The episode ends on a poignant note: Takeshi quietly slides a can of beer toward Shinji as an apology. Yutaka opens his door exactly two centimeters to take his portion of meat. The four of them sit in silence under a flickering fluorescent light. They are not friends. They are not family. They are simply survivors sharing a poison puddle.
Upon entering his new room (Room 203), Kuni is hit by a wall of smells: stale beer, menthol cigarettes, and the infamous dokudami weed growing through cracks in the floor. He quickly meets his neighbors, who will form the core ensemble of the series: dokushin apartment dokudamisou episode 1