Or as I was introduced to it, “Jungle wa Itsumo Hare nochi Guu” – The Jungle Was Always Nice, Then Came Guu, though there’s a pun on a typical weather forecasting phrase in there too.
I’ll be writing more about this show over Xmas, but in brief this is the first TV show of the 00s I thoroughly rcommend and director Tsutomu Mizushima is one of the great talents of the decade and needs to be making movies in the next decade.