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Kaiju Booska (1966)

Kaiju Booska poster
Original title
怪獣ブースカ
Genre
tokusatsu
Country
Japan
Length
2 seasons, 47 episodes
Rating
6.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A friendly monster named Booska goes on adventures and gets into mischief with the people around him. The show is a lighthearted series from Japan aimed at family audiences.

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What happens

Kaiju Booska (快獣ブースカ, Kaijū Būsuka; lit. Cheerful Beast Booska) is a family tokusatsu television series, and the first to feature the friendly monster Booska. Produced by Tsuburaya Productions, the show aired on Nippon TV from November 9, 1966 to September 27, 1967, with a total of 47 episodes. There was a Booska revival in Japan from 1998 to 2000, when a new season of Booska was released called "Booska! Booska!" (in English). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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