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PaRappa the Rapper
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パラッパラッパー
(Parappa Rappā)
GenreComedy, Action, Adventure
Anime television series
Directed byHiroaki Sakurai
Produced bySōsuke Osabe
Hideo Katsumata
Written byYoshio Urasawa
Music byMasaya Matsuura
Yoshihisa Suzuki
Yasushi Kurobane
StudioJ.C.Staff
Production I.G (Cooperation)
Original networkFuji TV
Original run April 14, 2001 – January 11, 2002
Episodes30 (List of episodes)

PaRappa the Rapper (パラッパラッパー, PaRappa Rappā) is a 2001 Japanese anime television series based on NanaOn-Sha's PaRappa the Rapper video game series created by Masaya Matsuura and Rodney Greenblat. The series was produced by J.C.Staff and aired in Japan on Fuji TV between April 2001 and January 2002, running for thirty episodes. Episodes 29 and 30 aired together as a 1 hour special.

Summary

The series focuses on PaRappa, a dog who enjoys music and dancing and often spends time with his friends PJ Berri, Katy Kat, and the girl of his dreams, Sunny Funny. Along with various characters who make returning appearances from the video games, the anime introduces several new characters who are exclusive to the TV series. These include Matt Major, PJ's friend from Club Fun, Paula Fox, Sunny's friend who is rivals with Katy, Pinto, PaRappa's little sister, and Gaster and Groober, a villainous duo who cause all sorts of mischief.

Production

During the production of PaRappa the Rapper 2, Sony wanted to develop a PaRappa anime aimed at children in order to boost merchandise sales. The series was a joint production effort between Fuji TV, SME Visual Works, and J.C.Staff. Rodney Greenblat, the art director for the PaRappa games, was asked to design new characters who would appear in the anime. He was against the idea of the show being aimed towards children and instead wanted it to be aimed towards teenagers, but this did not end up happening. He was not allowed to work on the anime at all aside from the character design, as the anime team did not want anyone pulled away from the production of the second game. In an interview with Gamasutra, Greenblat voiced his frustration about the production of the anime.[1]

I wasn't into that, because I was like "Everyone knew teenagers loved PaRappa, so let's do a teen show." But [Sony] wanted to sell toys, so [the show's producers] made a little kids version of PaRappa. Then they wanted me to design other characters for the show. And I was "okay, but let me write some of the episodes that these new characters will be in" and they didn't let me do that. They only let me design characters, they didn't let me write or be part of the show's production, and I felt as if I was kicked, in a way, out of something I always wanted to do. I always wanted to work in animation, to see my characters on a TV show. So the TV show was not a success, it was not a good show. I don't know about the writing because it was all in Japanese, but apparently it didn't connect with the kids, they didn't like it. And the time-slot it was on turned out to be a disaster. A big deal was made, it had a prime slot for little kids, but it kept on getting preempted by baseball games. There was two different animation houses doing the show and each had a slightly different style and that was really bugging me; my characters looked a little different in one episode to the next.

Music

The series' soundtrack was composed by series designer Masaya Matsuura, along with Yoshihisa Suzuki and Yasushi Kurobane. The series uses four pieces of theme music; two opening themes and two ending themes. For the first fifteen episodes, the opening theme is "Love Together: PaRappa the Rapper MIX" (LOVE TOGETHER〜パラッパラッパーMIX〜) by Nona Reeves while the ending theme is "School Girl" by Bennie K. For episodes sixteen onwards, the opening theme is "Attitude" by Crystal Kay while the ending theme is "Yellow Balloon" (イエローバルーン, Ierō Barūn) by Chara. The original soundtrack was released in two volumes by Sony Music Entertainment on August 22, 2001 and December 19, 2001, respectively.[2][3]

Voice cast

Character Voice
PaRappa the Rapper Miyu Irino
PJ Berri Masami Kikuchi
Matt Major Kenichi Suzumura
Sunny Funny Mika Kanai
Katy Kat Rina Nakayama
Paula Fox Akiko Kobayashi
Boxy Boy Masashi Ebara
Gaster Ryō Naitō
Groober Akio Suyama
Papa PaRappa Kunihiko Yasui
Chop Chop Master Onion Ryu Watabe
Prince Fleaswallow Yoshito Yasuhara
Hairdresser Octopus Yūji Mitsuya
MC King Kong Mushi Norio Wakamoto
Sister Corn Masako Nozawa

Episodes

# Title Written by Original air date

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References

  1. ^ "Interview: Rodney Greenblat, The Mother Of Sony's Almost Mario". Gamasutra. Retrieved 2017-12-03.
  2. ^ https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B00005N763
  3. ^ https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B00005TOKG
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