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Main Title Tatsu no Ko Tarou (a2230)
Official Title en
Official Title ja
Type Movie
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Season Winter 1978/79
Tags adventureAdventures are exciting stories, designed to provide an action-filled, energetic experience for the viewer. Rather than the predominant emphasis on violence and fighting, the viewer of adventures can live vicariously through the travels, conquests, explorations, creation of empires, struggles and situations that confront the main characters. Adventure films are often, but not always, set in an historical period., anthropomorphismAnthropomorphism is the attribution of uniquely human characteristics to non-human beings, inanimate objects, or natural or supernatural phenomena. If it`s an animal or an object (AI excluded) and it speaks and/or does other human-like things (dresses up) then we`re dealing with anthropomorphism. Anthropomorphism leans more on the animal-looking side when compared to juujin, which leans more on the human-looking side., coming of ageIn the strict sense the Coming of age describes a young person`s transition from adolescence to adulthood. In anime the term is used in a more general sense where the protagonists have to face a challenge, make an important decision in their life, take on responsibility, or learn a lesson, and by overcoming these obstacles they reach a higher level of maturity., demonIn Western lore, demons are often described as minions from Hell, generally known to attack humans and feast on their flesh or possess the bodies of those with weak souls. In Eastern lore, on the other hand, they are generally supernatural, often but not always malevolent beings who can be more mischievous than actually evil, or simply supernatural spirits of no specific alignment., dragonVery intelligent mythical beings - a cross between a very large lizard and a dinosaur - that breath fire, and have a knack for kidnapping damsels, thus distressing them., fantasyImaginative or fanciful work, especially one dealing with supernatural elements and themes., minaIn the context of manga and associated media, the word mina refers to a broad audience, which can be said to be "the entire family", from the grumpy grandpa to the newborn baby. In Japanese, the word means simply "everyone", and has no anime/manga-related connotations at all. - [similar]
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Rating 6.45 (258)
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Edited by hidden on 2016-08-29 14:44
Main Title Tatsu no Ko Tarou (a2230)
Official Title en
Official Title ja
Official Title deverified
Official Title frverified
Official Title es-419
Official Title el
Synonym Taro el Niño Dragon, Taro the Dragon`s Son, Taro, der Drachenboy, Taro, der Drachenjunge, Tatsu no Ko Taro, Таро, сын дракона
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Original Work: Matsutani Miyoko
Direction: Urayama Kirio
Character Design: Kotabe Youichi Okuyama Reiko
Music: Manabe Riichirou
Lazy and selfish Taro loves to eat and sleep, and wrestle with the animals. With no direction in his life, a wizard appears that gives him a special potion. With this potion, he gains the strength of a hundred men. But the catch is he can only use it when he is helping others. Taro learns that his long lost mother was turned into a dragon, and he is suddenly given a puorpuse in life. Track down his mother and free her from the spell, all the while trying to help the peasants of his village.

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approx. 1h 15m

Completed

350 (48.3%)

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362 (50.0%)

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Original Work (原作) Matsutani Miyoko
Direction (監督) Urayama Kirio
Character Design (キャラクターデザイン) Kotabe Youichi
Okuyama Reiko
Music (音楽) Manabe Riichirou
Sound Effects (音響効果) Itou Michihiro
Editing (編集) Chikura Yutaka
Art Direction (美術監督) Tsuchida Isamu
Production Manager (製作担当) Kishimoto Matsuji
Yoshioka Osamu
Planning (企画) Ariga Takeshi
Yamaguchi Yasuo
Production (製作) Imada Chiaki
Financial Production Toei Douga
Script/Screenplay (脚本) Urayama Kirio
三井隆史
Animation Episode Direction (アニメーション演出) Kasai Osamu
Episode Direction (演出) Urayama Kirio
Assistant Episode Direction (演出助手) Endou Yuuji
Animation Direction (作画監督) Kotabe Youichi
Okuyama Reiko
Opening Animation (オープニングアニメーション) Maeda Tsuneo uncredited
Sugii Gisaburou uncredited
Key Animation (原画) Abe Takashi
Araki Shingo
Hirota Akira
Ishiguro Megumu
Kanayama Michihiro
Kino Tatsuji
Matoba Shigeo
Ogawa Akihiro
Saida Toshitsugu
Takano Noboru
Tsunoda Kouichi
In-Between Animation (動画) Hattori Teruo
Ikeda Junko
Ishiyama Mario
Iwai Midori
Kaminashi Ichiya
Kaneyama Keiko
Katou Yoshiko
Kobayashi Toshiaki
Kusama Shinnosuke
Matsumura Keiko
Mihara Takenori
Naganuma Sumiko
Ootsuka Shinji
Ootsuka Taeko
Sakano Takao
Shimada Kazuyoshi
Ueno Momoko
Usuda Yoshinobu
Yamada Miyo
Yamazaki Hisashi
Yashima Yoshitaka
円山智
村上由美
Colouring (彩色) Abe Keiko
Furuya Junko
Gotou Mitsuko
Yamauchi Masako
Finishing/Clean-up Inspection (仕上検査) Kinugasa Kazuo
Ogura Masatoshi
Finishing/Clean-up Manager (仕上進行) Fujimoto Yoshihiro
Tracing (トレース) Igarashi Reiko
Okunishi Kimiyo
Sakano Sonoe
黒沢和子
Art Manager (美術進行) Akutsu Fumio
Background Art (背景) Ebisawa Kazuo
Matsumoto Kenji
Tanaka Motoyuki
Special Effects (特殊効果) Hirao Chiaki
Okada Yoshiaki
Photography (撮影) Takanashi Youichi
Yamada Yoshihiro
Title (タイトル文字) 星野忠雄
Film Processing (現像) Toei Kagaku Kougyou
Xerography (ゼログラフ) Totsuka Tomoko
村松錦三郎
Recording (記録) 伊達悦子
Recording (録音) Hatano Isao
Recording Studio (録音スタジオ) TAVAC
Assistant Production Manager (製作進行) 和久田俊文

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02.05.2015 FATT complete
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29.07.2014 Subwawa complete
1 0 ja fr DVD N/A (0) 0
15.06.2012 st4vros complete
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75m 17.03.1979