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Kiteretsu, aka Kitei Eiichi, is an elementary school student who loves inventing, but his creations always end in failure. One day, he inherits the Kiteretsu Encyclopedia from his father—a book said to contain the inventions of his ancestor, Kiteretsu Sai. Yet, it was entirely blank, with nothing written inside. Though initially disheartened, he discovers that the entries can only be read when viewed through the accompanying glasses, the Shintsu Mirror. Using this, he creates his first invention: Korosuke, a mechanical human (robot). From then on, with Korosuke as his assistant, Kiteretsu begins creating the inventions from the encyclopedia one after another. Sometimes he helps people, and sometimes he causes trouble. However, over a year later, his mother mistakenly threw the encyclopedia away as trash. Despite a desperate search, it was too late, and the encyclopedia was reduced to ashes. Though Kiteretsu lost the encyclopedia, he resolved to study and invent on his own, without relying on it. Korosuke rejoiced at Kiteretsu's growth.
00:00Hello. Thank you for watching today. Today's topic is Kiteretsu Encyclopedia.
00:21This work, Kiteretsu Encyclopedia, is about an elementary school student who loves to invent things, who creates inventions written about in books left behind by his ancestors, and has a variety of experiences while causing trouble with these inventions and his friends.
00:40Now, let's take a look at this work.
00:44Kiteretsu Encyclopedia is based on an original work by Fujiko F. Fujio, and after a six-episode special was broadcast in 1987, a total of 331 episodes were aired from 1988 to 1996.
01:04The story begins with a school lesson about the first successful flight of an engined airplane by the Wright brothers of the United States in 1903, and the first flight of a glider by German aviator Lilienthal 20 years earlier.
01:22Then, Kiteretsu Encyclopedia, who had been dozing off until then, suddenly stood up and began talking about the Kiteretsu Festival, in which his ancestor flew in a glider 32 years before Lilienthal.
01:38However, as H speaks passionately about a historical figure no one has ever heard of, his classmates just burst out laughing at his outlandish story, to H's dismay.
01:50However, that night, when he asked his father about the existence of the Kiteretsu Festival, he told him that at the time, the inventions and ideas of the Kiteretsu Festival were not understood at all, and he was deemed a scoundrel who was causing trouble in society, and was imprisoned in a room by the shogunate until his death.
02:09His father took out a book about the Kiteretsu Festival, the Kiteretsu Encyclopedia, which had been stored in the family storehouse, from the closet and handed it to H.
02:18So H is happy to try to read the book, but is disappointed to find that it is empty.
02:28However, when I returned to my room, I pulled myself together and started working on the completed robot.
02:35It begins to go out of control in an unexpected way, and in the end it crashes into the closet where the Kiteretsu Encyclopedia is kept and stops working.
02:43Seeing this, H feels relieved, when he discovers what appears to be glasses, a Shinto religion, in a dusty box in the closet.
02:54Then, using the power of divine powers to look through the Kiteretsu Encyclopedia, he found that the book, which had previously had nothing written in it, was filled with records of research and other information.
03:05Then, while engrossed in reading the Kiteretsu Encyclopedia, I came across a page with the blueprints for the Karakuri Ningen Korosuke,
03:15The next day, we gather materials from around the house and complete the korosuke.
03:21After completing it, when he immediately started up Korosuke, he was shocked to see that it started a conversation he hadn't expected.
03:29After a while, when H's mother tells him to clean up the messy room, Korosuke, being thoughtful, starts cleaning up, but he ends up cleaning up his mother as well, and locking her up in a storage shed in the garden as unwanted items.
03:46From this point on, H, along with Kiteretsu Encyclopedia and Korosuke, creates one invention after another, but also gets the people around him involved in slapstick comedy.
04:01Now, let me introduce the main characters.
04:05Kitae H, nicknamed Kiteretsu, is the protagonist of this work. He is an elementary school student who loves inventing things. Through Shintoism, he digitizes and saves the Kiteretsu Encyclopedia left behind by his ancestors on his computer, and by applying this data, he creates various inventions and gadgets.
04:27Although he was a brilliant student who excelled in science and math, he had a weakness for poor athletic ability. However, he was a hard worker and showed strong mental strength, taking on leadership roles in various situations.
04:41Korosuke is Kiteretsu's first invention, based on the Kiteretsu Encyclopedia.It is a mechanical doll robot with will and emotions and the ability to speak, but it lives the same life as a human, eating food, going to the toilet, etc.
05:02In the story, he teams up with Kitaro and is a reliable partner who helps and supports Kitaro on many adventures.
05:11Mamekoro is a solar-powered mechanical doll robot that Kitaretsu created when he fought with Korosuke.
05:20Although he looks up to Korosuke as an older brother, his strict personality and seriousness cause him to kick Kitaro's friends out of the house, which leads Kitaro to see him as a defective product.
