History Anime / Ojarumaru

* TheSongRemainsTheSame: The Cantonese and Philippine dubs leave the opening [[note]] Strangely, the opening theme in the Philippine dub is only ''five seconds long''. [[/note]] and ending themes in Japanese.
* TotemPoleTrenchCoat: In episode 3, Aobee, Kisuke, and Akane do this in the disguise of a deliverer in order to get inside the Tamura family's house. Funnily enough, Kazuma seemingly falls for the disguise while Ojarumaru doesn't.

* ADogNamedDog: There is a cow named...Cow [[note]] "Ushi" in Japanese. [[/note]]. Considering that all the other animals and insects actually have a distinct name, it's quite odd that Cow lacks one.

The series was originally created by Rin Inumaru in 1993, as a manga that was serialized in Shogakukan's ''Ciao'' magazine.[[note]]However, due to the lack of documentation of the manga's history, it's unknown how long it actually ran.[[/note]] It eventually was adapted into an animation in 1998 (directed by [[Manga/KodomonoOmocha Akitaro]] [[Manga/FruitsBasket Daichi]]), and has been running ever since on NHK, becoming their second [[LongRunners longest-running anime]] (just behind ''Manga/NintamaRantarou'') currently having over 1400 episodes produced up until this day.

* TheSongRemainsTheSame: The Cantonese and Philippine dubs leave the opening[[note]](The Philippine dub doesn't really have an opening theme; just a 5 second version of the first Japanese opening theme)[[/note]] and ending themes in Japanese.

* ADayInTheLimelight: Many of the recurring characters and antagonists get at least a couple episodes starring them. The most popular one is episode 1176 in which Okorinbou and Nikorinbou transform into half human, half guardian dogs by the God of Poverty. Both of them decide to take advantage of their transformation and open up a restaurant at the Mangan Shrine called the "Dog Mimi Cafe" in order to make money. Everything goes well until [[spoiler: the God of Poverty decides to transform them back into guardian dogs.]]

''Ojarumaru'' is an anime series that follows the daily adventures of a 5-year-old Heian era prince named Ojarumaru Sakanoue who accidentally time-warps to modern day Japan and lives with Kazuma Tamura's family after being invited to live there by Tomio (also known as "Tommy"), Kazuma's grandfather. While Ojarumaru befriends many of the citizens, animals, and insects that live in Moonlight Town and discovers many new things he has never seen before in his time period, three oni siblings, Aobee, Kisuke, and Akane (who are also known as the "Oni Child Trio") constantly pester him into returning a powerful scepter he stole from their father, Great King Enma, which he uses in order to judge the dead. The oni try many, ''many'' times to retrieve it, but [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption all their attempts fail in the end]].

* DoItYourselfThemeTune: Ending themes 2-10 are sung by the characters. The series took a break from this trope for ending themes 11-20, however, when ending 18 was re-used for Series 16, it was sung by Ojarumaru, Kazuma, and Denbo instead of Chopiiin. The trope is back again for ending 21, which is sung by Hoshino, Ken, Kawakami, Kanbutsu, and Mr. Director.

** Ojarumaru loves eating pudding. He loves it so much that he cries whenever he is unable to eat the spoonful of it depending on the circumstance.

* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Ojarumaru loves eating pudding.

** Ojarumaru most likely comes from his VerbalTic "de ojaru" and "maru", a suffix for names of males.

** Akane comes from "akane", meaning "red".

** Komachi comes from the Japanese waka poet, Ono no Komachi.

** Kanae possibly comes from "kaneru", meaning "to grant something, such as a wish".

** Kame comes from "kame", meaning turtle".

* NiceHat: Ojarumaru and his father wear a tate-eboshi cap. Ojarumaru's tate-eboshi cap is even fourth-dimensional and is capable of both storing objects, no matter how big, and warping people to a different world. Asako wears a red cap with the letter "A" on it, while Marie wears a purple hat with feathers on it. Episode 201 focuses on Ojarumaru and his friends wondering what's inside Marie's hat.

* ADayInTheLimelight: Many of the recurring characters and antagonists get at least a couple episodes starring them. The most popular one is episode 1176 in which Okorinbou and Nikorinbou transform into half human, half dogs by the God of Poverty. Both of them decide to take advantage of their transformation and open up a restaurant at the Mangan Shrine called the "Dog Mimi Cafe" in order to make money. Everything goes well until [[spoiler: the God of Poverty decides to transform them back into guardian dogs.]]

* AccidentalMisnaming: Maeda never seems to pronounce anyone's names correctly.

