List of episodes of the series «The Tatami Galaxy»

Tennis Circle "Cupid"

• Episode number: 1
• Episode duration: 25 min.
• Episode description:
  A college dropout in search of ramen crosses paths with a self-proclaimed deity of matrimony. This bizarre meeting sends the young man hurtling through a horrifying flashback to his days as a “black cupid.”

Movie Circle "Misogi"

• Episode number: 2
• Episode duration: 25 min.
• Episode description:
  The not-so-lovable loser and his sidekick Ozu use hidden cameras in an attempt to overthrow the head of the campus movie circle. Glorious revolution is the goal, but if their plan backfires - things could get ugly.

Cycling Association "Soleil"

• Episode number: 3
• Episode duration: 25 min.
• Episode description:
  After the campus cleanup crew confiscates his state-of-the-art bicycle, a college misfit trades his wheels for some wings in an attempt to become a human birdman. Why? To impress a girl, of course.

Disciples Wanted

• Episode number: 4
• Episode duration: 25 min.
• Episode description:
  A lowly college student signs on as a disciple to a madman who’s wanted by the library police. His first assignment: accompany the girl of his dreams on a quest to attain a mystical toilet brush.

Softball Circle "Honwaka"

• Episode number: 5
• Episode duration: 25 min.
• Episode description:
  The Softball Club, with its supply of tanned and toned female members, seems like a good place for a lonely boy to find intimacy, but the action takes a foul turn when his only friend hatches another heinous scheme.

English Conversation Circle

• Episode number: 6
• Episode duration: 25 min.
• Episode description:
  When a young man seeks romance and adventure by joining the foreign language club, he gets caught in a bizarre love triangle where a night of drinking leads to intrusive gum massages and sloppy tongue baths.

"Hero Show Association" Circle

• Episode number: 7
• Episode duration: 25 min.
• Episode description:
  Everyone falls in love at least once during college, but not everyone severs all connections with actual humans in favor of an illicit romance with a life-sized plastic doll.

Reading Circle "Sea"

• Episode number: 8
• Episode duration: 25 min.
• Episode description:
  A name scrawled inside a secondhand novel leads to a romantic exchange of letters, but the storybook ending takes a bizarre turn when the two star-crossed pen pals meet face-to-face.

Secret Society "Lucky Cat Chinese Restaurant"

• Episode number: 9
• Episode duration: 25 min.
• Episode description:
  Membership has its privileges, but not for an unsuspecting college student forcibly initiated into the Secret Society Lucky Cat Chinese Restaurant! Will his covertly cruel conduct spoil a young man’s chance at love?

The 4.5 Tatami Ideologue

• Episode number: 10
• Episode duration: 25 min.
• Episode description:
  An unusual young man with no interest in the outside world tries to survive the college experience by refusing to leave his room. Will it be extreme hunger or a desire for female companionship that forces him out first?

The End of the 4.5 Tatami Age

• Episode number: 11
• Episode duration: 25 min.
• Episode description:
  The angst-ridden narrator becomes lost in a maze of 4.5 Tatami rooms as he searches for what lingers just out of reach. Will he finally make the long-awaited, often-hinted-at love connection he’s sought for so long?