1966 Anime

A wacky comedy about identical sextuplets causing wild pranks. Each episode features 2 stories.

Note: The original 1966 broadcast of Osomatsu-kun ran over 60 time slots. Four of these were entirely rerun content, while eight others featured one new half-episode and one rerun.

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Sally was a tomboy and mischievous witch girl. One day, she was attracted by an advertising balloon, and went to the department store. There she found girls of the same age, Sumire and Yoshiko, and she wanted to become friends with them. After she became good friends with them, she made up her mind to pretend to be a human and began to live in the town with her follower, Kabu. Then she began to know more important things than magic.

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An expansion of the original Dolphin Ouji series. Character names were altered, (changing 'Dolphin Prince' to 'Marine Kid' and 'Neptuna' to 'Neptina'), characters were added and concepts expanded. In order to distance the new series from the original trial episodes, the series was re-titled Ganbare! Marine Kid.

Marine, whose father, Dr. Mariner, is an oceanographer with the Ocean Patrol, has been genetically altered to have superior underwater swimming abilities and chews Oxygum to supply himself with air underwater. Along with his companion, Whitey the white dolphin (Splasher in the U.S. version), Marine helps his father keep the sea safe.

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Jungle Emperor was such a hit in Japan, that Dr. Tezuka went ahead and produced a sequel in 1966, known in Japan as "The New Jungle Emperor" or "Onward, Leo!" The trouble (for us in the rest of the world) was that he made the series without having a deal with NBC, and he made it more like his original manga story, which means that there were a lot of characters that died and some of the episodes could be depressing. NBC thought that there was no way they could sell that kind of show, and they were quite happy with the 52 episodes they had, so the New Jungle Emperor series wasn`t seen in this country until 1984, when it was given the title Leo The Lion.

This series was supposed to take place a few years after the original Kimba series. Kimba was an adult, with Kitty as his mate, and they had two cubs. Most of all this series was the story of Rune, the male cub, as he grew and learned to be as strong as his father.

For legal reasons, the producers of the English-dubbed version could not use the name Kimba, so they used the original Japanese names for all the characters.

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A squadron of robots defends the planet against alien invaders.

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A boy known as a troublemaker transfers into a new school.

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Kid was brought up on a small island which floats on the Carribean Sea. He lives a pleasant life with many animals as his companions. However, this changes when he learns that his dying father is not his real father. Before he es away, his foster father reveals to Kid that his real father is actually Captain Morgan, the pirate who rules the seven seas.

Kid decides to set off in search of his real father, only to learn about his death. Other pirates began to hunger for the title of ruler, one of them being the notorious pirate Tiger Hook. In order to protect the seas, Kid became the pirate king of his father's ship.

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Household robot Robotan, made by a nerdy school boy named Kan-chan, lives with an everyday Japanese family as a domestic servant and friend to the children.

Donning a special mask, a young man defends the planet.

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A young detective solves mysterious cases. The 10 minutes episodes aired daily, Monday through Saturday.

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Original Cyborg 009 1966 movie based on the manga. Features 009's origin and an epic battle against Black Ghost and their evil robot forces.

The first 2 minutes of this film are taken from the Jungle Emperor Leo (1965) TV series, while the rest is all original. Tezuka was very pleased that this film conveyed his story accurately, something he wasn't able to do with the TV series.

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A series of short animated segments, without dialog, explore major characters of modern society, such as the plastic surgeon, the fashion-obsessed woman, the rumor-monger, and others, leading to a concluding comment on the progress of civilization.

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An adaptation of Mimei Ogawa's short story. It was a night with a beautiful moon. An optician visited an old lady who was living in a house alone just outside of town. Since she has gotten older and her eyesight has weakened, she bought a pair of large-rimmed glasses made of tortoise shell...

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Stop motion animation of an old Japanese fairy tale. A poor man trades a piece of straw for a more expensive item. In the course of his journey, he manages to finally exchange the last item for a villa.

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Stop motion animation of aliens on a guided tour around an amusement park.

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Puppet animation by Tadanari Okamoto.

Short experimental animation film from 1966 from pioneer Kuri Yoji.

Two versions exist. The original monochrome version that is 13 min. And the edited international colour version that is 9 min.

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Experimental animation by Manabe Hiroshi, member of the Animation Sannin no Kai pioneer group of independent animation.

Unaired pilot episode of Ribbon no Kishi.

A song for the Minna no Uta segment, it adapts "Flohwalzer" (Flea Waltz) is a simple German piano piece, often one of the first learned because its fingering is simple and it allows beginners to perform a piece that is harmonically and rhythmically pleasing. It has different names in different countries but in Japan this piece is known as Neko Funjatta (I Stepped on the Cat).

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A little boy has fun being a cowboy out in the Wild West.

The life of a chimney sweep in a song. This is the Japanese version of the 1964 Academy Award song Chim Chim Cher-ee that was originally sung by Dick Van Dyke and Julie Andrews in the movie 'Mary Poppins". Given the anime treatment by graphic artist and animator Tadanori Yokoo and shown in the Minna no Uta segment of NHK programming.

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Music video for the song Hinageshi by Peggy Hayama and the Osaka Housou Jidou Gasshoudan that was featured on NHK's Minna no Uta program.

Music video for the song Giromagitondo Girotondo by Mieko Hirota and the Suginami Jidou Gasshoudan that was featured on NHK's Minna no Uta program. It is considered to be lost media.

Music video for the song Go-hiki no Kaeru by Fusako Amachi and Bonny Jacks that was featured on NHK's Minna no Uta program. It is considered to be lost media.

Music video for the song Awate Tokoya by Bonny Jacks that was featured on NHK's Minna no Uta program. It is considered to be lost media.

Kids go looking for fireflies in the night.

A song about the circle of life. A crow eats a persimmon and poops the seed out. The elements let the seed sprout and grow. It turns into a new persimmon tree and a new crow comes along and repeats the process.

Music video for the song Mama to Go-go by Mieko Hirota and the Suginami Jidou Gasshoudan that was featured on NHK's Minna no Uta program. It is considered to be lost media.

Music video for the song Gakkou e Iku Michi by Mieko Hirota that was featured on NHK's Minna no Uta program. It is considered to be lost media.

Music video for the song Obake Nante Nai sa by Mieko Hirota that was featured on NHK's Minna no Uta program. It is considered to be lost media.

Music video for the song Onboro Piano by Atsuoki Matsuo that was featured on NHK's Minna no Uta program. It is considered to be lost media.

Music video for the song Tototo no Uta by the NHK Tokyo Jidou Gasshoudan that was featured on NHK's Minna no Uta program. It is considered to be lost media.