History Anime / TamakoMarket

* TheyDo: At the very end of the movie [[spoiler:Tamako finally reciprocates Mochizou's feelings by confessing to him at the train station using their TinCanTelephone.]] It is heavily implied, if not confirmed that they finally end up together. Some Official Artwork even supports this.

%%* BeachEpisode: Episode 5.

%%* CloudCuckooLander: Kanna
%%* CoolOldGuy: Tamako´s grandfather and the shopping district representative.

%%* ExpressiveHair: Tamako's pigtails.

%%* InnocentBlueEyes: Tamako and her mother.

* LoveRevelationEpiphany: a key aspect of the movie Tamako Love Story. Tamako is ObliviousToLove and Mochizou CannotSpitItOut, and it takes him finally working up the courage to confess before she's able to think for even a moment about how she really feels.

%%* MundaneFantastic

%%* PollyWantsAMicrophone: Dela. Half the point of the show, it seems.
%%* QuirkyTown: Bunny Mountain Shopping District

%%* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters

* {{Meganekko}}: Shiori and Sayori. Tamako also wears glasses occasionally (probably when she's not awake enough to put her contact lenses on).

* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: Midori is described as caring about Tamako so much that she thinks it may be love.

* SchoolgirlLesbians: It's implied that Midori has a crush on Tamako, considering the "Everybody loves somebody/anybody can love anybody" were said while cutting from Midori to Tamako.

[[TheMovie A movie]] based on the series has been released, ''Tamako Love Story'', which premiered on April 26, 2014. Just as the title suggests, the story focuses more on love than the original show.

The story follows a happy-go-lucky girl named Tamako Kitashirakawa and her daily life in a shopping arcade. Tamako herself is a high school student and the daughter of a mochi maker who conducts his business from home. Their mochi business, called Tamaya, is right in front of a western-themed mochi shop called [[GratuitousEnglish Rice Cake Oh! Zee]], which creates a lot of friction between Tamako's father and the Ooji family. Of course, true to the Romeo and Juliet archetype, the son of the owner of Rice Cake Oh! Zee is Mochizou Ooji, a ChildhoodFriend of Tamako. As expected, Tamako is Mochizou's love interest.

[[caption-width-right:230:Her name's Tamako, She's in a market. What more do you want?]]

[[caption-width-right:230:Tamako in a market.]]

* SecondYearProtagonist: As of episode 3.

* AmbiguouslyBrown: The people that Dela works for. They have dark tan skin, their names are Choi and Mecha Mochimazzi,[[note]]"Mochi" is unambiguously Japanese, "-mazzi" is vaguely Italian[[/note]] they wear outfits whose colorful patterns are not especially emblematic of a particular culture, appear to live on a tropical island, and belong to a monarchy. "Choi" itself is a Chinese/Korean name, and the food she prepares in episode nine looks Vietnamese. Given all this, "Southeast Asian" may be a good guess, but it's never made clear.

* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: This is Ricecake Oh! Zee (formerly Oojiya)'s theme. Even their item tags were all written in romaji.

* MaybeEverAfter: For [[spoiler:Tamako and Mochizou]], whose romance is left fairly open-ended.

* NameOrderConfusion: InUniverse; when Tamako introduces herself to [[spoiler:Prince Mecha]] in episode 11, she uses the western order while speaking ''Japanese''. Shiori is a bit surprised.

* CerebusSyndrome: The BigDamnMovie, ''love story'', has a bit of a more somber tone compared to the series, focusing on the relationship between Tamako and Mochizou. Fittingly enough, [[ShooOutTheClowns Dera]] has largely been removed from the story here, [[DemotedToExtra only making a brief cameo near the end of the movie.]]

** Tamako is named after the shop--"-ya" is a business suffix and "-ko" is a feminine name suffix.

* AmbiguouslyBrown: The people that Dela works for. They have notably tan skin, their names are Choi and Mecha Mochimazzi[[note]]"Mochi" is unambiguously Japanese, "-mazzi" is vaguely Italian[[/note]], they wear outfits whose colorful patterns are not particularly indicative, appear to live on a tropical island, and belong to a monarchy. "Choi" itself is a Chinese/Korean name, and the food she prepares in episode nine looks suspiciously Vietnamese. [[note]]Given all this, "Southeast Asian" may be a good guess, but it's never made clear.[[/note]]

* [[AccidentalProposal Accidental Courtship]]: Dela [[CrashIntoHello colliding with Tamako's face]] causes her to sneeze violently; and apparently Dela's culture interprets sneezing at someone as a declaration of courtship towards them. Dela assesses the situation accordingly.

* AlwaysInClassOne: As of episode 3.
* AmbiguouslyBrown: The people that Dela works for. The food Choi prepares in episode nine looks suspiciously Vietnamese.

* BeachEpisode: Episode 5.