05:33Ochappy is an original character from the anime, developed as a helper robot to motivate the lazy Korosuke.
05:45He possesses excellent learning abilities and has earned the trust of those around him, but after being punished by Butagorilla due to a misunderstanding, he has since developed a strong resentment and dislike for him.
05:59Nonohana Miyoko, commonly known as Miyoko, is a classmate of Kiteretsu's and someone Kiteretsu admires and has a crush on.
06:11Although she is a curious and somewhat tomboyish girl, she also has a strong-willed side, and will get angry at the bully Butagorilla or his underling Tongari if she is dissatisfied with them.
06:24Kumada Kaori, nicknamed Pig Gorilla, is a classmate of Kitaro's and a bully at the greengrocer's who is always teasing Kitaro.
06:36Although he is violent and, unlike Kitaro, has excellent athletic ability, he is also interested in Kitaro's inventions, and when they act together he shows a gentle side, helping Kitaro and Korosuke.
06:51Tongari Koji, commonly known as Tongari, is a classmate of Kiteretsu's and a silver-haired man who sometimes makes good use of Butagorilla.
07:03At school, he was in top class in his grades and was born into a wealthy family, so he was a mama's boy who would cry to his mother whenever something happened.
07:13Sakurai Taishi is a classmate of Kitaro and his friends who appears midway through the story, surprising his friends as Butagorilla's childhood friend and girlfriend.
07:27After his father passed away, he moved to Niigata with his mother, but eventually emigrated to the United States, relying on his uncle who lived there.
07:36Hanamaru Satsuki is the leading actress of Issa, a popular theater company that tours the country, and as she moves from place to place, she transfers sporadically to Kiteretsu's school several times.
07:52Along with her tomboyish personality and the skills she had honed on stage, she also displayed superhuman athletic ability, and her acting experience meant that she could quickly memorize entire Japanese textbooks, just like scripts.
08:06The person in the other row, nicknamed Mokuretsu, is Mikurako, a wealthy woman and the descendant of Mokuretsu's wife, who was a rival of Kiteretsu's wife.
08:18Holding a grudge over an ancestral feud, he views Kiteretsu as a rival and pits his self-made mechanical doll robots, Koronoshin and Korosuke, against each other on a TV show, but is defeated and leaves with a parting shot.
08:33Kiteretsu's Wife, commonly known as Kiteretsu's Wife, is the ancestor of the A1 and an inventor from the Edo period who completed a glider earlier than Lilienthal.
08:46However, after being arrested as a criminal for causing a public uproar by the Edo Shogunate, which did not understand his inventions, he was confined to a room for the rest of his life, but he wrote down the Kiteretsu Encyclopedia and passed it on to his descendants.
09:03Kitei Taro is A1's father, who works as an office worker. As a parent, he wants to help his son A1 develop his talents as he loves to invent things.
09:14After talking about his ancestor, Kiteretsu's wife, he gives her the Kiteretsu Encyclopedia and the Shinto Religion to show his support.
09:21Kitemichiko is A1's mother and runs the household as a full-time housewife.
09:31During his school days, he had been a very active member of the volleyball and track and field clubs, so he seemed a little disappointed that his son, who resembled his father, was not good at sports.
09:42He was also troubled by the fact that he was so absorbed in inventing that he neglected his schoolwork.
09:49Kari is a hard worker from Yamagata Prefecture who lives next door to Kiteke, who studied for six years before being accepted as a reserve student into the Faculty of Economics at a university.
10:04Although he is reliable and lends advice to Kitaro and the others, he is also an extreme worrier and plays the role of a comic relief, failing at crucial moments.
10:15Mr. Sasaki is Kitaro's homeroom teacher, and although he is a hallucination, he is also a knowledgeable person with an interest in ethnology, and is a teacher who is very patient with his students.
10:31My father was also a teacher at a part-time high school, and it seems that Pig Gorilla's mother was one of his students at the time.
10:38As an aside, this work began serialization in 1974, but was initially a minor work, as it was published in the children's magazines Ko and Kodomo no Hikari, which are not available in general bookstores.
10:56After being published in a book by Shogakukan, it gained popularity and was first animated in 1987 as a special program or a 90-minute TV special, and the following year it began regular broadcasts.
11:16The original plan was to end the series at the end of 1994, more than six years later, but because it was difficult to find a successor program, it was extended until 1996, when it was decided that Kochira would be based in Kameari Park in Katsushika Ward.
11:37The series has also been exported overseas and aired in six Asian countries, including Taiwan.
11:46Furthermore, the Fujiko F. Fujio Museum screened the short film Doraemon & Kiteretsu Daihyakka Korosuke's First Errand in the F Theater located within the facility in 2015, the fourth anniversary of the museum's opening.
12:04In addition, the complete six-volume set of the remake, New Kiteretsu Encyclopedia, which was announced to coincide with the anime adaptation, has also been released.
