs its a dongua cute lil show that needs a totally different post to rant about After finishing the series after 12 hours I believe I came across a post on twitter regarding similar classic romcoms to watch and maison ikkoku was labelled so I hopped on bakabt and found a crisp bluray for the show and started binge watching it on 20240807 As expected of the large episode count I was at first fascinated at how well the plot progresses regardless of its large run time the plot was intriguing the jokes were actually hilarious and made me chuckle out loud the side characters didnt actually feel like they were side characters they were family to be bluntl the hassle to win the competition for the love of their lovely shoko san the animation being from the 90s was actually aight as a weeb Ive come across worse animation and maison ikkoku had decent animation great animation for its time to be honest the character designs made the characters look alive if you know what I mean and I had a favourite song of mine which I listen to on a regular basis https://youtu.be/65VN58rVCsQ the very first ed of the anime its just felt peaceful the shape morph for the animation the music everything just felt right lemme elaborate on a bit more cause anilist doesnt let me post yet hehe the very sequence where godai lifts shoko and declares his love for her That was ballsy and I loved it it had me laugh my arse so bad about how madly hes in love with her but alcohol was the medium to establish further confusions between the main romantic couple cause shoko san assumed whether godais love is truly genuine for her or not This further evolves into a competition between another character who ends up being our rival till the final stretch of the anime his character arc was butchered at the end but he was a side character after all trust me it had the tension it was supposed to but the establishment of the plot was done so nicely that the show just flowed perfectly till the end I did feel like we needed a bit more of a stretch of the characters after confessing their love maybe thats just the result of modern romance which gives us a LOT of unnecessary fan service maison ikkoku true to its cause gave me a satisfying end to which I chose not to watch the movie and Id recommend not to cause apparently it butchers the adaptation of the anime as it skipped a couple of characters and they are in the movie but werent in the anime? and besides the anime as a standalone is great thank you for reading