Kiteretsu Daihyakka

Kiteretsu Daihyakka (キテレツ大百科) (Also known as Kiteretsu Encyclopedia or only Kiteretsu) is a science fiction manga series by Fujiko Fujio aka Hiroshi Fujimoto which ran in the children's magazine Kodomo no Hikari from April 1974 to July 2000. The manga was later made into a 331-episode anime TV series which ran on Fuji TV from March 27, 1988 to June 9, 1996. This series is currently airing worldwide on Hungama TV, Disney XD, Cartoon Network Korea and Pogo TV as of 2014.

Plot

The show is set in the fictional Hyōno-chō, 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-chō 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, Miyoko, and Tongari enter this university to study further.

Main characters

Eiichi Kite

Eiichi Kite aka. 'Kiteretsu' is a 10-year-old boy who lives in Tokyo city. He usually wears a light blue T-shirt and a dark blue trouser. He also wears a green shoes, white socks and a red-yellow themed cap with K written on it. He is weak in sports. Kiteretsu is a prodigy in machines. He reads the Daiyhakka and invents gadgets from past. He can even repair normal machines and invent variations of the Daiyhakka gadgets. Because of his mechanical aptitude, he commands respect from his friends.

Korosuke

Korosuke is Kiteretsu's assistant who usually ends his sentences with ~nari . He usually wears an artificial samurai sword. He is an invention in the encyclopedia. He was made by Kiteretsu himself.

Miyoko Nonohana

Miyoko Nonohana is one of Kiteretsu's best friends. She is an intelligent girl, admired by boys. She is Kiteretsu's love interest in the show and on many incidents is shown to be Kiteretsu's future wife.

Kaoru Kumada

Kaoru Kumada (nicknamed Butagorira) is one of Kiteretsu's friends. He is a Typical Bully but in progress, he becomes comic relief. He is known to love vegetables.

Tongari

Tongari is one of Kiteretsu's best friends. He is easily frightened, and a best friend of Butagorira (Kaoru Kumada) though is quite often bullied by Kaoru.

Media

Manga

• Kiteretsu Daihyakka vol. 1–3 (Tentōmushi Comics, Shogakukan, 1977)
• Kiteretsu Daihyakka vol. 1–4 (Fujiko Fujio Land, Chūō Kōron Shinsha, 1984)
• Kiteretsu Daihyakka vol. 1–2 (Shogakukan Koro Koro Bunko, Shogakukan, 1984)
• My First BIG Kiteretsu vol. 1–2 (Shogakukan, 2003)

Television drama

In January 2002, NHK aired a two-hour one-shot live action drama featuring a CGI Korosuke voiced by Mami Koyama. It was originally aired on NHK Educational TV on January 1, 2002.

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.

Anime

Cast

• Eiichi Kite (Kiteretsu): 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 (Kaoru Kumada): Hiroshi Ōtake→Naoki Tatsuta
• Kumahachi Kumada: Takeshi Aono
• Sayuri Kumada: Noriko Uemura
• Kōji Togari (Tongari): Ryū Manatsu→Yūji Mitsuya
• Kōichi Togari: Sanshirō Niita→Hirohiko Kakegawa→Masato Hirano
• Takako Togari: Yuka Ōno
• Benzō Karino (Benzō-san): Kaneta Kimotsuki
• Michiko Kite: Yuri Nashiwa→Sumi Shimamoto
• Kiteretsu Kite: Kaneta Kimotsuki→Yusaku Yara (adult: Katsuji Mori; youth: Daisuke Sakaguchi)
• 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 (Yūki Uehara in the anime): 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 (Fuji TV), Yoshirō Kataoka (Asatsu)
• Producers:
  • Kenji Shimizu→Minoru Wada→Yoshihiro Suzuki (Fuji TV)
  • Yoshio Kataoka→Kazuhiko Ishikawa→Tateshi Yamazaki→Yutaka Sugiyama (Asatsu)
  • Akio Wakana (Gallop)
  • Tetsuo Kanno (Staff 21)
• 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 (credited as Yasuhiro Shimizu for part of it)→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 (Fuji TV)
• 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 (90-minute special on November 2, 1987, Mitsuko Horie)

1. Oyome-san ni Natte Agenaizo (ep. 1–24, Kaori Moritani)
2. Body dake Lady (ep. 25–60, Junko Uchida)
3. Yumemiru Jikan (ep. 61–86, Megumi Mori)
4. Hajimete no Chū (ep. 87–108, Anshin Papa)
5. Suimin Busoku (ep. 109–170, Chicks)
6. Oryōri Kōshinkyoku (ep. 171–331, Yuka)

Ending theme songs

Listing includes the song title followed by the episodes and the singer in parentheses.

• Korosuke Machi wo Yuku (90-minute special, Kyōko Yamada)

1. Magical Boy Magical Heart (ep. 1–16, Kaori Moritani)
2. Race no Cardigan (ep. 17–24, Kaori Sakagami)
3. Korosuke Rock (ep. 25–60, Junko Uchida)
4. Felt no Pencase (ep. 61–86, Megumi Mori)
5. Merry ha tada no Tomodachi (ep. 87–108, Toshiko Fujita)
6. Hajimete no Chū (ep. 109–170, 213–290, 311–331, Anshin Papa)
7. Happy Birthday (ep. 171–212, Yuka)
8. Uwasa no Kiss (ep. 291–310, TOKIO)

Reception

The anime was ranked 31st on a list published by TV Asahi in 2005 of the top 100 anime.^[1]

References

External links

• Official Tokyo MX website
• Official Cartoon Network Korea page
• Kiteretsu Daihyakka (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia