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Oyako Club

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How it feels

Two aliens live with a Japanese family. The show uses short episodes and some live action to teach children about Japanese customs, food, and manners in a fun way.

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What happens

Oyako Club (Japanese: 親子クラブ, Hepburn: Oyako Kurabu) was a Japanese interstitial anime television series that aired from 3 October 1994 to 30 March 2013 in the Kantō region on Fuji TV in Japan. Each episode was five minutes in length, and a total of 1,818 episodes were aired. The series follows two aliens who move in with a Japanese family. The aliens are used by the show to teach children about Japanese culture, manners, food, and humor using animation and periodic, brief live-action segments. The series is not well known outside of Japan, and it has been included in multiple "longest running anime" lists and praised for its humor. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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