Judo Boy

Kurenai Sanshirō (Japanese: 紅三四郎; lit. "Scarlet Sanshiro"), known outside Japan as Judo Boy, is a Japanese anime television series created by Tatsuo Yoshida and his brother Ippei Kuri loosely based on the manga Judo Boy (Japanese: ジュードー・ボーイ, Hepburn: Jūdō Bōi) written by Yutaka Arai and Kuri and illustrated by Yoshida. The series aired on Fuji TV from April 2, 1969, to September 24, 1969, totaling 26 episodes.^[1][2] The series was also followed by two manga adaptations, the first written by Masato Tenma^[a] and illustrated by Kuri published in Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday from July 28 to November 17, 1968,^[3] and a four-chapters series written by Yoshida and illustrated by Mamoru Uchiyama^[c] in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump from May 22 to July 10, 1969.^[4]

GenreMartial arts

Created by

• Ippei Kuri
• Tatsuo Yoshida

Screenplay by

• Jinzō Toriumi
• Osamu Jinno
• Yoshitake Suzuki
• Haruya Yamazaki
• Sumiko Hayashi
• Tsunehisa Itō

Story byJinzō Toriumi

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Judo Boy
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紅三四郎（くれないさんしろう）
Genre	Martial arts
Created by	Ippei Kuri Tatsuo Yoshida
Screenplay by	Jinzō Toriumi Osamu Jinno Yoshitake Suzuki Haruya Yamazaki Sumiko Hayashi Tsunehisa Itō
Story by	Jinzō Toriumi
Directed by	Ippei Kuri
Music by	Nobuyoshi Koshibe
Opening theme	"Kurenai Sanshirō" by Katsuhiko Miki (#1–13) and Mitsuko Horie (#14–26)
Ending theme	"Otoko no Kōya" by Katsuhiko Miki (#1–13) "Yūhi no Otoko" by Yuri Shimazaki (#14–26)
Country of origin	Japan
Original language	Japanese
No. of episodes	26
Production
Executive producer	Tatsuo Yoshida
Producer	Kenji Yoshida
Production company	Tatsunoko Production
Original release
Network	Fuji TV
Release	April 2 (1969-04-02) – September 24, 1969 (1969-09-24)
Related
Further information Manga Written by Ippei Kuri Yutaka Arai Illustrated by Tatsuo Yoshida Published by Shueisha Magazine Shōnen Book Original run January 1961 – March 1962 Volumes 1 Manga Kurenai Sanshirō Written by Masato Tenma[a] Illustrated by Ippei Kuri Published by Shogakukan Shueisha (reissue) Magazine Weekly Shōnen Sunday Original run July 28, 1968 – November 17, 1968 Volumes 1[b] Manga Kurenai Sanshirō Written by Tatsuo Yoshida Illustrated by Mamoru Uchiyama[c] Published by Shueisha Magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump Original run May 22, 1969 – July 10, 1969

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The series stars a teenage martial artist named Sanshiro (voiced by Ikuo Nishikawa), trained in the Kurenai School of jiu-jitsu and centers around his search for his father's killer. Accompanying Sanshiro is an orphaned boy named Kenbo (voiced by Kenbo Kaminarimon) and his pet dog Boke (voiced by Hiroshi Otake). Sanshiro's only clue to his father's murderer is a glass eye left on the scene of the crime, suggesting that his father's murderer was one-eyed. Thus many of the villains Sanshiro fought during the course of the series were one-eyed or had one eye concealed with an eye-patch.

The second opening theme was performed by Mitsuko Horie (her first) when she was just 12 years old.