Mōretsu Atarō

Mōretsu Atarō
もーれつア太郎
Genre	Comedy
Manga
Written by	Fujio Akatsuka
Published by	Shogakukan
Magazine	Weekly Shōnen Sunday
Demographic	Shōnen
Original run	1967 – 1970
Anime television series
Studio	Toei Animation
Original network	TV Asahi
Original run	April 4, 1969 – December 25, 1970
Episodes	90
Anime television series
Directed by	Junichi Sato
Studio	Toei Animation
Original network	TV Asahi
Original run	April 21, 1990 – December 22, 1990
Episodes	34

Mōretsu Atarō (もーれつア太郎, Extraordinary Atarō) is a gag manga by Fujio Akatsuka. It was serialized from 1967 to 1970 in Weekly Shōnen Sunday. Two anime adaptations were produced for TV Asahi (then called NET TV).

The plot revolves around a young edokko named Atarō who lives with his father X-gorō (read as Batsu-gorō) in downtown Tokyo running the family store. After his father's sudden death, Atarō must take care of the store himself and, along with the help of his father's ghost, his friend Dekoppachi, former yakuza leader Butamatsu, and a nutty alley cat named Nyarome, he protects it from the tanuki-faced gang leader Kokoro Boss.

Cast

• Atarō (Voice: Keiko Yamamoto (1st); Tomoko Maruo (2nd))
• X-gorō (Voice: Ichirō Nagai (1st); Sanji Hase (2nd))
• Nyarome (Voice: Hiroshi Ōtake (1st); Akira Kamiya (2nd))
• Dekoppachi (Voice: Midori Katō (1st); Kyōko Tongū (2nd))
• Butamatsu (Voice: Kōsei Tomita (1st); Yō Yoshimura (2nd))
• Kokoro Boss (Voice: Jōji Yanami (both series))
• A-suke (Voice: Keiichi Noda (1st); Toshio Kobayashi (2nd))
• B-suke (Voice: Isamu Tanonaka (1st); Shinobu Satōchi (2nd))
• God (Voice: Takuzō Kamiyama (1st); Isamu Tanonaka (2nd))
• God's Pupil (Voice: Masako Nozawa (1st); Mie Suzuki (2nd))
• Kumagorō (Voice: Yonehiko Kitagawa (1st); Masaharu Satō (2nd))
• Kumagorō's wife (Voice: Mariko Tsuda (1st); Noriko Uemura (2nd))
• Kemunpasu (Voice: Keiichi Noda (1st); Keiichi Nanba (2nd))
• Beshi (Voice: Kōsei Tomita (1st); Kōzō Shioya (2nd))
• Doctor Fukuwarai (Voice: Kiyoshi Kobayashi (2nd only))
• Momoko (Voice: Aya Hisakawa (2nd only))
• Kōban Officer (Voice: Kazumi Tanaka (2nd only))

Cameos

The first anime featured cameo appearances by several characters from other Akatsuka works.

• Iyami (Osomatsu-kun) (Voice: Yonehiko Kitagawa)
• Chibita (Osomatsu-kun) (Voice: Kazue Tagami, Masako Nozawa)
• Totoko (Osomatsu-kun) (Voice: Kazuko Sugiyama)
• Depkapan (Osomatsu-kun)
• Omawari-san (Tensai Bakabon) (Voice: Isamu Tanonaka, Keiichi Noda, and others)
• Papa (Tensai Bakabon) (Voice: Jōji Yanami)

External links

• Mōretsu Atarō at Kore de ii noda (Fujio Akatsuka database)
• Mōretsu Atarō (1969) (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
• Mōretsu Atarō (1990) (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia