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“A boy befriends a 300-year-old baby Kappa fossil named Coo, who struggles to adapt to human life.”
Summer Days with Coo
河童のクゥと夏休み
7.51
2,066 rank · 20,232 viewers · 60 favorites
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Synopsis
A boy befriends a 300-year-old baby Kappa fossil named Coo, who struggles to adapt to human life.
Kouichi Uehara is a fourth grade student living in the suburb of Tokyo. One day, he picks up a large stone which turns out to be a fossil of a baby "Kappa" who has been sleeping underground for the past 300 years, and names it "Coo." They become good friends and Coo starts living with Kouichi's family. However, Coo has a hard time adjusting to life among humans and misses his kind.
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Community consensus
Derived from 8 sampled reviews
9.1
/10
What 8 viewers settled on.
100%
recommend
Score distribution
median 9.5
mode 10
σ 1.05
Agreement
Strong agreement
σ 1.05 · scores cluster tight
The polarity gap
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↓ 0.88
Running avg · May 2010 → Aug 2022
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 10 “Well, this movie broke me. I cried so many times, and all of the times it was the human’s fault. Two characters died because of humans. Other characters suffered mentally, because of humans. When...”
- 10 “This is criminally underrated. It's such a shame that this doesn't have an English dub, but don't let that stop you from giving this a watch. Summer Days with Coo combines supernatural mythology...”
- 7 “I originally watched this since I really find yokai interesting & thought this would be a cute movie from what i gathered from the bio of it. While it was a fairly cute movie it did have a very...”
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Short · 25%
Medium · 38%
Long · 38%
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- Format 1 × 141′ eps × min
- Total runtime 2h 21m all episodes
- Aired Jul 2007 – ongoing
- Source Movie media type
- Rated PG Children
- Ref. BS-2612 catalog
Produced by
- Dentsu Producer
- TV Asahi Producer
- Shochiku Producer
- Sony Music Entertainment Producer
- Dentsu Tec Producer
- Imagine Producer
Licensed by
- GKIDS Licensor