Robby the Rascal (1982)

Original title

サイボットロボッチ

Genre

comedy anime and manga

Country

Japan

Length

1 season, 39 episodes

Rating

9.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A small robot boy named Robby gets into comedic adventures with his human friends. The show mixes silly situations and cartoonish antics, often involving a policewoman who is the target of playful jokes.

lightheartedplayfulslapstickcheerfulfast-pacedquirkymildly absurdwhimsicalgoofy

What happens

Cybot Robotchi (サイボットロボッチ, Saibotto Robocchi), known in the United States as Robby the Rascal, is a 39-episode anime television series created by Ken Ishikawa and produced by Knack animation studio. The series aired on TV Tokyo in Japan from October 1982 to June 1983. The series featured contributions from Tetsuro Amino as a storyboard artist and Masayuki Kojima as an episode director. A feature-length English-dubbed version comprising several episodes edited together into a movie, titled Robby the Rascal, was produced by Jim Terry's (Force Five) Kidpix Productions and released on home video in the United States in 1985. (The same American distributors had previously adapted the same animation studio's 1979–1980 TV series Manga Sarutobi Sasuke, which used much of the same production team, into a similar feature-length work titled Ninja the Wonder Boy.) However, the English version deleted much of the risque humor that, while not uncommon in children's animation in Japan, would be considered unacceptable by American standards, with the policewoman Sachiko (Sgt. Sally) being the usual target of the fan service-oriented humor. The TV series also aired in its entirety in Italy under the title Robottino ("Little robot"), and some episodes are also available in Spanish as Robotete or Robotín. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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