Genji Tsūshin Agedama | |
Anime television series | |
Directed by | Masato Namiki |
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Written by | Hiroshi Tsuruta Sukehiro Tomita Tadashi Hayakawa Takashi Yamada |
Music by | Toshihiko Sahashi |
Studio | Studio Gallop |
Original network | TV Tokyo |
Original run | October 4, 1991 – September 25, 1992 |
Episodes | 51 |
Genji Tsūshin Agedama (ゲンジ通信あげだま) is a Japanese anime series produced by NAS and TV Tokyo and animated by Studio Gallop. The series aired on TV Tokyo from 1991 to 1992. The show was one of multimedia content strategies—prevalent in Japan around the early 1990s— and several renditions of the content were released, that is, in the forms of manga, anime, PC Engine game. In this article mainly the anime version is explored. It contains a lot of parodies from old Japanese anime and live action shows, e.g., Kiki's Delivery Service, and Sailor Moon (since Usagi Tsukino was played by the same voice actress (Kotono Mitsuishi) as a heroine of this show. The game was released in 1991, a side-scrollerbyNEC Home Electronics. The manga series has two versions: one authored by Eiichi Saitō that ran on Comic Bonbon in 1991, first followed an early version of scenario outlines in the development, but later put an end to that and adapted a new one that by and large follows the anime version's stories; one authored by Kazuhiko Shimamoto that ran on Deluxe Bonbon, one of the Comic Bonbon franchise issued from 1990 to 1995 as a comedy-manga magazine, in 1991, has stories completely different from the anime ones though the names of characters are identical.
Agedama Genji is a 4th grade student who is a hero on the training from 'Hero Planet'. Though the cheerful youngster is no one special in appearance, he can transform into a superhero called "Agedaman" by combining himself with the compatible computer friend called Wapuro. He believes in Kiai power and he tries to handle all the problems that he encounters with that, so his father decided to let him go training on Earth accompanied by Wapuro on summer vacation. After his arrival to Morisoba city, where an enormously wealthy clan rules arbitrarily, he joined East-Morisoba elementary school, then met a diva girl of the clan named Rei Kuki who has an ambition to conquer the world and as a first step, attacks the city with a variety of chimera monsters that she and her grandfather create with the Monster-Cooker (怪獣合成マシン, Kaijuu-gousei-machine), which the rich old man invented. When they plot to attack the city she transforms into a super-villainess called "Onyomiko". The battles of Agedaman and Onyomiko began!
Preceded by
Tokimeki Ōen TV(talk show) |
TV Tokyo Friday 18:00-18:30 Timeframe Genji Tsūshin Agedama (4 October 1991 – 25 September 1992) |
Succeeded by
Hime-chan's Ribbon (anime) |