The Super Milk-chan Show

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The Super Milk-chan Show
OH! スーパーミルクちゃん (OH! Super Milk-Chan)
Genre	Surreal humour, Comedy, Science Fiction
TV anime
Directed by	Hideyuki Tanaka
Studio	Studio Pierrot
Network	Fuji Television
Original run	17 June 1998 – 13 April 2000
No. of episodes	15

The Super Milk-Chan Show, known in Japan as OH! Super Milk-Chan (OH!スーパーミルクチャン, OH! Sūpā Miruku-chan^?), is a comedy anime about a potty-mouthed talking baby girl named Milk-chan, who is entrusted by the President of Everything to defend the world, despite the fact that she cannot do very much other than curse and make popular culture references, leading to its American slogan "Wholesome? Probably not. Good for you? Definitely."

Super Milk-Chan is produced in Japan by Studio Pierrot. The version dubbed in English is produced by ADV Films, which also distributes the DVD in North America. The show originally aired in the USA on the Cartoon Network's Adult Swim block, starting on November 8, 2004.

Contents 1 Summary 2 Characters 3 Other characters 4 King's Idea Laboratory Mechas 5 Episode guide 6 TV segments 7 Times Milk scared off the landlord 8 Fake names/addresses 9 Completed and failed missions 10 English Voice Actors 11 Theme songs 12 External links

[edit] Summary

The show centers on the activities of Milk, a 5-year-old superheroine who may not actually have any powers; what she does have is a severely poor attitude and a drooling problem. She lives in a house on a suspended platform (similar to The Jetsons), with her malfunctioning robotic maid Tetsuko and her drunken pet slug Hanage. The show follows a fairly rigid formula. In each episode, the President (of Everything, apparently) calls with a new mission; whether Milk actually takes the mission is not guaranteed. Regardless of whether or not she takes the mission, she always takes credit, and celebrates her success by going out for sushi ("or something"). Likewise, there are a number of other constants that follow through the series, often under contrived circumstances.

The show began as 8-minute segments (fourteen segment episodes) on the Fuji Television program Flyer in 1998. All of those episodes are rated TV-PG. It was later made into twelve full-length episodes, which are rated TV-14 in the United States.

ADV created two dubbed versions of Super Milk-chan: a "direct translation" dub that retains much of the uniquely Japanese humor (this is the one that Williams Street, Adult Swim's producers and programmers, chose after acquiring the broadcast rights) and an Americanized version which adds Western pop culture references and a live-action segment involving the ADV voice actors, and is much more vulgar. The North American DVD releases are two-disc sets that include both variants.

[edit] Characters

Milk (a.k.a. Super Milk-Chan) (ミルクチャン, Miruku-chan^?) - The title character of the show, Milk is a little girl who may or may not be a superhero. She is selfish, vain, has a short temper, drools and often yells, “You dumbass!” (with the camera zooming in) at anyone who offends her. Often tormenting the President or her robot maid, Tetsuko. Technically, she works for the President, but she only does so when she feels like it. Oddly enough, her house is in the shape of a baby bottle and she still drinks powdered milk from a baby bottle on occasion. Milk sometimes fires a tokarev.

Tetsuko (テツコ, Tetsuko^?) - An obsolete robot maid, she lives with and works for Milk. Tetsuko is a more conservative character, the only occasional voice of reason on the show when she is questioning Milk's greedy, immoral or random decisions. She yearns for a stable traditional family life, which the humans around her do not even consider. Milk often calls her a piece of junk, and Tetsuko is torn between loving Dr. Eyepatch (her "daddy") and being disappointed in him when he insults her or offers to replace her. She has the ability to generate a fart ("Tetsuko's gas") that can kill a raging bear. The only character that brings out Tetsuko's aggressive side is Robodog, whom she hates. They are in a constant battle for Milk's affections, to Milk's amusement.

Hanage (ハナゲ, Hanage^?) - Hanage is Milk's green, middle-aged, pet slug; he has a drinking problem and is incapable of speech, yet he can understand other languages. When he does speak, the words are expressed as his thoughts, usually a maudlin soliloquy, that call themselves "the voice of Hanage's heart." "Hanage" means "nose hair" in Japanese.

The President (of Everything) (大統領, Daitōryō^?) - No one knows how this man got elected. The President of Everything is a little bald man who apparently runs the country Milk lives in (referred to only as "our nation," a subtle jab at the Japanese habit of referring to their country as such instead of using the proper names "Nihon" or "Nippon"). He assigns missions to Milk, but whether she takes them or not is her business. The President is a complete idiot, at one point firing his country's best missile on his own country at his own conclusion that his citizens would would try to put him in the gullotine or the electric chair. He has stumps for arms, which he pounds on his desk when talking on the phone. The President likes wine, women, and song but he usually enjoys cheap wine, loose women, and off-key karaoke. He also attracts flies. A lot.

