Anime Club: Tamako Market

Anime Club is back! Join us every Thursday at 3pm as we watch anime, have discussions, and learn a new Japanese word each week. Join our Discord (https://discord.gg/ZtYdEaW) to get the Zoom link.

For our first anime, we will be watching Tamako Market. Tamako Kitashirakawa, a clumsy though adorable teenage girl, belongs to a family of mochi bakers who own a quaint shop called Tama-ya. One day, Tamako stumbles upon a talking bird that presents himself as royalty from a distant land. Dera Mochimazzi, as he calls himself, states that he’s seeking a bride for his country’s prince. Intent on his mission, Dera follows Tamako home and develops an addiction to mochi, becoming painfully overweight and subsequently unable to fly back to his homeland; thus, he takes up residence with Tamako’s family and becomes the community’s beloved mascot.