Tokyo Pig

Tokyo Pig
はれときどきぶた
(Hare Tokidoki Buta)
Genre Comedy
TV anime
Directed by Shinichi Watanabe
Studio Group TAC
Aniplex
Network TV Tokyo
English network ABC Family
Original run 3 July 199729 September 1998
Episodes 61
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Tokyo Pig, known in Japan as Hare Tokidoki Buta (はれときどきぶた?), is a Japanese anime television series. The anime was based on a book titled Fair, then Partly Piggy (with the same original Japanese title as the book), written by Shiro Yadama and translated into English by Keith Holeman [1] [2].

Tokyo Pig is about a young boy (Noriyasu in the original version; Spencer in the English dub) and the adventures he has with his magic diary where anything he draws will come to life. In the first episode, "When Pigs Fly," he draws hundreds of flying pigs. As he experiences his first drawing coming to life, he tries to erase them all before his parents catch him. In his haste however, he misses one pig which becomes his pet, Sunny Pig (Harebuta).

When brought to the United States, it was renamed Tokyo Pig. It was also translated into Chinese and Tagalog (under the name Sunny Pig). It first aired in July, 1997 in Japan on TV Tokyo and later in September, 2002 in the United States on ABC Family. It was originally directed by Shinichi Watanabe and starred Koichi Yamadera as Yori-chan. The series ran for 61 episodes until October 1998.

Contents

Main characters

Other characters

Cast

Japanese version

English version

Episode list

Main Article: List of Tokyo Pig episodes

External links

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