Line #23 Trivia/MaisonIkkoku


1	* AcclaimedFlop: In North America; while the manga and anime have been widely praised by American anime critics and fans who did read/watch it, it's still had a history of struggling there in terms of sales.
2	* ActingForTwo:
3	** Some of the original version's voice actors acted for two or even three or four. Creator/ShigeruChiba did this often, as he's the voice of Yotsuya and Soichiro (Kyoko's dog). Creator/MegumiHayashibara, Creator/GaraTakashima, Creator/YoshinoTakamori, Creator/TomohiroNishimura, Creator/FumihikoTachiki and the late Creator/HiroshiMasuoka also played multiple roles regularly throughout the series' run (such as Hayashibara's Taro and Koizumi, or Takashima's Midori and Hiyoko).
4	** The Italian dub had a limited batch of voice actors, so multiple performers had at least two to four roles:
5	*** For the first 52 episodes, Kyoko and her mother Ritsuko are both voiced by Creator/MonicaWard; Hanae, Akemi, Ikuko, Godai's grandmother Yukari and Kozue are all played by Daniela Caroli; Shun and Sakamoto are voiced by Stefano Onofri; and Bruno Cattaneo voices the Chachamaru master, Soichiro and Godai's father.
6	*** Beginning with episode 53, Godai, the Chachamaru master, Sakamoto and Mr. Chigusa are all voiced by Sergio Luzi; Ludovica Marineo plays Kyoko, Hanae and Akemi; and Kozue, Ikuko, Yukari, Ritsuko, Ibuki and Atsuko are played by Gabriella Andreini.
7	* CompletelyDifferentTitle: ''Juliette, je t'aime''[[note]]Juliette, I love you[[/note]] in France, ''Cara dolce Kyoko''[[note]]Dear sweet Kyoko[[/note]] in Italy.
8	* CulturalTranslation: The VIZ dub attempts an anachronistic {{Woolseyism}} in the episode where Yusaku fiercly objects to the idea of Yotsuya private tutoring Ibuki. He compares Yotsuya to the "kind of person who would release poison gas in a subway". The real life inspiration for this line, the 1995 Tokyo subway attack, occurred almost ten years after this series' events conclude. This may [[GarnishingTheStory or may not be]] the dub writers briefly forgetting that this series is set roughly between 1980 and 1986.
9	* FakeBrit: Yotsuya's British accent in the Viz English dubs, [[AccentAdaptation which is meant to reflect his very formal speech patterns in Japanese]]. To be fair, his first dub actor, Creator/GerardPlunkett is an Irish born Canadian. Creator/RonHalder, his replacement post episode 36, however, is American but does a very seamless transition from his predecessor.
10	* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Many people didn't learn about this series, manga or anime, until it was long out of print. While copies of the manga's first edition (with the flipped artwork) are fairly easy to find secondhand – a lot of people dumped their old books when the series was re-released in the mid-2000's – certain volumes of the second edition, mostly in the middle of the series, are very rare. As for the anime, the last four boxsets are rare, especially the mythical Box 8.
11	** Though the state of the anime is still up in the air, Viz has announced that an official re-release and translation of the original manga will go the way of ''Ranma'' and ''Urusei'' by mid-2020.
12	* LicensedGame: Two visual novels / adventure games were created in the eighties for Japanese computers and consoles. The [[Platform/TurboGrafx16 PC Engine version]] of Micro Cabin's game ''Omoide no Photograph'' was translated by fans in 2008. ''Kanketsu Hen ~Sayonara, Soshite...~'' remains untranslated.
13	* TheOtherDarrin:
14	** The English dub, started in the mid-90's (around the same time as ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'''s), was originally cancelled at Episode 36 due to poor sales. After a LONG hiatus, Viz restarted the dub in 2004 for their DVD boxsets. They still used Creator/TheOceanGroup for recording, but many of the cast had to be replaced – namely Godai (Creator/JasonGrayStanford to Creator/BradSwaile), Hanae (Creator/DaphneGoldrick to Creator/KathyMorse), Yotsuya (Creator/GerardPlunkett to Creator/RonHalder), Kentaro (Creator/SaffronHenderson to Creator/SharonAlexander), Ikuko (Creator/AndreaLibman to Creator/NicoleBouma), and Kozue (Creator/RochelleGreenwood to Creator/AnnaCummer).
15	*** In one variation, Robert O. Smith filled the role as the master of Chachamaru for two episodes when David Kaye was apparently unavailable. Kaye returned to the role soon after.
16	*** An even more interesting variation is Toshizo and Mitsuo, two regulars at the Chachamaru. For the first 36 episodes they were voiced by WardPerry and Creator/TerryKlassen respectively. After the hiatus however, the roles were switched for some strange reason with Klassen voicing Toshizo and Perry voicing Mitsuo. It was most likely a mix up.
17	*** Yuko and Midori, two gossiping members of Mitaka's tennis club, were initially voiced by Creator/CathyWeseluck and Creator/SaffronHenderson. After the hiatus and Henderson was no longer available, the two went through several different voices. Sometimes the voices would reverse.
18	** In the Japanese version:
19	*** TARAKO, better known for Kirara in ''Manga/{{Inuyasha}}'', filled in as Akemi for one episode at the near end of the show.
20	*** In the series, Kuroki was voiced by Creator/SaekoShimazu but for the final chapter movie she was replaced with Creator/YoshikoSakakibara.
21	*** For the ''CR Maison Ikkoku'' games, Creator/TakahiroSakurai voices Yusaku Godai instead of Creator/IsseiFutamata and Creator/SatsukiYukino voices Kyoko Otonashi instead of Creator/SumiShimamoto.
22	* PlayingAgainstType: Creator/NorioWakamoto in one of his earlier roles as Master, the bartender at Cha-Cha Maru.
23	* ProductionPosse: Director Kazuo Yamazaki, character designers Yuji Moriyama and Akemi Takada, and composer Kenji Kawai worked as regulars on ''Manga/UruseiYatsura''.
24	* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/MamiKoyama was originally tagged to play Kyoko in the anime adaptation, but as she had already contracted for ''Wonder Beat Scramble'', an Creator/OsamuTezuka anime which would be running in the same time slot on [[Creator/TokyoBroadcastingSystem TBS]], the role was given to Sumi Shimamoto instead.
25	* WriteWhatYouKnow: The series was inspired by Takahashi's own experience of living in an apartment complex in Nagano, which had a more decrepit apartment behind it. The strange actions of the people living there inspired the characters' antics.

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