Popotan

Season 1

Three sisters are bound to a mysterious house capable of teleporting through time and space. In their travels through twentieth century Japan with their robotic maid, they encounter the harsh realities of separation and loneliness as they are torn from the friends they unsuccessfully try to avoid making.

Where to Watch Season 1

12 Episodes

Secret House
E1
Secret HouseA young boy named Daichi is trying to photograph ghosts when he happens upon a mysterious house.
Friends
E2
FriendsBecause their house travels through time, Mai always has to leave friends behind. This has caused her to normally keep her distance from others, but then she meets Konami in high school.
Magic
E3
MagicMii decides she wants to cosplay as a magical girl and go around helping people, which leads to her meeting a sickly girl named Miyuki.
All Alone
E4
All AloneAlone in the mansion's Christmas shop, Mea meets a mysterious girl who insists that Mea fixes her doll. Shortly thereafter, however, the girl vanishes, and soon so do the three sisters.
Hot Springs
E5
Hot SpringsAppearing at the construction site of an amusement park, Ai encounters a dandelion that knows where to find Shizuku, the girl they've been searching for.
I'm Home
E6
I'm HomeThe mansion returns to the amusement park five years later where Mai has a reunion with her sisters.
Things I Can't Say
E7
Things I Can't SayIt's been thirty years since Daichi encountered the three sisters, and after seeing their mansion in a photograph of his daughter he goes searching for them.
Christmas
E8
ChristmasAppearing at a Shinto shrine, Mii meets Nono, a devout priestess in training. Nono loves Christmas but her grandfather dislikes all non-Shinto ways and beliefs.
Once more
E9
Once moreReturning to the city where Mai met Konami forty years earlier, Mai mistakes her daughter, also called Mai, for Konami and tries to befriend her.
Gift
E10
GiftMai is distraught after what happened with Konami and tries to destroy the portrait they drew together but Mea intervenes.
Farewell
E11
FarewellKeith leads the three sisters to Shizuku, finally ending their long search. Weary from the constant traveling and losing friends made along they way, they ask her to let them each return to Daichi, Konami, and Nono respectively.
Popotan
E12
PopotanMai, the now grown-up daughter of Konami, is telling a curious Daisuke, the youngest child of Daichi, about the three time traveling sisters.