Ojarumaru

, known officially in English as Prince Mackaroo, is a Japanese anime series created by Rin Inumaru, produced by NHK and NHK Enterprises, and animated by Gallop. The series has aired on NHK Educational TV since October 1998, making it the second longest-running anime on NHK behind Nintama Rantaro, and the third longest-running anime series to date. The series focuses on a five-year-old Heian-era prince named Ojarumaru Sakanoue who accidentally time-warps to modern Japan and has adventures there while dodging a trio of young oni who try to get back a scepter that he stole from Great King Enma. The series has been dubbed in many languages.Spanish, Italian, Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, Tagalog, Thai, Cantonese, Korean, and Malay It was the first NHK anime series to be animated using the digital ink-and-paint process instead of cel animation.

It received an "Excellence Award" for animation at the 1999 Japan Media Arts Festival.

Premise

Around 1,000 years ago in Fairy World (妖精界 Yōsei-kai) in the Heian era, a young prince from a noble family named Ojarumaru Sakanoue is bored of his life of privilege. He is later lured into Enma World (エンマ界 Enma-kai) by the sound of a ukulele played by Great King Enma. Upon arriving, he steals Great King Enma's powerful scepter, which he uses in order to judge the dead. While getting chased by Great King Enma, he accidentally falls into the Moon Hole (月の穴 Tsuki no Ana), which time-warps him to modern Japan via the Full Moon Road (満月ロード Mangetsu Rōdo). The furious Great King Enma sends his three adopted oni children, Aobei, Kisuke, and Akane, who are known as the "Little Child Trio" (子鬼トリオ Kooni Trio), to pursue Ojarumaru and get the scepter back. At the present time, Ojarumaru falls from the Moon to the roof of Sakata Apartment (坂田マンション Sakata Manshon) where he befriends a boy named Kazuma Tamura and his grandfather Tommy. Fascinated with the prince, Tommy helps Kazuma convince his parents Ai and Makoto into letting Ojarumaru stay with the family, to which they accept. Denbo, Ojarumaru's anthropomorphic firefly caretaker who witnessed the latter falling into the Moon Hole, eventually finds and takes care of him at the request of his parents. While making many new friends and rivals, as well as dodging the Oni Child Trio's efforts to retrieve the scepter, Ojarumaru has many adventures in Moonlight Town (月光町 Gekkō-chō) and encounters new things he has never seen before in his time period.

Later episodes tend to center around other characters, including Princess Okame, Ojarumaru's young fiancé who desperately tries to win over his heart; Okorinbō and Nikorinbō, two anthropomorphic komainu who try numerous get-rich-quick methods in a bid to get their shinto shrine out of poverty; Ken, a freeter who keeps changing jobs; Kazuma's classmates, big eater Kintarō Sakata, beauty-obsessed Komachi Ono, and the judgmental but well-intentioned Kentarō Iwashimizu; Icchoku Honda, Kazuma's energetic homeroom teacher; the Hoshino Family, three aliens from another planet who want to invade Earth and have a strange aversion to Ojarumaru; and Sachiyo Usui, an eccentric manga artist who is notorious for her creepy, highly detailed drawings.

Some episodes place the characters in parodies of notable fairy tales, fables, novels, and TV shows from Japan and other countries. These include Momotarō,Ojarumaru 1st series episode 68 "Ojaru Oni ga Yama e Iku" (おじゃる鬼が島へ行く)Ojarumaru 3rd series episode 5 "Momoman" (モモマン)Ojarumaru 7th series episode 86 "Momoman 2" (モモマン2) Cinderella,Ojarumaru 2nd series episode 18 "Ojaderella" (おじゃデレラ) Ikkyū-san,Ojarumaru 10th series episode 13 "Ojakkyū-san" (おじゃ休さん) Journey to the West,Ojarumaru 10th series episode 63 "Ojagoku" (おじゃごくう) Columbo,Ojarumaru 10th series episode 28 "Keiji Ojarumbo" (刑事おじゃるンボ) Peter Pan,Ojarumaru 15th series episode 75 "Ojater Pan" (おじゃターパン) The Boy Who Cried Wolf,Ojarumaru 18th series episode 38 "Ookami Shonen Ojarumaru" (おおかみ少年おじゃる "Wolf Boy Ojarumaru") Attack on TitanOjarumaru 21st series episode 21 "Shingeki no Maro" (進撃のマロ) and James Bond.Ojarumaru 21st series episode 32 "Makomako 7" (マコマコ7)

