The Kawai Complex Guide to Manors and Hostel Behavior

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)
Genre	Comedy, Romance, Slice of life
Manga
Written by	Ruri Miyahara
Published by	Shōnen Gahōsha
Demographic	Seinen
Magazine	Young King OURs
Original run	June 2010 – present
Volumes	9 (List of volumes)
Anime television series
Directed by	Shigeyuki Miya
Written by	Takeshi Konuta
Music by	Akito Matsuda
Studio	Brain's Base
Licensed by	NA Sentai Filmworks
Original network	TBS, SUN, KBS, CBC, BS-TBS, Kids Station
Original run	April 3, 2014 – June 19, 2014
Episodes	12 (List of episodes)
Original video animation
First Time
Directed by	Shigeyuki Miya
Written by	Takeshi Konuta
Music by	Akito Matsuda
Studio	Brain's Base
Licensed by	NA Sentai Filmworks
Released	December 26, 2014
Runtime	24 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 nine tankōbon volumes as of May 2017. An anime television series adaptation, produced by Brain's Base aired in Japan between April and June 2014.

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. 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.

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. The first chapter appeared in the June 2010 issue, released on April 30, 2010. The series have also been compiled in nine tankōbon volumes, published between May 30, 2011, and April 28, 2017.