Atashinchi

Volume 1 cover

Anime

### Ending

Kite Kite Atashinchi - LET'S GO! Atashinchi - Hottottottona mainichi - Purorin Saizu♪ - Saraba - Atashinchi

### Directors

Akitaro Daichi (Tetsuo Yasumi when absent)

### Sequel

Shin Atashinchi

**Atashin'chi**; あたしンち (Short for あたしのうち meaning "My Family" or "My House" in English) is a comedy Manga by Eiko Kera which was first published on the June 5th 1994 and it's last volume published on October 2nd of the year 2015. Since December 23rd 2019 the mangas have been getting omnibus releases with the title "SUPER Atashin'chi".

An Anime adaption of the series was produced by Shin-Ei Animation that aired from April 19th 2002 till September 19th 2009 then a sequel to the anime, Shin Atashinchi]] that aired from October 6th 2015 till April 5th 2016. As of 2024, a new season is in works titled Atashin'chi (30th Anniversary).

## **About**

The series follows the lives of the Tachibana family, which consists of the following characters: Mikan Tachibana, Yuzuhiko Tachibana, Okaa-san Tachibana and Otou-san Tachibana. They each have unique problems or events occurring in their life that affects the family, the classmates or the co-workers. However, the series protagonist is Mikan as most volumes and episodes are about her and she is also the "あたし" (atashi; feminine way of saying "me, I") in the title.

## **Manga**

With the first volume of the Manga being published on June 5th 1994 the first 18 Chapters were put in it that were all short and original versions of the first few Episodes of Atashinchi. The art and the stories were done by Atashinchi's Author Eiko Kera and the Manga's were published by Kadokawa / Media Factory.

One difference found in the Manga's is that it's all mostly Mikan's POV instead of a All Family Members POV like in the Anime in a lot of Chapters.

## **Anime**

An Anime adaption of the series was produced by Shin-Ei Animation and aired on TV Asashi which featured two segments in each episodes. In the first episode, the segments That's not what I meant! and Don't be surprised, 'kay? aired on the April 19th 2002 and afterwards new episodes came along every Friday. On September 19th 2009 the final Episode and segments aired. The segments being Object X in the afternoon and My family's bento battle.

The Anime Adaption had changed a lot of the stories and chapters, mostly by making them way longer, adding more plots and twists to the Episodes, creating a new plot all together etc. The full episode list can be found here.

The anime received overall an 7,3/10 score on myanimelist.net and a 4,9 score on Crunchyroll for it's season 2 (Shin Atashin'chi). The anime was also well received in other countries and getting different dubs of the shows that can be found throughout Asian countries, but due to this show's popularity in Asian countries, the character names had to be changed from Kanji to Katakana due to the show now being broadcasted in Taiwan, Hong Kong and South Korea since the Kanji/Hanzi/Hanja were all differently pronounced in those languages and weren't the same pronunciation as in Japanese.

In Korean dubs of the series, Attamam'ma, the show has been censored and changed to meet the standards of Korean Television Broadcasting rules.

On November 13th 2010 a 3D Film was released called Atashinchi Gekijoubban 3D (劇場版3D あたしンち; Atashinchi the 3D Movie) which is about the Mother getting superpowers and causing some chaos along the way.

With a follow up sequel called Shin Atashinchi (新あたしンち; New My Family) being produced by Shin-Ei Animation that had it's first three episodes Strong-willed Mom, Yuzu wants to wear Sunglasses and Mom likes new weapons aired on October 6th 2015 and the final three episodes This house is my castle!, Mikan and the cherry blossom viewing and Everyone's dreams airing on April 5th 2016.

The sequel of the original season could have been streamed once on Crunchyroll, however the show was removed from Crunchyroll on an unknown date.

Both the original and the Shin Atashinchi episodes are being uploaded to the official Atashinchi Youtube Channel with English Subtitles.

## **Characters**

The following characters appear in both Manga and the Anime.

* **The Tachibanas**
* Mikan Tachibana
* Yuzuhiko Tachibana
* Okaa-san Tachibana
* Otou-san Tachibana

* **Mikan's Class**
* Yukarin
* Shimizu (Shimi-chan)
* Nobara
* Mie
* Haruyama
* Iwaki
* Yoshioka
* Nitta
* Kajii
* Asada
* Rio
* Miyajima-Sensei
* Murakami-Sensei

* **Yuzuhiko's Class**
* Yamashita
* Kawashita
* Sudou
* Ishida
* Fujino
* Nasuo
* Hara-Sensei

* **Okaa-san's Friends**
* Mizushima
* Toyama
* Misumi