Tonari No Tamageta Kun (partially found anime series; 1974-1975)

The intro title card of the anime adaptation.

Status: Partially Found

Tonari No Tamageta Kun was an anime series that broadcasted from April 5th, 1974 to June 27th, 1975 for 60 episodes. It was based off the 1965 manga of the same name by legendary mangaka, Shotaro Ishinomori, who had also made Kamen Rider. An episode of the anime lasts for 5 minutes. The anime adaptation was made by an animation studio named Studio Zero, which was founded in 1963 by Shinichi Suzuki and a few manga artists like Fujio Akatsuka, Fujiko F. Fujio and Fujiko A. Fujio, and Jiro Tsunoda. The studio closed down in 1974, but the anime ran before and after the studio's demise. The anime originally broadcasted on Nippon Television on it's morning show, "Ohaiyo! Kodomo Show". The show also allegedly broadcasted on a local station, before it broadcasted on NTV, but it's unknown who broadcasted it.^[1]

Plot

Tonari No Tamageta Kun is about a boy named Tamageta, who has a time machine to create wacky misadventures with Yasushi, a boy he moved in with. Yasushi also has a girlfriend named Yoko. There's also a group of bullies, with their leader named Gorira. His pals are a kid who looks like a fox named Kitsune and a girl with hair that looks like a helmet named Herumeko.

Cast

Yoneko Matsukane as Tamageta
Yoshiko Asai as Yasushi
Masako Ebisu as Yoko
Osamu Kato as Gorira
Takeshi Aono as Kitsune
Masako Ebisu as Herumeko
Kazuya Tatekabe as Buruko
Koichi Kitamura as Tamageta's Dad
Masako Ebisu as Yasushi's Mom

Status

This show is pretty rare when it comes to finding episodes, as there was no home media release of any kind of this anime. The 41st episode is available on Niconico, with the video under the title "キチガイアニメ".

On July 29th, 2022, a Youtuber by the name of naoki tanaka uploaded the intro to the anime.