Apartment! - Recommendations

• Vol: 1
• 2015

• Vol: 3; Ch: 24
• 2003 - 2010

"I am, in fact, one of the dead." So says Acony, a rather mischievous girl, upon her first meeting with protagonist Motomi. Newly moved into an ancient apartment, how will Motomi handle Acony and all the bizarre residents?

• Vol: 1; Ch: 7
• 2011

Kogure-sou is a crumbling old apartment building of just six rooms where four people live. On the first floor are the owner, a very old man who wants to have sex before he dies, and a girl in university who pines in a sad and complicated love. On the second floor are a salary man who finds meaning to his life in spying on the university girl below him, and Mayu whose boyfriend disappeared three years ago. Also involved are the florist from the nearby shop who worries over her husband's infidelity and Mine who is still troubled by a crime committed a long time ago. What all of them strive for is love, but they all find nothing but pain and bitter disappointments. Do they realize that what heals them is actually the run-down little apartment building and the real human warmth that they share with each other?

• Vol: 1; Ch: 9
• 2003 - 2004

An apartment in Italy. In four of the rooms live four single men with singular personalities. Into this peculiar ménage steps an exchange student, the new tenant of the fifth room. Brought together by chance, friends by choice, they pursue their dreams together as the days drift gently by.

• Vol: 1; Ch: 6
• 2005

When Ryou moves into a new apartment block, his neighbour Makoto makes no secret of the fact that he likes men, and Ryou is forced to confront the secret doubts he's always had about his own sexuality. Things get complicated when Makoto's history with the other resident of the building, Nanno, results in jealousy, tension, and love triangles all around.

• Vol: 10; Ch: 174
• 2015 - 2023

The "apartment comedy with laughs and tears" centers on a 4-year-old boy named Satou Kotarou, who moves next door to Karino Shin, an unsuccessful manga artist. Kotarou has no parents and lives alone. Not only does he seem to earn a living, he actually seems more put together than his own strange neighbors.

• Vol: 1; Ch: 5
• 2003

When Oriko kicks Machi out of her apartment, he simply forces his way into the apartment next door, which happens to belong to his classmate Yurara. Yurara is too shy to throw him out, but will Machi's advances become too much for her to put up with?

• Vol: 1; Ch: 13
• 2004 - 2006

Sadashima fell in love with a handsome senpai while she was in high school, but didn't have the guts to tell him before he graduated and moved away. When Sadashima graduates the next year, she follows her senpai, Shirahai, to Tokyo and manages to move in next door. She totally believes that the two of them can now hook up, and can't wait to knock on his door to 'coincidentally" find themselves neighbors. She's flabbergasted to find a woman answering Shirahai's door, and then blown away to find out the woman is Shirahai! He's had a sex change!

• Vol: 2; Ch: 14
• 2013 - 2016

When Sugimoto is reunited with an elementary school classmate in front of their apartment, he can't help but be puzzled by their encounter. Did Senoo always act like that? Meanwhile, Sugimoto is also at a crossroads with his job as a hair salon assistant. Slowly, their lives become intertwined, in the apartment they both call home.

• Vol: 1; Ch: 8
• 2010 - 2011

When his love found a new man, Luca found himself in need of a new place to live. He spotted a room for rent flyer that lead to a bold offer from the landlord. The landlord, and now roommate, Javi guides Luca while composing a story for a novel. After observing the neighbors living in their apartment on the end of Calle Feliz, Luca writes a brand new story, committed to finding a happy end for each person there. This is the story of how Luca, Javi and all their neighbors eventually find their own happy ending.