12:13And in the TV drama "Ai no Uta" special, titled "Kiteretsu," which aired on NHK in 2002, Korosuke was also created using CG, with his voice provided by the familiar voice actors Mami Koyama and Kazuko Sugiyama.
12:31Now, it's finally the final episode.
12:38While Kitaro and his friends are in class, Korosuke suddenly bursts into the classroom and loudly announces that a burglar has broken into their house.Kiteru is surprised, but he and Korosuke immediately head home.
12:54When he returned home, police officers were already there questioning him and asked him if anything had been stolen from Kiteretsu, so he searched around the room and found that the Kiteretsu Encyclopedia and the seedlings had also been stolen.
13:10When his friends found out about this, they became worried and consulted Benzou, but Benzou confessed that Akis had actually entered Benzou's messy room while Kiteretsu's mother and Korosuke were cleaning it, and he seemed to feel responsible.
13:28Later, while Butagorilla, Togari, and Mio-chan search for the culprit, Kitaretsu forms a dismissal association and films what happened in the past like a camera.
13:41The camera then captures a person who appears to be a thief, and they predict his destination and follow his escape route, but the footprints suddenly disappear, and just before that, Korosuke spots Butagorilla's father in the photo with the thief.
14:00So when he goes to meet Butagorilla's father, he tells him that during his morning delivery, an unknown man dumped what looked like a book into the garbage truck.
14:13Upon hearing this, Kiteretsu is shocked to learn that the Kiteretsu Encyclopedia has been incinerated and cannot be retrieved, but when he tells his friends that the problem can be solved by officially traveling to Edo in the past and meeting the Kiteretsu Festival, he immediately travels to Edo using his official time travel.
14:33He arrives safely in the Edo period, but is surprised to learn that the Kiteretsu Festival is on the wanted list. By chance, he is questioned by a passing official, and Butagorilla accidentally lets something slip, leading to the officials chasing him.
14:52While Kitaro and his friends are searching for the Kitaro Festival, a town girl who had scattered Korosuke takes them to the Kitaro Festival's hideout.
15:06Later, Kitaretsu and Korosuke meet the Kitaretsu Festival, which is deeply moved to see Korosuke, who designed the festival in memory of his deceased son, and his descendant, Kitaretsu.
15:18However, the Pig Gorilla being chased brings the officials with him, and the hideout is surrounded, but he manages to escape outside through a Tengu loophole.
15:33Immediately afterwards, officials stream into the room, but there is no one there, so they head to the riverbank where the mysterious gold was lying.
15:45Meanwhile, at the riverbank, Kitaro talks about clearing his name by showing Kitaro Matsuri's inventions to the officials, but Kitaro Matsuri explains that we live in an age where suspicion is increasing, and tells Kitaro and the others to return to the future.
16:02After hearing this, Kitaro tells everyone that from now on he will invent things on his own, even without the Kitaro Encyclopedia, when suddenly the officials' ship appears.
16:16In addition, when Korosuke sees that Kiteretsu Matsuri is ill, he escapes with her and tells everyone that he will stay in the Edo period and take care of Kiteretsu Matsuri.
16:30Then, as the officials close in, we see Korosuke and Kitaretsu Matsuri and the others escape again using the Tengu's loophole, and then Kitaretsu and his friends fly away in the present time, traveling through time above the city of Edo, and the show ends with everyone wishing Korosuke and the others safety.
16:54Now, let's take a look at the program previews and commercials related to this work at the time of its broadcast.
17:24Next time, the Kiteretsu Festival will be on video. A complete collector's edition video. Kiteretsu Department Store. On sale from Shogakukan. Kiteretsu is a great invention. Everyone, please buy it.
17:34Yaiko is eating her meal.
17:38You can win a Kiteretsu Picnic Set at Pearl Rice. There are other prizes too.
17:47For more information, please visit a rice shop such as Pearl Rice.
17:52Wow! It's a satellite! I wonder why satellites move?
17:57It's electricity. There are no wires.
18:00You generate electricity from the sun, right?
18:04New energy sources, including solar power, are being developed to generate electricity.
18:09There are also future energy sources that are already being used in our daily lives.
18:13This is important for future energy and life.
18:19Kansai Electric Power
18:25this is…
18:26This tea is made only from Japanese rice.
18:28Just rice? Who is it?
18:30This is what it is.
18:32I don't care.
18:33This tea is made only from Japanese rice.
18:35Kirin Japanese Rice Tea.
18:36Caffeine free.
18:37Become.
18:38What did you think?
18:41Doraemon, which was born in 1969, and Kiteretsu Encyclopedia, which was born in 1974, have many similarities, but I think there is a crucial difference between them in terms of exam content, with Kiteretsu usually doing his best on his own without relying on Korosuke, and Nobita relying on Doraemon for everything.
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