The Eccentric Family: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

In Kyoto, humans, tanuki, and tengu live side-by-side. The Shimogamo family lives in Shimogamo Jinja's Tadasu no Mori. The father, Soichiro, used to be the head of tanuki society, but without warning one day he was made into tanuki stew, and no one knows how it happened. He left four sons behind. They all live happily with their mother. After taking care of Professor Akadama, the Shimogamo family suddenly finds itself in a desperate fix. Will the truth behind how their father got stewed be revealed?! What does fate have in store for this strongly bonded family?!

Series details

• Title: The Eccentric Family
• Format: Animation
• Language: Japanese
• Genres: Drama, Comedy, Anime, Fantasy
• Premiere date: 2013-07-07
• Final broadcast date listed: 2017-06-25
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: Tokyo MX
• Network country: Japan
• Typical episode runtime: 27 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 17675
• IMDb ID: tt2909936
• TVDB ID: 269876

Cast and credited roles

• Hideyuki Umezu — Akadama
• Kikuko Inoue — Mother
• Kousuke Hatakeyama — Ginkaku
• Mamiko Noto — Benten
• Nobuo Tobita — Sōun Ebisugawa
• Shūya Nishiji — Kinkaku
• Bin Shimada — Teman'ya
• Junji Majima — Nidaime
• Yōko Hikasa — Gyokuran
• Yuichi Nakamura — Kureichirō
• Yasuhiro Mamiya — Jurōjin
• Takahiro Sakurai — Yasaburō Shimogamo

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2013-07-07; final listed air date 2013-09-29; episode order: 13.
• Season 2: premiered 2017-04-09; final listed air date 2017-06-25; episode order: 12.

Source and licence

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