Kiteretsu Daihyakka

Kiteretsu Daihyakka
Volume 1 of the Kiteretsu Daihyakka manga.
キテレツ大百科
Genre	Science fiction, Comedy-drama
Manga
Written by	Fujiko Fujio
Published by	Shogakukan
Demographic	Children
Magazine	Kodomo no Hikari
Original run	April 1974 – July 1977
Volumes	3
Manga
Shin Kiterretsu Diahyakka
Written by	Fujiko Fujio
Illustrated by	Michiaki Tanaka
Published by	Shogakukan
Demographic	Children
Magazine	CoroCoro Comic
Original run	May 1988 – February 1994
Volumes	6
TV special
Network	NHK
Released	1987
TV anime
Directed by	Hiro Katsuoka Keiji Hayakawa
Studio	Studio Gallop
Network	Fuji TV, Animax
Original run	March 27, 1988 – June 9, 1996
Episodes	331
Game
Publisher	Epoch
Genre	Action
Platform	Famicom
Released	February 23, 1990
Game
Kiteretsu
Publisher	Video System
Genre	Boardgame
Platform	Super Famicom
Released	January 27, 1995

Kiteretsu Daihyakka (キテレツ大百科, lit. Eureka Encyclopedia) is a science fiction manga series by Fujiko Fujio which ran in the children's magazine Kodomo no Hikari from April 1974 through July 1977. The manga was later made into a 331-episode TV anime series which ran on Fuji TV from March 27, 1988 through June 9, 1996.

There are many similarities in the makeup and appearance of the main cast to the cast of Doraemon, which was also created by Fujio, although the content of the story is completely different.

The main character is a scientific genius grade school boy named 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. Miyoko is a girl in his neighborhood who is basically his girlfriend. Tongari is his rival, who happen to share some similar traits of Honekawa Suneo. Buta Gorilla (Kumada Kaoru) is a typical neighborhood bully, who also share similar traits of Gian (Takeshi Goda) except that he often antagonizes Korosuke.

Setting

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 the dialect 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 due to people moving away, and 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 rumor the school is haunted.

Benzō-san was able to enter the university after attempting it six times during the series. Ten years from the time period of the series beginning, Kiteretsu, Miyoko, and Tongari enter this university to study.

Other locations in the series are actual locations, although some things may have been fictionalized to meet the story's needs.

Characters

Kite family

• Eiichi Kite (木手 英一) aka. Kiteretsu (キテレツ): The protagonist.
• Korosuke (コロ助): Kiteretsu's invention and his assistant. He usually ends his sentences with ~nari.
• Einoshin Kite (木手 英之進) aka. Kiteretsu-Sai (キテレツ斎): Kiteretsu's ancestor, lived in Edo period.
• Michiko Kite (木手 みちこ): Kiteretsu's mother.
• Eitarou Kite (木手 英太郎): Kiteretsu's father.
• Kin-chan (キンちゃん): The goldfish kept in Kite household.

Anime exclusive characters

• Doukoro (豆コロ)
• Ochappii (おちゃっぴい)
• Kaoru (かおる)

Nonohana family

• Miyoko Nonohana (野々花 みよ子) aka. Miyo-chan (みよちゃん)
• Miyoko's mother
• Miyoko's father
• Akihiko Nonohana (野々花 明彦): Miyoko's older brother

Kumada family

• Kaoru Kumada (熊田 薫) aka. Butagorira (ブタゴリラ)
• Sayuri Kumada (熊田 小百合): Kaoru's mother

Anime exclusive characters

• Kumahachi Kumada (熊田 熊八): Kaoru's father
• Torashichi Kumada (熊田 虎七): Kaoru's uncle
• Kumaichirou Kumada (熊田 熊一郎): Kaoru's uncle
• Minori Kumada (熊田みのり): Kaoru's son in the future.

Kaoru's subordinates

• Konchi (コンチ): One of Kaoru's subordinates
• Kondou (近藤): One of Kaoru's subordinates.

Tongari family

• Kouji Tongari (尖 浩二) aka. Tongari (トンガリ)
• Kouichi Tongari (尖 浩一): Kouji's father
• Takako Tongari (尖 貴子): Kouji's mother

Karino family and friends

• Benzou Karino (苅野 勉三)
• Kimiko Uehara (上原 君子)

Anime exclusive characters

• Yone Karino (苅野 ヨネ)
• Osugi (お杉)
• Heikichi (平吉)
• Ben (ベン)
• Youhei Arakida (荒木田 洋平)

Satsuki family

• Satsuki Hanamaru
• Satsuki's Mom
• Satsuki's Dad

Sasaki family

• Sasaki (佐々木): Kiteretsu's Teacher

Anime exclusive characters

• Sasaki's wife
• Kazuma Sasaki (佐々木 和馬): Sasaki's son.

Characters at Kiteretsu's school

• Otonashi (乙梨): A quiet boy in Kiteretsu's class.

Anime exclusive characters

• Takako Segawa (瀬川 たか子): Kiteretsu's classmate, a popular girl.
• Vice Principal

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)

TV drama

In January 2002, NHK aired a two-hour live action drama featuring a CGI Korosuke voiced by Mami Koyama, who also voiced the anime version of Korosuke.

Games

On February 23, 1990, Epoch released an action game for the Famicom. 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
• Buta Gorilla (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 Fuskou (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)

External links

• Kiteretsu Daihyakka (anime) at Anime News Network's Encyclopedia