“Usa moves into Kawai Complex, a boarding house filled with eccentric tenants, and falls for shy senior Ritsu.”
The Kawai Complex Guide to Manors and Hostel Behavior
僕らはみんな河合荘
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Synopsis
Usa moves into Kawai Complex, a boarding house filled with eccentric tenants, and falls for shy senior Ritsu.
Kazunari Usa is a high school freshman who will start living alone due to his parents now working in a different area. Excited for his new independent life, he hopes to go about his teenage days without the worry of dealing with any strange people, but as he soon discovers, his new boarding house Kawai Complex is far from ordinary. The various tenants at Kawai Complex are all quite eccentric characters. Shirosaki, Kazunari's roommate, is a pervert and masochist; Mayumi Nishikino, a borderline alcoholic office lady, hates couples because of her unfortunate luck with men; and Sayaka Watanabe, a seemingly innocent college student, enjoys leading men on. Shocked with the lack of decent individuals at his new residence, Kazunari is about to leave when he runs into shy senior student Ritsu Kawai and finds himself slowly falling in love with her.
What people say
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Derived from 81 sampled reviews
What 81 viewers settled on.
Mostly aligned
σ 1.35 · some divergence
5.4 pts
Recommenders 8.4 · others 3.0
↑ 1.07
Running avg · Jun 2014 → Jun 2025
- 9 “The special story, uniquely crafted characters, amazing art, and perfectly matched voice actors make this series captivating and worth rewatching. While the pacing is slow and the middle stretch...”
- 7 “Notice me senpai: the animation is a more fitting title to this anime. To be honest after I finished this anime I just think of it as another typical romcom anime, some scenes were pretty cute but...”
- 8 “Bokura wa minna is a wonderful slice of life with a romantic touch. It's nice how the story and animation is carried out, the relationship of each of the characters and the comic situations in a...”
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- Format 12 × 24′ eps × min
- Total runtime 4h 48m all episodes
- Aired Apr 2014 – Jun 2014 Spring 2014
- Source Tv media type
- Rated PG 13 - Teens 13 or older
- Ref. BS-8409 catalog
Produced by
- TBS Producer
Licensed by
- Sentai Filmworks Licensor