Demetan Croaker, The Boy Frog
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Demetan Croaker, The Boy Frog | |
けろっこデメタン (Kerokko Demetan) | |
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Genre | Comedy Drama, adventure, Romance, Fantasy |
Anime television series | |
Directed by | Tatsunoko Productions |
Original network | Fuji Television |
Original run | January 2, 1973 – September 25, 1973 |
Episodes | 39[1] |
Demetan Croaker, The Boy Frog (けろっこデメタン, Kerokko Demetan), also known as Demetan the Frog and The Brave Frog, is a 39 episode
Overview
The story is about Demetan (Jonathan in the English version), a poor young frog living in Rainbow Pond with his mother and father (a toymaker), who becomes friends with a popular and sweet girl frog named Ranatan (known as Pookie and later Hilary in different English versions), despite the differences in their social standings: Ranatan is the daughter of the leader of Rainbow Pond (English name, Leopold), while Demetan and his parents are tree frogs, which make them automatic outcasts in the community. Together, Demetan and Ranatan enjoy many adventures.
Like many of Tatsunoko's series at the time (in particular its predecessor has a melancholy sound.
In addition to its original broadcast on
The series became very popular in other regions, such as Asia, Europe (particularly in France, where the entire series was released on DVD in October 2005 [3]), Quebec, Canada, and Latin America.
All of the 39 episodes were dubbed in Italian and broadcast on Italia 1 from 1982 as La banda dei ranocchi with an original theme song.[4]
The show was fully dubbed to Arabic in the 1980s by Agrama Films, which was based in the US.
English versions
The series has been translated into the
Japanese voice actors
- Yuko Hisamatsu as Demetan
- Mari Okamoto as Ranatan
- Hiroshi Ohtakeas Ibokichi
- Kōichi Kitamura as Amataro
- Kousei Tomitaas Gyata
- Miyoko Shoji as Amako
- Shun Yashiro as Kyaru
- Yasuo Tanaka as Zari
- Haruko Kitahama as Narrator
Extra production information
- Broadcaster: Fuji TV
- Planning: Tatsuo Yoshida
- Storyboard(s): Yoshiyuki Tomino
- Writer(s): Jinzo Toriumi
- Character Designer(s): Yoshitaka Amano, Tatsuo Yoshida, Masayuki Hayashi
- Music: Nobuyoshi Koshibe
References
- ^ "作品データベース". Tatsunoko.co.jp. Retrieved 2012-03-04.
- ^ "Tatsunoko Pro". Tatsunoko.co.jp. Retrieved 2012-07-26.
- ^ "Amazon.ca". Retrieved 2017-06-17.
- ^ "Il mondo dei doppiatori (in Italian)". Retrieved 2019-04-15.
External links
- Official anime website of Tatsunoko Production (in Japanese)
- Tatsunoko anime history/Dementan Information.
- Kerokko Demetan (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia