Sgt. Frog
| Sgt. Frog | |
|---|---|
| Original title | ケ ロ ロ 軍曹 |
| transcription | Keroro Gunsō |
 | |
| genre | Comedy , action series , science fiction |
| Manga | |
| country |
 Japan
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| author | Mine Yoshizaki |
| publishing company | Kadokawa Shoten |
| magazine | Shonen Ace |
| First publication | November 1999 - ... |
| expenditure | 20th |
| Television broadcast | |
| Country of production | Japan |
| original language | Japanese |
| year | 2004 |
| length | 24 minutes |
| Episodes | 358 (as of October 22, 2011) |
| First broadcast | April 3, 2004 on TV Tokyo |
Sgt. Frog ( Japanese ケ ロ ロ 軍曹 , Keroro Gunsō ) is a comedy manga by the Japanese illustrator Mine Yoshizaki , which is also implemented as an anime series.
action
Sergeant Keroro, a frog-like alien who is the leader of a reconnaissance troops holding the planet Pokopen (manganese) or Pekopon to explore (anime), the earth, for an invasion. Due to several mishaps, however, he initially loses contact with the rest of the team and ends up in the household of the Japanese Hinata family, from whom he is taken in after some arguments.
In return for doing the housework, he gets his own room, in which he continues to forge plans to conquer the earth. He is supported by the rest of the scouting party, who gradually get back together.
Characters
frogs
- Sergeant Keroro ( ケ ロ ロ )
- Keroro is the leader of the scouting party that was supposed to scout the earth. He is good friends with Fuyuki Hinata and is a frequent victim of Natsumi's outbursts of anger. With the Hinatas he earns his rent as a cleaner, his hobby is assembling Gundam models from the Bandai company .
- Corporal Giroro ( ギ ロ ロ )
- Giroro is the fighter of the patrol, heavily armed and always prepared for a conflict. He is an old friend of Keroro's. The first time he meets Natsumi, he is defeated by this in battle and then falls in love with her.
- Private Tamama ( タ マ マ )
- Tamama is the youngest of the group. He can fire flames from his mouth and has a split personality. He is constantly fighting for the favor and attention of Keroro, mostly against Lady Moa. He lives with Momoka in her villa.
- Sergeant Major Kururu ( ク ル ル )
- Kururu is the force's intelligence officer and has considerable technical capabilities and knowledge. But he's also pretty perverse and sells Lady Moa photos, among other things. He lives with Mutsumi and doesn't get along very well with Giroro.
- Corporal Dororo ( ド ロ ロ )
- Dororo is a ninja frog who devotes himself to environmental protection after landing on earth. He lives with Koyuki.
People
- Natsumi Hinata ( 日 向 夏 美 )
- Natsumi is the 14-year-old sister of Fuyuki and the daughter of Aki Hinata. She is very temperamental and, unlike her brother, does not find it so special that the frogs now live with her at home. She finds Keroro particularly bad, whom she shows her dislike regularly and violently. She is in love with Mutsumi. In Japanese , her first name means summer .
- Fuyuki Hinata ( 日 向 冬 樹 )
- Fuyuki is the 12 year old brother of Natsumi and son of Aki Hinata. He is very interested in the occult , UFOs, ghosts and other paranormal phenomena. He is the chairman of a club in his school dedicated to the paranormal. He thinks it's great that an alien is coming to his place, and Keroro becomes his best friend. In Japanese, his first name means winter .
- Aki Hinata ( 日 向 秋 )
- Aki is the mother of Natsumi and Fuyuki, her age is unknown. She is the editor of a Shounen magazine and is particularly noticeable because of her large bust. When Keroro occurs to her, she thinks he is cute and keeps him. In Japanese her first name means autumn .
- Momoka Nishizawa ( 西澤 桃 華 )
- 12-year-old Momoka is a multi-billionaire and Fuyuki's classmate. Like Private Tamama, who lives with her, she has a split personality. She uses her fortune very often to get closer to Fuyuki, with whom she is in love.
- Paul Moriyama ( ポ ー ル ・ も り や ま )
- Paul is Momoka's loyal butler and a great martial artist.
- Mutsumi Saburō ( ム ツ ミ ・ サ ブ ロ ー )
- Mutsumi is a young artist who sells his paintings in the city park. He teamed up with Sergeant Major Kururu, who enabled him to bring his drawings to life. Since the characters of his first name can also be read as "six-two-three", he signs his works with 623 .
Other figures
- Lady Angol Mois
- Angol Mois ( ア ン ゴ ル ＝ モ ア , Angoru Moa ) is an alien and the king of terror prophesied by Nostradamus , who is supposed to destroy the earth in 1999. It has two forms and carries a staff with which it can destroy entire planets. She is quite naive and calls Keroro, whom she knows from earlier, "little uncle". The Hinatas manage to talk her out of the destruction of the earth again and again.
publication
Sgt. Frog has been published in Japan since 1999 in individual chapters in the manga magazine Shōnen Ace of the Kadokawa-Shoten- Verlag. These individual chapters are also regularly summarized in 19 edited volumes.
The series has been published in German by Tokyopop since November 2004 , and 16 volumes have been published to date. The translation is by Stefan Hofmeister. The manga is published in North America by Tokyopop and in France and the Netherlands by Kana. There are also Spanish and Swedish versions.
