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Poco's Udon World (TV)

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Alternative title:

Udon no Kuni no Kiniro Kemari (Japanese)

うどんの国の金色毛鞠 (Japanese)

Genres: comedy, slice of life

Themes: country life, iyashikei, shapeshifting

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Objectionable content: None

Plot Summary: Tokyo-based web designer Sōta Tawara returns to his hometown of Kagawa for the holidays to find a strange child in his family's udon shop. The child can't speak but has both ears and a tail. (from manga)

User Ratings: 116 ratings have been given [details]

Masterpiece: 8 votes (sub:7, raw:1)

Excellent: 17 votes (sub:16, dub:1)

Very good: 29 votes (sub:27, others:2

1 Spanish subtitled
1 Polish subtitled

)

Good: 47 votes (sub:45, raw:1, dub:1)

Decent: 9 votes (sub:9)

So-so: 3 votes (sub:3)

Not really good: 3 votes (sub:3)

Weak: -

Bad: -

Awful: -

Worst ever: -

Seen in part or in whole by 194 users, rank: #3185 (of 7439)
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 7.543 (Very good−), std. dev.: 1.2553, rank: #1347 (of 7461)
Weighted mean: 7.548 (Very good−), rank: #1171 (of 7461) (seen all: 7.60 / seen some: 7.00 / won't finish: 4.46)
Bayesian estimate: 7.544 (Very good−), rank: #962 (of 5635)

Running time: 23 minutes per episode

Number of episodes: 12

Episode titles: We have 12

Vintage: 2016-10-08

Opening Theme:

"S.O.S." by Weaver

Ending Theme:

"Sweet Darwin" by GOODWARP

Insert song:

"Gaogao-chan Taisō" (ガオガオちゃん体操) by Gao Gao Seidan

Official website:

アニメ「うどんの国の金色毛鞠」公式サイト (Japanese)

Reviews: Show: 10 12

Poco's Udon World ‒ Episode 12 (Dec 24, 2016)

Poco's Udon World ‒ Episode 11 (Dec 18, 2016)

Poco's Udon World ‒ Episode 10 (Dec 11, 2016)

Poco's Udon World ‒ Episode 9 (Dec 4, 2016)

Poco's Udon World ‒ Episode 8 (Nov 27, 2016)

Poco's Udon World ‒ Episode 7 (Nov 19, 2016)

Poco's Udon World ‒ Episode 6 (Nov 13, 2016)

Poco's Udon World ‒ Episode 5 (Nov 6, 2016)

Poco's Udon World ‒ Episode 4 (Oct 30, 2016)

Poco's Udon World ‒ Episode 3 (Oct 24, 2016)

News: Show: 7 12

Crunchyroll Adds Poco's Udon World Anime (Oct 7, 2016)

Poco's Udon World Anime's 2nd Promo Video Shows Sōta, Poco's Promise (Sep 9, 2016)

Poco's Udon World Anime Reveals More Cast, Ending Theme Artist, October 8 Premiere (Aug 20, 2016)

Weaver to Perform Poco's Udon World Anime's Opening Theme (Jul 31, 2016)

Tomokazu Sugita, Mai Nakahara, Jun Fukuyama Join Poco's Udon World Anime's Cast (Jul 21, 2016)

Takaya Kuroda, Yui Makino Join Poco's Udon World Anime's Cast (Jul 14, 2016)

Poco's Udon World Anime Unveils 1st Promo, Main Cast, October Premiere (Jun 20, 2016)

Press Release:

Double Up On Strange New Worlds With Animax This October (Sep 28, 2016)

Other articles:

The Fall 2016 Anime Preview Guide - Poco's Udon World (Oct 8, 2016)

Poco's Udon World Anime's Sōta, Poco Character Designs Unveiled (May 4, 2016)

Poco's Udon World TV Anime Will Have 12 Episodes (Mar 28, 2016)

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Japanese staff

Japanese companies

Director: Seiki Takuno

Series Composition: Natsuko Takahashi

Script: Natsuko Takahashi

Music: Yukari Hashimoto

Original creator: Nodoka Shinomaru

Character Design: Eriko Itō

Art Director: Hiroshi Gouroku

Chief Animation Director: Eriko Itō

Sound Director: Yota Tsuruoka

Director of Photography: Haruka Gotō

Art Setting: Yukie Inose

Assistant Director: Fumiaki Usui

Color design: Emi Onodera

Editing: Masato Yoshitake

Insert Song Performance:
Shiho Kokido (as Gao Gao Seidan)
Takaya Kuroda (as Gao Gao Seidan)
Yui Makino (as Gao Gao Seidan)

Theme Song Performance: Weaver (OP)

2D/Monitor Works: Graphinica

2nd Key Animation:
Asahi Production Shiroishi Studio
Be Loop
C-Station
LIDEN FILMS Kyoto Studio
LIDEN FILMS Osaka Studio
Rising Force
Snow Light Staff
Studio Colorido
Studio Flood
Studio Neun

Animation Production: LIDEN FILMS

Broadcaster:
BS Nippon Corporation
Miyagi Television Broadcasting Co., Ltd.
Nippon Television Network
Sun TV
Television Nishinippon Corporation

Color Check: Hiwa (ep 7)

Color Key: Hiwa (ep 7)

Digital Paint:
Asahi Production
Asahi Production Shiroishi Studio
D-COLORS
DEFA
LIDEN FILMS
R.I.C
Rising Force
TYO Animations

Editing Studio: Graphinica

In-Between Animation:
Asahi Production
Asahi Production Shiroishi Studio
C-Station
FAI
ingresA
LIDEN FILMS Kyoto Studio
LIDEN FILMS Osaka Studio
Nexus
Production IMS
R.I.C
Snowdrop
Studio Flood
Studio Gimlet
Studio Neun

Key Animation:
animocaramel (ep 5)
Asahi Production Shiroishi Studio (eps 4, 9)
Be Loop (ep 5)
LIDEN FILMS Kyoto Studio
LIDEN FILMS Osaka Studio
Neox (ep 6)
Production I.G (eps 4, 9)
Studio Colorido (ep 4)
Tatsunoko Production (ep 4)

Photography: Graphinica

Production Cooperation:
Asahi Production Shiroishi Studio (eps 4, 9)
Graphinica (ep 7)

special effects: Graphinica

Japanese cast

Shiho Kokido as Poco

Yūichi Nakamura as Sōta Tawara

Akiko Kimura as Nakajima's mother

Hiroshi Naka as Sōta's father

Jun Fukuyama as Shunsuke Fujiyama

Kaede Hondo as Nozomi Tanaka

Kana Hanazawa as Sae Fujiyama

Kikuko Inoue as Sōta's mother

Kousuke Toriumi as Manabu Saeki

Kujira as Fumi Yoshioka

Mai Nakahara as Rinko Ōishi

Shiho Kokido as Momo

Shinnosuke Tachibana as Hiroshi Nagatsuma

Takaya Kuroda as
Gaogao-chan
Gorō Hamada

Tomokazu Sugita as Shinobu Nakajima

Yu Kobayashi as Kaeru/Frog

Yu Shimamura as Yukie Saeki

Yui Makino as Mimi

Yuko Minaguchi as Mai Tanaka (Manabe)

Jun Kaname as Narrator

English staff

English companies

(none)

Broadcaster: Animax Asia

Internet Streaming: Crunchyroll

Licensed by: Crunchyroll

English cast

(none)

French staff

French companies

(none)

Distributor: Kaze

Internet Streaming: Anime Digital Network

French cast

(none)

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