Dr. Eyepatch (アイパッチ博士, Aipacchi-Hakase^?) - Seen only on a TV screen, Dr. Eyepatch runs the King's Idea Laboratory (王様のアイデア研究所, Ō-sama no Aidea Kenkyūsho^?). In each episode, he provides Milk with a new invention, or gives info about such a thing. He created Tetsuko, but always belittles her or offers to have her replaced. The eyepatch over Dr. Eyepatch's right eye changes its design every episode, and on a few occasions, several times in the course of a single episode. He also once hosted the NG awards.

The Landlord (a.k.a. Lalo) (大家, Ōya^?) - A bald, blue-skinned creature with a head shaped like a daikon radish, in a shirt with straps on the sleeves, he is Milk's landlord. As she's perpetually over six months behind on her rent, he continually tries to get money from her. However, whenever he tries to get the rent, she does or says something that shocks or tricks him, causing him to run back across the ladder to his own home, as he is not very bright. He is also panicky, as he once thinks he loses his "purse," but shortly finds it, but only after making a racket over it. The landlord has admitted to being a homosexual in the Japanese version of episode 9, "Financial Decay Peninsula". His homosexuality is bluntly referred to in more than one episode.

The Ants (アリの一家, Ari no Ikka^?, The Ant Family) - A family of ants (a mother, a cuckolded father, and a little baby larva) live underground near Milk's house. Their part of the show follows their constant marital troubles. The family consists of Yoshiki Arita (蟻田よしき, Arita Yoshiki^?), an overbearing, suspicious husband, Helen (ヘレン, Heren^?), an unfaithful wife, and Ario (アリ夫, Ario^?), their son. The family seems pretty neutral in the first three episode, but things start to get tense afterwards. After noticing his wife's behavior and realizing she is cheating, Yoshiki becomes more and more furious, while Helen just denies it or changes the subject and talks to Ario. Eventually, Helen takes Ario and leaves. In the final episode of the show, Yoshiki writes a letter to his family and commits suicide. Some of Yoshiki's accomplishments were when he once found a huge chunk of snack ramen and the queen ant commended him for it. However, he once got beat up by two guys. He doesn't like the fact that Helen tells this to Ario because he fears that he won't respect him anymore.

Robodog No. 1 (ロボドッグ犬1号, Robodoggu-Inu 1-Gō^?, Robodog-Dog No. 1) - A rude, bladderless robot that Dr. Eyepatch made to help on some of Milk's missions. Tetsuko and he are bitter rivals. Robodog winds up causing a lot of fights and problems on Milk's missions.

[edit] Other characters

Haruo - A robot that Tetsuko has a crush on. He only appears in the vintage episodes.

The Counterfeiter - A counterfeiter who (really) likes Belgian waffles. He makes counterfeit bills to buy a lot of them. His main catchphrase: "BELGIAN WAFFLES!!!!!!" His design (outfit) seems slightly similar to Jotaro Kujo's in Jojo's Bizarre Adventure.

Kyuu the Myna Bird - A bird that Tetsuko started keeping, but died the next week. It looks like a toucan.

• Favorite thing: "Chaushu"
• Favorite kind of girl: Bouncy

Kanchi - The president's beloved cat that runs away and Milk and the gang have to find her.

Mecha Elderly No. 7 ("Furby") - A robot that is designed to look like an old man. Fueled by ramen, he will suddenly become surly if he hasn't had any. He has no real function.

Bear Slayer Robo Willy No. 8 - A robot designed to slay bears unconditionally. On the mission he gets destroyed easily by Leonardo. His design is vaguely resemblant of Jim Kelly's character in Enter the Dragon.

Leonardo the Japanese Bear - A violent bear from an Osaka bear farm. He defeats Robo Willy, but gets knocked out by Tetsuko's gas attack.

Pastel Mr. Shin - An elderly man dressed as a young kid. He tries to get kids to play with him, but they can't because their parents said they couldn't. He gets shocked and throws a tantrum whenever they say he's not a kid. His name (Pasuteru Shin-san in Japanese) is a parody of Crayon Shin-chan.

Keizao Butae - The factory manager of the Gentucky Pork Legs Factory, who resembles Colonel Sanders.

Barazou - A live-action cross-dressing man who appears frequently on the news.

The Flies - Flies that are attracted to the President.

Akiko Matake - Akiko is heard but never seen. She is seemingly a young Japanese girl who does video art. Her "art" is never much more than a pretentious monologue read by her as she takes a video of normal things happening in Japan. The videos are not animated and cut randomly into the show in various episodes.

Tonkichi & Tonko - Two pigs that are in love that try to defect, but only to be turned into pork legs.