Adaptations
Television series
Studio Sunrise is producing an anime series based on the manga , directed by Yusuke Yamamoto and Junichi Sato. The character design was created by Fumitoshi Oisaki. The anime has been broadcast on Japanese television on TV Tokyo since April 3, 2004 . Repetitions are made on Bandai Channel and Animax .
In the series, the name was Pokopen for the Earth in Pekopon changed because Pokopen during the Second Sino-Japanese War, a derogatory term for Chinese was, meaning "worthless" approximately, so that the word is avoided on television.
The series is televised in Southeast Asia, France, Spain, Italy and the Philippines and has also been translated into English and Chinese.
synchronization
| role | Japanese speaker ( seiyū ) |
|---|---|
| Aki Hinata | Akiko Hiramatsu |
| Natsumi Hinata | Khiva Saitō |
| Tamama | Etsuko Kozakura |
| Fuyuki Hinata | Tomoko Kawakami (up to episode 230), Hōko Kuwashima (from episode 232) |
| Giroro | Jōji Nakata |
| Keroro | Kumiko Watanabe |
| Kururu | Takehito Koyasu |
| Dororo | Takeshi Kusao |
music
The following titles were used for the opening credits:
- KERO! to MARCH by Nobuaki Kakuda and Juri Ihata
- Zenkoku Musekinin Jidai from GAGAGA SP
- Kimi ni JUICE wo Katte Ageru from GROUP Tamashii
- Hareru Michi ~ Uchūjin (Omēra) Awaseru Kao ga nee! ~ By JK
- You-You-You from POLYSICS
- Kaettekita KERO! to MARCH by Ichirō Zaitsu and Yuko Ogura
- FUNDARI- KETTARI- by DYLAN AND CATHERINE
- Nante Suteki na Doyōbi by KERORO Shōtai
- HELLO DARWIN! ~ Kōkishin ON DEMAND ~ by JAM Project
- KERO! to MARCH (Shōtai Version) by KERORO Shōtai
The end credits are as follows:
- AFRO Gunsō by DANCE MAN
- PEKOPON Shinryaku Ondo from ONDO GIRL meets KERORO Shoutai
- KERORO Shōutai Kōunin! Netsuretsu Kangeiteki Ekaki Uta !! by Keroro Shoutai
- Katte ni SHINRYAKUSHA by Naoya Ogawa and Mayuko Iwasa
- KOKORO no Mondai by toutou
- Shōri no Hanabira by Chinatouchable
- Cycling Recycle from Kirin
- A ni from AFROMANIA
- Kurutto, Mawatte, Ikkaiten by KIGURUMI
- NIKONIKO CHAMP by NON STYLE
- KERO Neko no TANGO by Osamu Minagawa and Hibari Children Chorus
- Omatase Chikyū Icchō! by KERORO Shōtai
- Bokura no Aikotoba by Natsumi Kiyōra
- KE, KE, KERORO no Daisakusen! by KERORO Shōtai
- Daijōbu SUPPONPON FRIEND by Yoshio Kojima
Movies
Five films have been released in Japan for the series. Junichi Sato directed the productions of Studio Sunrise's feature films and Mine Yoshizaki was involved in the last three productions.
- Chō Gekijōban Keroro Gunsō ( 超 劇場版 ケ ロ ロ 軍曹 ) was released on March 1, 2006 in Japanese cinemas.
- Chō Gekijōban Keroro Gunsō 2: Shinkai no Princess de Arimasu! ( 超 劇場版 ケ ロ ロ 軍曹 ２ 深海 の プ リ ン セ ス で あ り ま す！ ) was released in Japanese cinemas on March 17, 2007.
- Chibi Kero ( ち び ケ ロ ), the short film was released in Japanese cinemas on March 17, 2007.
- Chō Gekijōban Keroro Gunsō 3: Keroro Tai Keroro - Tenkū Daikessen de Arimasu! ( 超 劇場版 ケ ロ ロ 軍曹 3 ケ ロ ロ 対 ケ ロ ロ 天空 大 決 戦 で あ り ま す！ ) was released in Japanese cinemas on March 1, 2008.
- Chō Gekijōban Keroro Gunsō Gekishin Dragon Warriors De Arimasu! ( 超 劇場版 ケ ロ ロ 軍曹 撃 侵 ド ラ ゴ ン ウ ォ リ ア ー ズ で あ り ま す！ ) was released in Japanese cinemas on March 7, 2009.
- Chō Gekijōban Keroro Gunsō: Kero Ball no Himitsu ( 超 劇場版 ケ ロ ロ 軍曹 撃 侵 ド ラ ゴ ン ウ ォ リ ア ア ー ズ で あ り ま す！ ) was released in Japanese cinemas on March 7, 2009.
success
Sgt. Frog was awarded the 50th Shogakukan Manga Prize in the “Children” category in 2005. Volume 18 of the manga sold over 100,000 copies in Japan.
reception
The fan magazine Funime counts the manga in the genre of fun manga that rarely occurs in Germany, similar to Doraemon . The manga contains an unusually large number of Etchi scenes for this genre , but this does not seem artificial and the manga is overall funny. The character of Momoka as a girl who is after a boy, instead of the other way around, as usual, is also a specialty.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Japanese Comic Ranking, March 3-9. Anime News Network , March 18, 2009, accessed May 29, 2009 .
- ↑ Funime No. 41, p. 22f
Web links
- Keroro Island - official website of Kadokawa Shoten for the manga series (Japanese)
- Website of the German manga
- Official website of TV Tokyo for the TV series (Japanese)
- Anime News Network about the manga and television series (English)