Kiteretsu Daihyakka
Kiteretsu Daihyakka is a manga series by duo Fujiko Fujio which ran in the children's magazine Kodomo no Hikari from April 1974 to July 1977. The manga was later made into a 331-episode anime television series which ran on Fuji TV from March 27, 1988 to June 9, 1996. A Hindi dub of the anime airs in India on Disney Channel India, Disney XD and Cartoon Network. In India it also aired in Hindi language on Hungama TV and Later on Cartoon Network India.The series was licensed for Spain by LUK Internacional under the title of "Kiteretsu, el primo más listo de Nobita". As of September 2016, a remastered version of the series airs on Animax in Japan.
Plot
The show is set in the fictional Hyono-cho, which is set in an ambiguous location featuring a rural-style train station, a department store, and a shopping district. The fictional neighboring town of Urano-cho is where Miyoko's aunt lives. In the anime, Miyoko speaks in Toyama dialect which attributed to that town.The fictional Hyakujōshima is the location of the Tongari family's vacation home. A family of kabocha farmers lives there and takes care of the place. The island is sparsely populated because many people move from it. It is accessible from Tokyo via airplane and ferry.
Two fictional schools are mentioned in the series: Hyōno Elementary and Takao University. Hyōno Elementary is the public school Kiteretsu and his friends attend. During summer vacation, one of the lunch ladies uses the school to teach piano lessons. There is also a rumour that the school is haunted.
Benzō-san, a friend, mentor and guide of Kiteretsu and his friends, was able to enter the university after attempting it six times during the series. Ten years after the time period of the series beginning, Kiteretsu and his friends enter this university to study further.
Main characters
; Lead Characters; Eiichihi Kite
; Eiichi Kite
;
; Korosuke
; Miyoko Nonohana
; Kaoru Kumada
; Kouji Tongari
Media
Anime
The manga was later made into a 331-episode anime television series which ran on Fuji TV from March 27, 1988 to June 9, 1996. The series also aired on different networks worldwide, such as Hungama TV, Pogo, Cartoon Network, and Disney XD, Disney in India, and Cartoon Network in South Korea. An English dub of the anime airs in India on Cartoon Network. As of September 2016, a remastered version of the series airs on Animax in Japan.Manga
- Kiteretsu Daihyakka vol. 1–3
- Kiteretsu Daihyakka vol. 1–4
- Kiteretsu Daihyakka vol. 1–2
- My First BIG Kiteretsu vol. 1–2
Television drama
Games
- On February 23, 1990, Epoch released an action game for the Famicom.
- On July 15, 1994, another action game, Kiteretsu Daihyakka: Bouken Ouedo Juraki, was released by Video System for the Game Boy.
- A board game titled Kiteretsu Daihyakka: Chōjikū Sugoroku was released on January 27, 1995 by Video System for the Super Famicom.
- Another game was made for the Sega Pico.
Cast
- Eiichi Kite : Toshiko Fujita
- Korosuke: Mami Koyama→Kazuko Sugiyama
- Miyoko Nonoka: Yuriko Yamamoto→Mayumi Shō→Chieko Honda
- Miyoko's mother: Kimie Hangai→Yuka Ōno→Miyako Endō
- Miyoko's father: Yūki Satō
- Akihiko Nonoka: Keiichi Nanba→Hiroshi Kamiya
