Popotan

Season 1

2003 · 12 episodes · 5h 0m in all

Episodes

1. 

   1. Secret House

   17 Jul 2003 · 25 min

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

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   2. Friends

   24 Jul 2003 · 25 min

   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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   3. Magic

   31 Jul 2003 · 25 min

   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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   4. All Alone

   7 Aug 2003 · 25 min

   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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   5. Hot Springs

   14 Aug 2003 · 25 min

   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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   6. I'm Home

   21 Aug 2003 · 25 min

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

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   7. Things I Can't Say

   28 Aug 2003 · 25 min

   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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   8. Christmas

   4 Sept 2003 · 25 min

   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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   9. Once more

   11 Sept 2003 · 25 min

   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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    10. Gift

    18 Sept 2003 · 25 min

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

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    11. Farewell

    25 Sept 2003 · 25 min

    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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    12. Popotan

    2 Oct 2003 · 25 min

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