Maison Ikkoku Anime - Tumblr Posts

10 months ago

And here we have Kentaro putting me like "Oh God noooooo I'm going to k-word myself this kid can't just believe his parents are in fact acting in public as such for once without embarassing him and so much so that he is not even paying attention to their really unexpectedly good athletic performance"

Frame from Maison Ikkoku. Kentaro is staring with a lovely look of incredulity at the two deflated colored balloons in his hands which earlier he had made both his parents blow up in order to prove that they were not drunk

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10 months ago

Goodnight only to this gorgeous movement of Kyoko's gorgeous braided hair

Kyoko with her waving glossy braided hair as she turns her back to us

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9 months ago
Frame from Maison Ikkoku, episode 31.
Kyoko and Godai sitting at night in the middle of the street of the hill leading to Maison Ikkoku. The two of them, one before the other, have their faces folded into the knees as they are crying.

This story is just a little simple cute thing, but there's this touch of magic in it


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9 months ago

And you can immediately guess right that the arm sneaking up is Yotsuya's

Frame from Maison Ikkoku. At the cinema. Kyoko is absorbed by the movie. At her left, Godai, is noticing an arm stretched out from the seats right behind them and nicking a handful of popcorn from his own pack.

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9 months ago
Frame from Maison Ikkoku. Godai secretly happy looking at Kyoko who is smiling and laughing as they are in a toys store

what makes it so special it's that you know exactly what he is thinking about way before you hear his thoughts. It's very simple actually. She looks like a little girl, not a side of hers Kyoko let come out so often, especially being a young widow still in mourning, especially being a woman got married early in her life and to an older man


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8 months ago

Melancholic flowers

A frame from Maison Ikkoku.
Kyoko lays with her chest on the table in her room, long hair spilt over the surface, her right hand brushes a bouquet of purple flowers. Of her face only a sad eye is visible.
Frame from another episode.
Kyoko's feet wearing only transparent tights. Some water from a vase knocked over on a small table is dripping on the floor wetting her left foot. Yellow flowers scattered both at her feet and on the table.

The irony, in the first frame Kyoko was restless, hoping for Godai to give her a reason not to marry Mitaka, in the second, she, at Mitaka's, is so desperate for the newly created misunderstanding between her and Godai to accidentally hit a vase.


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8 months ago

Before you click that link, massive spoilers for Maison Ikkoku. I highly recommend you read or watch Maison Ikkoku before you click that. Anyway, someone anonymously shared with me this incredible scene from a Maison Ikkoku pachinko machine. Yes, this is essentially a scene from a slot machine trying to grab as much of your money as possible. It goes full fanfiction mode and animates a bunch of post-canon stuff for the series and it is remarkably cute. A bunch of the Japanese comments are talking about how they ended up crying at the parlor.


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8 months ago
Frame from Maison Ikkoku. Kyoko's shoulders are adorned by her long dark hair divided in two so as to leave her nape exposed. Her posture is heavy and reveals sorrow. She's surrounded by incense smoke
This second frame is very similar, but the woman's shoulders are not really that heavy, her neck is just tilted forward, she's not wearing her mourning dress and in the background there's not only void, instead it's night and she's surrounded by trees. You can feel peace in all this.

Shots apparently so similar, although there's an abyss between them, 'cos the first Kyoko's shoulders are burdened with the weight of the most tragic event of her life as in the verge of breaking, instead in the second frame she's finally free and it's like she can't believe it yet, she's just frozen on the spot, and all around her there's no void or despair, only the night with its quiet, not the smell of incense but the one of the trees, not death, but life.


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