- Butagorira : Hiroshi Ōtake→Naoki Tatsuta
- Kumahachi Kumada: Takeshi Aono
- Sayuri Kumada: Noriko Uemura
- Kōji Togari : Ryū Manatsu→Yūji Mitsuya
- Kōichi Togari: Sanshirō Niita→Hirohiko Kakegawa→Masato Hirano
- Takako Togari: Yuka Ōno
- Benzō Karino : Kaneta Kimotsuki
- Michiko Kite: Yuri Nashiwa→Sumi Shimamoto
- Kiteretsu Kite: Kaneta Kimotsuki→Yusaku Yara
- Eitarō Kite: Hideyuki Tanaka→Yusaku Yara
- Sasaki-sensei: Masaharu Satō→Masato Hirano
- Otonashi: Chie Satō→Yumi Touma
- Takako Segawa: Miyoko Aoba→Kimie Hangai
- Vice-Principal: Michihiro Ikemizu
- Sasaki-sensei's wife: Miyoko Aoba
- Kazuma Sasaki: unknown
- Kimiko Uehara : Naho Yoshida→Miyako Endō
- Konchi: Noriko Uemura→Chie Satō
- Taeko Sakurai: Mayumi Seto→Yūka Koyama→Aya Hisakawa
- Satsuki Hanamaru: Wakana Yamazaki
- Yone Karino: Keiko Yamamoto→Haru Endō→Michiyo Yanagisawa
- Osugi: Hiroko Emori
- Heikichi: Kinpei Azusa→Ryōichi Tanaka
- Yoshie Sakurai: Chiyoko Kawashima→Sumi Shimamoto
- Kikunojō Hanamaru: Bin Shimada→Yukimasa Kishino
- Ikue Hanamaru: Sumi Shimamoto
- Ben: Hiroshi Ōtake→unknown
- Mōretsu Toki: unknown
- Mōretsu Kazu: Yūsuke Numata
- Koronoshin: unknown
- Mamekoro: Naoko Watanabe→Fushigi Yamada
Staff
- Planning: Taihei Ishikawa→Kenji Shimizu, Yoshirō Kataoka
- Producers:
- *Kenji Shimizu→Minoru Wada→Yoshihiro Suzuki
- *Yoshio Kataoka→Kazuhiko Ishikawa→Tateshi Yamazaki→Yutaka Sugiyama
- *Akio Wakana
- *Tetsuo Kanno
- Script: Shun'ichi Yukimuro, Takashi Yamada, Toshiyuki Aoshima, Satoshi Namiki, Tadaaki Yamazaki
- General Animation Directors: Tsukasa Tannai, Kazuyuki Kobayashi, Hajime Watanabe, Nobuyuki Tokinaga, Shōjurō Yamauchi
- Art Director: Shichirō Kobayashi→Satoshi Shibata
- Background Artists: Masahide Katayama, Akio Shimada, Makoto Shiraishi, Satoshi Shibata, Naoko Osakabe
- Backgrounds: Kobayashi Production, Studio Kanon
- Finish Animation: Sendai Gallop, Toy House, Studio Killy→Dōtomo Dōga
- Director of Photography: Shigeo Sugimura →Hiroaki Edamitsu
- Photography ·Animation Work: Gallop
- Film: Eastman→Fujifilm→Kodak Color Film
- Music Director: Nobuhiro Komatsu
- Music: Shunsuke Kikuchi
- Director: Hiro Katsuoka→Keiji Hayakawa
- Special Effects: Norimichi Yoshino→Yoshitaka Shishikai
- Editors: Shūichi Kakesu, Yoshiyuki Wada→Kazuhiko Seki, Yūji Itō
- Film Developing: Imagica
- Audio Recording: Sadashi Kuramoto
- Titles: Maki Pro
- Executive Producer: Mikio Wakana
- Communications Desk: Hideo Adachi
- Planning Support: Staff 21
- Sound Production: Seiji Kikaku
- Sound Producer: Yōsuke Kuroda
- Sound Effects: Yōzō Kataoka
- Theme Song: Shigeru Miyashita
- Publicity: Yumiko Shigeoka→Kyōko Nasugawa→Yoshiko Kawasaki→Masahide Takahashi→Momoko Konaka→Tomoko Kumagai
- Production: Fuji TV, Asatsu
Theme songs
Opening theme songs
Listing includes the song title followed by the episodes and the singer in parentheses.- Kiteretsu Daihyakka no Uta
- Oyome-san ni Natte Agenaizo
- Body dake Lady
- Yumemiru Jikan
- Hajimete no Chū
- Suimin Busoku
- Oryōri Kōshinkyoku
Ending theme songs
- Korosuke Machi wo Yuku
- Magical Boy Magical Heart
- Lace no Cardigan
- Korosuke Rock
- Felt no Pencase
- Merry ha tada no Tomodachi
- Hajimete no Chū
- Happy Birthday
- Uwasa no Kiss
Reception