“Three sisters, their maid, and a ferret travel through time seeking answers via Popotan while running a Christmas shop.”
Popotan
ぽぽたん
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Synopsis
Three sisters, their maid, and a ferret travel through time seeking answers via Popotan while running a Christmas shop.
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. (Source: RightStuf)
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 12 sampled reviews
What 12 viewers settled on.
Polarized
σ 2.97 · split reception
6.6 pts
Recommenders 7.8 · others 1.3
↓ 1.83
Running avg · Jun 2008 → Jan 2025
- 7 “Let me be perfectly clear: This show is nothing but a thinly plotted excuse to show the main characters bathing, with full nipples. That being said, as far as paper-thin fanservice machines go,...”
- 7 “This is an anime worth watching if you havent got anythign better to do for sure. That said, most aspects of the anime are just ordinary- Im not too shocked by the negative reviews. For example,...”
- 10 “Popotan is an early 2000s anime which exists, it’s a strong contender for the most “literally made for me” anime I’ve ever seen, it’s a clusterfuck of early 2000s camp/aesthetics with a story about...”
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- Format 12 × 24′ eps × min
- Total runtime 4h 48m all episodes
- Aired Jul 2003 – Oct 2003 Summer 2003
- Source Tv media type
- Rated R+ Mild Nudity
- Ref. BS-0574 catalog
Produced by
- Bandai Visual Producer
- Lantis Producer
Licensed by
- Sentai Filmworks Licensor
- Geneon Entertainment USA Licensor