# Where to Watch The Eccentric Family

**The Eccentric Family streams on Crunchyroll. One of anime's best-kept secrets — a Kyoto fantasy about shapeshifting tanuki, feuding families, and what it means to carry on after loss, told with wit that sneaks up on your heart.**

## Where to Watch

- [Crunchyroll](http://www.crunchyroll.com/the-eccentric-family)

Crunchyroll has it, and it's exactly the kind of show a big catalog hides — nobody's homepage promotes it, and it's better than most things that get promoted. A genuine hidden-gem watch.

## Synopsis

Kyoto belongs to three populations: humans going about their business, tengu sulking on rooftops, and tanuki — shapeshifting raccoon dogs — running their society in the spaces between. Yasaburo Shimogamo is the third of four tanuki brothers, a cheerful idler who transforms into whatever amuses him and avoids responsibility like it's contagious. But his family lives in the shadow of a catastrophe: their father, once the most respected tanuki in the city, ended up in a hot pot — eaten by a human dining circle called the Friday Club. Between caring for a washed-up old tengu, sparring with the unreadable human Benten, and rival relatives scheming for power, Yasaburo keeps circling the question his whole family avoids: how their brilliant father let himself be caught.

## Fast Facts

- **Format:** TV
- **Episodes:** 13
- **Premiered:** 2013
- **Studio:** p.a. works co., ltd., p.a.works
- **Score:** 7.7

## Watch Order

Start with this first season; a second season continues the family's story and deepens everything the first sets up.

- Uchouten Kazoku 2 — sequel

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## FAQ

### Where can I watch The Eccentric Family?

It streams legally on Crunchyroll.

### How many episodes is The Eccentric Family?

The first season is 13 episodes, with a second season continuing the story.

### What kind of show is The Eccentric Family?

A character-driven urban fantasy — part family drama, part folklore comedy, part meditation on grief. It's routinely named among the most underrated anime of its decade by the people who've found it.