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2003 1 season 14 eps Ended

GA-RA-KU-TA: Mr. Stain on Junk Alley

2003 1 season 14 eps

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Season 1

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Season 1

7 min

S1 · E1 · Jan 7, 2003

Egg Episode 1

Mr. Stain finds a uniquely colored egg and decides to care for it. Palvan, on the other hand, wants to eat the egg and Stain is forced to violently fight him off. During the night, the egg hatches into a seemingly harmless fish. But, when the fish shows its carnivorous nature, the situation turns for the worse.

7 min

S1 · E2 · Jan 14, 2003

Refrigerator Episode 2

Palvan finds a refrigerator and keeps the possession to himself, preventing Stain and Rings from approaching it. But he cannot open the door and eventually teams up with Stain and Rings, beginning a series of disturbing attempts to open it.

7 min

S1 · E3 · Jan 21, 2003

Portrait Episode 3

Stain finds a portrait of a beautiful woman and falls in love with it. Enthralled by the painting, he does not move, drink or eat anything. Palvan thinks that he has a perfect cure for Stain's condition, but the feline's good intentions have disastrous consequences.

7 min

S1 · E4 · Jan 28, 2003

Heavenly Bird Episode 4

Stain stumbles upon an exotic bird with rainbow feathers and a gift to dance. He initially thinks of it as his next meal, but soon realises it is lonely and is about to die. As an act of kindness he replicates the bird's paradise island.

7 min

S1 · E5 · Feb 4, 2003

Cassette Tape Episode 5

Stain and Palvan obtain a mystical cassette tape and use it, along with other spare junk to construct a robot. The robot's only desire is to dance to the tune of the tape and it uses Palvan and Stain as non-stop dancing partners. Unable to bear the dancing robot, the two must fix the situation before the robot discovers its ability to display anger.

7 min

S1 · E6 · Feb 11, 2003

Magic Crayons Episode 6

Stain discovers a box of crayons that appear normal, until they bring all that is drawn with them to life. Realizing the possibilities, Stain and Palvan start on a humorous adventure of drawing things into existence, but this quickly goes out of hand.

7 min

S1 · E7 · Feb 18, 2003

Binoculars Episode 7

Mr. Stain finds a pair of binoculars and looks from a distance to see Palvan's softer side. It turns out that the cat is secretly raising and nurturing a tiny kitten. Stain continues to observe this interesting event, when a new factor is introduced that could change Stain and Palvan's future.

7 min

S1 · E8 · Feb 25, 2003

Toy Robot Episode 8

Mr. Stain finds a remote-controlled robot, that refuses to obey the remote. When Stain tries to figure out the robot's reason for rebelling he discovers that the robot is tired of being ordered around and wants to be free like a bird. Stain offers his help with catastrophic results.

7 min

S1 · E9 · Mar 4, 2003

Woolen Yarn Episode 9

Mr. Stain picks up a thread of wool that was once knitted into a magical mitten which came to life and helped a lost girl find her way out of Junk alley.

7 min

S1 · E10 · Mar 11, 2003

Seed Episode 10

Stain plants a seed which rapidly grows into a beautiful flower. At night he fantasizes about it becoming a beautiful woman and dancing with her.

7 min

S1 · E11 · Mar 18, 2003

Clay Episode 11

Stain comes across some clay and fashions it into a face of himself, which acts with a mind of its own and takes over Palvan to form a living replica of Mr. Stain.

7 min

S1 · E12 · Mar 25, 2003

Fishing Rod Episode 12

Mr. Stain and Palvan find a fishing rod, decide to go fishing in the alley's fountain, and end up catching a big fish. After they eat the fish, Stain discovers the babies of the fish yearning for their father. Stain takes pity on the fish and decides to raise them with outlandish results.

7 min

S1 · E13 · Apr 1, 2003

Human Episode 13

Mr. Stain finds an abandoned baby in Junk-Alley's garbage dump. In order to feed the baby he decides to steal milk and a baby bottle, which incites a police officer to come after him. Refusing to bend to the law, Stain faces dire consequences and sets off a series of twists that lead to a struggle between life and death.

28 min

S1 · E14 · Oct 11, 2003

Harmonica Episode 14

Stain, while playing his harmonica, sees a beautiful woman across the alley and immediately falls in love with her. However, a twisted set of events begin to unfold that forces Stain to compete for her attention with his alter ego, Handsome Stain.

14 episodes in Season 1

Mr. Stain is a street-dwelling bum who has uncovered a twisted and bizarre world within Junk Alley, the back lot he calls home. Inexplainably, the trash that's piled throughout the garbage-infested alley... is coming to life. Now, with the help of an unpredictable feline and a group of extremely unusual friends, Stain digs himself into the most magical, hilarious and sometimes disturbing adventures imaginable.

Action & Adventure Animation

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Ryuji Masuda Creator · Gen Fukunaga Executive producer

Creator Director Writer

Ryuji Masuda

Executive producer

Gen Fukunaga

Total runtime 2h 6m · Episode length 9 min · Type Miniseries

Show info

Premiered

January 7, 2003

Final episode

October 11, 2003

Status

Ended

Country

Japan

Type

Miniseries

Episode length

9 min

Total runtime

2h 6m

Original language

Japanese

Production

Japan

Produced in

Languages

Original title

ガラクタ通りのステイン

Spoken on screen

Japanese

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