Kiteretsu Daihyakka facts for kids
| Kiteretsu Daihyakka | |
Volume 1 of the Kiteretsu Daihyakka manga.
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Quick facts for kids キテレツ大百科 |
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| Manga | |
| Written by | Fujiko Fujio |
| Published by | Family Light Association |
| Demographic | Children |
| Magazine | Kodomo no Hikari |
| Original run | April 1974 – July 1977 |
| Volumes | 3 |
| Manga | |
| Shin Kiteretsu Daihyakka | |
| Written by | Fujiko F. Fujio |
| Illustrated by | Michiaki Tanaka |
| Published by | Shogakukan |
| Demographic | Children, Shōnen |
| Magazine | CoroCoro Comic |
| Original run | May 1988 – February 1994 |
| Volumes | 6 |
| Anime television film | |
| Fujiko Fujio no Kiteretsu Daihyakka | |
| Directed by | Keiji Hayakawa Takashi Watanabe |
| Produced by | Hideo Adachi Tetsuo Kanno Yoshiro Kataoka |
| Written by | Keiji Terui Shunichi Yukimuro Takashi Yamada |
| Music by | Katsunori Ishida |
| Studio | Nihon Ad Systems Staff 21 |
| Network | Fuji TV |
| Released | November 2, 1987 |
| Runtime | 124 minutes |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Hiro Katsuoka Keiji Hayakawa |
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| Music by | Shunsuke Kikuchi |
| Studio | Studio Gallop |
| Network | Fuji TV |
| Original run | March 27, 1988 – June 9, 1996 |
| Episodes | 331 |
| Game | |
| Publisher | Epoch |
| Genre | Action |
| Platform | Famicom |
| Released | February 23, 1990 |
| Game | |
| Kiteretsu Daihyakka: Bouken Ouedo Juraki | |
| Publisher | Video System |
| Genre | Action |
| Platform | Game Boy |
| Released | July 15, 1994 |
| Game | |
| Kiteretsu Daihyakka: Chōjikū Sugoroku | |
| Developer | Fill in Cafe |
| Publisher | Video System |
| Genre | Boardgame |
| Platform | Super Famicom |
| Released | January 27, 1995 |
Kiteretsu Daihyakka (キテレツ大百科, "Kiteretsu Large Encyclopedia"; commonly shortened to Kiteretsu) is a manga series by duo Fujiko Fujio which ran in the children's magazine Kodomo no Hikari from April 1974 to July 1977. The manga was later made into a 331-episode anime television series which ran on Fuji TV from 27 March 1988 to 9 June 1996. An English dub of the anime aired in India on Cartoon Network. The series was licensed for Spain by LUK Internacional under the title of "Kiteretsu, el primo más listo de Nobita". (English Translation: Nobita's Smarter Cousin.) As of September 2016, a remastered version of the series airs on Animax in Japan.
Contents
Plot
The series is the story of a scientific inventor boy genius named Eiichi Kite a.k.a. Kiteretsu, descendant of a great inventor named D. Kiteretsu, who has built a companion robot named Korosuke. He frequently travels in time with his friends and Korosuke in the time machine he built, he has friends such as Miyoko Nonohana, a girl in his neighborhood who is his love interest, Buta Gorira (Kumada Kaoru), a typical neighborhood bully and his friend, Tongari, who both often antagonize Korosuke (though they are in grade school).
Main characters
- Eiichi Kite (木手英一, Kite Eiichi) (a.k.a., Kiteretsu (キテレツ))
- An 11-year-old 5th grader who lives in Tokyo. He is an excellent student, has a strong mechanical and inventive aptitude, but is weak in sports. He can repair normal machines and invent variations of the Daihyakka gadgets. Voiced by: Toshiko Fujita.
- Kiteretsu's robot assistant who usually ends his sentences with nari (ナリ). He usually wears an artificial samurai sword. He is an invention in the encyclopedia. He was made by Kiteretsu himself. Voiced by: Mami Koyama and later by Kazuko Sugiyama.
- A very intelligent girl who is one of Kiteretsu's best friends, and Kiteretsu's love interest. She is shown to be Kiteretsu's future wife in several time-travel episodes. And she resembles Michiko Sawada from Perman. Voiced by: Yuriko Yamamoto, followed by Mayumi Shō and Chieko Honda.
