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Kiteretsu Daihyakka (1987)

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How it feels

A young boy named Kiteretsu has a robot friend he built himself. They have adventures involving invention and time travel.

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What happens

Kiteretsu Daihyakka (キテレツ大百科; "Kiteretsu Large Encyclopedia"; commonly shortened to Kiteretsu) is a Japanese manga series by Fujiko F. Fujio, which ran in the children's magazine Kodomo no Hikari from April 1974 to July 1977. The manga was later made into an animated anthology television special which aired in 1987 on Fuji Television and its affiliates and a 331-episode anime television series that ran on the same channel from March 27, 1988, to June 9, 1996. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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