[edit] King's Idea Laboratory Mechas

• Robodog No. 1 - A robot dog that has the ability to sniff things out.

• Punishment Missile - A huge, red missile with a strange face painted on that is fired at the selected target by the president and "punishes" the target.

• Submarine Milk 5

• Rice Cake Maker No. 3 - A rice pounder that is toilet-like in shape. It pounds rice cakes over and over.

• Dokochin 1 No. 4

• Pork Gun No. 5 - A laser gun that shoots pigs and sends their bodies into another dimension, save for their legs.

• Mecha Elderly No. 7 ("Furby")

• Bear Slayer Robo Willy No. 8

• Magic Shitake 1 No. 9 - Magic Shiitake is a mushroom shaped device that warps time and space within a given radius so the user doesn't have to make an excuse to get out of whatever he doesn't want to do.

[edit] Episode guide

Note that the plot listed for an episode often doesn't start until halfway through.

1. The Evil Spirits Go Marching In. (First Episode)

A counterfeiter is making money that closely resembles the real thing. Milk is sent to uncover him, and soon discovers his one weakness: Belgian waffles! "Give me all the Belgian waffles I can buy with this money!"

2. From Giba-Chan to Dioxin.

After dreaming that people who look suspiciously like the Ku Klux Klan try to kill him in a guillotine, the President fires a missile on his own country. His attempts to get Milk to stop it fail miserably.

3. Don't Give Up, Sumi High Baseball Team!

A ship carrying a load of wine sinks in the middle of the ocean. Milk is sent to aid the drunken fish.

4. The Return of the Young Master from the Planet.

Aliens, seeking new sources of food, have kidnapped the President. Milk goes out to find him but doesn't even know where to start.

5. Rice Cakes Stretching and Shrinking.

Milk seeks a way to make a better version of her favorite treat. Her searches are interrupted when the President orders her to find a missing baby. Despite the title and the dialogue, the "rice cakes" are actually mochi.

6. The Towering Homeless.

After the cardboard houses of the homeless burn down, the President orders Milk to build them new homes. This episode repeats itself as its own sequel.

7. Ra-Ra-Racoon Dog, Heisei Pig Wars Oink Oink.

A mishap involving sexual harassment causes trouble at a pig leg factory. Two pigs in love escape and are now defecting. Milk is ordered to stop them, but she's too busy with her snack foods.

8. The Virtual Sound System.

Milk accidentally eats a priceless tyrannosaurus rex egg, but the President is too busy crying over his lost cat to worry. In order to smooth things over, Milk sets out to find his cat. The title of the episode refers to two actors who provide all the sound effects for the episode.

9. Financial Decay Peninsula.

There's a rash of purse thefts in nursing homes. Milk is sent out, with the aid of an old-man robot, to combat it.

10. Hou Houkekkyo, Who's Going to Die?

Tetsuko breaks down due to the Y2K bug (although the 2K stands for the number of farts). Before Milk has a chance to fix her, she's sent to combat a killer bear.

11. Having a Thick Talk for Dinner.

An outtakes episode, hosted by Dr. Eyepatch and a man with three eyes who claims to be the show's creator.

12. Farewell to Mankind. (Last Episode)

Reality is being warped by a machine that resembles a shiitake mushroom. Milk is sent to take care of the problem, but has some trouble as the mushroom's rays keep sending her back in time.

13. Milk Chan Has Arrived!

The First set of the Super Milk Chan vintage episodes. These may have been taken from the DVD by Cartoon Network. The set includes:

• Milk-Chan Has Arrived
• Something Like A Tokarev
• The Stolen Fighting Spirit
• Tomyankun Illusion
• Mice Die Twice

14. Milk Chan's Challenger Of Fire.

The second set of the Super Milk Chan vintage episodes. These include:

• It's Ecology, Milk-Chan
• Milk's Challenger of Fire
• Milk's Boy Knife
• The President Dashes Through Time
• Hunting Middle-Aged Men in the Name of Heaven

15. Farewell, Milk Chan!

The last set of the Vintage Episodes. This episode only has the last four and one is repeated from the second set.

• Totally Unexpected Animal Event
• Milk's Appraise Anything Team
• Tetsuko's First Date Blast
• It's Ecology, Milk-Chan (Repeat from second set)
• Farewell, Milk-Chan

[edit] TV segments

These are the shows that they watch:

• Tama & Chuutaro
• Appraise Anything Team
• Mr. Deserted Island
• Four Tire Bros.
• Monta's Fighting & Splitting Couples
• Pastel Mr. Shin
• Police of the North Star
• Hirosue's Surprise Attack on a Poor Man's Dinner
• Company NOW
• Miss Piko's Fashion Check

