What better way to start off a romcom than an epic space battle with a woman in a skintight pilot suit
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Miyasaka Takumi is a chef looking for a job voiced by Soma Saito who gets a Meet Cute with a beautiful landlady of a sharehouse named Mira voiced by Maaya Uchida and the pair hit it off immediately...though her "dog" of course hates him
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And no sharehouse anime would be complete without a colorful cast of characters, like the mysterious but affable elderly novelist, the aspiring indie idol who sings about punching people (and probably would punch you if you tick her off enough), the jobless bum and his studious son (did not have Tomokazu Sugita and Rie Kugimiya as father and son on my bingo card), and...is that Sadako
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Nothing unites tenants more than the landlady's terrible cooking and wanting to hire someone who can actually cook...and getting to spend more time with the landlady sure sweetens the deal for Miyasaka
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Mira doesn't look like she's been in prison, but she's definitely mysterious...though that doesn't get in the way of her and Miyasaka's first date out on the town! They even use the ED sung by their VA's
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Oh no, it's Maison Ikoku because Mira is a widow! Only...nope, it's more Urusei Yatsura/Waiting for Summer because she's secretly an alien princess on the hunt for a key to save her planet and rule over it...and her poodle is voiced by Junichi Suwabe! And they're being watched
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The OP is really fun and stylish, with a lot of retro romcom energy injected into it
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