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The Tatami Galaxy

TV·2010–2010·1 season, 11 episodes·Fuji TV·Animation, Comedy, Drama·25m·8.3

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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.”

Highest-rated episodes all ranked

  1. 01The Tatami Galaxy S01E10The 4.5 Tatami IdeologueS01E10 · 9.0An 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?

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Episodes by season

Season0111Episodes2010Aired 9.0Season avg
  1. S01E01The Tatami Galaxy S01E01Tennis Circle "Cupid"April 23, 2010A college dropout in search of ramen crosses paths with a self-proclaimed deity of matrimony. This bizarre meeting sends the young man hurtl
  2. S01E02The Tatami Galaxy S01E02Movie Circle "Misogi"April 30, 2010The not-so-lovable loser and his sidekick Ozu use hidden cameras in an attempt to overthrow the head of the campus movie circle. Glorious re
  3. S01E03The Tatami Galaxy S01E03Cycling Association "Soleil"May 7, 2010After the campus cleanup crew confiscates his state-of-the-art bicycle, a college misfit trades his wheels for some wings in an attempt to b
  4. S01E04The Tatami Galaxy S01E04Disciples WantedMay 14, 2010A 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 h
  5. S01E05The Tatami Galaxy S01E05Softball Circle "Honwaka"May 21, 2010The 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 ac
  6. S01E06The Tatami Galaxy S01E06English Conversation CircleMay 28, 2010When a young man seeks romance and adventure by joining the foreign language club, he gets caught in a bizarre love triangle where a night o
  7. S01E07The Tatami Galaxy S01E07"Hero Show Association" CircleJune 4, 2010Everyone falls in love at least once during college, but not everyone severs all connections with actual humans in favor of an illicit roman
  8. S01E08The Tatami Galaxy S01E08Reading Circle "Sea"June 11, 2010A name scrawled inside a secondhand novel leads to a romantic exchange of letters, but the storybook ending takes a bizarre turn when the tw
  9. S01E09The Tatami Galaxy S01E09Secret Society "Lucky Cat Chinese Restaurant"June 18, 2010Membership has its privileges, but not for an unsuspecting college student forcibly initiated into the Secret Society Lucky Cat Chinese Rest
  10. S01E10The Tatami Galaxy S01E10The 4.5 Tatami IdeologueJune 25, 2010 9.0An 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
  11. S01E11The Tatami Galaxy S01E11The End of the 4.5 Tatami AgeJuly 2, 2010The 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

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