The series was originally created by Rin Inumaru in 1993, as a manga that was serialized in Shogakukan's ''Ciao'' magazine.[[note]]However, due to the lack of documentation of the manga's history, it's unknown how long it actually ran.[[/note]] It eventually was adapted into an animation in 1998 (directed by [[Manga/KodomonoOmocha Akitaro]] [[Manga/FruitsBasket Daichi]]), and has been running ever since on NHK, becoming their second [[LongRunners longest-running anime]] (just behind ''Manga/NintamaRantarou'') currently having over 1500 episodes produced up until this day.

''Ojarumaru'' is an {{anime}} series created by Rin Inumaru. Running since 1998, it is the second [[LongRunners longest-running anime]] series on NHK behind ''Manga/NintamaRantarou'' and has over 1,500 episodes produced. The series is known for its aforementioned long length and also the fact that the creator committed suicide in 2006 by jumping off the 14th floor of her apartment due to her suffering through stress. The series follows the daily adventures of a 5-year-old Heian era prince named Ojarumaru Sakanoue who accidentally time-warps to modern day Japan and lives with Kazuma Tamura's family after being invited to live there by Tomio (also known as "Tommy"), Kazuma's grandfather. While Ojarumaru befriends many of the citizens, animals, and insects that live in Moonlight Town and discovers many new things he has never seen before in his time period, three oni siblings, Aobee, Kisuke, and Akane (who are also known as the "Oni Child Trio") constantly pester him into returning a powerful scepter he stole from their father, Great King Enma, which he uses in order to judge the dead. The oni try many, ''many'' times to retrieve it, but [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption all their attempts fail in the end]].

The series originally started out as a manga that was serialized in Shogakukan's ''Ciao'' magazine in 1993. [[note]] However, due to the lack of documentation of the manga's history, it's unknown how long it actually ran, but is certainly not ongoing. [[/note]] Another manga adaptation, written and illustrated by Tatsuma Ejiri, was serialized in Shueisha's ''Saikyo Jump'' magazine from January 2012 to September 2014.

* AlternativeForeignThemeSong: The Italian dub uses [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxgaCRz6yhs this opening theme.]]

* DancingTheme: Ending themes 1, 2 [[note]] This one recycles the '''exact same animation from the first ending theme''', except with a different background [[/note]], 4, 6, and 16.
* DubNameChange: In Philippine dub, Ojarumaru is called "Prince Mackaroo".

* MissingMom: Makoto's mother, Sayuri, (also known as "Sally") is most likely deceased since she doesn't appear in any episodes with her husband, Tommy. She is only seen in old photos and flashbacks.

* TheSongRemainsTheSame: The Cantonese and Philippine dubs leave the opening [[note]] The Philippine dub doesn't really have an opening theme; just a 5 second version of the first Japanese opening theme [[/note]] and ending themes in Japanese.

* NiceHat: Ojarumaru and his father wear a tate-eboshi cap. Asako wears a red cap with the letter "A" on it, while Marie wears a purple hat with feathers on it. Episode 201 focuses on Ojarumaru and his friends wondering what's inside Marie's hat.

* WhyDoYouKeepChangingJobs: Ken keeps changing part-time jobs due to him getting fired from them since he tends to get clumsy.

* AccidentalMisnaming: Mr. Maeda never seems to pronounce anyone's names correctly.

* TheSongRemainsTheSame: The Cantonese and Tagalog dubs leave the opening [[note]] The Tagalog dub doesn't really have an opening theme; just a 5 second version of the first Japanese opening theme [[/note]] and ending themes in Japanese.

''Ojarumaru'' is an {{anime}} series created by Rin Inumaru. Running since 1998, it is the second [[LongRunners longest-running anime]] series on NHK behind ''Manga/NintamaRantarou'' and has over 1,500 episodes produced. The series is known for its aforementioned long length and also the fact that the creator committed suicide in 2006 by jumping off the 14th floor of her apartment due to her suffering through stress. The series follows the daily adventures of a 5-year-old Heian era prince named Ojarumaru Sakanoue who accidentally time-warps to modern day Japan and lives with Kazuma Tamura's family after being invited to live there by Tomio (also known as "Tommy"), Kazuma's grandfather. While Ojarumaru befriends many of the citizens, animals, and insects that live in Moonlight Town and discovers many new things he has never seen before in his time period, three Oni siblings, Aobee, Kisuke, and Akane (who are also known as the "Oni Child Trio") constantly pester him into returning a powerful scepter he stole from their father, Great King Enma, which he uses in order to judge the dead. The oni try many, ''many'' times to retrieve it, but [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption all their attempts fail in the end]].

