Mōretsu Atarō

Mōretsu Atarō
もーれつア太郎
Genre	Comedy
Manga
Written by	Fujio Akatsuka
Published by	Kodansha
Magazine	Weekly Shōnen Sunday
Demographic	Shōnen
Original run	1967 – 1970
Anime
Studio	Toei Animation
Released	April 04, 1969 – December 25, 1970
Anime
Directed by	Junichi Sato
Studio	Toei Animation
Released	April 21, 1990 – December 22, 1990

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))

External links

• Mōretsu Atarō at Kore de ii noda (Fujio Akatsuka database)