Anime Ganbare Goemon (アニメがんばれゴエモン) is an anime television series, based on Konami's best-selling video game franchise Ganbare Goemon. The television series was produced by Trans Arts, aired from 1997 to 1998, ran for 23 episodes, and 5 volumes of videos were released on VHS and DVD. It was eventually picked up in North America for an English dub done by ADV Films under the name Legend of the Mystical Ninja.
Plot
The Demon Lord Makamuge intends to conquer both the game world and the real world, and is up to Goemon and his friends to prevent this from happening.
Characters
Recurring
- Goemon
- Ebisumaru
- Sasuke
- (ヤエ)
- Omitsu
Original
- Ishikawa Tsukasa (石川 ツカサ)
- Ishikawa Jun'ichirō (石川 純一郎)
- Ishikawa Yoko (石川 洋子)
- Itakarō (イタカロー)
- Dokutā Mudanashi (ドクタームダナシ)
- Seppukumaru (セップク丸)
- Goemon Inpakuto (ゴエモン・インパクト)
- Hatarino (ハッタリーノ)
- Tsuchiya Asuka (土屋 明日香)
- Momochi Monoshirinosuke (百地 物知介)
- Mejirodai Noboru (目白台 ノボル)
- Nyanko (ニャンコ)
- Rokudenashi (ロクデーナシ)
- Nishimura Tomoe (西村 知笑)
- Makuamūge (マクアムーゲ)
- Mejirodai Mama (目白台 ママ)
Production
The 1997 anime features Goemon, the main character in Konami's video game franchise Ganbare Goemon, being pulled "from his magical medieval world to become a superhero on Earth".[1] It was directed by Shigeru Omachi and Katsuyoshi Yatabe. Goemon had been previously featured in the 1991 OVA GFIG: Nightmare Dimension. After the television series, Goemon then appeared in the "short movie" GFIG: Battle to Rescue Earth (1998).[1]
External links
References
- Jonathan Clements. The Anime Encyclopedia: A Century of Japanese Animation Stone Bridge Press, 2015^