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Kiko's Smile きこちゃんすまいる   기코의 미소   酷妹當家

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Kiko's Smile,きこちゃんすまいる,기코의 미소,酷妹當家
(c) TSUBASA NUNOURA / KODANSHA・TBS・EIKEN

Broadcast Date

1996.10.5 - 1997.3.29

Episode / Duration

51 episodes 30 min. x 51 eps.

Sugar and spice and everything nice, that's what little girls are made of....well, except for this little girl. Take a liberal dose of smarts, stir in a cup of spunk, a heaping spoonful of independence, a whole lot of attitude and you get... KIKO: An adult mind in a five year old's body. She cooks, she cleans, she does the shopping, she operates complex machinery, she sculpts works of art, she's a Bonsai master- basically, she can do it all. The only problem is she still gets treated like a kid. And, boy, does it bug her! Kiko befuddles her father, mystifies her mother and terrifies her teacher. Other adults that Kiko meets consistently underestimate her, at their peril. Sure, she has friends her own age, but everyone knows that she's clearly in a league of her own. Even her nervous cat senses it.
주인공 기코는 사미다레 유치원에 다니는 4살박이 유치원 생. 애니메이션계의 역사를 뒤엎을 정도로 말수가 없는 기코 는 엄마가 일어나기도 전인 아침 4시 반에 기상. 혼자서 몸 치장을 끝내고 아빠의 도시락까지 만들고 더욱이 심부름은 어른 뺨칠 정도로 완벽하다. 기코가 다니고 있는 사미다레 유치원에서도 4살짜리 어린아이 답지 않은 기코의 모습에 신참 메구미 선생님은 당혹해 하는데 …….

CatChat

貓言貓語

English with Friends Advanced 1: 58 min × 1 ep English with Friends Advanced 2: 61 min x 1 ep CatChat for Babies: 36 min x 1 ep CatChat with Friends DX: 13 min x 26 ep|Eps 29

Amusingly different from traditional educational programs, CatChat presents humorous "edu-variety" content to the young child. With its brief and variety-filled format, CatChat makes it easy for children to participate in games, sing and dance in tune to its action songs, and watch its animations again and again. CatChat helps children acquire basic English while having lots of fun, and is the perfect tool for a young audience in the imortant growth period of zero to ten.

Clockwork Planet

クロックワーク・プラネット   클락워크 플래닛   時鐘機關之星

30 min. × 12 eps.|12 episodes

A thousand years after the world was rebuilt with clockwork, machine-obsessed Naoto Miura becomes the master of an automaton named RyuZU. When this beautiful piece of machinery crashed into his apartment, Naoto’s superhuman hearing allowed him to fix her broken cogs—but little did he know it would land him squarely in the middle of a horrific government conspiracy! Teaming up with a pint-sized clock technician and her trusty bodyguard, they set out to fix more than just the broken gears of the world.

Fun & Study in the Marvel of Beginnings

まんがはじめて面白塾   매혹 학원   有趣的漫畫教室

15 min. x 208 eps.|208 episodes

Even the most common conveniences—from the mail system and airplanes, to simpler tools such as erasers and pencils—started somewhere. And each starting point holds a fascinating tale of dreams, hard work and often unexpected stories of how things began, viewers will rediscover the wonder behind what we have come to take for granted.

Power Stone

パワーストーン   파워 스톤   寶石

30 min. x 26 eps.|26 episodes

In the early 19th century, a colorful cast of characters from across the globe for reasons good and evil find themselves bound by the common goal of pursuing the ancient legend of the "power stones." A power stone is said to fulfill wishes and release hidden power from within those that possess them and amplify the good or evil intrinsic to that character's nature. The main character Falcon, a dauntless adventurer from Britain, must compete and sometimes cooperate with the others searching for this ancient treasure. Based on the Capcom game of the same name, this fantasy adventure title tells the tale of the pursuit for legendary power in a world filled with action, magic, and mystery.

