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- Region:Japan
- Type:TV
- English name:Arakawa Under the Bridge
- Official name:荒川アンダー ザ ブリッジ
- Chinese name:荒川爆笑团
- Other names:荒川桥下
- Premiered:April 4, 2010
- Status:Finished Airing
- Tags:Funny / Love / Daily / Source manga
- Original author:中村光
- Director:新房昭之
- Scenario:三重野瞳
- Storyboard:桑原智 / 成田歳法 / サトウシンジ / 森義博 / 鈴木利正
- Co-director:美甘義人 / 板村智幸 / 森義博 / 成田歳法 / 龍輪直征
- Studios:SHAFT
- Copyright:©2010 中村光 / 史克威尔艾尼克斯・荒川UB制作委员会
- Family:Arakawa Under the Bridge
- Rating:12+
Arakawa Under the Bridge
A young upper-class elite man, Ichinomiya "Riku" Kou, who has a policy of not ever wanting to be in debt to anyone, ends up owing his life to a strange girl, who rescued him.
His saviour is Nino, a beautiful homeless girl, who believes that she is from the planet Venus and lives under the bridge by the Arakawa river.
So the young man ends up living there too.
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EP1 - Bridge
Falling off a bridge while trying to get his pants back Ichinomiya Kou is saved by a woman named Nino. Desperate to live up to his family motto of never being indebted to anyone he tries to pay Nino off only to find that she is completely uninterested in his riches and prefers living under the bridge. Desperate to the point of panic to be rid of his debt to her he asks if there is anything she wants. Could you fall in love with me, she responds and so Kou ends up living under the bridge as well doing his best to fall in love with her.
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EP2 - 2 Bridge
Recruit is introduced to the other people living under the bridge. He finds out from Sister that the rest of the inhabitants want to kick his ass for being Nino's lover.
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EP3 - 3 Bridge
Rec is interrogated by Sister and Hoshi about how far he has actually gone with Nino. To their frustration he admits that absolutely nothing has happened. Realizing that to pay off his debt to Nino he has to do more to act as here lover he decides to take her out on a date, using all of his rich guy power to impress her.
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EP4 - 4 Bridge
Riku and Nino go on their first date. Later Stella the little orphan girl arrives and challenges Riku to a game of play fighting. After a humiliating defeat at the hands of Stella Riku and Sister go to see Maria the riverside farmer.
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EP5 - 5 Bridge
After discovering Sisters one fatal weakness Riku meets P-Ko the resident vegetable farmer and local clutz. Afterwards the bridge holds a welcoming party for Stella and Riku tries to convince the mayor to give Stella a new name in a bid to reveal her true nature.
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EP6 - 6 Bridge
Ric discovers that he is actually quite good at teaching, at least in comparison to Nino's advanced swim lesson. He decides to make his official job teaching so that he can correct the inhabitants under the bridge and escape back to the sane world.
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EP7 - 7 Bridge
Ric starts his first day as a teacher. Nino and the helmet brothers show up for class, but everyone else thinks up a way to get away from Ric's helpful instruction. Stella tries to muscle Ric out of her territory as the day progresses.
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EP8 - 8 Bridge
Ric is visited by his secretary from his outside job. Thinking quickly he comes up with an elaborate lie about why he is under the bridge only to have it fall apart within minutes. Later he shares his first kiss with Nino. Unbeknownst to Ric his father is aware that he is living under the bridge and sees his actions as a affront to the family name.
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EP9 - 9 Bridge
Riku learns more about the past life of Star. Stella discovers that Sister is in love with Maria and a battle of epic proportions ensues.
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EP10 - 10 Bridge
Sisters holds a fire drill involving a real fire. Riku's father beings his plan to correct his fallen son by evicting the residents under the bridge and to renovate the riverside.
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EP11 - 11 Bridge
Sure now that his father is behind the plan to evict the residents under the bridge, Ric decides to launch his own counter proposal and turn the area into a park so the resident can stay.However his fathers reputation and the help the residents scare away Ric's contractor. At the same time the horrifying weakness of his father is revealed, will Ric discover it in time?
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EP12 - 12 Bridge
Ric and Star become shooting stars and Nino makes a wish upon them. A mysterious man appears and derails Ric's father, Seki, plan to redevelop the riverside. Thinking that Ric was behind his failure he comes to the river to confront Ric. He succumbs to the same fate as Ric and encounters Nino, though he remains true to the family motto and refuses her help.Ric finally works up the courage to call his father and tells him even if wins he will still love Nino, Nino learns how to answer a phone.
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EP13 - 13 Bridge
Ric plans on building an amusement park for Stella and the metal brothers to go to and nearly kills himself coming up with a plan. In the mean time the residents build one themselves with realistic life threaten situations included. Ric and Nino continue to work on the puzzle of you and me .