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The Kawai Complex Guide to Manors and Hostel Behavior

“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

7.65
1,527 rank · 404,080 viewers · 2,318 favorites
Love Status Quo School Seinen Romance
12 episodes · 24 min per ep min · Spring 2014 · Brain's Base · PG-13 - Teens 13 or older
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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.

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Community consensus

Derived from 81 sampled reviews

8.1 /10

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99% recommend
Score distribution
median 8 mode 8 σ 1.35
1510
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σ 1.35 · some divergence

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The polarity gap

5.4 pts

Recommenders 8.4 · others 3.0

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↑ 1.07

Running avg · Jun 2014 → Jun 2025

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A Tv Production · Spring 2014

Brain's Base.
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TBS

  • 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

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