Arakawa Under the Bridge
Arakawa andā za burijji
ANIMATION EXPLORER
GLOBAL RATING
7.10 / 10
7.57 / 10
PLOT
The drama, which is set in Tokyo's Arakawa district, centers on Kou Ichinomiya, a self-made success. One rule that his father has instilled in him since he was a young child is that one should never owe money to another person. When he tries to collect his pants after they have been taken from him by child bullies who attacked him on the bridge and attached them high up in the bridge arches, he falls into the Arakawa River and nearly drowns. He is rescued by a girl named Nino, and as a result, he owes her his life. He asks her if there is a way for him to pay her back because he cannot accept that he owes her money. At the conclusion, she tells him to love her, starting Kou's life as a bridge underperformer. However, as Kou begins to discover, Arakawa is a place full of oddballs, and everyone who lives beneath the bridge is what society would refer to as a "denpasan."
