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TAMAKO MARKET
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Tamako Market (たまこまーけっと Tamako Māketto) is a Japanese anime television series produced by Kyoto Animation and directed by Naoko Yamada. The series aired in Japan between January 10 and March 28, 2013. The anime has been licensed in North America by Sentai Filmworks.

PLOT
Tamako Kitashirakawa is the eldest daughter of a family which runs the Tama-ya mochi shop in the Usagiyama Shopping District (うさぎ山商店街Usagiyama Shōtengai). One day, Tamako encounters a strange talking bird named Dera Mochimazzwi who comes from a distant land searching for a bride for his country's prince. After becoming overweight from eating too much mochi, Dera ends up becoming a freeloader in Tamako's home. The series follows the everyday life of Tamako, her friends, family and neighbors, and this peculiar bird.

CHARACTERS


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Tamako Kitashirakawa (北白川 たまこ Kitashirakawa Tamako)
Voiced by: Aya Suzaki
The titular character and the main protagonist of the series, Tamako is a first-year in high school whose family runs a mochi shop in their town's shopping district called Tama-ya. She enjoys her high school life and the baton club with her friends Kanna and Midori. She helps her family run the shop and invent new kinds of mochi. Her birthday is on New Year's Eve and is often forgotten due to the busy schedule, but Tamako devotes herself to helping in the shop. Tamako is nervous about public speaking, and has problems swimming. Tamako is shown to be rather slow in catching up with things, particularly regarding people's feelings. She is one of the few characters that does not know Mochizō has a crush on her, and she fails to pick up on her sister's crush. Tamako feeds Dera mochi on a regular basis, and she feeds him too much for his size, making him bloated and unable to fly properly.


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Dera Mochimazzwi (デラ・モチマッヅィ)
Voiced by: Takumi Yamazaki
Dera is a bird that speaks Japanese, with a little bossy tone, that ends up staying at Tamako's house. He is a noble attendant for a royal court from a tropical island and was on journey to find a bride for its prince. However, after gaining an affinity for mochi, he has put on a lot of weight and thus cannot fly properly anymore, only being able to manage short distances before he runs out of breath. He is often just referred to as "Bird" (Tori?) by Tamako's family, or simply "Dera-chan" (デラちゃん?) by Tamako, as his surname sounds very similar to mochi mazui (もちまずい?, lit. "bad tasting mochi"). Dera maintains that he is rather versed in the ways of love, sometimes giving Mochizō and Midori love advice on their respective crushes on Tamako. Dera is rather full of himself as well, which usually stems from a series of misunderstandings. He believes anyone that sneezes in his direction is in love with him, he himself having a crush on Shiori. His body contains a communication system used by the prince to communicate with him, although it only works when Dera is unconscious, thus he has no memories of any time the prince attempts to contact him. In his unconscious state, he can also be hooked up to video devices and used like a projector.

Midori Tokiwa (常盤 みどり Tokiwa Midori)
Voiced by: Yūki Kaneko
Midori is Tamako's classmate and childhood friend, as well as captain of her school's Baton Club, which Tamako and Kanna are also members of. Her grandparents own and run a toy shop in the town's shopping district called Tokiwa-do. She later comes to terms that she has feelings for Tamako.


Kanna Makino (牧野 かんな Makino Kanna)
Voiced by: Juri Nagatsuma
Kanna is a high school student in the same year as her friends, Tamako and Midori, and is a member of the baton club. She is the daughter of a carpenter who works in the same shopping district as Tamako and her family. A relaxed and laid back girl, Kanna does not care what anyone else thinks and is not easily swayed, however she does have a fear of heights and appears to have an allergy of birds. Kanna is often portrayed as rather eccentric, and usually wears a straight and expressionless face despite being fun and a good friend.


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Shiori Asagiri (朝霧 史織 Asagiri Shiori)
Voiced by: Yurie Yamashita
Shiori is one of Tamako's classmates and a member of the badminton club. She is a knowledgeable and resourceful girl, with a serious, cool personality. However, it is shown that while she is quiet and often mistaken as distant, she is actually extremely shy and and later becomes good friends with Tamako. Dera has fallen for her, though she does not reciprocate his feelings.

