Popotan
Popotan: Season 1

Air Date

July 17, 2003

Episodes

12 episodes

Popotan

Season 1

Episodes

Secret House

1. Secret House

July 17, 2003
25 min

A young boy named Daichi is trying to photograph ghosts when he happens upon a mysterious house.

Friends

2. Friends

July 24, 2003
25 min

Because their house travels through time, Mai always has to leave friends behind. This has caused her to normally keep her distance from others, but then she meets Konami in high school.

3. Magic

July 31, 2003
25 min

Mii decides she wants to cosplay as a magical girl and go around helping people, which leads to her meeting a sickly girl named Miyuki.

4. All Alone

August 7, 2003
25 min

Alone in the mansion's Christmas shop, Mea meets a mysterious girl who insists that Mea fixes her doll. Shortly thereafter, however, the girl vanishes, and soon so do the three sisters.

5. Hot Springs

August 14, 2003
25 min

Appearing at the construction site of an amusement park, Ai encounters a dandelion that knows where to find Shizuku, the girl they've been searching for.

6. I'm Home

August 21, 2003
25 min

The mansion returns to the amusement park five years later where Mai has a reunion with her sisters.

7. Things I Can't Say

August 28, 2003
25 min

It's been thirty years since Daichi encountered the three sisters, and after seeing their mansion in a photograph of his daughter he goes searching for them.

8. Christmas

September 4, 2003
25 min

Appearing at a Shinto shrine, Mii meets Nono, a devout priestess in training. Nono loves Christmas but her grandfather dislikes all non-Shinto ways and beliefs.

9. Once more

September 11, 2003
25 min

Returning to the city where Mai met Konami forty years earlier, Mai mistakes her daughter, also called Mai, for Konami and tries to befriend her.

10. Gift

September 18, 2003
25 min

Mai is distraught after what happened with Konami and tries to destroy the portrait they drew together but Mea intervenes.

11. Farewell

September 25, 2003
25 min

Keith leads the three sisters to Shizuku, finally ending their long search. Weary from the constant traveling and losing friends made along they way, they ask her to let them each return to Daichi, Konami, and Nono respectively.

12. Popotan

October 2, 2003
25 min

Mai, the now grown-up daughter of Konami, is telling a curious Daisuke, the youngest child of Daichi, about the three time traveling sisters.