TV series
The Tatami Galaxy
Overview
When a college dropout stops for a late night bite at a mysterious ramen stand, he crosses paths with a self-proclaimed deity of matrimony. This bizarre meeting sends the young man hurtling through a horrifying flashback to his not-so-glorious college days when the influence of a cruel new friend turned him from a hopeless romantic into a mischievous “black cupid.”
Details
- First air date
- 2010-04-23
- Status
- Ended
- Seasons
- 1 season
- Episodes
- 11 episodes
- Genres
- Animation, Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
- Network
- Fuji TV
- Production
- Madhouse
- Country
- JP
- Original language
- JA
Cast
- Shintaro Asanuma as 'I' (Watashi) (voice)
- Hiroyuki Yoshino as Ozu (voice)
- Keiji Fujiwara as Higuchi (voice)
- Yuhko Kaida as Hanuki (voice)
- Maaya Sakamoto as Akashi (voice)
- Junichi Suwabe as Jogasaki (voice)
Creators and crew
- Noriko Ozaki - Producer
- Fumie Takeuchi - Producer
- Masaaki Yuasa - Director
- Akitoshi Yokoyama - Director
- Ryotaro Makihara - Director
- Tomoya Takahashi - Director
Episodes
Episode 1: Tennis Circle "Cupid"
A college dropout in search of ramen crosses paths with a self-proclaimed deity of matrimony. This bizarre meeting sends the young man hurtling through a horrifying flashback to his days as a “black cupid.”
Episode 2: Movie Circle "Misogi"
The not-so-lovable loser and his sidekick Ozu use hidden cameras in an attempt to overthrow the head of the campus movie circle. Glorious revolution is the goal, but if their plan backfires - things could get ugly.
Episode 3: Cycling Association "Soleil"
After the campus cleanup crew confiscates his state-of-the-art bicycle, a college misfit trades his wheels for some wings in an attempt to become a human birdman. Why? To impress a girl, of course.
Episode 4: Disciples Wanted
A lowly college student signs on as a disciple to a madman who’s wanted by the library police. His first assignment: accompany the girl of his dreams on a quest to attain a mystical toilet brush.
Episode 5: Softball Circle "Honwaka"
The Softball Club, with its supply of tanned and toned female members, seems like a good place for a lonely boy to find intimacy, but the action takes a foul turn when his only friend hatches another heinous scheme.
Episode 6: English Conversation Circle
When a young man seeks romance and adventure by joining the foreign language club, he gets caught in a bizarre love triangle where a night of drinking leads to intrusive gum massages and sloppy tongue baths.
Episode 7: "Hero Show Association" Circle
Everyone falls in love at least once during college, but not everyone severs all connections with actual humans in favor of an illicit romance with a life-sized plastic doll.
Episode 8: Reading Circle "Sea"
A name scrawled inside a secondhand novel leads to a romantic exchange of letters, but the storybook ending takes a bizarre turn when the two star-crossed pen pals meet face-to-face.
Episode 9: Secret Society "Lucky Cat Chinese Restaurant"
Membership has its privileges, but not for an unsuspecting college student forcibly initiated into the Secret Society Lucky Cat Chinese Restaurant! Will his covertly cruel conduct spoil a young man’s chance at love?
Episode 10: The 4.5 Tatami Ideologue
An unusual young man with no interest in the outside world tries to survive the college experience by refusing to leave his room. Will it be extreme hunger or a desire for female companionship that forces him out first?
Episode 11: The End of the 4.5 Tatami Age
The angst-ridden narrator becomes lost in a maze of 4.5 Tatami rooms as he searches for what lingers just out of reach. Will he finally make the long-awaited, often-hinted-at love connection he’s sought for so long?
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