[edit] Times Milk scared off the landlord

• 1. Pretended to be "Mr. Tanba"
• 2. Pretended to be sleeping and reminded the landlord that he was missing his show
• 3. Tetsuko's gas attack
• 4. Pretended to be "Kafeau Tanaka"
• 5. Pretended to be "Mr. Kimpachi"
• 6a. Riddle King
• 6b. "Magical Orange" game
• 7. "Miss Piko's Fashion Check"
• 8. Lied about a book signing
• 9. Made fun of landlord's gayness (laugh people) /"Furby" told him off
• 10. Told him his father was looking for him
• 11. Galaga/Battlestar Galactica Parody

[edit] Fake names/addresses

• Kohei Tsuka Agency
• Tange Kentou Club
• Kuunies
• Daijimon Bros. Club
• Hokkaido Takushoku Bank
• Anton Haizel
• Dokumon Productions
• Sports & Peace Party
• Kyosen's OK Gift Shop
• Kyokushin Kaiken
• Black Shoukai
• Mickey Yasakawa
• Lemurian Island
• Shomuni
• Shop By Self
• Akane's Lunch Box
• Boutarou Nikuyoku
• Tsurumoku Bacholor Dorm
• Sakura Junior High
• Numa High Volleyball Club
• Araya No. 2 Junior High
• Were Intense All Year Around
• Rings Holland
• Yamada Noodles
• Shimokita Loft
• Kaotan Ramen
• Nikko Monkey Corps
• Taro Okamato Art Museum
• Packed Lunch Improvement Committee
• Entertainment Social Dance Club

[edit] Completed and failed missions

• 1. Both Milk and the president forgot the orders so he said the mission was completed. (Milk-Chan Has Arrived)
• 2. Stopped the mafia gun deal at the Ikuzo Park by setting the mafia guy on fire. (Something Like A Tokarev)
• 3. Blew up the Inoki statue(which resembles Lupin the III, but stopped the thief, Idatakimato from stealing it. (The Stolen Fighting Spirit)
• 4. Was ordered to find whoever blew the World Feminist Building, even though they were the ones who did it due to a hallucination. (Tomyankun Illusion)
• 5. The president probably had orders, but Milk was busy watching "Tama & Chuutaro", then told the president to watch the show and that the conversation wasn't worth having. (Mice Die Twice)
• 6. Didn't find or protect the animal that was near extinction, but instead captured some other person. (It's Ecology, Milk-Chan)
• 7. Didn't stop the arsons but met a confused old man who might have been the arsonist, but didn't realize it. (Milk's Challenger of Fire)
• 8. Didn't stop middle school students from losing it in school because one student said, "Middle school students aren't lost". (Milk's Boy Knife)
• 9. Ran over the mother duck and left the seniors to drown.
• 10. Stop the slasher, but the cursed sword claimed another victim.
• 11. Didn't feel like completing the mission all because Tetsuko snapped at her while engrossed with her date.
• 12. Stopped the counerfeiter, but the bills got scattered and the greedy people started to gather.
• 13. Didn't stop the missile or give the president a chance to give the orders (he forgot plenty of times) all because Milk kept on distracting him with trival stuff and kept on ripping on him for being behind the times.
• 14. Therapy didn't work on the drunken fish, but they moved out of the wine-infected area when they found out that there was a sunken ship full of money.
• 15. Didn't save the president from the aliens.
• 16. Hanage found the baby, but Milk took all the credit.
• 17. Built homes for the homeless people both times.
• 18. The colonel stop the pigs from defecting.
• 19. Milk and them were the ones who ate the egg, but they found the president's cat.
• 20. Milk sees that landlord found his purse and declares the mission complete.
• 21. Tetsuko's gas attack knocked out Leonardo.
• 22. The Magic Shitake mission was just Hanage's dream, but they caught the underpants thief.
• 23. The series ended before they could do anything about the meteorite.

[edit] English Voice Actors

Milk: Hilary Haag

Tetsuko: Monica Rial

The President: Mike MacRae

Hanage: Ben Pronsky

Dr. Eyepatch: Tommy Drake

Robodog: David Matranga

Landlord: Rob Mungle

Yoshiki Arita (Father Ant): Todd Waite

Helen Arita (Mother Ant): Shelley Calene-Black

Ario (Baby Ant): David Matranga

[edit] Theme songs

Japan (Oh! Super Milk-Chan)

Openings

• Ookami Nanka Kowakunai (I'm Not Afraid of Wolves)

Endings

• Tsuppari High School Rock 'n' Roll

U.S. (The Super Milk-Chan Show)

Opening

• Disco Milk

Ending

• US Ending Theme

[edit] External links

• Super Milk-chan official Japanese website
• Super Milk-Chan entry on TV.com
• Super Milk-chan at Anime News Network's Encyclopedia
• Oh! Super Milk-Chan at the Internet Movie Database
• Super Milk-Chan Info on Adult Swim