* ArtShift: Happens in all the episodes that are centered on Japanese and Western folktales or stories that take place in different scenarios. While the character designs are retained, soft colors are used and the character outlines are colored.

''Ojarumaru'' is an {{anime}} series created by Rin Inumaru. Running since 1998, it is the second [[LongRunners longest-running anime]] series on NHK behind ''Manga/NintamaRantarou'' and has over 1,500 episodes produced. The series is known for its aforementioned long length and also the fact that the creator committed suicide in 2006 by jumping off the 14th floor of her apartment due to her suffering through stress. The series follows the daily adventures of a 5-year-old Heian era prince named Ojarumaru Sakanoue who accidentally time-warps to modern day Japan and lives with Kazuma Tamura's family after being invited to live there by Tomio (also known as "Tommy"), Kazuma's grandfather. While Ojarumaru befriends many of the citizens, animals, and insects that live in Moonlight Town and discovers many new things he has never seen before in his time period, three Oni siblings, Aobee, Kisuke, and Akane (who are also known as the "Oni Child Trio") constantly pester him into returning a powerful scepter he stole from their father, Great King Enma, which he uses in order to judge the dead. The oni try many, ''many'' times to retrieve it, but all their attempts fail in the end.

* BigEater: Kin-chan. Most of the time whenever he appears, he always has a lollipop in his hand. However, he ''hates'' eating vegetables.
* DancingTheme: Endings 1, 2 [[note]] This one recycles the '''exact same animation from the first ending theme''', except with a different background [[/note]], 4, 6, and 16.
* EdutainmentGame: There was one for the Sega Pico.
* HappilyMarried: Ojarumaru's parents and Kazuma's parents, Ai and Makoto. Kin-chan's parents and Komachi's parents. Honda-sensei and Asako met each other in episode 81 and became a married couple for the remainder of the series.

* MissingMom: Makoto's mother, Sayuri, (also known as "Sally") is most likely deceased since she doesn't appear in any episodes with her husband, Tommy. She is only seen in old photos and flashbacks.

* HappilyMarried: Kazuma's parents, Ai and Makoto. Kin-chan's parents and Komachi's parents.
* Hot-Blooded: Honda-sensei.

* DancingTheme: Endings 1, 2 [[note]] This one recycles the '''exact same animation from the first ending theme, except with a different background''' [[/note]], 4, 6, and 16.
* EdutainmentGame: There was one for the Sega Pico.

''Ojarumaru'' is an {{anime}} series created by Rin Inumaru. Running since 1998, it is the second [[LongRunners longest-running anime]] series on NHK behind ''Manga/NintamaRantarou'' and has over 1,500 episodes produced. The series is known for its aforementioned long length and also the fact that the creator committed suicide in 2006 by jumping off the 14th floor of her apartment due to her suffering through stress. The series follows the daily adventures of a 5-year-old Heian era prince named Ojarumaru Sakanoue who accidentally time-warps to modern day Japan and lives with Kazuma Tamura's family after being invited to live there by Tomio (also known as "Tommy"), Kazuma's grandfather. While Ojarumaru befriends many of the citizens, animals, and insects that live in Moonlight Town and discovers many new things he has never seen before in his time period, three Oni siblings known as the "Oni Child Trio" constantly pester him into returning a powerful scepter he stole from their father, Great King Enma, and try many, ''many'' times to retrieve it, but they all fail in the end.

The series originally started out as a manga that was serialized in Shogakukan's ''Ciao'' magazine in 1993. [[note]] However, due to the lack of documentation of the manga's history, it's unknown how long it actually ran, but is certainly not ongoing. [[/note]] Another manga adaptation, written by Tatsuma Ejiri, was serialized in Shueisha's ''Saikyo Jump'' magazine from January 2012 to September 2014.

* ArtEvolution: The series has gone through this over the years. Ojarumaru's mouth became smaller, Kisuke's [[EyesAlwaysShut always-shut eyes]] became smaller and were more separate from each other, and some of the character's faces, most notably the main characters, were modified to look more cuter. The animation has also improved, along with the character outlines being drawn thinner since Series 3.

* ArtEvolution: The series has gone through this over the years. Ojarumaru's mouth became smaller, Kisuke's [[EyesAlwaysShut always-shut eyes]] became smaller and were more separate from each other, and some of the character's faces, most notably the main characters, were modified to look more cuter. The animation has also improved along with the character outlines being drawn thinner since Series 3.

*** Strangely, whenever Aobee, Kisuke, and Akane do their union sequence in later episodes, their old designs are re-used for some reason.