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The Tatami Galaxy
There is no such thing as that rose-colored campus life.
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How The Tatami Galaxy actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
The Tatami Galaxy reads strongest on Character Depth, World Building and Spectacle.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
The story
What it's about
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.”
Recently aired
Latest Episodes
S00E03
Land Submarine of Love and Fishing
S00E02
Land Submarine, To the Women’s Bath: The Bedroom Research Group’s Pink Quest
S00E01
Land Submarine, To the South Pole
S01E11
The End of the 4.5 Tatami Age
- Directed by Masaaki Yuasa
- Written by Masaaki Yuasa, Makoto Ueda
S01E10
The 4.5 Tatami Ideologue
- Directed by Eunyoung Choi
- Written by Masaaki Yuasa, Makoto Ueda
S01E09
Secret Society "Lucky Cat Chinese Restaurant"
- Directed by Akitoshi Yokoyama
- Written by Masaaki Yuasa, Makoto Ueda
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Noriko OzakiProducer
- Fumie TakeuchiProducer
Writing
- Masaaki YuasaWriter
- Makoto UedaWriter
Direction
- Masaaki YuasaDirector
- Ryotaro MakiharaDirector
- Eunyoung ChoiDirector
- Tomoya TakahashiDirector
- Shingo NatsumeDirector
- Michio MiharaDirector
Cinematography
- Keiko IshizukaDirector of Photography
Music
- Michiru OshimaOriginal Music Composer
Where to watch
Streaming
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