Tensai Bakabon

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Tensai Bakabon (天才バカボン, Genius Bakabon^?) is a manga and anime series created by Fujio Akatsuka which began publication on April 9, 1967 in Weekly Shonen Magazine. It is about the misadventures of a dim-witted boy (Bakabon) and his insane father, the latter of whom eventually becomes the central character.

[edit] Anime

Tensai Bakabon (天才バカボン, Genius Bakabon^?) (Produced by Tokyo Movie Shinsha for Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation, September 25, 1971~June 24, 1972, 49 episodes)
Genso Tensai Bakabon (元祖天才バカボン, Original Genius Bakabon^?) (Produced by Tokyo Movie Shinsha for Nippon Television, October 6, 1975~September 26, 1977, 103 episodes)
Heisei Tensai Bakabon (平成天才バカボン, Heisei Genius Bakabon^?) (Produced by Studio Pierrot for Fuji Television, January~December 1990, 46 episodes)
Rerere no Tensai Bakabon (レレレの天才バカボン, Rerere's Genius Bakabon^?) (Produced by Studio Pierrot for TV Tokyo, October 1999~March 2000, 24 episodes)

[edit] Cast

Bakabon's Papa (バカボンのパパ, Bakabon no Papa^?) (Seiyuu: Masashi Amenomori (1st~2nd series); Kousei Tomita (3rd series, Pachinko); Hisahiro Ogura (4th series))

Bakabon's troublemaker father who eventually steals the show and becomes the central character. more to come

Bakabon (バカボン, Bakabon^?) (Seiyuu: Keiko Yamamoto (1st series~2nd series, Pachinko); Megumi Hayashibara (3rd series); Yoshiko Kamei (4th series))

A young boy who enjoys causing mischief, especially with his Papa. On the inside, though, he is a kind boy and works a part-time job as a shoeshine in order to buy his mother a birthday present. He is known for wearing pants underneath his kimono. At the beginning of the series he attends Boumou Eggplant Elementary School (坊毛茄子小学校, Boumou Nasubi Shougakkou^?), but by the fourth anime it has been renamed Bakada Elementary School (バカ田小学校, Bakada Shougakkou^?).

Hajime-chan (ハジメちゃん, Hajime-chan^?) (Seiyuu: Takako Sasuga (1st series~2nd series, Pachinko); Chika Sakamoto (3rd series); Yukiji (4th series))

Bakabon's younger brother. He is a child prodigy, understanding words almost immediately after his birth and being capable of explaining the Pythagorean theorem and Kepler's laws of planetary motion. His name means "beginning".

Bakabon's Mama (バカボンのママ, Bakabon no Mama^?) (Seiyuu: Eiko Masuyama (1st series~4th series, Pachinko))

Bakabon's mother and a graduate of Kuroyuri Women's University (黒百合女子大学, Kuroyuri Joshi Daigaku^?) (a parody of Shirayuri Women's University). Despite how much trouble and mischief Papa and Bakabon cause, she is a good wife and mother. She is the only family member to have the same seiyuu throughout the entire series.

Old Man Rerere (レレレのおじさん, Rerere no Oji-san^?) (Seiyuu: Ryūji Saikachi (1st series~2nd series); Shigeru Chiba (3rd series~4th series, Pachinko))

The Bakabon family's nutty neighbor. Almost always seen with a broom.

Honkan-san (本官さん, Honkan-san^?) (Seiyuu: Isamu Tanonaka (1st series); Kaneta Kimotsuki (2nd series); Shigeru Chiba (3rd series~4th series, Pachinko))