The Eccentric Family — Season 1, Episode 5: The Friday Fellows

Episode synopsis

Yasaburou had been hiding from Benten in Osaka, but thanks to Kinkaku and Ginkaku she catches him during a visit to Kyoto and makes him perform tanuki tricks for the Friday Fellows. It is revealed that Yasaburou's mother was saved by a man who gave her onigiri and also that one of the Friday Fellows, Hotei, has loved tanuki ever since he saved one and fed it onigiri...

About The Eccentric Family

In Kyoto, humans and supernatural creatures live side-by-side. Soichiro Shimogamo 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 who all live happily with their mother. What does fate have in store for this strongly bonded family?!

More episodes from Season 1

• E1Goddess of the Noryoyuka
• E2Mom and Raijin, God of Thunder
• E3Yakushibou's Inner Parlor
• E4Battle of the Daimonji Leisure Cruisers
• E6Taking in Fall Colors
• E7Bathhouse Rules
• E8The Day of Dad's Departure
• E9Kaisei, Daughter of Ebisugawa
• E10The Behind-the-Scenes Dealings of Souun Ebisugawa
• E11Back in the Game
• E12The False Eizan Electric Railway
• E13The Eccentric Family