* BookEnds: Episode 5 starts and ends with a scene when Tamako, Kanna and Midori comes out of Tamaya to go to the pool, and Tamako waves to Mochizou who was boringly sitting at Ricecake Oh!Zee's counter.
** [[spoiler:Tamako finding Dela in a bouquet of flowers.]]
** [[spoiler:Episodes 1 and 12 take place on New Years Eve, and concern everyone trying to remember to give Tamako a birthday present. The first time, they all forget, and the second time, only Mochizou remembers.]]
* [[ButtMonkey Butt Bird]]: Dela.

* ChildhoodFriend: Not only is Mochizou a childhood friend of Tamako, he is also the son of the owner of Rice Cake Oh! Zee and thus works for the competition. Him being in love with her makes it even more tropalicious.
** The movie shows Mochizou really helped Tamako cope after her mother's death.

* CloseKnitCommunity
* CloudCuckooLander: Kanna
* CoolOldGuy: Tamako´s grandfather and the shopping district representative.

* DietEpisode: Episode 8 focuses on Dela being put on one.

* DrowningMySorrows: Bathhouse owner Choji heads straight for the sake when he hears his daughter Sayuri is getting married in episode 7.

* ExpressiveHair: Tamako's pigtails.

* HeyYou: Dela addresses Tamako and other young female characters as "young girl", and Mochizou as "young man".
** Two exceptions: Anko ("[[DoNotCallMePaul Call]] [[CatchPhrase me]] [[InsistentTerminology An]]!") and his own beloved Shiori-san.

* InnocentBlueEyes: Tamako and her mother.
* InterspeciesRomance: Dela gains a crush on Shiori.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters

* [[spoiler:MaybeEverAfter: For Tamako and Mochizou.]]

* MissingMom: Hinako Kitashirakawa died some years back.
* MotivationalLie: [[spoiler:Near the end of the movie Midori tells Tamako that Mochizou was leaving for good to start attending a University in Tokyo, when he was simply just going to take an entance exam. This prompts her to frantically try and catch him before he leaves so that she could finally confess to him. This was even [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by Kanna, who tells Midori she's awful for doing so.]]

* MundaneFantastic

* ObliviousToLove: Tamako.

* PollyWantsAMicrophone: Dela. Half the point of the show, it seems.
* QuirkyTown: Bunny Mountain Shopping District

* RunningGag: The Kitashirakawas getting shocked whenever the surname Mochimazzui is mentioned.

* [[spoiler: ShaggyDogStory: The main plot line of Dela being in Japan to search for a bride for his prince.]]
* ShipSinking: [[spoiler: Despite all the ShipTease between Midori and Tamako, the makers had Midori give up fairly quickly on Tamako in the movie, so they could focus completely on the blossoming romance between Tamako and Mochizou. This caused an outrage among Tamako-Midori shippers, who felt Midori had at least deserved a fighting chance]].

* SliceOfLife

* SupremeChef: Tamako. Shiori proves that she's a pretty good cook as well.
* TheyDo: [[spoiler: At the very end of the movie Tamako finally reciprocates Mochizou's feelings by confessing to him at the train station using their TinCanTelephone. It is heavily implied, if not confirmed that they finally end up together. Some Official Artwork even supports this.]]
* TinCanTelephone: Tamako and Mochizou use these to communicate from their rooms across the alley between their houses, although as Anko points out, they could easily just raise their voices slightly. [[ArtisticLicense And half the time the line isn't even taut enough to conduct the vibrations.]] In episode 2 Dela sabotages their discussion by standing on the line.

* TokenMiniMoe: Anko.

* WhamEpisode: Episode 7 [[spoiler: Choi arrives and chews out Dela for neglecting his duties. After a few misunderstandings (mostly the result of Dela trying to shift the blame for his idleness), she comes to befriend Tamako. At the end, she recognizes her as her prince's destined bride.]]
** Episode 11: [[spoiler:Prince Mecha personally visits Bunny Mountain]]

--->[[spoiler:'''Choi''': That scent...]]
** Episode 10:
--->[[spoiler:'''Choi''': Tamako-sama, you are the prince's bride!]]
** Episode 12:
-->[[spoiler:'''Prince Mecha''': She is not my bride.]]

[[http://www.hulu.com/tamako-market Is currently being streamed in the US by The Anime Network]]. A novel adaptation has also been published.

** Anko looks like a younger version of [[Manga/KOn Azusa]] in the "Listen!" ED. Even the hair decs match. Like Azusa, she also seems to get a tan real fast(albeit not as absurdly fast) despite putting on lots of sunscreen.

* SceneryPorn: To quote the ''Manga/KOn'' page, "What you get when you hire KyoAni to do a high school show taking place anywhere."

''Tamako Market'' (たまこまーけっと) is an original anime TV series produced by Creator/KyotoAnimation and directed by Naoko Yamada, with Reiko Yoshida serving as series composition writer and Yukiko Horiguchi serving as character designer and chief animation director--and all three women previously worked together on ''Manga/KOn''.