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Shouwa Monogatari

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1 Season · 13 Episodes · Premiered April 3, 2011 · Ended June 26, 2011

Showa Monogatari is a nostalgic slice-of-life show about a Japanese family in 1964, the year the Olympics came to Tokyo. The father Yuuzou owns a small machine shop where he and a co-worker create finely-tooled metal parts. Yuuzou has problems communicating with his three children -- an older son attending college, a teen-aged daughter discovering romance, and his younger son, Kouhei, a rowdy but good-hearted boy who narrates the show. While Kouhei's experiences form the basis for the story, a good deal of time is spent on his sister's problematic love life, and on the family's financial problems. Each episode includes an epilogue providing a brief "tour" of locations from the story, showing us how they looked in 1964 and how they look today. The OP provides another set of contrasts between 1964 and today using old and new photographs of places appearing in the anime along with the animated depiction of the 1964 images.

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Hiroyuki Yoshino
Hiroyuki Yoshino as Yuusuke Sawatari
Misato Fukuen
Misato Fukuen as Yuuko Yamazaki
Hisako Kyouda
Hisako Kyouda as Yoshi Yamazaki
Makoto Aoki
Makoto Aoki as Taichi Yamazaki
Masaaki Tsukada
Masaaki Tsukada as Gorou Tashiro
Sakiko Tamagawa
Sakiko Tamagawa as Kanoko Yamazaki
Wataru Takagi
Wataru Takagi as Ryou Takayanagi
Yasunori Matsumoto
Yasunori Matsumoto as Yuuzou Yamazaki
Shōya Chiba
Shōya Chiba as Kouhei Yamazaki
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