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- Region:Japan
- Type:TV
- English name:Thermae Romae
- Official name:テルマエ・ロマエ
- Chinese name:罗马浴场
- Other names:基佬秘汤 / テルマエ・ロマエ THERMÆ ROMÆ / 罗马浴场 THERMAE ROMAE
- Premiered:January 12, 2012
- Status:Finished Airing
- Tags:Funny / Time travel / Source manga
- Original author:ヤマザキマリ
- Director:谷東
- Scenario:谷東 / 中野守
- Co-director:博史池畠
- Studios:DLE
- Producers:東宝
- Family:Thermae Romae
- Rating:12+
Thermae Romae
Thermae Romae is a comedy about Lucius — an architect of public bath houses (thermae) in ancient Rome — who time-travels to various modern-day baths in Japan.
Through manga and essay passages, Yamazaki explores the two cultures in the world that have loved baths the most: the Japanese and the Romans!
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PV EpisodesTiles view / List view
Main EpisodesTiles view / List view
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EP1 - The Roman Who Leapt Through Time
In Rome in the year 128 AD, a Roman named Lucius Modestus is having trouble coming up with ideas for architecture. While contemplating in a bathhouse, he discovers a strange drain than sends him to a bathhouse in Modern Japan. While confused by his surroundings, he becomes amazed by some of their innovations, such as fruit flavored milk. Taking these ideas back to Rome, he incorporates these ideas into a new bathhouse to great success.
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EP2 - Swan Lake
A year later, Lucius is commissioned by a sickly man to build an outdoor bath near Vesuvius. While inspecting a heated well, Lucius is once again sent to modern Japan, this time winding up in a hot spring, where he gets to sample boiled eggs and sake. These innovations help nurse the old man back to health.
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EP3 - Shampoo Hat
As Lucius hears fancies about a bath closer to home, he once again ends up in modern Japan, this time in someone's bathtub. Mistaken as a foreign caretaker by the house's owner, Lucius comes to learn about more modern conveniences.