Key Staff

Original Work: Tomihiko Morimi

    (The Tatami Galaxy)

Director: Masayuki Yoshihara

    (Unit Director on Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex)

Series Composition: Shōtarō Suga

    (Lagrange – The Flower of RIN-NE, Darker than Black eps 15-25)

Animation Production

P.A. Works

Introduction

Popular author Tomihiko Morimi's novel “Uchoten-Kazoku” is getting its long-awaited anime adaptation! Kōji Kumeta of “Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei” and “Joshiraku” proposes character designs for another's work for the first time. The animation production is being handled by P.A. Works, who has brought many masterpieces into the world such as “True Tears,” “Hana-Saku Iroha,” and “Tari Tari”!

Set in Kyoto, this uproarious, sophisticated comedy-drama featuring a jumble of humans, tengu, and tanuki is finally revealed!

Story

In Kyoto, humans, tanuki, and tengu live side-by-side.

The Shimogamo family lives in Shimogamo Jinja's Tadasu no Mori. The father, Soichiro, 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: Yasaburo, the third son who inherited a rich strain of his great father's “idiot blood”; Yaichiro, the diligent eldest son who has a tough time pulling through in a pinch; Yajiro, the second eldest who secludes himself in a well as a frog; and Yashiro, the timid youngest brother who shows his tail at the drop of a hat. They all live happily with their mother, a serious Takarazuka fan, with the motto that, “What is fun is good.” After taking care of Professor Akadama, a retired Great Tengu, being manipulated by the beautiful Benten, a human girl with divine powers, and fighting air-battles against their rivals, the Ebisugawa family, in the night sky over the Daimonji Gozan Fire Festival, the Shimogamo family suddenly finds itself in a desperate fix.

Will the truth behind how their father got stewed be revealed?! What does fate have in store for this strongly bonded family?!

Characters

	Yasaburo Shimogamo VA: Takahiro Sakurai The third son of the Shimogamo family who inherited a rich strain of his great father's “idiot blood.”
	Yaichiro Shimogamo VA: Junichi Suwabe The diligent eldest son who struggles to carry on his father's legacy but has a tough time pulling through in a pinch.
	Yajiro Shimogamo VA: Hiroyuki Yoshino The second eldest who has no motivation and secludes himself in a well as a frog.
	Yashiro Shimogamo VA: Mai Nakahara The timid kid brother who shows his tail at the drop of a hat.
	Benten VA: Mamiko Noto A beautiful, seductive young woman who can fly through the sky at will thanks to divine tengu powers.
	Mother VA: Kikuko Inoue The Shimogamo mother who tenderly watches over her four sons and absolutely loves the Takarazuka arts.
	Soichiro Shimogamo VA: Bon Ishihara Once the head of tanuki society, the father of the Shimogamo family was made into tanuki stew by The Friday Club.
	Kaisei VA: Ayane Sakura Yasaburo's ex-fiancée who has a most foul mouth and absolutely refuses to show herself.
	Professor Akadama VA: Hideyuki Umezu A Great Tengu who once wielded incredible power, but has now come down in the world.
	Soun Ebisugawa VA: Nobuo Tobita The uncle of the four brothers who opposes them as he tries to expand his family's influence in tanuki society.
	Kinkaku & Ginkaku VA: Shūya Nishiji and Kosuke Hatakeyama Soun's idiot twin sons who speak in confused four kanji compounds. (By the way, their real names are Gojiro and Gosaburo Ebisugawa.)
	Professor Yodogawa VA: Takehiko Higuchi A member of The Friday Fellows who talks of his love for tanuki even as he eats tanuki stew.