Maison Ikkoku

めぞん一刻

Yusaku Godai is a broke ronin barely studying for his college exams in the run-down Ikkoku-kan boarding house, where his neighbors' antics keep derailing him. When the young widow Kyoko Otonashi arrives as the building's new manager, Yusaku falls for her, and the rest of the tenants turn his clumsy pursuit into a years-long comedy of misunderstandings. Rumiko Takahashi's romantic comedy follows the pair through grief, jealousy, and slow change in 1980s Tokyo.