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The twelfth and final tale of RAKUGO: Japan's Comic Tales. When Tanokyu, a village actor, hears that his mother is ill, he sets off over the mountains alone at night. There he meets the Giant Serpent, lord of the mountain, who mishears his name as "tanuki," the shape-shifting raccoon dog of Japanese folklore, and orders him to transform. Tanokyu pulls off a lightning-fast costume change to save his life. Then he says one thing, "What I fear most is money," and it leads to an ending nobody expected.

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Episode 11 of RAKUGO: Japan's Comic Tales. The Disowned Young Master, freeloading at Kuma's house, finally lands his dream seat: the bandai, the high front desk of a public bathhouse. But the women's side is empty, and the men's side is nothing but sweaty old guys. To kill time, he starts daydreaming about a romance. Before long, he's acting out both parts out loud, and the whole men's bath is watching the show. Then someone shouts, "My geta are gone!"

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Episode 10 of RAKUGO: Japan's Comic Tales. Jibuta Jibuemon is a mighty swordsman and a hopeless scatterbrain. Sent by his lord as an envoy, he arrives at another lord's house and forgets the message he came to deliver. There's only one way to jog his memory: someone has to pinch his rear. Tanaka Sandayu's fingers can't get a grip on him, so Tome the Carpenter steps up with a tool in hand...

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Episode 9 of RAKUGO: Japan's Comic Tales. Bored in retirement, the Retired Master takes up the tea ceremony. He knows nothing about it, but swears he does. So he keeps hosting his tenants with a mystery "tea" that foams over in green clouds, plus buns he made himself. And meanwhile, in the field beyond the hedge...

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Episode 8 of RAKUGO: Japan's Comic Tales. A cocky carpenter spots a fox turning herself into a pretty girl and decides to fool her first. He wines and dines "Otama" at a restaurant, then slips out and sticks her with the bill. But when his older friend warns him that foxes always come back for revenge, he goes pale and hurries off with sweet rice cakes as an apology. The trouble is, the fox family won't trust even the rice cakes.

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Episode 7 of RAKUGO: Japan's Comic Tales. In Meiji-era Osaka, a man who can't get up in the morning can't hold down a job either. Then he hears about one where you get a full day's pay just for sitting around. The catch: he has to wear a tiger skin. The kids love him, and he's feeling pretty proud of himself, right up until somebody announces "the Great Battle of Tiger vs. Lion."

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Episode 6 of RAKUGO: Japan's Comic Tales. A craftsman with sore eyes goes to a doctor everyone's talking about, who pops out his eyeballs to wash them. But while the eyeballs are hanging out to dry, a stray dog gobbles them up, and the doctor covers his tracks by putting the dog's eyes in instead. The man is thrilled to see better than ever, until he comes back to say thank you and admits to one small problem. (Adapted: the original punchline's "telegraph pole" has been swapped for "a tree" to fit the late-Edo setting.)

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Episode 5 of RAKUGO: Japan's Comic Tales. Rokubei the Konnyaku Maker sits in for Hachi, a fake monk who's in way over his head, at a high-stakes debate of faith. Without saying a single word, Rokubei gets a traveling monk to bow down in defeat using nothing but gestures. The catch? Rokubei thought the whole time that they were haggling over the price of konnyaku.

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Episode 4 of RAKUGO: Japan's Comic Tales. The Penniless Tenant owns no furniture at all, so he has a whole wall painted with fine things and lives as if they were real. Then a nearsighted burglar breaks in, finds it's all paint, and starts acting out a pretend robbery. Soon both men are fighting a duel of pure make-believe.

https://manga-portal.com/en/read/2026-10-25-rakugo-5206/2026-11-01T16:00:40.000Z

Episode 3 of RAKUGO: Japan's Comic Tales. For the first time in his life, the Lord gets truly hungry. Out in the fields of Meguro, he bites into a saury fresh off an old farmer's fire and falls head over heels for it. When he finally gets his favorite dish at a relative's feast, the Head Cook has painstakingly stripped out every drop of oil and every last bone. Faced with the sad result, the Lord announces a verdict that completely misses the point.

https://manga-portal.com/en/read/2026-10-25-rakugo-a51a/2026-11-01T16:05:40.000Z

Episode 2 of RAKUGO: Japan's Comic Tales. Hasty Hachi finds a man who died in the street at Asakusa and decides it's his best friend and next-door neighbor, Kuma. When someone points out the obvious ("But you saw him this morning!"), Hachi just steamrolls right past it. He drags Kuma himself over to collect "his own body." Then Kuma, sobbing as he hugs the corpse, hits a question nobody can answer.

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Episode 1 of the series. Tough-talking Matsu swears nothing scares him, until his tenement pals corner him and he turns pale: "Truth is... sweet buns terrify me." To teach him a lesson, they pile a mountain of buns by his pillow. But Matsu screams "So scary!" and eats every last one.

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Matsu scoffs that nothing scares him. Pressed by his friends, he finally admits his one terror: sweet buns. So they pile a mountain of them by his pillow to teach him a lesson. Episode 1 of RAKUGO: Japan's Comic Tales.