Acho! Acho!
English title: Amyo! Amyo!
Series titles: PaRappa Rappa, Parappa The Rapper
- Studio
- JC Staff, Production I.G, Fuji Television, SME Visual Works
- Animation studio
- J.C. Staff.
Animation Co-Production: Production I.G
Synopsis
Parappa and friends scramble to clean up the Fruits Dojo when Chop Chop Master Onion returns to town after a long training journey. However, when he gets back, the dojo falls down, so Chop Chop forces his students to clean up the dojo and to do an impromptu karate lesson, which showed that he was around the world to learn specific techniques. After much pestering from Paula, Chop Chop shows her to do "the Kilimangyro Chop". As she runs home, her friends follow her and find out that she learned it to she could slice oranges to make marmalade.
Characters
Parappa, Sunny, PJ, Katy, Matt, Paula, Gaster, Mikko (Pinto), Papa
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Hiroaki Sakurai
Producing
- Producer
- Sosuke Osabe, Hideo Katsumata
Writing
- Writer
- Yoshio Urasawa
- Original Story
- Rodney Alan Greenblat, Masaya Matsuura
Animation
- Animator
- Yuji Matsukura, Masatoshi Nishizawa (Animation Producers)
- Animation Character Design
- Takayuki Goto
Voices
- Voice
- Miyu Irino (Parappa), Mika Kanai (Sunny), Masami Kikuchi (PJ), Rina Nakayama (Katy), Kenichi Suzumura (Matt), Akiko Kobayashi (Paula), Rei Naito (Gaster), Mikko (Pinto), Kunihiko Yasui (Papa)
Music
Editing
- Editor
- Makiko Asano
Crew
- Design
- Rodney Alan Greenblat, Takayuki Goto
- Original Character Concept
- Rodney Alan Greenblat
- Planning
- Kenji Shimizu, Ryuzo Shirakawa
- Character Advisor
- Kiri Matsuura
- Art Director
- Hiromasa Ogura
- Color Supervisor
- Katsue Inoue
- Director of Photography
- Miki Sakuma
- Sound Directors
- Yukio Nagasaki, Takafumi Nakatake
Production notes
Since its launch as a PlayStation game in 1996, Parappa the Rapper has been a big hit. And in April 2001, it went on air as a TV anime. For the TV series, Rodney Alan Greenblat drew brand-new characters that appeared one after another in the show. The series included new characters and music from the game's original designers.
The series ran for 26 episodes, last airing on January 11, 2002.
Let's sing and dance. Everyone's so COOL!
Parappa is a group of six children- three boys and three girls- who are good friends from Parappa Town. Curious about everything and easy going, Parappa is an extremely upright and hardworking boy. With him as the leader, the group gets involved in incidents taking place in Parappa Town. This is a story full of laughter and adventure, starring a group of boys who are dreamers, and who have a strong sense of justice and never hesitate to go forward, and a group of girls who are trendy, but down to earth and never shy to speak their minds.
The series ran for 26 episodes, last airing on January 11, 2002.
Let's sing and dance. Everyone's so COOL!
Parappa is a group of six children- three boys and three girls- who are good friends from Parappa Town. Curious about everything and easy going, Parappa is an extremely upright and hardworking boy. With him as the leader, the group gets involved in incidents taking place in Parappa Town. This is a story full of laughter and adventure, starring a group of boys who are dreamers, and who have a strong sense of justice and never hesitate to go forward, and a group of girls who are trendy, but down to earth and never shy to speak their minds.