10 Underrated 1990s Anime You Probably Haven't Seen

6. Maison Ikkoku

Takahashi Rumiko had lightning strike not just twice, but four times! She is behind such series as Inuyasha, Ranma ½, Urusei Yatsura, and Maison Ikkoku. While Urusei's anime adaptation was popular during the eighties and Inuyasha was a premier anime of the early 2000s, Takahashi's nineties series is considered to be Ranma ½.

But many people either forget, or have no idea, of Takahashi's other nineties classic: Maison Ikkkoku, or the 'House of a Single Moment'. Ikkoku ran for 96 episodes and though it began in the late eighties between the anime runs of Urusei and Ranma, it didn't get a western adaptation until a year after Ranma had already debuted in the west. Ranma arrived in 1993, while Ikkoku didn't arrive until 1994.

Equally damning was the fact that Ikkoku only got a third of its episodes dubbed and the rest were sold as straight-to-VHS (welcome to the nineties) subtitled episodes.

Due to being overshadowed by Takahashi's other series and not getting a full run in English until the the early 2000s, Ikkoku is often forgotten. A real shame considering Ikkoku is often regarded as Takahashi's best work.