Alternative titles: Synonyms: Heisei Tanuki Gassen PonpokoJapanese: 平成狸合戦ぽんぽこ
Type: Movie
Episodes: 1
Status: Finished airing
Airdate: 13 Jun, 1994 to 00 00, 0000
Genres: Kids
Duration: 01:51:00 per episode
Rating: PG - Children
Faced with the destruction of their habitat due to the growth of Tokyo, a group of tanuki try to defend their homes. They decide to use their transforming talents to try to hold back the new development. Two of them, especially skilled at transforming, are sent to Shikoku to enlist the help of three sages. Meanwhile, the rest of them do their best to disrupt the construction site, at first causing accidents, and then actually haunting the site. However, the humans are very persistent, and soon the tanuki are forced to use more and more extreme measures to save their home.
The forest home of the racoons in Tama Hills is being threatened by human developemnt. The raccoons decide to fight back by using ancient magical art to transform their bodies into objects, sometimes even into humans. They trick and scare the humans in the beginning, but eventually their fight turns tragic as some of the raccoons are killed. Finally, they are forced to seek the help of the froxes from a neighboring forest who have already given up their fight and are living as humans in the city...
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Toshio Suzuki Producer |
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Isao Takahata Director, Original Creator |
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Yoshifumi Kondou Key Animation |
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Mariko Suzuki In-Between Animation |
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Kitarou Kousaka Key Animation |
