The Eccentric Family (2013)

Name: The Eccentric Family
Rating: 6.4

Rating: 6.4

Synopsis

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?!

First Air Date: 2013-07-07

Last Air Date: 2017-06-25

Number of Seasons: 2

Number of Episodes: 25

Networks: Tokyo MX

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Top Cast

Takahiro Sakurai as Yasaburou Shimogamo (voice)
Junichi Suwabe as Yaichirou Shimogamo (voice)
Mai Nakahara as Yashirou Shimogamo (voice)
Hiroyuki Yoshino as Yajirou Shimogamo (voice)
Kikuko Inoue as Tousen Shimogamo (voice)
Ayane Sakura as Kaisei Ebisugawa (voice)
Mamiko Noto as Benten (voice)
Hideyuki Umezu as Mr. Akadama (voice)
Shuuya Nishiji as Kinkaku (voice)
Kousuke Hatakeyama as Ginkaku (voice)

Seasons

None (2013)

No overview available for this season.

Episodes:

Ep. 1: Goddess of the Noryoyuka (2013-07-07)

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.
Ep. 2: Mom and Raijin, God of Thunder (2013-07-14)

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.
Ep. 3: Yakushibou's Inner Parlor (2013-07-21)

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.
Ep. 4: Battle of the Daimonji Leisure Cruisers (2013-07-28)

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.
Ep. 5: The Friday Fellows (2013-08-04)

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...
Ep. 6: Taking in Fall Colors (2013-08-11)

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.
Ep. 7: Bathhouse Rules (2013-08-18)

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.
Ep. 8: The Day of Dad's Departure (2013-08-25)

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.
Ep. 9: Kaisei, Daughter of Ebisugawa (2013-09-01)

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.
Ep. 10: The Behind-the-Scenes Dealings of Souun Ebisugawa (2013-09-08)

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.
Ep. 11: Back in the Game (2013-09-15)

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.
Ep. 12: The False Eizan Electric Railway (2013-09-22)

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.
Ep. 13: The Eccentric Family (2013-09-29)

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.