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Mochizō Ōji (大路 もち蔵 Ōji Mochizō)
Voiced by: Atsushi Tamaru
Mochizō is Tamako's childhood friend whose family also runs a mochi shop called Ōji-ya or in the new name Ricecake Oh!Zee, a mochi shop located across from Tama-ya. Though their fathers are not on good terms due to business competition, he and Tamako are good friends. He is in love with Tamako, and has been in love with her for a few years. He is shown to be nervous with public speaking, despite telling Tamako to let him take over speaking in the shopping district meeting. His name comes from the fact that he was born on Mochi Day (October 10).

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Choi Mochimazzwi (チョイ・モチマッヅィ)
Voiced by: Yuri Yamaoka
Choi is a fortune teller from the southern island that Dera comes from who is sent to check up on Dera and help him search for a bride for the Prince. She ends up staying with Tamako until Dera's communication function can be fixed. She believes that Tamako is the Prince's bride due to a mark on her neck. It is hinted that she has feelings for the Prince. Despite this, she is very diligent in her search for the Prince's bride.

Tamako's family

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Anko Kitashirakawa (北白川 あんこ Kitashirakawa Anko)
Voiced by: Rina Hidaka
Anko is Tamako's younger sister, who is in fourth grade. She is less practical than her older sister, and is a more fashion conscious girl. She often demands that she be called just "An", as she feels "Anko" is too childish. She is named after red bean paste.


Mamedai Kitashirakawa (北白川 豆大 Kitashirakawa Mamedai)
Voiced by: Keiji Fujiwara
Mamedai is Tamako's father, who runs the family's mochi shop. He has a rivalry with Gohei Ōji, and they are often seen in front of their shops arguing, to which Tamako and Mochizō have to resolve. Tamako's father is a traditionalist, and does not care much for special mochi. He often mocks the sign of Gohei's shop, Ricecake Oh!Zee, commenting that it is ridiculous.

Fuku Kitashirakawa (北白川 福 Kitashirakawa Fuku)
Voiced by: Tomomichi Nishimura
Fuku is Tamako's grandfather, who lives with her family and helps run the mochi shop. He is rather laid back and lenient, especially towards Tamako and Anko, in contrast towards his son, who is much harsher on his two daughters. His and Mamedai's names together are a reference to mame daifuku.

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Hinako Kitashirakawa (北白川 ひなこ Kitashirakawa Hinako)
Voiced by: Yōko Hikasa
Tamako and Anko's mother who passed away prior to the story.


Usagiyama shopkeepers

Gohei Ōji (大路 吾平 Ōji Gohei)
Voiced by: Fumihiko Tachiki
Gohei is Mochizō's father, who runs the Ōji-ya shop. While Tamako's father sees Mochizō as a spy whenever he enters his shop, Gohei is on friendly terms with Tamako, as they both greet each other normally whenever they meet. Tamako does not think that his shop's name is ridiculous, and she praises his new sign above the shop when it is installed. Gohei is highly inventive with his mochi, taking advantage of non-Japanese holidays such as Valentine's Day in order to make different types of special mochi. This is one of the main arguments he has with Tamako's father.


Michiko Ōji (大路 道子 Ōji Michiko)
Voiced by: Satsuki Yukino
Michiko is Mochizō's mother, who helps run the Ōji-ya shop.

Kaoru Hanase (花瀬 かおる Hanase Kaoru)
Voiced by: Daisuke Ono
Kaoru is a florist at a flower shop in the Usagiyama shopping district. He is androgynous.


Kunio Yaobi (八百比 邦夫 Yaobi Kunio)
Voiced by: Kōji Tsujitani
The owner of the record store in the Usagiyama shopping district, who has a habit of putting on fitting records at appropriate times. He was once in a band with Mamedai.
Chōji Yumoto (湯本 長治 Yumoto Chōji)
Voiced by: Kyosei Tsukui
Chōji is Sayuri's father and the owner of the bathhouse in the Usagiyama shopping district.

Sayuri Yumoto (湯本 さゆり Yumoto Sayuri)
Voiced by: Junko Iwao
Sayuri is the daughter of Chōji. She helps out at the bathhouse in the Usagiyama shopping district.

OTHER CHARACTER

Mecha Mochimazzwi (メチャ・モチマッヅィ)
Voiced by: Hiro Shimono
He is a prince from the southern island that Dera comes from. He communicates through a projector that comes out of Dera's eyes, which usually goes unanswered as Dera's projections only work when he's unconscious, thus having no memory of the communications.

By : Haziqah :)


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