2 Season
25 Episode
Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju - Season 1 Episode 9
Flourishing Shōwa – Rakugo Double Suicide
The Seventh Generation Yakumo manages to get Kikuhiko and Sukeroku promoted to shin'uchi. But although their unveiling ceremony is a huge success, Sukeroku gets in a fight with the president of the Rakugo Assocation, and insults him by performing his specialty work. When his master takes him to task for his conduct, Sukeroku gives an impassioned speech about his own feelings about rakugo... All the while, Kikuhiko is meeting with Miyokichi to break up with her. Both men's fates are about to take a turn...
- Year: 2017
- Country: Japan
- Genre: Animation, Drama, Comedy
- Studio: MBS, TBS, CBC, BS-TBS
- Keyword: training, friendship, rivalry, coming of age, bromance, based on manga, art, historical, rakugo, anime, josei, itan, working life, shōwa era (1926-89)
- Director:
- Cast: Tomokazu Seki, Koichi Yamadera, Akira Ishida, Kappei Yamaguchi, Megumi Hayashibara, Yu Kobayashi