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“Future granddaughter Maroko time-travels to live with ancestors, destabilizing the Yomota family's happiness.”
Long Life To The Ancestors
御先祖様万々歳!
7.36
2,711 rank · 11,531 viewers · 175 favorites
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Comedy
Drama
Sci-Fi
Psychological
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Synopsis
Future granddaughter Maroko time-travels to live with ancestors, destabilizing the Yomota family's happiness.
The Yomota family is small and typical: father Kinekuni (42), mother Tamiko (38), and son Inumaru (17). One day, a beautiful girl appears at their front door, calling herself "Maroko Yomota," granddaughter of Inumaru who travels back in time with a time machine to visit her ancestors. Even with Tamiko's strong objection, Kinekuni and Inumaru welcome her to stay with them, and the structure of a happy family has begun to collapse. (Source: ANN)
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Community consensus
Derived from 8 sampled reviews
7.0
/10
What 8 viewers settled on.
86%
recommend
Score distribution
median 7.5
mode 9
σ 2.50
Agreement
Polarized
σ 2.50 · split reception
The polarity gap
7.2 pts
Recommenders 8.2 · others 1.0
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Score over time
↑ 0.00
Running avg · Nov 2016 → Aug 2025
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 8 “First anime I’ve watched after months. Very good, 8/10. What I liked the most is the exaggerated amount of dialogue and that theatrical atmosphere. Even though only one was truly philosophical and...”
- 9 “Gosenzo-sama Banbanzai is an anime I would not recommend to just anyone. It's an obscurity that won't be easy to appreciate. From its directing, it is similar to what Kunihiko Ikuhara first...”
- 7 “Idiosyncratic and unfairly forgotten, a six-part OVA "Gosenzosama Banbanzai!" (literally, "Long Live the Ancestors!") belongs to the most experimental period in Oshii’s career. Told in the form of...”
Verbosity
Short · 13%
Medium · 75%
Long · 13%
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A Ova Production
Studio Pierrot.- Format 6 × 28′ eps × min
- Total runtime 2h 48m all episodes
- Aired Aug 1989 – Jan 1990
- Source Ova media type
- Rated R 17+ (violence & profanity)
- Ref. BS-3740 catalog