Chibi Maruko Chan Drama

[Olowookere Devost]

TheChibi Maruko-chan television series is known around the world. Sakura started drawing the original comic book version two years after her debut as a manga artist in 1984. She modeled the character after herself as a child. In an NHK interview in 1997, she spoke about her inspiration for the stories.

She said she was just 3-and-a-half years old when she started drawing little girl characters similar to her heroine. She said some of little Maruko's classmates, like Hamaji, are based on real childhood friends. She said thinking about what the character Nagasawa might say, she would only have to ask herself what she would like to hear least.

Fans in Japan are not the only ones mourning Sakura's passing. The Chibi Maruko-chan television series has aired in 60 countries and regions, including China. Visitors to a museum in Shanghai spoke lovingly about the program.

Media in Taiwan also reported on Sakura's passing. Her Chibi Maruko-chan series was made into a popular live-action drama there. Reports said it had a devoted following, equal to its popularity in Japan.

The animated series built a strong following in Hong Kong when a dubbed version was aired in the 1990s. Obituaries of Sakura in the local press said her Maruko-chan character was well-received across Asia. Fans have been posting expressions of gratitude to Sakura online, saying her stories were always entertaining.

Columnist Akio Nakamori is one of the few people to have met her in person. He said he met her twice, and that she was very intelligent and always smiling. He said that made him feel sure that she was the creator of little Maruko.

Chibi Maruko-chantypetv seriesdirectorYumiko Suda

Tsutomu ShibayamastudioNippon AnimationnetworkFuji Television, AnimaxfirstJanuary 7, 1990lastSeptember 27, 1992episodes142episode_listList of Maruko-Chan episodes

Chibi Maruko-chan (ちびまる子ちゃん?) is a shōjo manga series by Momoko Sakura, later adapted into an anime TV series by Nippon Animation, which originally aired on Fuji Television from January 7, 1990 to September 27, 1992. The series depicts the simple, everyday life of a little girl nicknamed Maruko and her family in suburban mid-seventies Japan. The series is set in the former city of Shimizu, now part of Shizuoka City, birthplace of its author.

The first story under the title "Chibi Maruko-chan" was published in the August 1986 edition of the shōjo manga magazine Ribon. Other semi-autobiographical stories by the author had appeared in Ribon and Ribon Original in 1984 and 1985, and were included in the first "Chibi Maruko-chan" tankōbon in 1987. The author first began writing and submitting strips in her final year of senior high school, although Shueisha (the publisher of Ribon and Ribon Original) did not decide to run them until over a year later. The author's intent was to write "essays in manga form".[1] Many stories are inspired by incidents from the author's own life, and some characters are based on her family and friends. The nostalgic, honest and thoughtful tone of the strip led to its becoming popular among a wider audience.

The Chibi Maruko-chan series has spawned numerous games, animated films and merchandising, as well as a second TV series running from 1995 to the present. Maruko's style and themes are sometimes compared to the classic comic Sazae-san. In 1989, the manga tied to receive the Kodansha Manga Award for shōjo.[2] As of 2006, the collected volumes of the manga had sold more than 31 million copies in Japan, making it the fifth best-selling shōjo manga ever.[3]

A really rich boy in Maruko's class who lives in a mansion his caretaker is Mr. Hideji. His mom is always away travelling and so he doesn't see her that often. He also has a butler who drives a limo and picks him up every day from school. Hanawa is mentioned to have a crush on Maruko. He was born on August 7, 1965.

Maruo is one of Maruko's classmates and serves as the male class president and always wants to be admired by others. He has very thick glasses because he is a very serious student and studies very hard every day; black lines appear on his face nearly all of the time, especially when he seems euphoric. He is paranoid that his classmates are seeking to replace him as male class president and will target classmates that stand out and do well to discourage them from running against him. His birthday is December 31, thus giving rise to his name.

She is crazy about Hanawa and does not like other girls being around with him and because Hanawa has a crush on Maruko, she is hard on Maruko. She is studying in standard 3 for the last five years because she is not good in her studies and fails every year. She is the female class president and like Maruko is pretty intent on maintaining her position, even promising along with Maruo to come in the morning to do cleaning and other work so their classmates don't have to.

His house was burned down during an accident and made his family poor in the episodes they always show a connection with fire of Nagasama. Therefore he always felt that nobody cares about him, and that everybody is out to laugh about him. He is thus became very aloof and does not talk much to other people except Fujiki, his best friend.

