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Inakappe Taishō (Japanese: いなかっぺ大将, lit. 'The Hick Judo Champion') is Japanese manga series by Noboru Kawasaki and serialized by Shogakukan in Shogakukan no Gakushū Zasshi. The manga series won the 14th Shogakukan Manga Award. An anime adaptation was created by Tatsunoko Production.[2]
Inakappe Taishō | |
いなかっぺ大将 | |
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Genre | Comedy, sports (judo) |
Manga | |
Written by | Noboru Kawasaki |
Published by | Shogakukan |
Magazine | Shogakukan no Gakushū Zasshi |
Demographic | Kodomo |
Original run | 1967 – 1972 |
Anime television series | |
Directed by | Hiroshi Sasagawa |
Music by | Masahiko Nakamura |
Studio | Tatsunoko Production |
Original network | FNS (Fuji TV) |
Original run | October 4, 1970 – September 24, 1972 |
Episodes | 104 (2 segments/episode)[1] |
A lively boy named Daizaemon in traditional Japanese clothing comes with various kinds of animals to the capital of Tokyo. He has a funny habit of dancing whenever he hears music. He visits a friend of his late father's to learn judo and makes friends with the young daughter of the judo master Kikuko and the cat Nyanko-sensei. For a little girl, Kikuko has wonderful judo tricks inherited from her father while Nyanko-sensei is able to perform a difficult trick of triple turn in the air. Both of them are worthy instructors for Daizaemon. Although he shows clownish behavior once in a while, he is always popular among people around and grows stout and shrewd to be a future champion.
The series was broadcast from October 4, 1970, to September 24, 1972, for 208 15 minute episodes (technically 104). It was rebroadcast in Japan in 2014 and 2015.
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