- One of Kiteretsu's friends who is the son of a green grocer who loves vegetables. He is a typical bully, but is mostly comic relief. Voiced by: Hiroshi Ōtake and later by Naoki Tatsuta.
- One of Kiteretsu's friends. He is easily frightened, and a best friend of Butagorira, though is quite often bullied by him. Voiced by: Ryū Manatsu and later by Yūji Mitsuya.
- A friend and mentor of Kiteretsu and his friends, as well as a university student. Voiced by: Kaneta Kimotsuki.
- Kiteretsu's mother. Voiced by: Yuri Nashiwa and later by Sumi Shimamoto.
- Kiteretsu's father. Voiced by: Hideyuki Tanaka and later by Yusaku Yara.
- Butagorira's father. Voiced by: Takeshi Aono.
- Butagorira's mother. Voiced by: Noriko Uemura.
- Tongari's father. Voiced by: Sanshirō Niita, followed by Hirohiko Kakegawa and Masato Hirano.
- Tongari's mother. Voiced by: Yuka Ōno.
Media
Anime
The manga was later made into a 331-episode anime television series which ran on Fuji TV from 27 March 1988 to 9 June 1996. The series also aired on different networks worldwide, such as Hungama TV, Pogo (TV channel), Cartoon Network, and Disney XD, Disney in India, and Cartoon Network in South Korea. An English dub of the anime aired in India on Cartoon Network. As of September 2016, a remastered version of the series airs on Animax in Japan.
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
- Backgrounds: Kobayashi Production, Studio Kanon
- Director of Photography: Shigeo Sugimura (credited as Yasuhiro Shimizu for part of it)→Hiroaki Edamitsu
- Music Director: Nobuhiro Komatsu
- Music: Shunsuke Kikuchi
- Director: Hiro Katsuoka→Keiji Hayakawa
- Executive Producer: Mikio Wakana
- Sound Producer: Yōsuke Kuroda
Theme songs
Opening theme songs
Listing includes the song title followed by the episodes and the singer in parentheses.
- Kiteretsu Daihyakka no Uta (キテレツ大百科のうた "The Song of Kiterestu Encyclopedia") (90-minute special on November 2, 1987, Mitsuko Horie)
- Oyome-san ni Natte Agenaizo (お嫁さんになってあげないゾ) (ep. 1–24, Kaori Moritani)
- Body dake Lady (ボディーだけレディー) (ep. 25–60, Junko Uchida)
- Yumemiru Jikan (夢みる時間) (ep. 61–86, Megumi Mori)
- Hajimete no Chū (はじめてのチュウ) (ep. 87–108, Anshin Papa)
- Suimin Busoku (スイミン不足) (ep. 109–170, Chicks)
- Oryōri Kōshinkyoku (お料理行進曲) (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 (コロ助まちをゆく) (90-minute special, Kyōko Yamada)
- Magical Boy Magical Heart (マジカルBoyマジカルHeart) (ep. 1–16, Kaori Moritani)
- Lace no Cardigan (レースのカーディガン) (ep. 17–24, Kaori Sakagami)
- Korosuke Rock (コロ助ROCK) (ep. 25–60, Junko Uchida)
- Felt no Pencase (フェルトのペンケース) (ep. 61–86, Megumi Mori)
- Merry ha tada no Tomodachi (メリーはただのトモダチ) (ep. 87–108, Toshiko Fujita)
- Hajimete no Chū (はじめてのチュウ) (ep. 109–170, 213–290, 311–331, Anshin Papa)
- Happy Birthday (ep. 171–212, Yuka)
- Uwasa no Kiss (うわさのキッス) (ep. 291–310, TOKIO)
Manga
- Kiteretsu Daihyakka vol. 1–3 (Tentōmushi Comics, Shogakukan, 1977)
- Kiteretsu Daihyakka vol. 1–4 (Fujiko F. Fujio Land, Chūō Kōron Shinsha, 1984)
- Kiteretsu Daihyakka vol. 1–2 (Shogakukan Koro r 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.
See also
In Spanish: Kiteretsu para niños
