The Kawai Complex Guide to Manors and Hostel Behavior


The Kawai Complex Guide to Manors and Hostel Behavior is a Japanese manga series by Ruri Miyahara, published in Shōnen Gahōsha's manga magazine Young King OURs from the June 2010 issue till the February 2018 issue. It has been collected in eleven volumes as of July 2018. An extra fan volume was published in August 2018. 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. His mother makes him stay at 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: Shirosaki, his novelist, masochistic roommate; Mayumi, a beautiful, buxom office lady who has terrible luck with men; and Sayaka, a sly and predatory college student. Surrounded by these people, Usa finds his daily life neither peaceful nor boring. As the series progresses, Usa and Ritsu gradually become closer friends, and the pair's feelings for each other grow stronger. After a series of misunderstandings, including Usa's belief that Ritsu has developed feelings for a classmate and her thinking that he is kind to her out of pity rather than genuine caring, the two eventually become a couple towards the end of Usa's second year in high school.

Characters

Kawai Dormitory

;Kazunari Usa
;Ritsu Kawai
;Sumiko
;Shirosaki Shizuru
;Mayumi Nishikino
;Sayaka Watanabe

Others

;Chinatsu
;Tagami
;Hōjō / Yamamoto
;Kurokawa / Saionji
;Hayashi
;Miharu Tsuneda
;Maemura
;Norihiro Sakuma
;Manami
;Akira
;Yōko Mabuchi

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 manga magazine. The manga is also published online in English by Crunchyroll. The first chapter appeared in the June 2010 issue, released on April 30, 2010. The series has also been compiled in eleven volumes, published between May 30, 2011, and July 30, 2018. On August 30, 2018, an additional volume was published. It contained unused illustrations and some new manga along with anime box set illustrations. The manga ended serialization on December 28, 2017, in the February 2018 issue.

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 TV, KBS, CBC, BS-TBS and Kids Station. The series was streamed with English subtitles by Crunchyroll. The anime has been licensed for digital and home video release by Sentai Filmworks. The opening theme is "Itsuka no, Iku Tsuka no Kimi to no Sekai", 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.