Directed by Yoshihiro Takamoto Director Yoshihiro Takamoto | Demographic Children Volumes 2 Final episode date 28 September 2002 Number of episodes 26 Written by Makoto Mizobuchi | |
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Original run November 28, 2002 – May 28, 2003 Similar Genji Tsūshin Agedama, Gyōten Ningen Batseelor, Miracle Giants Dome‑kun, Animal Yokochō, Wandaba Style | ||
forza hidemaru
Forza! Hidemaru (Japanese: フォルツァ!ひでまる, Hepburn: Forutsa! Hidemaru) is a 26 episode anime series produced by NAS and aired on TV Tokyo. It is based on Hidemaru The Soccer Boy (ひでまる the soccer boy), a Corocoro Comic manga series by the author Makoto Mizobuchi, produced by "Sunny Side Up". Enoki Films licensed the series as Forza! Mario, and NAS refers to the series by that name on its English website. The series, about a boy who wants to play soccer, aired in 2002, the year of the FIFA World Cup in Japan and Korea.
Contents
Jonathan Clements and Helen McCarthy, the authors of The Anime Encyclopedia, Revised & Expanded Edition: A Guide to Japanese Animation Since 1917, wrote that the series "seems far out of its time in the early 21st century" but "the very young audience sees" the sports tropes "with fresh eyes."
Hidemaru appeared on the website nakata.net, Hidetoshi Nakata's official website.
Characters
Clements and McCarthy stated that the cast consists of "wacky animals in sports getup" with a fox, two fat hippopotamus girls, dogs, horses, and rabbits.