Kiteretsu Daihyakka

Kiteretsu Daihyakka (キテレツ大百科^?, lit. Kiteretsu 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, though 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. Due to the Seibu Railway-style electric railway which appears in the series, it has been speculated that the series is set somewhere in the Musashino area of Tokyo. 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, thought to be modeled after the real Hachijojima, 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.

It is unknown if Takao University is a private, national, or public university. 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. The university was likely modeled after either Tokyo Metropolitan University or Chuo University.

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

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

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→Yuji 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)

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

Ending theme songs