House of Garbage (ポイの家, Poi no uchi) is a one-shot story by Rumiko Takahashi, published in 1992. It was adapted in anime as the 10th episode of the Rumiko Takahashi Anthology.
Summary[]
A housewife is annoyed by the front of her house being mistaken for a garbage collection site. And her annoyance would continue as her husband’s boss relies on the two to preserve his collection of bizarre mementos which his wife tries to discard.
Plot[]
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Characters[]
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| Character Name | Japanese Voice | English Voice |
|---|---|---|
| Ritsuko Hirooka | Kumiko Watanabe | Karen Thompson |
| Yoshio Hirooka | Yasunori Matsumoto | Partrik Seitz |
| Manager | Ryūji Nakagi | Simon Isaacson |
| Manager's Wife | Miyuki Ichijo | Barbara Goodson |
| Ritsuko's Father-in-Law | Wataru Takagi | William Frederick |
| Kenta Hirooka | Sachi Matsumoto | Tara Platt |
| Ami Hirooka | Keiko Han | Reiko Matsuo |
| Atcharā |
Trivia[]
- Yoshio was originally not named in the manga.
- Some characters are voiced by seiyūs who voiced other characters from other works by Rumiko Takahashi:
- Ritsuko Hirooka's seiyū voiced Yūsaku Godai as a child from Maison Ikkoku and Shippō from Inuyasha.
- Yoshio Hirooka's seiyū voiced Keiichi from The Merchant of Romance, Tonegawa's husband from Hidden in the Pottery, Takanezawa from One Hundred Years of Love and various characters in the Mermaid Saga TV series.
- Various cameos of other episodes of the Rumiko Takahashi Anthology are featured:
- Minoru Furuda from Middle-Aged Teen would be seen riding a bike and dumping a can many times.
- Mr. Dōmoto from As Long As You Are Here can be seen wearing his disguise when Ritsuko and the Manager’s wife meet in town.
- Genta watches the Abaranger from Aberrant Family F on TV.
- The Shippō plush from The Tragedy of P appears in the landfill.
- Atcharā from As long as you are Here appears as the person not understanding Japanese who leaves a trash bag in front of the Hirooka household at the end (in the manga, it’s a regular foreigner leaving the trash bag).
- Ritsuko makes a cameo in another episode of the Rumiko Takahashi Anthology, The Merchant of Romance.
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