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The Kawai Complex Guide to Manors and Hostel Behavior
Cover of Bokura wa Minna Kawai-sō volume 1 published by Shōnen Gahōsha. The character on the cover is Ritsu Kawai.
僕らはみんな河合荘
(Bokura wa Minna Kawai-sō)
GenreComedy, Romance, Slice of life
Manga
Written byRuri Miyahara
Published byShōnen Gahōsha
MagazineYoung King OURs
DemographicSeinen
Original runJune 2010 – present
Volumes7 (List of volumes)
Anime television series
Directed byShigeyuki Miya
Written byTakeshi Konuta
Music byAkito Matsuda
StudioBrain's Base
Licensed by
Original networkTBS, SUN, KBS, CBC, BS-TBS, Kids Station
Original run April 3, 2014 – June 19, 2014
Episodes12 (List of episodes)
Original video animation
First Time
Directed byShigeyuki Miya
Written byTakeshi Konuta
Music byAkito Matsuda
StudioBrain's Base
Licensed by
ReleasedDecember 26, 2014
Runtime24 minutes

The Kawai Complex Guide to Manors and Hostel Behavior (僕らはみんな河合荘, Bokura wa Minna Kawai-sō, lit. "We Are All From Dormitory Kawai", a play on words that has a double meaning of "We Are All Pitiful") is a manga series by Ruri Miyahara, published in Shōnen Gahōsha's seinen manga magazine Young King OURs since the June 2010 issue. It has been collected in seven tankōbon volumes as of November 2014. An anime television series adaptation, produced by Brain's Base aired in Japan between April and June 2014.

Plot

Thanks to his parents' job transfer, high school freshman Kazunari Usa finally gets to enjoy living on his own in the Kawai Complex, a boarding house that provides meals for its residents. Ritsu, the senpai he admires, also lives in Kawai Complex, as do a few other "unique" individuals: his masochistic roommate Shirosaki; beautiful, big-breasted Mayumi who has no luck in finding men; and sly, predatory college woman Sayaka. Surrounded by these people, Usa never finds his daily life boring.

Characters

Kawai Dormitory

Kazunari Usa (宇佐 和成, Usa Kazunari)
Voiced by: Yūichi Iguchi
Usa Kazunari is a first year student in high school whose parents ended up working out of town. He agreed to them that he would stay anywhere, as long as he could live alone. So he decided to move in at the Kawai Dormitory where his parent's friend Sumiko is the manager. But to his dismay, he ends up rooming with a masochistic man named Shirosaki, who he caught peeking through a broken fence that surrounded a grade school. At first Usa dislikes living with the other residents of the complex, until while attempting to leave the complex, he runs into a girl name Ritsu Kawai at the front door, a second year student at his school that he admires and automatically convinced to stay at the complex. Usa then quickly adjusts to their abnormal lifestyle.
Ritsu Kawai (河合 律, Kawai Ritsu)
Voiced by: Kana Hanazawa
Ritsu is a quiet girl and a second year student at Usa's school. She loves reading books and is often expressionless, but is prone to outbursts of emotion when something amuses, moves or embarrasses her. Despite her cold attitude early on, she finds herself falling in love with Usa, even if she doesn't realize it yet. In the manga Ritsu is depicted with black hair while in the anime she has brown hair.
Sumiko (住子)
Voiced by: Sanae Kobayashi
The manager of Kawai Dormitory and the sister of Ritsu's grandfather.
Shirosaki (城崎)
Voiced by: Go Shinomiya
Usa's somewhat perverted roommate, known for being a masochist.
Mayumi Nishikino (錦野 麻弓, Nishikino Mayumi)
Voiced by: Rina Satō
A working woman who has terrible luck with men and is always harsh to everyone. Especially those who found romance or about to find romance.
Sayaka Watanabe (渡辺 彩花, Watanabe Sayaka)
Voiced by: Hisako Kanemoto
A college student at Kawai Dormitory. Sweet on the outside but loves to cause trouble for others. Loves to fondle Mayumi, much to her dismay. It is revealed later in the series that Sayaka is into BL(Boy's Love) manga when Miharu visited the Kawai Complex and started saying embarrassing things about Sayaka when she was in high school, much to her dismay.

