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Rain Boy

雨ふり小僧

“A boy forgets his promise to an umbrella ghost for three wishes and rain boots, later remembering and returning to fulfill it.”

1 episodes24 min

Supernatural, Mythology, ShounenFall 1983Tezuka ProductionsG - All Ages

6.43 Community score

8,500 rank2,587 viewers6 favorites

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Synopsis

A boy forgets his promise to an umbrella ghost for three wishes and rain boots, later remembering and returning to fulfill it.

This is the second story of "The Tiger Books" series. A boy meets a lonely little umbrella ghost wearing Geta. He promises the ghost that he will give it a pair of rain boots in exchange for three wishes. The boy, however, grows up completely forgetting the promise. One day, when he happens to remember the ghost, he rushes back to that bridge in his hometown, to the Rain Boy...This is a moving, sweet hometown fantasy about a gentle ghost and a forgotten promise. (Source: AniDB)