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Kyoto looks like the same old city, temples and tourists and all, except half the neighbours aren't human. Tanuki shapeshifters live on these streets. Tengu with long noses live here too. The humans walk past and never notice a thing. Yasaburou Shimogamo, third son of a prominent tanuki family, spends his days minding an old tengu who forgot how to fly, dodging the schemes of rival tanuki, and slipping into human skin just to watch how people live. Sometimes he forgets what shape he's in and wanders around as a high school girl. Then there's what happened to his father. The head of the tanuki community didn't die peacefully. He ended up in a pot, eaten by a group of humans who call themselves the Friday Fellows, and nobody in the family talks about it. Yasaburou's brothers cope in their own ways: one sits at the bottom of a pond as a frog, one messes with electricity, and the eldest has thrown himself into an election that's eating him alive. The Friday Fellows are still out there, and a tanuki in Kyoto never knows when he might end up on the menu. Yasaburou keeps circling the truth about his father's death, and he keeps running into Benten, a woman who is dangerous in ways he can't quite name. Is he chasing answers, or is he walking straight toward the same pot?
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The Eccentric FamilyWatch
Uchouten Kazoku
TV Series · 2013 · ★ 7,8
Kyoto looks like the same old city, temples and tourists and all, except half the neighbours aren't human. Tanuki shapeshifters live on these streets. Tengu with long noses live here too. The humans walk past and never notice a thing. Yasaburou Shimogamo, third son of a prominent tanuki family, spends his days minding an old tengu who forgot how to fly, dodging the schemes of rival tanuki, and slipping into human skin just to watch how people live. Sometimes he forgets what shape he's in and wanders around as a high school girl.
Then there's what happened to his father. The head of the tanuki community didn't die peacefully. He ended up in a pot, eaten by a group of humans who call themselves the Friday Fellows, and nobody in the family talks about it. Yasaburou's brothers cope in their own ways: one sits at the bottom of a pond as a frog, one messes with electricity, and the eldest has thrown himself into an election that's eating him alive.
The Friday Fellows are still out there, and a tanuki in Kyoto never knows when he might end up on the menu. Yasaburou keeps circling the truth about his father's death, and he keeps running into Benten, a woman who is dangerous in ways he can't quite name. Is he chasing answers, or is he walking straight toward the same pot?