Parasol Henbē
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Parasol Henbe | |
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パラソルへんべえ (Parasol Henbei) |
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Genre | Comedy, Fantasy, Adventure, Kodomo |
TV anime | |
Directed by | |
Studio | Fujiko Fujio (A) |
Network | NHK |
Original run | 1989 – 1991 |
No. of episodes | 200 |
Parasol Henbē (パラソルへんべえ Parasoru Henbē?) is an anime series produced in 1989 in Japan which ran for 109 episodes. The series is based on a manga by Fujiko-Fujio "A" (pseudonym for Motoo Abiko).
Maruko is a young school boy whom one day opens his closet and finds a strange little creature called Henbē (which resembles a (hippopotamus) which is able to speak. Henbē has a magical parasol and with it he can fly and do magic. Nobody knows how he got there and from what mysterious worlds he is, but it is a fast friendship from the beginning.
[edit] Characters
- Meiko Nakamura as Henbē
- Junko Hori as Maruko
- Noriko Hidaka as Megeru
- Rei Sakuma as Abuko
- Rei Sakuma as Izumi
- Ryusei Nakao as Memosuke
- Tesshō Genda as Gorita