Series synopsis
Poco's Udon World, also known as うどんの国の金色毛鞠 is a Japanese animation television series that premiered on Nippon TV on October 9, 2016. It ended on December 25, 2016. It stars Shiho Kokido, Yuichi Nakamura and Tomokazu Sugita.
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...
Premise
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...
Cast and characters
Leading cast
- Shiho Kokido as Poco (voice)
- Yuichi Nakamura as Souta Tawara (voice)
- Tomokazu Sugita as Shinobu Nakajima (voice)
Guest cast
- Kujira as Fumi Yoshioka (voice)
- Kana Hanazawa as Sae Fujiyama (voice)
- Mai Nakahara as Rinko Ooishi (voice)
- Kaede Hondo as Nozomi Tanaka (voice)
- Yuko Minaguchi as Mai Tanaka (voice)
- Akiko Kimura as Mrs. Nakajima (voice)
- Hiroshi Naka as Mr. Tawara (voice)
- Katsuhisa Houki as Mr. Nakajima (voice)
- Takaya Kuroda as Gorou Hamada (voice)
- Shinnosuke Tachibana as Hiroshi Nagatsuma (voice)
- Yu Shimamura as Yukie Saeki (voice)
- Kohsuke Toriumi as Manabu Saeki (voice)
Episodes
This series spans 1 season with 12 episodes.
| Season | Episodes | First aired | Last aired |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | 12 | October 9, 2016 | December 25, 2016 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Bukkake Udon 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! |
October 9, 2016 |
| 2 |
Kotoden Souta is freaked out by his encounter with a shape-shifting tanuki, but how could anyone leave such a lonely-seeming little thing to fend for itself? He offers the hungry crybaby some shoyumame to eat, and a bath to boot. After that, Souta decides to take the kid into town via the Kotoden train line for some much-needed clothes shopping. There he runs into his first love, Manabe-san, now the mother of two young children, and coincidentally enough, she has her own little ones in tow, too. Caught off guard, Souta introduces the tiny tanuki by the first name that pops into his head: "Poco." |
October 16, 2016 |
| 3 |
The Red Lighthouse Souta is sleeping with a tossing and turning Poco when his longtime friend Nakajima Shinobu shows up for an impromptu fishing trip... at 3 AM. The trio cast their lines under the Red Lighthouse, but the fish just aren't biting. With a bored Poco playing nearby, Souta and Nakajima have a heart-to-heart about their thoughts on marriage and the future. When Souta sadly reveals that he might sell his childhood home and restaurant, Nakajima presses him to take over the restaurant, but Souta won’t give him a clear answer. Will Souta go through with selling the house? And what about Poco? |
October 23, 2016 |
Production
Release
| Original network/platform | Nippon TV |
|---|---|
| First aired | October 9, 2016 |
| Last aired | December 25, 2016 |
| Runtime | 23 minutes |
| Status | ended |