The Tatami Galaxy(TV show/series, 2010)

Name: The Tatami Galaxy
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Science-Fiction & Fantasy
Released: 2010
Rating: 4.2

Original title: "四畳半神話大系" (Japanese/JA)

TV-MA

| 25min per episode | Genres: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Science-Fiction & Fantasy

Scripted Reality in 1 season with 11 episodes

Rating: 4.2/5 (with 48 votes)

The Tatami Galaxy (Japanese: 四畳半神話大系, Hepburn: Yojōhan Shinwa Taikei, lit. "4½ Tatami Mythological Chronicles") is a 2004 Japanese varsity novel written by Tomihiko Morimi and published by Ohta Publishing. Its first-person narrator is an unnamed upperclassman at Kyoto University reminiscing on the misadventures of his previous years of campus life, with each of the four chapters taking place in parallel universes in which he is enrolled in a different student society. A sequel, The Tatami Time Machine Blues (四畳半タイムマシンブルース, Yojōhan Taimu Mashin Burūsu), was published in 2020, which combines the characters of The Tatami Galaxy with the plot of Makoto Ueda's play and film Summer Time Machine Blues. English translations of both novels were published by HarperCollins in December 2022 and November 2023, respectively. The Tatami Galaxy was adapted into an 11-episode anime television series produced by Madhouse and directed by Masaaki Yuasa, which aired on Fuji TV's late-night Noitamina programming block in 2010. The adaptation was critically acclaimed, winning the 2010 Japan Media Arts Festival Grand Prize in the Animation Division and the 2011 Tokyo Anime Award in the Television Category. An original net animation adaptation of The Tatami ... ()

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About The Tatami Galaxy

When a college dropout stops for a late night bite at a mysterious ramen stand, he crosses paths with a self-proclaimed deity of matrimony. This bizarre meeting sends the young man hurtling through a horrifying flashback to his not-so-glorious college days when the influence of a cruel new friend turned him from a hopeless romantic into a mischievous “black cupid.”

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Trailer for The Tatami Galaxy + Featurettes/Teaser/Clips

THE TATAMI GALAXY-NoitaminA Animation-【Fuji TV Official】(Trailer, 2:47)

THE TATAMI GALAXY-NoitaminA Animation-【Fuji TV Official】 (Trailer) | The Tatami Galaxy (2010) - Trailer (Trailer, JA)

The Tatami Galaxy Seasons and Episodes

04/23/2010Season 1 - 11 episodes

#1 | 04/23/2010Tennis 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.”

#2 | 04/30/2010Movie 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.

#3 | 05/07/2010Cycling 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.

#4 | 05/14/2010Disciples 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.

#5 | 05/21/2010Softball 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.

#6 | 05/28/2010English 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.

#7 | 06/04/2010"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.

#8 | 06/11/2010Reading 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.

#9 | 06/18/2010Secret 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?

#10 | 06/25/2010The 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?

#11 | 07/02/2010The 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?

08/19/2010Specials - 3 episodes

Additional Information

Official websites:

yojouhan.noitamina.tv

Production country: Japan

Plays in: Kyoto University, Kyoto

Derivative works/Adaptions: "The Tatami Galaxy" (find it on Amazon)

Original language: Japanese (JA)

Spoken languages: Japanese (JA)

Translated into 12 languages: German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Ukrainian (UK), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Ended

First episode released on: 04/23/2010

Last episode released on: 07/02/2010

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"Yojo-han Shinwa Taikei"

"Yojohan Shinwa Taikei"

"Yojōhan Shinwa Taikei"

"Yojôhan shinwa taikei"

"Yojou-han Shinwa Taikei"

"Yojouhan Shinwa Taikei"

"다다미 넉 장 반 세계일주"

"Tatami Galaxy"

"Легенда про 4,5 татамі"

"Легенда про 4.5 татамі"

"Легенда про 4½ татамі"

Keywords: anime, based on novel or book, school life, parallel universe

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