The Eccentric Family

有頂天家族

2013–2017 · Ended · 2 seasons · 25 episodes · Animation, Comedy · Japan

Channel TOKYO MX · Starring Takahiro Sakurai, Junichi Suwabe, Mai Nakahara

In Kyoto, humans and supernatural creatures live side-by-side. Soichiro Shimogamo used to be the head of tanuki society, but without warning one day he was made into tanuki stew, and no one knows how it happened. He left four sons behind who all live happily with their mother. What does fate have in store for this strongly bonded family?!
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Episodes

13 episodes · July 2013 – September 2013
  1. Episode 1: 1. Goddess of the NoryoyukaJuly 7, 2013 · 25 min
    Since the Heian era relocation, humans, tanuki, and tengu have maintained a delicate balance. But none of that matter as a young tanuki is tasked by an older tengu to deliver a dangerous letter.
  2. Episode 2: 2. Mom and Raijin, God of ThunderJuly 14, 2013 · 25 min
    Yasaburou visits Yajirou, who lives in the bottom of a well as a frog and forgot how to transform back into himself. When a storm comes, the three non-frog Shimogamo brothers race to help their mother, who is terrified of thunder.
  3. Episode 3: 3. Yakushibou's Inner ParlorJuly 21, 2013 · 25 min
    In order to uphold a Shimogamo family tradition, Yasaburou needs to do what Yaichirou could not and come up with a leisure cruiser for them to launch. He asks to borrow Yakushibou's flying inner parlor, but ends up having to make a dangerous deal with Benten.
  4. Episode 4: 4. Battle of the Daimonji Leisure CruisersJuly 28, 2013 · 25 min
    During the traditional Daimonji leisure cruise, the Ebisugawas come to pick on the Shimogamo family. Yasaburou fights bravely, but loses the Fujin Raijin folding fan. Fearing Benten's wrath, he goes into hiding after the inner parlor crashes.
  5. Episode 5: 5. The Friday FellowsAugust 4, 2013 · 25 min
    Yasaburou had been hiding from Benten in Osaka, but thanks to Kinkaku and Ginkaku she catches him during a visit to Kyoto and makes him perform tanuki tricks for the Friday Fellows. It is revealed that Yasaburou's mother was saved by a man who gave her onigiri and also that one of the Friday Fellows, Hotei, has loved tanuki ever since he saved one and fed it onigiri...
  6. Episode 6: 6. Taking in Fall ColorsAugust 11, 2013 · 25 min
    Professor Yodogawa chases down Benten and Yasaburou, and they check out some autumn foliage. When she ditches them, Yodogawa has a lot to say about his philosophy of eating and Yasaburou also gets told a story about a conversation between Yodogawa and Benten's first tanuki hot pot victim, which he promptly reports to Yajirou.
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  1. Episode 7: 7. Bathhouse RulesAugust 18, 2013 · 25 min
    Yasaburou, Yashirou, and Yaichirou convince Prof. Akadama to take a much-needed bath, but they run into the Ebisugawa twins at the bathhouse. After a brief scuffle it is revealed that Yajirou was at least partly responsible for Soichirou Shimogamo's death in the Friday Fellow's hot pot.
  2. Episode 8: 8. The Day of Dad's DepartureAugust 25, 2013 · 25 min
    Yajirou tells Yasaburou and Yaichirou his account of the night their father was eaten. Later Yasaburou hears a continuation of the story Yajirou doesn't know: Soichirou bumped into Prof. Akadama on his way to the afterlife.
  3. Episode 9: 9. Kaisei, Daughter of EbisugawaSeptember 1, 2013 · 25 min
    Yasaburou gets interrupted while warming his butt and sent to convince Prof. Akadama to attend the council where the new Nise-emon will be decided. He later succeeds in his quest for warmth, but over the wall splitting the men's and women's baths, he receives an ominous apology from Kaisei; her brothers are plotting something.
  4. Episode 10: 10. The Behind-the-Scenes Dealings of Souun EbisugawaSeptember 8, 2013 · 25 min
    The meaning of Kaisei's mysterious apology becomes clear as the Ebisugawa plot to boil Yaichirou in a hot pot is revealed on the day of the Nise-emon election. The day is also the anniversary of Soichirou's death, for which it turns out Souun was responsible.
  5. Episode 11: 11. Back in the GameSeptember 15, 2013 · 25 min
    After Yasaburou gets a hand from Benten to escape Soun and his Elite Guard, the Ebisugawas manage to nab him anyway through a clever Kinkaku-Ginkaku plot. Meanwhile, Kaisei helps Yashirou escape the Electric Brandy factory and Yaichirou is handed over to the Friday Fellows as the primary ingredient for their year-end hot pot.
  6. Episode 12: 12. The False Eizan Electric RailwaySeptember 22, 2013 · 25 min
    Yashirou comes up with a plan to get Yajirou back in the game, leading to the trouncing of Kinkaku and Ginkaku. Yashirou stalls the Nise-emon decision meeting while Yasaburou saves Yaichirou, but their mom is still in danger of becoming Friday Fellow hot pot.
  7. Episode 13: 13. The Eccentric FamilySeptember 29, 2013 · 25 min
    Tanuki and human worlds collide as both the Nise-emon ceremony and Friday Fellow year-end bash descend into chaos. The scale of the disturbance increases when Prof. Akadama starts brandishing the Fujin Raijin folding fan, but by New Year’s everything settles down and Yasaburo and co. are able to calmly consider their hopes for the future.

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EPISODE LENGTH
25 minutes
FIRST AIRED
July 7, 2013
LAST AIRED
June 25, 2017
PRODUCTION COMPANY
P.A.WORKS

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