Others

Chinatsu (千夏)
Voiced by: Ai Shimizu
An elementary school student who becomes attached to the Kawai Dormitory crew after Shirosaki found her wallet. Has a fondness for pudding and, in Shirosaki's point of view, has the makings of a sadist.
Tagami (田神)
Voiced by: Junsuke Sakai
Usa's friend at school. He has developed a crush on Mayumi after seeing her at Usa's workplace.
Yamamoto (山本) / Hōjō (北条)
Voiced by: Hikaru Midorikawa
One of the first employees Usa meets at his summer part time job and is a very strange character using lyrical and explanatory notations to emphasize his words. Yamamoto is his name at work and Hōjō is his real name.
Kurokawa (黒川)
Voiced by: Takashi Kondō
One of the first employees Usa meets at his summer part time job.
Hayashi (林)
Voiced by: Manami Numakura
Usa's classmate back in middle school. She had an obsession to things occult and is also the source to Usa's weird nickname. After entering high school, she left the occult stuff behind her and changed her appearance to be more girly and stylish. When she met Usa again at his workplace, following a mixer with Tagami and several people, she tried to push her weird past on Usa and make it seem like he was the weird one. She has feelings for Usa.
Miharu Tsuneda (常田 美晴, Tsuneda Miharu)
Voiced by: Ayaka Suwa
Sayaka's classmate back in middle school. She knows something about Sayaka in middle school life.
Maemura (前村)
Norihiro Sakuma (佐久間 範弘, Sakuma Norihiro)
Manami (愛美)
Akira (アキラ)
Yōko Mabuchi (馬淵 陽子, Mabuchi Yōko)
A former resident of Kawai Dormitory who had Sayaka's room before her. Works in a design company in Tokyo. Prior to leaving the dorm she suffered bad luck with work related stuff, including once when Mayumi's boyfriend embezzled money from Mabuchi's coworker. She also had not made a good impression at her new job, which has left her depressed.

Media

Manga

The Kawai Complex Guide to Manors and Hostel Behavior started as a manga series, written and drawn by Ruri Miyahara and published by Shōnen Gahōsha in their Young King OURs seinen manga magazine. The manga is also published online in English by Crunchyroll.[1] The first chapter appeared in the June 2010 issue, released on April 30, 2010.[2] The series have also been compiled in seven tankōbon volumes, published between May 30, 2011, and September 30, 2015.[3][4]

No. Release date ISBN
1 May 30, 2011[3]978-4-7859-3631-0
2 January 30, 2012[3]978-4-7859-3777-5
3 August 30, 2012[3]978-4-7859-3909-0
4 May 30, 2013[3]978-4-7859-5057-6
5 March 26, 2014[3]978-4-7859-5251-8
6 November 29, 2014[4]978-4-7859-5435-2
7 September 30, 2015[5]978-4-7859-5634-9

Anime

A 12-episode anime television series adaptation, directed by Shigeyuki Miya at studio Brain's Base aired on TBS from April 3 to June 19, 2014, and later on SUN, KBS, CBC, BS-TBS and Kids Station.[6] The series was streamed with English subtitles by Crunchyroll.[7] The anime has been licensed for digital and home video release by Sentai Filmworks.[8] The opening theme is "Itsuka no, Iku Tsuka no Kimi to no Sekai" (Somewhen, Some Worlds With You) (いつかの、いくつかのきみとのせかい), sung by Fhána, and the ending theme is "My Sweet Shelter" by Kana Hanazawa, Rina Satō and Hisako Kanemoto. An unaired episode was released with the seventh part of the DVD and Blu-ray Disc release on December 26, 2014.[9]

Episode list

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See also

  • Love Lab, another manga series by Ruri Miyahara.

References

  1. ^ "Crunchyroll Manga Adds "The Legend of Onikirimaru" and "Bokura wa Minna Kawaisou"". Crunchyroll. Retrieved Oct 11, 2014.
  2. ^ 近藤るるるが次号ヤングキングアワーズから新連載開始 (in Japanese). Natalie.mu. April 30, 2010. Retrieved October 4, 2014.
  3. ^ a b c d e f 僕らはみんな河合荘 (in Japanese). Shōnen Gahōsha. Retrieved December 24, 2013.
  4. ^ a b 僕らはみんな河合荘 6巻 (ヤングキング・コミックス) (in Japanese). Amazon.co.jp. Retrieved October 4, 2014.
  5. ^ 僕らはみんな河合荘　7巻 (コミック（ＹＫコミックス）) (in Japanese). Amazon.co.jp. Retrieved September 5, 2015.
  6. ^ アニメ「河合荘」キャスト＆キービジュ公開、律は花澤香菜 (in Japanese). Natalie.mu. January 31, 2014. Retrieved October 4, 2014.
  7. ^ "Crunchyroll to Stream The Kawai Complex Guide to Manors and Hostel Behavior". Anime News Network. April 4, 2014. Retrieved October 4, 2014.
  8. ^ "Sentai Filmworks Licenses The Kawai Complex Guide to Manors and Hostel Behavior". Anime News Network. March 26, 2014. Retrieved October 4, 2014.
  9. ^ "7th Kawai Complex Guide to Manors and Hostel Behavior DVD/BD Includes Unaired Episode". Anime News Network. June 30, 2014. Retrieved October 4, 2014.
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