Rental Lovers

レンタルの恋   렌탈 사랑   出租小妹 紫陽花

30 min × 10 eps|10 episodes

Remi Takasugi is the most popular “item” at the “Rental Lovers” company where no customer request is deemed too impossible, outlandish or difficult to fulfill as long as certain rules and time constraints are observed. The company motto is “The ultimate rental girlfriend” and they guarantee complete satisfaction and perfectly-met requests. Remi is the ideal girlfriend in every way. But she also exhibits a few distractingly different traits. She absolutely refuses to smile once a date “gig” is over, and she wears an odd-looking bandage on her neck. So who or what is Remi? And what’s with the bandage? Cyborg? Alien? Cat? The suspense-filled love story starts here.

Shima-shima (Striped Sheep)

シマシマ   시마시마   一起來數羊

30 min. x 10 eps.|10 episodes

By day, Shio manages an aromatherapy salon. But by night, she is the owner of “Striped Sheep”, a business that dispatches men to the homes of women who suffer from insomnia to lie next to them. These “Striped Sheep” in fact represent a brand new profession of so-called “co-sleepers,” whose sole mission is to provide a night of relaxation to restless women. Shio’s four “sheep” consist of Gai, her ex-husband’s brother, Ran, a man with a cool, soothing gaze, the glib Linda and a taciturn book worm named Matthew. As sleep-sharers, these four men find out a lot about what drives or plagues their women clients, and help them gradually discover themselves and the right life pathways. “There are nights when a woman just needs a man at her side.”

Takeshi’s Castle Thailand

風雲!たけし城 タイ版   타케시성 - 타이   泰國版 百戰百勝

100 min x 85 eps Including special and best of episodes|Eps 85

The classic game show, “Takeshi’s Castle”, returns to life in Thailand!
Built on the largest set in Thai television history, challengers take part in the legendary game to great laughs and adventure! Thailand’s popular actors and comedians provide extra glamour and entertainment including distinctly Thai themed shows, such as a “models competition,” that do the original show proud.

This Is Why I, II

まんがなるほど物語/新・まんがなるほど物語   왜 그럴까 ? I, II   告訴我,為什麼? I, II

Part1: 15 min. x 186 eps. Part2: 15 min. x 75 eps.|261 episodes

This program focuses on things we encounter every day, including our environment, the weather, and common products and machinery we couldn't imagine living without. Why do deserts form? What causes thunder? How does an airplane fly? Why do we catch colds?

TOMICA Hyper Rescue Police DRIVE HEAD

トミカハイパーレスキュー ドライブヘッド 機動救急警察   드라이브 헤드   機動警察救援隊(機動救急警察)

30 min. × 37 eps.|37 episodes

A little bit in the future, the government has established a brand new organization with the purpose of rescuing lives to respond to the increasingly complicated and varied types of disasters, accidents and crimes that go beyond human comprehension. It is called the “Mobile Emergency Police DRIVE HEAD” force combining specialized police, firefighting and rescue skills. “DRIVE HEAD” is an advanced mobile device that transforms in form factor from car to humanoid walker vehicle. The drivers are high-aptitude, grade school students such as Go Kurumada who collaborate with mobile emergency police adults and rush to crisis situations to secure public safety and preserve the peace for all!

What Happened to Our Nest Egg!?

老後の資金がありません!

115 min

The 2015 best-seller novel by Miu Kakiya has been adapted to film by director Tetsu Maeda (“A Banana? At This Time of Night?”). As of April, 2020, the book has sold over 260,000 copies.
In Japan, it is said you need 20 million yen saved up for retirement. Though everyone has their worries about the future, not many openly talk about it. This film comically depicts this problem through the eyes of a respectable-looking family that’s actually a bit dysfunctional.

The main character, Atsuko, is your average housewife who believes in frugality. She has a husband, Akira, who’s quite clueless about the family budget, a daughter who works part-time, and a son in college. Though Atsuko had been saving up for retirement, she gets in an argument with her sister-in-law and her husband one day, and she ends up having to pay 4 million yen for her father-in-law’s funeral. As if that’s not enough, her husband’s company goes bankrupt, she gets fired from her part-time job, her daughter wishes for a lavish wedding with her fiancé who’s in a heavy metal band, and her big-spending mother-in-law moves in. The family’s savings dwindle by the day.
Problems between husband and wife, parent and child, wife and mother-in-law, a child’s marriage, a child moving out, caring for a parent, and funerals… These are all problems that everyone faces. As the family is hit by one dilemma after another, they struggle and torment themselves in order to overcome adversity.