"Tama-chan, star of river and screen"

[Taro Toporific]

Tama-chan, star of river and screen
The Daily Yomiuri
...award for the best continuing series of the spring TV season...and the winner is: "The World According to Tama-chan." ...Excitement, action, warmth, pathos, intrigue, trust me folks this series has got it all...

Episode 1 began with Tama-chan making a Nessie-like head bobbing appearance ...

... Episode 6 opened, the wide shows were hot on the trail of some eerie fellows clad all in white who they dubbed "shiro-shozoku." Meanwhile, Tama-chan had moved to Saitama Prefecture, where a few fans stood watch supported by a small band of snack vendors, an artisan who sold wooden Tama-chan carvings to the TV people and a guy supplying Tama-chan photos. He revealed he had donated some of his profits to the North Korean abductees support group and proudly produced the thank you note he had received from Niigata abductee Hitomi Soga. Just another example of the amazing ripple effect of Tama-chan's world. ...the Shiro-shozoku (also known as the Pana Wave Research Center), the strange sect that had masterminded the Tama-chan abduction/rescue plan...