Broadcast Seven television specials have aired on NHK E-Tele. The first special entitled aired on January 1, 2000. The second special entitled aired on May 3, 2007. The third special entitled aired on March 20, 2012. The fourth special entitled aired on August 14, 2015. The fifth special entitled aired in 2 parts on November 1 and 2, 2017. The sixth special entitled aired on November 3, 2017. The seventh special was scheduled to premiere on March 28, 2022, and was later delayed to March 30 due to a high school baseball tournament preempting the special's initial 9:00 AM timeslot on March 28.

The series has aired daily on Kids Station since November 5, 2018.

Soundtrack Opening Themes +No.Title Series no.PerformerNotes 1 Utahito (詠人) 1–10; 16-present Saburō Kitajima 2 Yumehito (夢人) 11–15 Saburō Kitajima

Ending Themes +No.TitleSeries no.PerformerNotes 1 1 SUS4 2 2 Ojarumaru (Hiroko Konishi), Kazuma (Yuriko Fuchizaki), Denbo (Rie Iwatsubo) A cover of Purin Sanka 3 3 Kooni Trio 4 4 Denbo 5 5 Ojarumaru (Chinami Nishimura), Kazuma, Denbo, the Oni Child Trio 6 6 Bin-chan (Ayaka Saitō) 7 7 Moonlight Town Tiny Things Club 8 8 Ojarumaru, Kisuke 9 9 Denbo (Narumi Satō), Ojarumaru, Kazuma 10 10 Natsumi 11 11 Reiko Mizumachi 12 12 Kumiko Mori 13 13 Manami Oku 14 14 Ojarumaru Sisters 15 15, 16 Chopiiin (15th series); Ojarumaru, Kazuma, Denbo (16th series) 16 Da!Da!!Da!!! 17 The Collectors 17 18 Zainichi Funk 18 19 Ojamens 19 20 TWEEDEES A cover of Purin Sanka 20 21 Ken 21 22 Great King Enma (Tetsuo Komura), Bin-chan 22 23 Crazy Ken Band 23 24 Fuwa-chan, Team Ojarumaru 24 25Ringo Sheena 25 26 Ikusaburo Yamazaki 26 27 Shizuka Kudo2728Hiromi Go2829Kiyoshi Hikawa

Other media Manga A manga adaptation of the anime series, written and illustrated by Tatsuma Ejiri, was serialized in Shueisha's Saikyo Jump magazine from January 2012 to September 2014. The first and only tankōbon volume, which compiles select stories from the Saikyo Jump serialization, was published in Japan on July 4, 2014.

Video games TitleDeveloperPublisherPlatformRelease dateSourceBandaiBandaiSega Pico1999MTOMTOGame Boy ColorJune 30, 2000SuccessSuccessGame Boy ColorJuly 14, 2000InterchannelInterchannelWindows 95/98/Me/XP 2001E FrontierE FrontierWindows 95/98/2000/Me/XP, Classic Mac OS, macOS 2002E FrontierE FrontierWindows 95/98/2000/Me/XP, Classic Mac OS, macOS2002DorasuDorasuWindows 95/98/2000/MeMTOMTOGame Boy AdvanceSeptember 5, 2003D3 PublisherD3 PublisherNintendo DSDecember 20, 2007MetroMetroauMetroMetroauMetroMetroauMetroMetroauMetroMetroauMetroMetroauMetroMetroauMetroMetroauMetroMetroauAkihabara TMO, INC.Akihabara TMO, INC.iOS, Android 2011

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