¡Uchoten-kazokuFirst Part (Film Comic)
¡Tomihiko Morimi, Masayuki Yoshihara, Koji Kumeta, P.A.WORKS
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[Machine Translation] The most magnificent Kyoto picture scroll in the history of Morimi's works is now a complete film comic! Winner of the Excellence Award in the Animation Division of the Japan Media Arts Festival. This work, which has many ardent fans among the works of Tomihiko Morimi, was adapted into an animated TV series in 2013 and won the Excellence Award in the Animation Division of the Japan Media Arts Festival. The work has now been adapted into a long-awaited complete film comic! The first volume includes episodes 1 "Goddess of the Noryo-Doko", 2 "Mother and the Thunder God", 3 "Yakushibo no Oku-Zashiki", 4 "Daimonji Noryo Boat Battle", 5 "Friday Club", and 7 "Autumn Leaf Viewing". Director Masayuki Yoshihara lived in Kyoto and roamed the streets of the city, which he thoroughly and beautifully recreated in animation. Many scenes are breathtaking, such as the beautiful half-tengu Benten flying around amidst the blooming cherry blossoms, and the raccoon dogs engaging in aerial battles with the Daimonji (large characters) below them on the night of the Gozan Bonfire! The outlandish plot and the charm of the unique characters make this work even more energetic and exciting. (Synopsis of the story) "Interesting is good! is the motto of Yazaburo, the third son of the Shimogamo family, a family of raccoon dogs. He and his brothers run around the city of Kyoto, where their arch-enemies, the Isikawa family, dominate the city, risking the pride of their clan. However, Yaichiro, the eldest, is weak at the last moment, Yajiro, the second son, turns into a frog and retreats to a well, and Yashiro, the youngest brother, is a novice whose tail comes out easily. Can they avenge their father's death? The four Shimogamo brothers are in love with the tengu Akatama-sensei, who has fallen in love with a human, and Benten, a beautiful woman who flies freely over Kyoto with a tengu on her sleeve, wielding the tengu and the raccoon dogs at her whim. The story is a three-way battle between a raccoon dog, a tengu, and a human in Kyoto. An epic coming-of-age fantasy! Kyoto is a town of tengu, raccoon dogs, and humans. Dr. Akatama, a well-known tengu, has fallen on hard times and is now living in an apartment behind a shopping arcade. Seeing his plight, Shimogamo Yazaburo, a raccoon dog, takes care of him. One day, Akatama-sensei orders Yazaburo to deliver a "love letter" to a beautiful human woman who is more like a tengu than a tengu. Will there really be a tomorrow for this old man's love? The opening of the play is a bizarre one. The most hairy Kyoto picture scroll in history, "UTOKETEN KAZAKU", is just what you have been waiting for. --Tomihiko Morimi
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