History Manga / DokonjoGaeru

* BellyButtonless: Being a frog, Pyonkichi naturally doesn't have one. This is pointed out a few times, even used as part of a lyrics in one of the ending songs.

It has reached cult status [[GermansLovedavidHasselhoff in Latin America]] and ''especially'' in UsefulNotes/{{Chile}}. The anime made its way to United States by a subtitled broadcast on UTB Hollywood in selected states in 2014 before making it statewide on Pluto TV in 2020. There exists an English dub made for the English-speaking Asian countries that is currently lost at the moment. An American TV movie adaptation was in production in 2013 but it's not known if it's scrapped or not.

[[caption-width-right:350: He's a difficult, this [[TitleThemeTune Gutsy Frog!]] And he lives in a middle of a shirt]]

* BraggingThemeSong: The anime opening song talks about Pyonkichi and what kind of frog he is.

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[[caption-width-right:184:A boy, his frog, and lotsa other characters]]

''Dokonjō Gaeru'' (ど根性ガエル lit. ''Gutsy Frog'') is a {{shonen}} manga and anime from TheSeventies, created by Yasumi Yoshizawa. The manga was serialized in ''Weekly Shonen Jump'' from 1970 to 1976, then had two anime TV series (in 1972-1974 and 1981-1982), followed by a live-action TV series in 2015. It has reached cult status [[GermansLovedavidHasselhoff in Latin America]] and ''especially'' in UsefulNotes/{{Chile}}. Although the series has aired on Japanese-language television in the United States, it has never been dubbed or subtitled in English (until in February 2018 by the fansubbing group [[https://twitter.com/GutsySubs GutsySubs]]), although an American live-action TV movie adaptation was rumored to be in development at one time.

!! ''Dokonjō Gaeru'' has the following tropes:

* ExpressiveShirt: Sorta, again. Because this "shirt" not only is expressive, but it talks and eats and...

* PantyShot: Kyouko. In the very first episode, she gets one when Pyonkichi bites her skirt and yanks on it, and Kyouko, not believing Hiroshi when he tells her the frog did it, blames Hiroshi and slaps him in the face.

[[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6ewkpt You can watch the first subtitled episode here.]]

* AnimalMotifs: Aside of frogs, we have gorillas... for [[TheBigGuy the local bully]].

* [[spoiler: BreakHerHeartToSaveHer: At some point, Pyonkichi's frog girlfriend Pyonko appears. Pyonkichi treats her real badly, which greatly upsets Hiroshi; when he asks why would he do such a thing, Pyonkichi cries and explains that he doesn't want her to suffer due to his special situation so he'd rather have her hate him.]]

* {{Tsundere}}: Kyouko is a Type B.

* WorkOffTheDebt: Happened with Hiroshi at a ramen restaurant. He sent Pyonkichi to get the money, but it took so long for him to return (he lost the money and had to earn it back by helping other people for reward money), that by the time he came back Hiroshi washed every dish at the restaurant, making his hands sore. They don't take this lying down, however: they give the store owner the money, then proceed to take the clean bowls outside and dirty them again with mud water, much to the cook's dismay.

''Dokonjō Gaeru'' (ど根性ガエル lit. ''Gutsy Frog'') is a {{shonen}} manga and anime from TheSeventies, created by Yasumi Yoshizawa. The manga was serialized in ''Weekly Shonen Jump'' from 1970 to 1976, then had two anime TV series (in 1972-1974 and 1981-1982), followed by a live-action TV series in 2015. It has reached cult status [[GermansLovedavidHasselhoff in Latin America]] and ''especially'' in UsefulNotes/{{Chile}}. Although the series has aired on Japanese-language television in the United States, it has never been dubbed or subtitled in English, although an American live-action TV movie adaptation was rumored to be in development at one time.