Popotan
Popotan
2003
1 Season
5.9
AnimationComedySci-Fi & Fantasy

Beautiful sisters Ai, Mai, Mii, their android maid Mea and slippery pet ferret Unagi make an amazing journey together through time and space without ever leaving their beloved mansion behind! Following the clues of the strange dandelion-like "Popotan," the girls are theoretically seeking the person who has the answers to their most personal questions, but they seem to have more than enough time to take side trips, meet new friends, visit hot springs and occasionally operate the X-mas shop they keep in the house along the way! Yet, the girls' ultimate destiny holds more than a few surprises of its own, and not every moment is filled with hilarity, as moving through time means having to leave friends behind as well.

Episodes

Secret House
E1Jul 17, 200325m

Secret House

A young boy named Daichi is trying to photograph ghosts when he happens upon a mysterious house.

Friends
E2Jul 24, 200325m

Friends

Because their house travels through time, Mai always has to leave friends behind. This has caused her to normally keep her distance from others, but then she meets Konami in high school.

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E3Jul 31, 200325m

Magic

Mii decides she wants to cosplay as a magical girl and go around helping people, which leads to her meeting a sickly girl named Miyuki.

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E4Aug 7, 200325m

All Alone

Alone in the mansion's Christmas shop, Mea meets a mysterious girl who insists that Mea fixes her doll. Shortly thereafter, however, the girl vanishes, and soon so do the three sisters.

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E5Aug 14, 200325m

Hot Springs

Appearing at the construction site of an amusement park, Ai encounters a dandelion that knows where to find Shizuku, the girl they've been searching for.

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E6Aug 21, 200325m

I'm Home

The mansion returns to the amusement park five years later where Mai has a reunion with her sisters.

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E7Aug 28, 200325m

Things I Can't Say

It's been thirty years since Daichi encountered the three sisters, and after seeing their mansion in a photograph of his daughter he goes searching for them.

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E8Sep 4, 200325m

Christmas

Appearing at a Shinto shrine, Mii meets Nono, a devout priestess in training. Nono loves Christmas but her grandfather dislikes all non-Shinto ways and beliefs.

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E9Sep 11, 200325m

Once more

Returning to the city where Mai met Konami forty years earlier, Mai mistakes her daughter, also called Mai, for Konami and tries to befriend her.

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E10Sep 18, 200325m

Gift

Mai is distraught after what happened with Konami and tries to destroy the portrait they drew together but Mea intervenes.

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E11Sep 25, 200325m

Farewell

Keith leads the three sisters to Shizuku, finally ending their long search. Weary from the constant traveling and losing friends made along they way, they ask her to let them each return to Daichi, Konami, and Nono respectively.

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E12Oct 2, 200325m

Popotan

Mai, the now grown-up daughter of Konami, is telling a curious Daisuke, the youngest child of Daichi, about the three time traveling sisters.

Top Cast

Haruko Momoi

Haruko Momoi

Mii (Voice)

Masumi Asano

Masumi Asano

Mai (Voice)

Mai Kadowaki

Mai Kadowaki

Mea (Voice)

Ayako Kawasumi

Ayako Kawasumi

Unagi (Voice)

Rumi Shishido

Rumi Shishido

Shizuki (Voice)

Yuji Takada

Yuji Takada

Keith (Voice)