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- Region:Japan
- Type:TV
- English name:Yojouhan Shinwa Taikei / The Tatami Galaxy
- Official name:四畳半神話大系
- Chinese name:四叠半神话大系
- Other names:四叠半宿舍,青春迷走
- Premiered:April 22, 2010
- Status:Finished Airing
- Tags:Youth / Campus / Science fiction / Source novel
- Original author:森見登美彦
- Director:湯浅政明
- Scenario:上田誠 / 湯浅政明
- Storyboard:清水洋 / 湯浅政明 / EunYoung Choi / 横山彰利 / 牧原亮太郎
- Co-director:横山彰利 / 藤瀬順一 / EunYoung Choi / 高橋知也 / 湯浅政明
- Studios:MADHOUSE
- Producers:フジテレビ / 北川直樹
- Family:The Tatami Galaxy
- Rating:16+
Yojouhan Shinwa Taikei
The story of The Tatami Galaxy follows an unnamed third year university student in Kyoto, Japan and what he views as his wasted time in a particular club (also called circle) at his university.
He meets Ozu, another student, whose encouragement sets him on a mission of dubious morality.
He contemplates his affection for a second year engineering student, Akashi, and makes promises to her, usually of and within a romantic subtext.
The culmination of his dubious missions often conflict with his interest in her in some way.
The story is one of a number that draw on the author's experience in Kyoto University.
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EP1 - 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.”
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EP2 - 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.
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EP3 - 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.
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EP4 - 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.
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EP5 - 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.
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EP6 - 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.
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EP7 "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.
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EP8 - 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.
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EP9 - 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?
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EP10 - 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?
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EP11 - 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?