History Manga / KiteretsuDaihyakka

* CanonForeigner: The anime adaptation added several characters who were never in the original manga, such as Buta Gorilla's parents.

* TrademarkFavouriteFood: Korosuke really likes croquettes.

* IWantMyMommy: Tongari regularly does this whenever he gets scared and is a MamasBoy to boot, which is helped by being Suneo's {{Expy}}. Deconstructed in one episode, where this is considered a problem by his teacher and his mother reluctantly has to teach him to be independent from her.

''Kiteretsu Daihyakka'' is a ScienceFiction manga created by Creator/FujikoFujio in 1974. Adopting the same basic formula set by ''Anime/{{Doraemon}}'', the [[{{Kodomomuke}} child-friendly]] manga continued until 1977, after which it was adapted into [[AnimatedAdaptation an anime]] by Creator/StudioGallop in 1988. Broadcast for a total of eight years on Fuji TV, the {{anime}} expanded the original storyline considerably, developing an extended [[RomanceArc romance arc]] as the principal characters matured. The cartoon finished up on June 9, 1996, having completed 331 episodes and one TV special.

KITERESTU Kiteretsu Daihyakka (キテレツ大百科) (Also known as Kiteretsu Encyclopedia or only Kiteretsu) is a manga series by duo Fujiko Fujio which ran in the children's magazine Kodomo no Hikari from April 1974 to July 1977. The manga was later made into a 331-episode anime television series which ran on Fuji TV from 27 March 1988 to 9 June 1996. An English dub of the anime aired in India on Cartoon Network.[1][2]. Another English dub was made by a company under the name of "Thunder Unlimited" called Kevin and B.U.D.S.T.E.R and was released on various VCDs and DVDs.[3] The series was licensed for Spain by LUK Internacional under the title of "Kiteretsu, el primo más listo de Nobita". (English Translation: Nobita's Smarter Cousin.)[4] As of September 2016, a remastered version of the series airs on Animax in Japan.[5]


Contents
1 Plot
2 Main characters
3 Media
3.1 Anime
3.2 Manga
3.3 Television drama
3.4 Games
3.4.1 Cast
3.4.2 Staff
3.5 Theme songs
3.5.1 Opening theme songs
3.5.2 Ending theme songs
4 Reception
5 References
6 External links
Plot
The series is the story of a scientific inventor boy genius named Kiteretsu, descendant of a great inventor named D. Kiteretsu, who has built a companion robot named Korosuke. He frequently travels in time with his friends and Korosuke in the time machine he built, he has friends such as Miyoko, a girl in his neighborhood who is his love interest, Buta Gorilla (Kumada Kaoru), a typical neighborhood bully and his friend, Tongari, who both often antagonize Korosuke (though they are in grade school).

Main characters
Lead Characters
Eiichi Kite
Eiichi Kite (木手英一 Kite Eiichi), also known as Kiteretsu (キテレツ), is a 11-year-old 5th grader who lives in Tokyo city. He usually wears a light blue T-shirt and a dark blue trouser. He also wears green shoes, white socks and a red-yellow themed cap with K written on it. He is the best kid who is excellent at studies and only weak in sports, but is a prodigy in machines. He reads the Daihyakka and invents gadgets from past. He can even repair normal machines and invent variations of the Daihyakka gadgets. Because of his mechanical aptitude, he commands respect from his friends.
Korosuke
Korosuke (コロ助) is Kiteretsu's robot assistant who usually ends his sentences with nari (ナリ) . He usually wears an artificial samurai sword. He is an invention in the encyclopedia. He was made by Kiteretsu himself.
Miyoko Nonohana
Miyoko Nonohana (野々花みよ子 Nonoha Miyoko), also known as Miyo-chan (みよちゃん), is one of Kiteretsu's best friends. She is an intelligent girl, admired by boys. She is Kiteretsu's love interest in the show and on many incidents is shown to be Kiteretsu's future wife.
Kaoru Kumada
Kaoru Kumada (熊田薫 Kumada Kaoru), also known by the nickname Butagorira (ブタゴリラ), is one of Kiteretsu's friends who is the son of a green grocer. He is a typical bully but in progress, he becomes comic relief. He is known to love vegetables.
Kouji Tongari
Kouji Tongari (尖浩二 Tongari Kouji), also known as Tongari (トンガリ), is one of Kiteretsu's best friends. He is easily frightened, and a best friend of Butagorira, though is quite often bullied by him.
Mr. Benzuo
He is one of the Main Characters who appears frequently in each Episodes. A Friend and Mentor of Kiteretsu and his friends, He is an University student.
Michiko Kite
She is the Mother of Kiteretsu, some people have theorized that she's Michiko from the Perman series all grown up. But, this is unconfirmed.
Itaro Kite
He is the father of Kiteretsu.
Yaohachi Kumada
Father of Kaoru Kumada i.e. Butagorira.
Mrs. Kumada
Mother of Kaoru Kumada.
Kenichi Tongari
Father of Kouji Tongari.
Mrs. Kaoji
Mother of Kouji Tongari.
Minor Characters
Segawa (せがわ)
She is one of the classmates and a friend of Kiteretsu and his friends. In 1 episode, she became the class monitor and Kiteretsu had got only one vote. But little did he knew that Segawa has voted him for class monitor. Later, they had breakfast together when Kiteretsu was taking care of the pet animals.
Midori (みどり)
She is one of the classmates and a friend of Kiteretsu and his friends. She is a patient of Appendicitis (Disease which causes severe stomach ache). She had appeared as one of the main character in an episode where she was admitted in hospital due to her disease.
Satsuki Hanamaru
She is one of the best friend of Kiteretsu. Her father is a Dramatist (Probably) and she also shares the same passion with her father. She is an expert dramatist also