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Animal Lane

2005–2006 · 1 season

A bright, silly, fast-paced cartoon where goofy creatures burst in and turn ordinary days into chaotic little adventures.

Genres: Animation
Starring: Rumi Shishido, Yuuko Satou, Nao Nagasawa

Overview: Animal Yokochō is a Japanese manga and anime series aimed at children about a little girl who has a doorway to another world in her room, from which three bizarre and frequently-annoying stuffed animal-like creatures emerge to make her life "interesting".

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Genres: Animation
Starring: Rumi Shishido, Yuuko Satou, Nao Nagasawa

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Tone
Pacing: brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: background-friendly, 1 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: friendship
identity
Places: home
fantasy world
Era: contemporary
Audience: kids
Form: animated
Content intensity: Gore none
Language none
Violence none
Sex none

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Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	2
Horror	1
Humour	6
Realism	2
Romance	1
Tension	2
Darkness	1
Complexity	2
Emotional weight	2

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Genres: animation
Starring: Rumi Shishido, Yuuko Satou, Nao Nagasawa, Fuyuka Ono, Kaori Fukuhara, Kenyu Horiuchi, Nanae Kato, Shizuka Itoh
Music: Yasunori Iwasaki
Cinematography: Tae-Hee Heo
Length: 1 seasons, 102 episodes, 10 min each
Network: TV Tokyo, TV Aichi, TVQ, TV Osaka, TVh, TSC
Country: Japan, South Korea
Languages: Japanese

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