Marude Dameo

Marude Dameo (丸出だめ夫) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kenji Morita (森田拳次). The series stars an elementary school boy named Dameo Marude (丸出 だめ夫, Marude Dameo), who has little success with anything he tries, and a robot named Borot (ボロット, Borotto), which is good with housekeeping. It was serialized in the Kodansha magazine Weekly Shōnen Magazine from 1964 to 1967. A tokusatsu adaptation by Toei Company aired on Nippon Television from March 7, 1966 to February 27, 1967 for 52 episodes; young actor Pepe Hozumi played the title character. An anime adaptation by Studio Pierrot ran on Fuji Television from November 1991 to September 1992 for The 47 episodes.