Kiteretsu Daihyakka
Kiteretsu Daihyakka (キテレツ大百科, commonly shortened to Kiteretsu) is a Japanese manga series by Fujiko Fujio (Fujimoto alone), 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 that ran on Fuji TV from 27 March 1988 to 9 June 1996.
| キテレツ大百科 (Kiteretsu) |
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| Manga | |
| Written by | Fujiko Fujio (Fujimoto alone) |
| Published by | Family Light Association (Magazine) Shogakukan (Volumes) |
| Imprint | Tentōmushi Comics |
| Magazine | Kodomo no Hikari |
| Demographic | Children |
| Original run | April 1974 – July 1977 |
| Volumes | 3 |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Hiro Katsuoka Keiji Hayakawa |
| Produced by | Kenji Shimizu, Minoru Wada, Yoshihiro Suzuki, Yoshio Kataoka, Kazuhiko Ishikawa, Tateshi Yamazaki, Yutaka Sugiyama, Akio Wakana, Tetsuo Kanno |
| Written by | Shun'ichi Yukimuro, Takashi Yamada, Toshiyuki Aoshima, Satoshi Namiki, Tadaaki Yamazaki |
| Music by | Shunsuke Kikuchi |
| Studio | Gallop |
| Original network | Fuji TV |
| English network | IN: Cartoon Network |
| Original run | Special: November 2, 1987 Regular episodes: March 27, 1988 – June 9, 1996 |
| Episodes | 331 + 1 special (List of episodes) |
| Manga | |
| Shin Kiteretsu Daihyakka | |
| Written by | Fujiko F. Fujio |
| Illustrated by | Michiaki Tanaka |
| Published by | Shogakukan |
| Imprint | Tentōmushi Comics |
| Magazine | CoroCoro Comic |
| Demographic | Children |
| Original run | May 1988 – February 1994 |
| Volumes | 6 |
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Summary
The series is the story of a scientific inventor boy genius named Eiichi Kite, a.k.a. Kiteretsu, a descendant of a great inventor named D. Kiteretsu Saisama, who has built a companion robot named Korosuke. He has friends such as Miyoko Nonohana, a girl in his neighborhood and love interest, Buta Gorira (Kumada Kaoru), a typical neighborhood bully, and his friend Tongari, a rich boy, who both often antagonize Korosuke and Kiteretsu (though they are in grade school). It also depicts Kiteretsu's frequent adventures in time with his friends and Korosuke in the time machine which he built.