Poco's Udon World

Poco's Udon World

2016
★★★★☆ 8.5/10
📺 1 Season
🎬 12 Episodes
📅 Ended
🌐 JA
⏱️ 23 min/episode
Animation
On a visit to his hometown, Souta Tawara meets a strange child who loves udon and frogs... and has ears and a tail?! Although ordinary at first glance, it turns out that this little tyke is actually a tanuki in a human disguise! So begins the tale of a gentle, warm, and slightly weird family in Kagawa prefecture, better known as "Udon Prefecture," where time passes at a less hurried pace than in the big city...

Where to Watch (US)

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Seasons

Season 1
2016 • 12 Episodes
After his father's death, Souta Tawara, a web designer who left his hometown in Kagawa prefecture to live in Tokyo, returns to the countryside where he grew up. His father ran a popular udon restaurant, but with no one to take over, the restaurant has closed down. Inside, Souta finds a child fast asleep in an iron pot—a shoeless, dirty, and absolutely starving child. But when Souta tries to take the lost tyke to the police, the rug rat grows an ears and a tail before his very eyes. This is no ordinary child—it's a tanuki in a human form!

Crew

Producer
Hiroyuki Inage, Masaki Shiode, Shunsuke Hosoi

Network

Nippon TV

Production

LIDENFILMS

Keywords

shapeshiftingslice of lifereligionanthropomorphismbased on mangatanukiheart warmingseinenjapanese mythologyshinto