Karakter & Staf

Kyouko Otonashi

Utama

Female · Umur 22

Kyouko is the manager of the apartment. She lives in the kanrinin's (managers) room of Ikkoku-kan. She has recently recovered from her husband's death​ and is trying to figure out her life, between keeping the memory of Souichirou-san alive and her own feelings for other people. Her dog is named Souichirou-san after her late husband. She is still on the Otonashi family register, but her parents want her to get off and come home or remarry. However, she decides that she would rather work for Grandfather Otonashi, who owns Ikkoku-kan.

Sumi Shimamoto

Yuusaku Godai

Utama

Umur 20

The resident of room #5. He is a timid, clumsy and soft indecisive man who day-dreams a lot. He's been the constant target of harassment and practical jokes by other tenants. Also, his room, by tradition, is the party site since his is the only room spacious enough to contain more than five people, and clean enough to hold such lunacy essentially every night.

Issei Futamata

Hanae Ichinose

Utama

A heavy-drinking middle-aged lady in room #2 of Ikkoku-kan. Aside from the fact that she's a party animal, she is typical of her age: in one word, nosy. When she still didn't know that Kyoko was a widow, she was trying very hard to arrange an "omiai" (a formal introduction to another person, in the hopes they would develop a relationship and marry each other) for Kyoko. Once she realized that Kyoko was serious about Godai, she tried to be their counselor.

Kazuyo Aoki

Yotsuya

Utama

The mysterious resident of room #4. The other tenants gave up on finding out anything about this strange man whose personal information is completely unknown, even job or age. Yet he seems to have something to call his job, and somewhere to call home, since he was away during the new year's holiday. His hobby is peeping and eavesdropping. His room's closet is connected to Godai's room by a huge crack that Yotsuya always opened whenever somebody tried to seal it. The only time anybody saw Yotsuya at work was when he tutored Yagami, although he didn't teach her anything. All he has done in the course of four years recorded in TV or manga has been to create unspeakable messes. It has been speculated among fans that Yotsuya is one and the same as the character Sekoi in another Rumiko Takahashi Manga titled Dust-spurt. In it, Sekoi is a secret agent working for the HCIA="Hinomaru Central Intelligence Agency".

Shigeru Chiba

Akemi Roppongi

Utama

The waitress of the snack bar "Cha-Cha-Maru", the resident of room #6, she is a red-haired bombshell who wears a negligee whenever she's in Ikkoku-kan. Though she may act sloppy, she is quite a sensitive lady who can understand not only Kyoko's feelings but Godai's as well.

Yuuko Iguchi

Shun Mitaka

Pendukung

Shun Mitaka is the coach of the tennis club that Kyoko attends, and is the rival of Godai for her love and attention. He and Godai recognized each other as rivals from the moment they met. Shun is notorious for being a ladies' man, and is a stud in every sense of the word, from his good looks, athleticism, and way with words, to his trademark shining white teeth, he is everything Godai is not. He had some childhood trauma concerning dogs, so he has a crippling fear of them. He comes off as a spoilt child of fortune, but is actually a really good and assiduous guy who truly loves Kyoko and is worried about letting someone unreliable have her. He wooed Kyoko quite boldly, but ironically that approach actually strengthened Kyoko's feelings towards Godai in most cases.

Akira Kamiya

Ibuki Yagami

Pendukung

The class-representative of Room 2-4 of the high school where Kyoko met Souichiro (the home-room teacher of 2-4 also happens to be Kyoko's home room teacher). Ibuki met Godai when he was in the student teacher program in his fourth year of college, and fell in love with him at first sight. Despite Godai is not interested in her, she never gives up, not even at the very end of the series.

Yuriko Fuchizaki

Asuna Kujou

Pendukung

A shy, pretty, young lady who considers dogs her brothers and sisters. She promptly fell in love with Mitaka when they met in "omiai", although Mitaka had an allergic reaction. She was initially worried about the relation between Mitaka and Kyoko. Asuna's family name, Kujō, means "Ninth Avenue" in Kyoto, and implies that she is a member of the ancient aristocratic Fujiwara clan. Kujō is a homophone for Cujo, Stephen King's infamous demon dog, but it is unclear whether Rumiko Takahashi intended this as a pun.

Hiromi Tsuru

Nozomu Nikaido

Pendukung

Nikaido is a quite interesting character, but, unfortunately, he does not show up on the TV series. Many plots that Nikaido is involved are rewritten and Nikaido is mostly replaced by Yotsuya-san, which is interesting because Nikaido hates Yotsuya-san. The walking insensitivity of room #2 is a college student who came from Ibaraki. He's always curious, so when he realized that nobody knew a thing about Yotsuya (everyone else had already given up on finding out anything about the peeping tom of room #4), he set out to find out about Yotsuya.

Ryou Horikawa

Chachamaru no Master

Pendukung

Akemi's boss and the bartender of the "Maru Cha Cha". Everyone refers to him as "Master".

Norio Wakamoto

Soichirou-san

Pendukung

Soichiro is Kyoko Otonashi's pet dog. He serves as the perfect hindrance to Shun Mitaka's pursuit of Kyoko.

Shigeru Chiba

Sakamoto

Pendukung

The "friend" of Godai

Toshio Furukawa

Saotome

Pendukung

Hiroshi Ootake

Yukari Godai

Pendukung

Hisako Kyouda

Iioka

Pendukung

Owner of the Bunny Cabaret. Iioka never hesitates to give Godai advice on how to treat a woman. Although he's not one to talk, he's had lots of children by many different girls.

Kei Tomiyama

Chigusa-ji

Pendukung

Kyoko's overbearing father. He wants nothing more than for his 'little girl' to move back home and live with he and his wife for the remainder of her natural life. He did not approve of Kyoko's marriage to Soichiro, but was heartbroken at the loss his daughter experienced.

Kousei Tomita

Ikuko Otonashi

Pendukung

Mayumi Shou

Ichinose-shi

Pendukung

Kentaro's father is such a hard worker that most of the tenants at Maison Ikkoku didn't even know he existed. Unlike his wife, Mr. Ichinose is a very quiet man who loves his son very much, but doesn't have enough time to show him how much he cares.

Minoru Yada

Sayoko Kuroki

Pendukung

One of Yusaku's college classmates, Sayako recruits him to join the schools puppet theater club. Sayako becomes more important later in the series when she helps Yūsaku get a part-time job at the pre-school she works at, setting him towards his final career goal. (In the anime, it is Kozue who gets Yūsaku the pre-school job.) Sayako eventually marries the former president of the puppet theater club, Saotome, who she was involved with for a long time, although it is never mentioned until she becomes engaged.

Yoshiko Sakakibara