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Series title: Goku's Great Adventure
- Studio
- Mushi Productions, Tezuka Productions Co. Ltd.
Synopsis
Goku and his friends get lost in the mad scientist Doctor Dokkanko's bomb experimenting facility. The doctor thinks that Sanzo is an industrial spy and captures him. Goku and others try to rescue Sanzo. They have a hard fight, but the bomb that is the doctor's last resort fails.
Characters
Goku
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Gisaburo Sugii, Osamu Dezaki, Hideo Makino, Ryosuke Takahashi, Masami Hata
Producing
- Producer
- Eichi Kawabata
- Assistant Producer
- Atsushi Tomioka
Writing
Animation
- Animator
- Shigeru Yamamoto
Voices
Music
- Music
- Seiichirô Uno
Editing
- Editor
- Noriyoshi Matsuura
Crew
- Original Manga
- Osamu Tezuka
- Design
- Osamu Tezuka, Gisaburo Sugii
- Art Director
- Shirô Fujimoto
- Chief Director
- Gizaburô Sugii
- Animation Director
- Shigeru Yamamoto
- Camera Director
- Asahi Tsuchiya
- Assistant Producer
- Atsushi Tomioka
- Literature
- Yoshitake Suzuki
- Production Cooperation
- Art Flesh, Fuji TV
- Music
- Seiichirô Uno
- Editing
- Noriyoshi Matsuura
- Sound Effects Director
- Yoshio Suzuki
Companies and other credits
- Recorder, Sound Effects: Aoi Studio
Production notes
This TV series ran for 39 episodes.
A remake of the story of Wu Kong.
Although the series' first three episodes stayed faithful to the legend, the rest of the show became known for its adult, surrealistic gags.
The PTA complained about the amount of bad language, and viewers in general were angry or confused. The series ended before its planned 52-episode run.
Leiji Matsumoto's 1978 series "Starzingers" was a science-fiction version set in outer space. It was redubbed as "Spaceketeers" and shown in the United States among other anime in the "Force Five" series.
The live-action series "Monkey" (1979) featured scripts by Isao Okishima and music from the group Godiego.
An anime TV-movie, Gisaburo Sugii and Hideo Takayashiki's musical "Goku Flies the Silk Road," was released in 1982.
Science-fiction sendups included "Dragon Ball" (1986), the 1988 Doraemon movie "Parallel Journey to the West" and Buichi Terasawa's "Goku: Midnight Eye" (1989). Sanrio produced 1991's "Pokopon no Yukai Saiyuki" ("Raccoon Fun Journey to the West").
The series "One Piece" was an extremely loose adaptation.
Another series, the 13-episode "Monkey Magic" (1999), was first released on video before appearing on TV. Based on a computer game, it featured a hero named Kongo and was faithful to the early part of the legend, although it wasn't until the second-last episode that the actual journey to the west began.
Also in 1999, the two-part video "Saiyuki," based on Kazuya Minekura's "G-Fantasy" manga, was released. It became a 50-episode TV series. Characters included Gyumao and Genjo Sanzo.
A remake of the story of Wu Kong.
Although the series' first three episodes stayed faithful to the legend, the rest of the show became known for its adult, surrealistic gags.
The PTA complained about the amount of bad language, and viewers in general were angry or confused. The series ended before its planned 52-episode run.
Leiji Matsumoto's 1978 series "Starzingers" was a science-fiction version set in outer space. It was redubbed as "Spaceketeers" and shown in the United States among other anime in the "Force Five" series.
The live-action series "Monkey" (1979) featured scripts by Isao Okishima and music from the group Godiego.
An anime TV-movie, Gisaburo Sugii and Hideo Takayashiki's musical "Goku Flies the Silk Road," was released in 1982.
Science-fiction sendups included "Dragon Ball" (1986), the 1988 Doraemon movie "Parallel Journey to the West" and Buichi Terasawa's "Goku: Midnight Eye" (1989). Sanrio produced 1991's "Pokopon no Yukai Saiyuki" ("Raccoon Fun Journey to the West").
The series "One Piece" was an extremely loose adaptation.
Another series, the 13-episode "Monkey Magic" (1999), was first released on video before appearing on TV. Based on a computer game, it featured a hero named Kongo and was faithful to the early part of the legend, although it wasn't until the second-last episode that the actual journey to the west began.
Also in 1999, the two-part video "Saiyuki," based on Kazuya Minekura's "G-Fantasy" manga, was released. It became a 50-episode TV series. Characters included Gyumao and Genjo Sanzo.