Kentarō Ichinose (一の瀬賢太郎, Ichinose Kentarō) is Hanae Ichinose's son.
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Kentarō begins the story as grade-school-aged brat, generally seen trying to get between his mother and her bottle. Initially, he is antagonistic towards Yūsaku, but events soon see him to look upon Yūsaku as an "alright guy". He is also very fond of Kyōko, especially because he sees her as the only sane person in the building other than himself. He develops a crush on Kyōko's niece, Ikuko, reminding Yūsaku of himself, although Kentarō resents the comparison.
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Kentaro wanting his mother to cease her drunken behavior.
While Hanae does care about Kentarō and his well being due to being his mother, she's far from ideal. She will some times drag him along to her parties with Akemi and Yotsuya (often getting drunk in front of her son much to his dismay) or even to spy on Yūsaku. Kentarō complains that his mother doesn't take him anywhere as she often spends her days drinking, even on spring break or summer vacation. Because of this, Kentarō is confused or thinks there's a catch when even his mother actually takes him somewhere fun. Despite this, he does respect her and see's her as his primary authority figure. However, due to her frequent intoxication and tenancy to embarrass him at school, he feels he can't count of her.
At first, Kentarō is completely antagonistic towards Yūsaku and shows little to no respect for him. The two don't like each other much, with Yūsaku often getting angry enough to strike Kentaro on the head or throw things at him when he angers him and Kentaro wishing to get back at him. He'd even go as far as to bribe Godai or intentionally get between him and Kyoko.
As time goes on Kentarō and Yūsaku's relationship changes; most notably when Yūsaku witnesses Kentarō's dismay at the revelation that Ikuko (A girl Kentaro had a crush on) already had a boyfriend. Being that Yūsaku was currently feeling insecure about having to live up to Kyoko's deceased husband, he was able to empathize. The two of them would start to get along better to the point where Yūsaku became like an older brother Kentarō. Kentarō even became comfortable enough to talk to Yūsaku about his problems. Despite this, he would continue to act snarky around Yūsaku and still occasionally insult him.
Kentarō respects Kyoko, seeing her as a second mother figure who's nicer to him and more responsible than his own mother. When they first meet, he seems to have a small crush on her.
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Kentarō meets Sōichirō on the first day that Kyoko moves in to Maison Ikkoku. At first he's a little surprised by such a strange dog, but he immediately befriends him. He's often seeing playing with him and even riding on his back.
Ikuko with her arm around a blushing Kentaro.
Kentarō first meets Ikuko when Yūsaku offered to take him to the beach for a school assignment. When he first meets her, he immediately develops a crush on her despite Ikuko being unaware of it. The two of them enjoy spending time playing together and get along very well. However, upon learning that she had a boyfriend in episode 11, he immediately feels bad and appears to stop pursuing her on the spot. This is likely the cause of them not hanging out very much afterwards, but they appear to remain friends regardless.
Mr. Ichinose is Kentarō's father. Due to Mr. Ichinose's busy work schedule, Kentarō rarely got to see or interact with him. When Mr. Ichinose would finally spent more time at home due to being out of work, Kentarō felt estranged from him and had trouble connecting with him.
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- His seiyu provided the voice of Ginger in Urusei Yatsura.
- His two English voice actress provide the voices of characters from other anime adaptations of Rumiko Takahashi's manga series:
- Saffron Henderson provided the voice of Tsubasa Kurenai & Kogane Musashi in Ranma ½ and Sōta Higurashi and Eri on Inuyasha.
- Sharon Alexander provided the voice of Tsubaki and Kanta on Inuyasha.
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