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Arakawa Under the Bridge

TV·2010–2010·2 seasons, 26 episodes·TV Tokyo·Animation, Comedy·24m

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Ko Ichinomiya's family motto is "Never be indebted to anyone," but after losing his pants and falling into the Arakawa River, he quickly finds himself in debt to his savior, the cutely insane Nino who happens to live under the bridge. To repay her, he vows to help her with her desire to "experience love." Along the way he'll meet the river's other residents, including a hot-blooded kappa, a Sister in drag, and a literal rock star.

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Episodes by season

Season0113Episodes2010AiredSeason avg
  1. S01E01Arakawa Under the Bridge S01E01BridgeApril 5, 2010Falling off a bridge while trying to get his pants back Ichinomiya Kou is saved by a woman named Nino. Desperate to live up to his family m
  2. S01E02Arakawa Under the Bridge S01E022 BridgeApril 12, 2010Recruit is introduced to the other people living under the bridge. He finds out from Sister that the rest of the inhabitants want to kick h
  3. S01E03Arakawa Under the Bridge S01E033 BridgeApril 19, 2010Rec is interrogated by Sister and Hoshi about how far he has actually gone with Nino. To their frustration he admits that absolutely nothin
  4. S01E04Arakawa Under the Bridge S01E044 BridgeApril 26, 2010Riku and Nino go on their first date. Later Stella the little orphan girl arrives and challenges Riku to a game of play fighting. After a
  5. S01E05Arakawa Under the Bridge S01E055 BridgeMay 3, 2010After discovering Sisters one fatal weakness Riku meets P-Ko the resident vegetable farmer and local clutz. Afterwards the bridge holds a w
  6. S01E06Arakawa Under the Bridge S01E066 BridgeMay 9, 2010Ric discovers that he is actually quite good at teaching, at least in comparison to Nino's "advanced" swim lesson. He decides to make his o
  7. S01E07Arakawa Under the Bridge S01E077 BridgeMay 16, 2010Ric starts his first day as a teacher. Nino and the helmet brothers show up for class, but everyone else thinks up a way to get away from R
  8. S01E08Arakawa Under the Bridge S01E088 BridgeMay 24, 2010Ric is visited by his secretary from his outside job. Thinking quickly he comes up with an elaborate lie about why he is under the bridge o
  9. S01E09Arakawa Under the Bridge S01E099 BridgeMay 30, 2010Riku learns more about the past life of Star. Stella discovers that Sister is in love with Maria and a battle of epic proportions ensues.
  10. S01E10Arakawa Under the Bridge S01E1010 BridgeJune 6, 2010Sisters holds a fire drill involving a real fire. Riku's father beings his plan to correct his fallen son by evicting the residents under t
  11. S01E11Arakawa Under the Bridge S01E1111 BridgeJune 13, 2010Sure now that his father is behind the plan to evict the residents under the bridge, Ric decides to launch his own counter proposal and turn
  12. S01E12Arakawa Under the Bridge S01E1212 BridgeJune 20, 2010Ric and Star become shooting stars and Nino makes a wish upon them. A mysterious man appears and derails Ric's father, Seki, plan to redeve
  13. S01E13Arakawa Under the Bridge S01E1313 BridgeJune 27, 2010Ric plans on building an amusement park for Stella and the metal brothers to go to and nearly kills himself coming up with a plan. In the m

Season 1 ranked & reviewed

Season0213Episodes2010AiredSeason avg
  1. S02E01Arakawa Under the Bridge S02E011 Bridge * 2October 3, 2010Noticing Nino's habit of sleepwalking into his apartment, Ric suggests she move in with him. The guys participate in a marathon run, where R
  2. S02E02Arakawa Under the Bridge S02E022 Bridge * 2October 10, 2010Ric encounters the Amazoness. Captain of the Earth Force shows up under the bridge looking to fight Nino and the Venusians.
  3. S02E03Arakawa Under the Bridge S02E033 Bridge * 2October 17, 2010Ric finds a cassette player belonging to Nino containing messages for a supposed Venusian. Nino becomes angry at him and climbs on top of a
  4. S02E04Arakawa Under the Bridge S02E044 Bridge * 2October 24, 2010P-ko writes a script for a movie and gets Ric to be the director. Later, the gang holds a haunted house which Ric is escorted through, with
  5. S02E05Arakawa Under the Bridge S02E055 Bridge * 2October 31, 2010The Captain of the Earth Force starts living in the riverbank after giving the Mayor and the gang manga with them as main characters and rev
  6. S02E06Arakawa Under the Bridge S02E066 Bridge * 2November 7, 2010Under Seki's orders, Shimazaki researches about Nino, but she is threatened by a strange man not to go any further. Meanwhile, Nino reported
  7. S02E07Arakawa Under the Bridge S02E077 Bridge * 2November 14, 2010The Arakawa residents decide to do a physical checkup to prepare for their trip to Venus, and Ric and Star end up trying to 'outsick' each o
  8. S02E08Arakawa Under the Bridge S02E088 Bridge * 2November 21, 2010Amazoness appears at the riverbank and becomes one of Ric's students, revealing she has a crush on him. She has her Tengu henchmen hypnotize
  9. S02E09Arakawa Under the Bridge S02E099 Bridge * 2November 28, 2010A package arrives for Whitey, and Ric is charged with delivering it. Ric realizes it's from Whitey's wife and assumes it's their divorce pap
  10. S02E10Arakawa Under the Bridge S02E1010 Bridge * 2December 5, 2010With an apparent 500kg weight limit for the rocket to Venus, everyone goes on a diet so they can all go together. While Ric and the Mayor lo
  11. S02E11Arakawa Under the Bridge S02E1111 Bridge * 2December 12, 2010As the Arakawa residents hold a Bon Festival, Star and Amazoness team up to try and split up Ric and Nino. In the end though, Amazoness ends
  12. S02E12Arakawa Under the Bridge S02E1212 Bridge * 2December 19, 2010The Mayor decides to hold a tournament to see who is strongest on the riverbank. The winner will be granted one wish, something the rest of
  13. S02E13Arakawa Under the Bridge S02E1313 Bridge * 2December 26, 2010Although Sister puts up a valiant defense against Maria's physical attacks, her insults help her win. Although her royal decree turns out to

Season 2 ranked & reviewed

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