The original Chibi Maruko-chan manga was serialized in the shōjo-oriented Ribon Magazine. 14 volumes were published from July 1987 to December 1996, with a 15th volume published in February 2003. On July 2007, a 4-frame version of Chibi Maruko-chan was published in every morning edition of several Japanese newspapers such as the Tokyo Shimbun and the Chunichi Shimbun.

Chibi Maruko-chan originally aired on Fuji Television. 142 episodes were broadcast, from January 1990 to September 1992. Maruko was voiced by Tarako; other voice actors included Kappei Yamaguchi and Hideki Saijo. Original manga author Momoko Sakura wrote the teleplay for most episodes. The first season was directed by Yumiko Suda and animated by Masaaki Yuasa (who later directed Mind Game in 2004). The series attained a TV viewer rating of 39.9%, the highest rating ever attained by an animated TV series in Japan at the time.[4] The theme song Odoru Ponpokorin became a hit and was interpreted by several artists including the KinKi Kids and Captain Jack. The series was exported throughout Asia and was especially popular in Taiwan. In addition, 65 episodes were dubbed into Arabic (called maruko-alsaghera, which means Little Maruko), where it garnered attention from people of all ages. It also aired in Germany with the same title as the original. It airs weekdays on Nick India in India.[5]

A second series debuted in January 1995, in the 6pm time slot before Sazae-san on Sunday evenings. This series was also dubbed into German and broadcast by RTL II, Super RTL and Jetix in Germany.

A live action series was shown on Fuji Television in 2006. The series was created to commemorate Chibi Maruko-chan's 15th anniversary and had 3 episodes, each 2 hours. All costumes and hairstyles are faithful to the original manga.

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This year's 21st issue of Shueisha's Grand Jump magazine is announcing on Wednesday that Chibi Maruko-chan creator Momoko Sakura will launch a Chibi Shikaku-chan manga series in the magazine's next issue on October 19. The "drama of tears and laughter" follows Shikako, a square-headed parody version of Sakura's iconic manga girl Chibi Maruko-chan. ("Shikaku" and "Shikako" are wordplays on the Japanese word for "square," while the "maru" in "Maruko" sounds similar to the Japanese word for "round.")

Sakura had previously published a Chibi Shikaku-chan short (seen above) as the first installment of her open-themed anthology Manga Club in Grand Jump last fall. However, the new Chibi Shikaku-chan manga will be a "full-fledged series" on its own.

Sakura serialized the Chibi Maruko-chan manga in Shueisha's Ribon magazine from 1986 to 1996. The manga has approximately 32 million copies in print. She launched a four-panel version in a Japanese newspaper in 2007, and she ended that version in 2011. Sakura launched the Chibi Maruko-chan Kimi wo Wasurenai yo manga as a tie in to the Eiga Chibi Maruko-chan: Italia kara Kita Shōnen anime film in September 2015, and ended it in December of that year.

The original manga inspired the Chibi Maruko-chan television anime that is consistently the #2 rated anime series after Sazae-san. The first anime series ran from 1990 to 1992, and the ongoing second series premiered in 1995. The 1,000th television anime episode aired in 2012, and the show now has more than 1,100 episodes. The series celebrated its 25th anniversary last year.

Saqr Al Humoud, General Manager and owner of Media Marketing and Production Est. in Jordan, spoke exclusively to Arab News Japan, sharing how he is very excited for the new episodes of the Chibi Maruko-chan series.

Many actors including Eman Hayel (Maruko in the first series) and other main actors: Nabil Najm, Suhair Fahed, Reem Saadeh and Abdul Karim Al Qawasmi took part in the revival, participating in creating the new 77 episodes of the second series. Other cast members were included, such as: Rania Fahed, Wafa Abdullah, Daood Ufaishat, Ayman Idrees, and Diana Rahmeh.

Media Marketing and Production Est, entered the world of TV production, dubbing, and distribution activities almost 40 years ago. The company handled dubbing of different animations, documentaries, and both drama, and TV series from Asia, Europe, Australia and the Americas for the Middle East region.

When I started learning Japanese, the inability to pick up on words in anime, movies and music frustrated me. Aside from "Okā-san!", "Otō-san!" and "Kusou!", I had trouble catching words and phrases and my listening skills developed at a slow rate. I used to sit back and wonder, "Will I ever be able to understand what they're saying!?"

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