Kiteretsu Daihyakka

Kiteretsu Daihyakka (キテレツ大百科) (Also known as Kiteretsu Encyclopedia or only Kiteretsu) is a mangaseries 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.. Another English dub was made by a company under the name of "Thunder Unlimited" called Kevin and B.U.D.S.T.E.R and was released on various VCDs and DVDs. 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.

Plot
The series is the story of a scientific inventor boy genius named 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, a girl in his neighborhood who is his love interest, Buta Gorilla (Kumada Kaoru), a typical neighborhood bully and his friend, Tongari, who both often antagonize Korosuke (though they are in grade school).

Main characters

 * Lead Characters


 * Eiichi Kite
 * Eiichi Kite (木手英一 Kite Eiichi), also known as Kiteretsu (キテレツ), is a 11-year-old 5th grader who lives in Tokyo city. He usually wears a light blue T-shirt and a dark blue trouser. He also wears green shoes, white socks and a red-yellow themed cap with K written on it. He is the best kid who is excellent at studies and only weak in sports, but is a prodigy in machines. He reads the Daihyakka and invents gadgets from past. He can even repair normal machines and invent variations of the Daihyakka gadgets. Because of his mechanical aptitude, he commands respect from his friends.


 * Korosuke
 * Korosuke (コロ助) is 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.


 * Miyoko Nonohana
 * Miyoko Nonohana (野々花みよ子 Nonoha Miyoko), also known as Miyo-chan (みよちゃん), is one of Kiteretsu's best friends. She is an intelligent girl, admired by boys. She is Kiteretsu's love interest in the show and on many incidents is shown to be Kiteretsu's future wife.


 * Kaoru Kumada
 * Kaoru Kumada (熊田薫 Kumada Kaoru), also known by the nickname Butagorira (ブタゴリラ), is one of Kiteretsu's friends who is the son of a green grocer. He is a typical bully but in progress, he becomes comic relief. He is known to love vegetables.


 * Kouji Tongari
 * Kouji Tongari (尖浩二 Tongari Kouji), also known as Tongari (トンガリ), is one of Kiteretsu's best friends. He is easily frightened, and a best friend of Butagorira, though is quite often bullied by him.
 * Mr. Benzuo
 * He is one of the Main Characters who appears frequently in each Episodes. A Friend and Mentor of Kiteretsu and his friends, He is an University student.


 * Michiko Kite
 * She is the Mother of Kiteretsu, some people have theorized that she's Michiko from the Perman series all grown up. But, this is unconfirmed.


 * Itaro Kite
 * He is the father of Kiteretsu.


 * Yaohachi Kumada
 * Father of Kaoru Kumada i.e. Butagorira.


 * Mrs. Kumada
 * Mother of Kaoru Kumada.


 * Kenichi Tongari
 * Father of Kouji Tongari.


 * Mrs. Kaoji
 * Mother of Kouji Tongari.
 * Minor Characters
 * Minor Characters


 * Segawa (せがわ)
 * She is one of the classmates and a friend of Kiteretsu and his friends. In 1 episode, she became the class monitor and Kiteretsu had got only one vote. But little did he knew that Segawa has voted him for class monitor. Later, they had breakfast together when Kiteretsu was taking care of the pet animals.


 * Midori (みどり)
 * She is one of the classmates and a friend of Kiteretsu and his friends. She is a patient of Appendicitis (Disease which causes severe stomach ache). She had appeared as one of the main character in an episode where she was admitted in hospital due to her disease.


 * Satsuki Hanamaru
 * She is one of the best friend of Kiteretsu. Her father is a Dramatist (Probably) and she also shares the same passion with her father. She is an expert dramatist also.

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 Canada on Teletoon. Another English dub was made by a company under the name of "Thunder Unlimited" called Kevin and B.U.D.S.T.E.R and was released on various VCDS and DVDS. As of September 2016, a remastered version of the series airs on Animax in Japan.

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.

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
 * Butagorira (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

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)


 * 1) Oyome-san ni Natte Agenaizo (お嫁さんになってあげないゾ) (ep. 1–24, Kaori Moritani)
 * 2) Body dake Lady (ボディーだけレディー) (ep. 25–60, Junko Uchida)
 * 3) Yumemiru Jikan (夢みる時間) (ep. 61–86, Megumi Mori)
 * 4) Hajimete no Chū (はじめてのチュウ) (ep. 87–108, Anshin Papa)
 * 5) Suimin Busoku (スイミン不足) (ep. 109–170, Chicks)
 * 6) 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)


 * 1) Magical Boy Magical Heart (マジカルBoyマジカルHeart) (ep. 1–16, Kaori Moritani)
 * 2) Lace no Cardigan (レースのカーディガン) (ep. 17–24, Kaori Sakagami)
 * 3) Korosuke Rock (コロ助ROCK) (ep. 25–60, Junko Uchida)
 * 4) Felt no Pencase (フェルトのペンケース) (ep. 61–86, Megumi Mori)
 * 5) Merry ha tada no Tomodachi (メリーはただのトモダチ) (ep. 87–108, Toshiko Fujita)
 * 6) Hajimete no Chū (はじめてのチュウ) (ep. 109–170, 213–290, 311–331, Anshin Papa)
 * 7) Happy Birthday (ep. 171–212, Yuka)
 * 8) Uwasa no Kiss (うわさのキッス) (ep. 291–310, TOKIO)

Reception
The anime was ranked 31st on a list published by TV Asahi in 2005 of the top 100 anime.