Cat Contest
English title: Cat Contest
Series title: トッポジージョ
- Studio
- Nippon Animation, Trans Arts Co.
- Animation studio
- Nippon Animation, Rever, Kino Production, Samtack, Studio ArgoShip, Studio Mark, Studio Swing, Takahashi Production
Synopsis
Topo Gigio is the first mouse astronaut to travel the Milky Way. Can a mouse become an astronaut? Well, Topo Gigio has come from a year 2,388,400 years ahead in the future. He is friendly and can talk with humans. He makes friends with his neighbors, including a girl, her pet mouse, cats and other mice.
Characters
Topo Gigio, Jean, Kurt, Per, Megalo, Doc, Dracula
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Shigeo Koshi, Noboru Ishiguro
Producing
- Producer
- Shinji Nabeshima, Shoji Sato
- Executive Producer
- Kôichi Motohashi
Writing
Music
- Music
- Nobuyoshi Koshibe
Animation
- Animator
- Tadaichi Iguchi, Hirokazu Ishino
Crew
- Created By
- Maria Perego
- Original Work
- Maria Perego
- Art Director
- Shuichi Ishibashi
- Character Design
- Susumu Shiraume
- Art Setting
- Shôhei Kawamoto
- Storyboards
- Eikichi Kojika, Masato Kitagawa, Noboru Ishiguro, Satoshi Kimura, Shigeo Koshi, Yoshikata Nitta
- Animation Directors
- Hirokazu Ishino, Kazushige Yusa, Kenzo Koizumi, Minoru Kibata, Noboru Sugimitsu, Susumu Shiraume, Tamotsu Tanaka
- Key Animators
- Akio Kawamura, Akira Watanabe, Atsuya Suzuki, Emi Sakamoto, Hiroaki Kawaguchi, Hirofumi Yamagishi, Hiroko Kazui, Hiroko Noda, Hiroshi Yamamoto, Ikuo Shimazu, Kazuya Hayashi, Keiji Fukuhara, Ken Masuda, Ken'ichi Ôtomo, Kenzo Koizumi, Kôichirô Saotome, Kôji Yabushita, Masakazu Ikeda, Masaru Oshiro, Masayuki Fujita, Michinori Shirato, Naozumi Yamaguchi, Norie Karasawa, Rie Ooshima, Shinichi Yoshikawa, Shuichi Ishii, Shun'ichi Sakai, Taeko Oda, Tamotsu Tanaka, Tetsuya Saeki, Toshiaki Komura, Yasuyuki Noda, Yoshinori Takahashi, Yukiko Oto
- In-Between Animators
- Junichi Noda, Katsunori Hara, Kenichi Imaizumi, Masashi Kojima, Masashi Nishida, Mieko Narita, Munetaka Tatsudan, Nobuaki Nagano, Reishu- Sakaguchi, Rumiko Oue, Ryu-ichi Ôya, Takatoshi Omori, Tetsuji Tanihashi, Yoshitaka Ishigaki, Yumiko Shiraishi
- Animation Checkwes
- Ken'ichi Ôtomo, Tatsuyoshi Maeda, Tetsuji Tanihashi, Yaeko Kodama, Yoriko Mochizuki
- Director of Photography
- Toshiaki Morita
- Episode Directors
- Eiji Imanari, Eikichi Kojika, Masato Kitagawa, Satoshi Kimura, Shigeo Koshi, Shigeru Omachi
- Assistant Episode Directors
- Noburo Shirohata, Satoshi Jinbo
- Production Desk
- Yasuhiro Tazaki, Yasushi Tôdô
- Production Manager
- Mitsuru Takakuwa
- Production Advancement
- Akira Hamanaka, Hitoshi Kuramoto, Kei Yonamine, Satoshi Jinbo, Shuichi Okada, Tadayuki Takasugi
- Production Assistant
- Kôjirô Tsutsumi
- Recording Director
- Hideyuki Tanaka
- Music
- Nobuyuki Koshibe
Production notes
This TV series ran for 21 episodes.
The series was renamed "Yume Miru Topo Gigio" ("Dreaming Topo Gigio") after Episode 21.
The series was renamed "Yume Miru Topo Gigio" ("Dreaming Topo Gigio") after Episode 21.