The Fuccons


The Fuccons, known in Japan as and, is a series of Japanese comedy sketches created by Yoshimasa Ishibashi. It features a family of American expatriates living in metropolitan Japan. The series is notable in that all of the characters are played by mannequins with perpetually frozen facial expressions. They appear to have been borrowed from the subjects of numerous photographs by the French photographer Bernard Faucon.
Individual sketches first aired on the Japanese late night variety show Vermilion Pleasure Night, later moving to their own late Saturday night time slot. The collected sketches are also available on DVD, with the American ADV Films release being retitled The Fuccons and including English-dubbed versions of the episodes, in addition to the Japanese-language originals. As of December 2008, ADV has released a complete collection of the series, called "The Fuccons: The Whole Fuccon Show",, as well as three volumes of the original Vermillion Pleasure Night, one of which includes the feature-length "best of" film, The Color of Life, in which the Fuccons appear.
The Fuccons aired in the U.S. on the G4 network, as part of G4's Late Night Peepshow which was broadcast every Monday night at 12:30am. The show also aired on Anime Network in the US. The Fuccons is streaming on Hidive, the streaming service of ADV's successor company, Sentai Filmworks.

Overview

The Fuccons revolves around Mikey Fuccon, a young American boy who lives in Japan with his parents James and Barbara Fuccon, after James was recently transferred to Japan. Episodes run the gamut from the silly to the surreal, sometimes ending with a joke and sometimes not, and invariably end with the characters laughing hysterically, even if the episode ends on a serious note. Occasionally, the series diverts from following the Fuccons and instead focuses on a destitute Japanese family, the Kawakitas; these episodes, unlike most of the others in the series, are generally serious in tone.
Each sketch runs for around 2 and a half minutes long for a total of 162 episodes.

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