History Literature / TheTatamiGalaxy

* {{Asian Kung-Fu Generation}}: Performs the opening song, "A Stray Dog and the Beat of the Rain". The guy who does all their CD covers, Yusuke Nakamura, also did the character designs.

''Yojo-han Shinwa Taikei'' (''A Compendium of 4.5 Tatami Mythology'') is a 2008 novel by Tomihiko Morimi, narrated by an [[NoNameGiven unnamed]] third-year agriculture student at Kyoto University. After getting dumped by a crush his first year, he's become convinced the idealised, lovey-dovey campus life he expected will never become reality, and as a result, has wasted the last two years ruining the love lives of others at every opportunity with his partner in crime, Ozu. Despite this, the narrator has taken a liking to Akashi, a girl one year his junior.

** JunichiSuwabe: Masaki Jogasaki

** MaayaSakamoto: Akashi
** HiroyukiYoshino: Ozu

** KeijiFujiwara: Seitaro Higuchi i.e. the marriage god

** NobuyukiHiyama: Cowboy ''Johnny''!

* NotWhatItLooksLike: The narrator gets manipulated into looking like he's [[strike:confiscating]] stealing the Birdman team's plane. Of course, Akashi just happens to arrive and comes to the wrong conclusion...

* OutOfClothesExperience: [[spoiler:Subverted in the finale; the fact that the narrator symbolically goes through several outfits matching other lives as he dashes to save Ozu makes the fact that he ends up nude seem like a mental thing, but nope, he actually ''is'' nude in public.]]

The novel was adapted to anime for NoitaminA's spring 2010 season, directed by Masaaki Yuasa of ''{{Kaiba}}'' fame and produced by Creator/{{Madhouse}}. {{Funimation}} has licensed it for a near-simultaneous, English-subtitled stateside release on the Funimation website, Website/YouTube, and {{Hulu}} under the MarketBasedTitle ''The Tatami Galaxy''.

* {{Asian Kung-Fu Generation}}: Performs the opening song, "''Maigo Inu to Ame no'' Beat" ("A Stray Dog and the Beat of the Rain"). The guy who does all their CD covers, Yusuke Nakamura, also did the character designs.

* [[spoiler:ShippingBedDeath: The narrator [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this as justification in the finale to wrap up other loose ends as opposed to expounding on the details of his budding relationship with Akashi.]]

''Yojo-han Shinwa Taikei'' (literally ''A Compendium of 4.5 Tatami Mythology'') is a 2008 novel by Tomihiko Morimi, narrated by an [[NoNameGiven unnamed]] third-year agriculture student at Kyoto University. After getting dumped by a crush his first year, he's become convinced the idealised, lovey-dovey campus life he expected to have will never come, and as a result, has wasted the last two years ruining the love lives of others at every opportunity with his partner in crime, Ozu. Despite this, the narrator has taken a liking to Akashi, a girl one year his junior.

* FortuneTeller: Presumably appears in each episode, always giving the protagonist the same advice.

* ShaggyDogStory: Every episode so far.

* [[spoiler:ShippingBedDeath: The narrator [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this as justification in the finale to wrap up other loose ends as opposed to expounding on the details of his budding relationship with Akashi.]] [[invoked]]

''Yojo-han Shinwa Taikei'' ("A Compendium of 4.5 Tatami Mythology") is a 2008 novel by Tomihiko Morimi, narrated by an [[NoNameGiven unnamed]] third-year agriculture student at Kyoto University. After getting dumped by a crush his first year, he's become convinced the idealised, lovey-dovey campus life he expected to have will never come, and as a result, has wasted the last two years ruining the love lives of others at every opportunity with his partner in crime, Ozu. Despite this, the narrator has taken a liking to Akashi, a girl one year his junior.

!!''TheTatamiGalaxy'' exhibits the following tropes:

* DrinkingContest: One between Jogasaki and the protagonist in episode 6. [[BottleFairy Hanuki]] joins in later. [[spoiler:The protagonist wins, although it really seems that Hanuki did.]]

* BottleFairy: Hanuki.

** Episode 7 has the narrator use a metaphor about wandering a maze of 4.5 tatami rooms, which is the literal subject of one of his other student films in episode 2.
*** In episodes 10 and 11, the narrator [[spoiler:actually does this]].

* ADateWithRosiePalms: Implied in a couple of instances in the episodes dealing with the protagonist's romantic pursuits. His sexual desire is represented by a sort of phallic-looking cowboy named Johnny, and in some instances, Johnny is shown kept at bay in a hamster wheel with a [[PornStash girly mag]] and kleenex box close by.

* EpiphanicPrison: [[spoiler: the titular galaxy is revealed to be one.]]

* FoodPorn: Neko Ramen.

*** "It's my way of expressing my love!"

* MarketBasedTitle: As the original Japanese name translates to "A Compendium of 4.5 Tatami Mythology" or "The Four-and-a-half Tatami Mythological Chronicles", it's no wonder they marketed it in America as The Tatami Galaxy. The original title is a mouthful, the 4.5 part (which refers to the size of the narrator's room) would be lost on American viewers.

* MediumBlending
* MindScrew: Copiously, but especially when the matchmaking god finally finishes reading "20000 leagues under the sea" and reaches Nirvana.

* NotWhatItLooksLike: The narrator gets manipulated into looking like he's [[strike:confiscating]] stealing the Birdman Team's plane. Of course, Akashi just happens to arrive and comes to the wrong conclusion...

