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The ''Maison Ikkoku'' manga series features characters created by Rumiko Takahashi. Many of the characters live in the series' titular boarding house, including the protagonists Yusaku Godai and Kyoko Otonashi. The boarding house setting and its tenants were inspired from Takahashi's college years; the apartment house behind her own was occupied by many "strange people." ==Creation and conception== Takahashi stated that she had wanted to draw a story about an apartment complex for some time, inspired by the one she lived in in Nakano, Tokyo during college and the odd actions of the people living in the one next door. She originally only wanted to start the series focusing on Kyoko and Godai's relationship before moving on to include the other tenants to have a "human drama," but said the love story attracted her more and took over. She said that she adds new characters when she needs new story ideas, but remarked that the apartment setting of ''Maison Ikkoku'' limited her from adding too many. Takahashi said that when creating characters she roughly knows their "nature" while designing them, but not the details.〔 The characters' names involve puns on numbers, with those of the Maison Ikkoku tenants utilizing their room numbers. ( * Not residents of Maison Ikkoku.) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「List of Maison Ikkoku characters」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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