Hello! Kurt
| Hello! Kurt | |
|---|---|
| Original title | お は よ う! ス パ ン ク |
| transcription | Ohayo! Supanku |
| genre | Comedy , shōjo |
| Manga | |
| country |
 Japan
|
| author | Shun'ichi Yukimuro |
| illustrator | Shizue Takanashi |
| publishing company | Kōdansha |
| magazine | Nakayoshi |
| First publication | February 1979 - March 1982 |
| expenditure | 7th |
| Anime television series | |
| Country of production |
Japan
|
| original language | Japanese |
| year | 1981 |
| Studio | Tokyo Movie Shinsha |
| length | 24 minutes |
| Episodes | 64 |
| Director | Shigetsugu Yoshida |
| idea | Shunichi Yukimuro |
| production | Akira Sugino |
| music | Kōji Makaino |
| First broadcast | March 7, 1981 (Japan) on TV Asahi |
| German-language first broadcast |
May 11, 1995 on RTL 2 |
Hello! Kurt ( Japanese. お は よ う! ス パ ン ク , Ohayō! Supanku , dt. "Good morning! Spank") is a manga series drawn by Shizue Takanashi based on an idea by Shunichi Yukimuro and published from 1979 to 1982. In 1981 the manga was filmed as an anime television series. The manga series was originally aimed primarily at girls of elementary and middle school age, so it can be assigned to the Shōjo genre.
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14-year-old Anna (originally Aiko) moves to live with her uncle in a small town by the sea, because her mother works in Paris and her father is missing on a sailing excursion (Anna firmly believes that he is still alive). Shortly after their arrival, their beloved dog is hit by a car and dies, which is why Anna falls into mourning.
At the port, Anna meets the little dog Kurt ( Spank ), a stray dog, who tries to cheer her up. Kurt's owner himself disappeared on a boat trip, which is why the loyal dog is always waiting for him at the harbor and on the beach. Anna herself, still in mourning because of the death of her dog, looks at the attempts of the "fled dog" to seek her proximity with suspicion. When an old man at the port tells her Kurt's story, she realizes that they both have a lot in common. The two become friends with each other.
Later, Anna falls in love with Andreas, who knew Kurt's owner, while Kurt himself feels affection for a cat (this belongs to Celine, a classmate of Anna who also has a crush on Andreas).
Publications
The manga was published monthly in individual chapters in the manga magazine Nakayoshi from 1979 to 1982 . The Kōdansha publishing house then published these individual chapters in seven paperback volumes. In 1999 the story was published by the same publisher as Bunkoban .
Play Press published the seven anthologies in Italy in the 1990s.
Awards
In 1981 the manga won the Kōdansha Manga Prize in the "Shōjo" category.
Film adaptations
Tokyo Movie Shinsha (TMS) and the television station TV Asahi produced an anime television series based on the manga . 63 episodes were created, each lasting around 24 minutes. Shigetsugu Yoshida worked as a director , but others also directed individual episodes (including Susumu Ishizaki , Tetsu Dezaki and Naoto Hashimoto ). The scripts were written by Satoshi Kaneko and Masaaki Sakurai .
The series was first aired from March 7, 1981 to May 29, 1982 on TV Asahi. On March 13, 1982, a 95-minute movie was released in Japan to complement the television series.
The anime received more international attention than its comic book. It was exported to several countries and was shown, for example, on Spanish television under the title Ola, Spanky! , in French as Les Aventures de Claire et Tipoune and in Italian as Hello Spank! .
Under the title Hello! Kurt found the anime a place on German television. The German first broadcast took place on May 11, 1995 on RTL 2 . Alster Studios was responsible for the German editing and dubbing, in which the names of the original were Germanized . After switching channels to tm3 and Tele 5 , the series ran again on RTL 2.
The title song of the German version comes from the Italian version Siamo quelli di Beverly Hills of the US animated series Beverly Hills Teens . The text has been rewritten in German and has nothing else in common with the original.
Web links
- Hello! Kurt in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Information on the television series at Anime News Network (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Helen McCarthy, Jonathan Clements: The Anime Encyclopedia. Revised & Expanded Edition . P. 277.
- ↑ Hello! Kurt at wunschliste.de