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{{work}}{{Workstub}}[[File:Tamakomarket 1-1.png|thumb|400px|Most of the main cast, from the opening credits]]

 

 

Tamako Kitashirakawa is the eldest daughter of a family which runs the Tama-ya [[mochi]] shop in the {{nihongo|Usagiyama Shopping District|うさぎ山商店街|Usagiyama Shōtengai}}. One day, Tamako encounters a strange talking bird named Dera Mochimazzi who comes from a distant land searching for a bride for his country's prince. After becoming overweight from eating too much mochi, Dera ends up becoming a freeloader in Tamako's home. The series follows the everyday life of Tamako, her friends, family and neighbors, and this peculiar bird. As well as keeping track to the main course of events, ''Tamako Market'' follows the emotional lives of characters in between each other, having a main love story which is Mochizo's crush on Tamako and both of them being too shy to open up for each other.

* [[Left the Background Music On]]: In episode 8, when Dera is told that he's fat, [[Ominous Pipe Organ]] music is heard ([[Toccata and Fugue in D minor]], of course) - until everyone present looks at the cafe owner, who had put the record on the store's player. It immediately happens again with another comment about Dera's weight and another album of organ music ([[Beethoven]]'s Fifth Symphony, of all things).

* [[Meganekko]]: Shiori, all the time. Tamako, occasionally and only at home.

* [[Moon Rabbit]]: The Usagiyama -- or Bunny Mountain -- shopping district is a reference to the rabbit making mochi on the face of the moon.

* [[Talking Animal]]: Dera