** [[spoiler:The standard clock tower ending is missing from episode 9, leaving fans wondering whether the narrator refrained from resetting this time]].
** Every time the narrator meets Ozu for the first time (sic. No, really!), Ozu delivers a speech explaining that they really are comrades.

* TheReveal: In episode 9. [[spoiler:Ozu's got a girlfriend--incidentally, ''Honwaka's daughter''--and has been doing all these questionably moral things for two years for the sake of the perfect date with her after a date in first year went awry]].

* TitleDrop: While not formal, the last two episodes reveal why the American title has "Galaxy." In that [[spoiler: the narrator travels (literally) through each alternate version of his room (which is sized at 4.5 Tatami)]]

** Perhaps [[PunnyName not so unusual]] when one compares "Johnny" with [[ToyStory another kind of toy.]]

The novel was adapted to anime for {{noitaminA}}'s spring 2010 season, directed by Masaaki Yuasa of ''{{Kaiba}}'' fame and produced by Creator/{{Madhouse}}. {{Funimation}} has licensed it for a near-simultaneous, English-subtitled stateside release on the Funimation website, {{YouTube}}, and {{Hulu}} under the MarketBasedTitle ''The Tatami Galaxy''.

* ArmorPiercingSlap: Akashi can pull these off (and does so, several times).

* BeautyMark: Akashi and Hanuki both have one.

* CanNotSpitItOut: The narrator can't return Akashi's Mochiguma and he can't ask her out to Neko Ramen, [[spoiler:at least until the finale]].

* CloudCuckooLander: pretty much everyone has elements of this, but particularly Higuchi.

** KeijiFujiwara: Seitaro Higuchi i.e. the marriage god

* LoveableSexManiac: Jogasaki and, arguably, [[spoiler: the protagonist.]]

** Perhaps [[PunnyName not so unusual]] when one compares "Johnny" with [[ToyStory another kind of toy.]]

The novel was adapted to anime for {{noitaminA}}'s spring 2010 season, directed by Masaaki Yuasa of ''{{Kaiba}}'' fame and produced by {{Madhouse}}. {{Funimation}} has licensed it for a near-simultaneous, English-subtitled stateside release on the Funimation website, {{YouTube}}, and {{Hulu}} under the title ''[[MarketBasedTitle The Tatami Galaxy]]''.

* [=~Hey, It's That Voice!~=]

''Yojo-han Shinwa Taikei'' ("A Compendium of 4.5 Tatami Mythology") is a 2008 novel by Tomihiko Marimi, narrated by an [[NoNameGiven unnamed]] third-year agriculture student at Kyoto University. After getting dumped by a crush his first year, he's become convinced the idealised, lovey-dovey campus life he expected to have will never come, and as a result, has wasted the last two years ruining the love lives of others at every opportunity with his partner in crime, Ozu. Despite this, the narrator has taken a liking to Akashi, a girl one year his junior.

''Yojo-han Shinwa Taikei'' ('A Compendium of 4.5 Tatami Mythology') is a 2008 novel by Tomihiko Marimi, narrated by an [[NoNameGiven unnamed]] third-year agriculture student at Kyoto University. After getting dumped by a crush his first year, he's become convinced the lovey-dovey "rose-colored campus life" he expected to have will never come, and as a result, has wasted the last two years of his life as a "Black Cupid", ruining the love lives of others at every opportunity with his partner in crime, Ozu. Despite this, the narrator has taken a liking to Akashi, a girl one year his junior.

''Yojo-han Shinwa Taikei'' ("A Compendium of 4.5 Tatami Mythology") is a 2008 novel by Tomihiko Marimi, narrated by an [[NoNameGiven unnamed]] third-year agriculture student at Kyoto University. After getting dumped by a crush his first year, he's become convinced the lovey-dovey "rose-colored campus life" he expected to have will never come, and as a result, has wasted the last two years of his life as a "Black Cupid", ruining the love lives of others at every opportunity with his partner in crime, Ozu. Despite this, the narrator has taken a liking to Akashi, a girl one year his junior.

--> '''Watashi''': ''Out of the question! Visiting the home of your pen-pal is completely unacceptable! That's breaking the most fundamental rule! I absolutely will not!''
-->*next shot cuts to him standing in front of his pen-pal's home*

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->''"Then I was a brand-spanking new freshman university student and countless doors to the mystical treasure that is known as that 'rose-colored campus life' lay open before me. I was half-swooned with glee. And the one I chose was...!"''

''Yojo-han Shinwa Taikei'' ("A Compendium of 4.5 Tatami Mythology"[[hottip:*:''Yojo-han'', or "4.5 tatami" refers to a configuration of tatami mats: [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/4johan_9438.jpg here are some examples.]] You can see another in the logo there.]]) is a 2008 novel by Tomihiko Marimi, narrated by an [[NoNameGiven unnamed]] third-year agriculture student at Kyoto University. After getting dumped by a crush his first year, he's become convinced the lovey-dovey "rose-colored campus life" he expected to have will never come, and as a result, has wasted the last two years of his life as a "Black Cupid", ruining the love lives of others at every opportunity with his partner in crime, Ozu. Despite this, the narrator has taken a liking to Akashi, a girl one year his junior.

* HoYay: Ozu rubs up against the narrator when they're about to sabotage a romantic night for several couples with fireworks from across a riverbank. "But it's so cold..."

* NoExportForYou: You live in America & want to see the 3 bonus episodes? Good luck.