Maki and Friends - Recommendations

• TV (39 eps)
• 1970 - 1971

This is another slice-of-everyday-life tale, centered around a spiteful old woman who causes trouble for neighbours with her constant bumbling and grumbling.

• OVA (1 ep)
• 2015

In Saitama's early days, before he lost all his hair and came to acquire his iconic superhero suit, he lived in a shady apartment complex run by a cranky old woman. When he discovers the kindly old tailor who mends his clothes is being exploited by a loan shark, Saitama leaps into action - only to discover the culprits who have been terrorizing the town are his very own neighbors! Can Saitama resolve this situation peacefully, or are neighborly relations in his building about to take a violent nosedive?

• Movie (1 ep)
• 1965

• TV

The second season of The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten.

• DVD Special (14 eps)
• 2014 - 2015

• TV (12 eps)
• 2023

Amane lives alone in an apartment, and the most beautiful girl in school, Mahiru, lives just next door. They've almost never spoken—until the day he sees her in distress on a rainy day and lends her his umbrella. To return the favor, she offers him help around the house, and a relationship slowly begins to blossom as the distance between them closes…

• Other (1 ep)
• 2010

• Music Video (1 ep)
• 2015

The official music video for Hakimono to Kasa no Monogatari by AKB48 that was featured on NHK's Minna no Uta program.

• OVA (3 eps)
• 2014 - 2015

Suga Kimio becomes subject to blackmail from the a girl in class. Komine Nozomi blackmails him with the threat revealing that he was caught in her locker while the girls were changing. Although this was circumstantial and without ill motives he submits. Her price on the blackmail is that he and her reveal their 'true selves' each day using the view between their two apartments which sit across from one another. The curiosity of human reactions for Komine Nozomi ensues.

• TV (13 eps)
• 2006

When they were young, Kazuki and her older sister Hatsune had Yuuji and his little sister Marie as next door neighbors; and while Kazuki developed a crush Yuuji, he and his family moved away for ten years, much to her dismay. Now, the duo is finally returning, and Kazuki eagerly awaits his arrival; she still has a crush on him, and wants to finally confess her love to the handsome and debonair man that Kazuki has become – or has he? Unfortunately for Kazuki, Yuuji has “evolved” into a typical teenage pervert who can’t keep his hands off her. Family isn’t much help, as Hatsune helps Yuuji at every chance she can get, while Marie and her air gun are ready to lay down the law at a moment’s notice. With hormones raging and hands groping, will Kazuki retain her feelings for Yuuji?