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{{short description|Japanese manga series by Fujiko F. Fujio}}
{{Infobox animanga/Header
| name = Kiteretsu Daihyakka
| image = KiteretsuDaihyakka-vol1.jpg
| caption = Volume 1 of the ''Kiteretsu Daihyakka'' manga
| ja_kanji = キテレツ大百科
| ja_romaji = 
| genre = <!-- Note: Use and cite reliable sources to identify genre/s, not personal interpretation. Please don't include more than three genres (per [[MOS:A&M]]). -->
}}
{{Infobox animanga/Print
| type            = manga
| author          = [[Fujiko Fujio]] (Fujimoto alone)<ref name="fujiko" group="n">Fujimoto used the pen name "Fujiko F. Fujio" from 1989 onwards.</ref>
| publisher       = [[Central Union of Agricultural Cooperatives|Family Light Association]] (Magazine)<br/>[[Shogakukan]] (Volumes)
| demographic     = [[Children's anime and manga|Children]]
| imprint         = Tentōmushi Comics
| magazine        = [[Chagurin|Kodomo no Hikari]]
| first           = April 1974
| last            = July 1977
| volumes         = 3
| volume_list     = 
}}
{{Infobox animanga/Video
| type            = tv series
| director        = Hiro Katsuoka<br/>Keiji Hayakawa
| producer        = {{unbulleted list|Kenji Shimizu (Fuji TV)|Minoru Wada (Fuji TV)|[[Yoshihiro Suzuki]] (Fuji TV)|Yoshio Kataoka (Asatsu)|Kazuhiko Ishikawa (Asatsu)|Tateshi Yamazaki (Asatsu)|Yutaka Sugiyama (Asatsu)|Akio Wakana ([[Gallop (studio)|Gallop]])|[[Tetsuo Kanno]] (Staff 21)}}
| writer          = {{unbulleted list|[[Shun'ichi Yukimuro]]|[[Takashi Yamada]]|Toshiyuki Aoshima|Satoshi Namiki|Tadaaki Yamazaki}}
| music           = [[Shunsuke Kikuchi]]
| studio          = [[Gallop (studio)|Gallop]]
| network         = [[Fuji TV]]
| network_en      = {{English anime networks
| IN = [[Cartoon Network (India)|Cartoon Network]]
}}
| first           = '''Special'''<br/>November 2, 1987<br/>'''Regular episodes'''<br/>March 27, 1988
| last            = June 9, 1996
| episodes        = 331 + 1 special
| episode_list    = List of Kiteretsu episodes
}}
{{Infobox animanga/Print
| type            = manga
| title           = Shin Kiteretsu Daihyakka
| author          = [[Fujiko Fujio|Fujiko F. Fujio]]
| illustrator     = Michiaki Tanaka
| publisher       = [[Shogakukan]]
| demographic     = [[Children's anime and manga|Children]]
| imprint         = Tentōmushi Comics
| magazine        = [[CoroCoro Comic]]
| first           = May 1988
| last            = February 1994
| volumes         = 6
| volume_list     = 
}}
{{Infobox animanga/Other
|title = Video games
|content =
* ''Kiteretsu Daihyakka'' (1990)
* ''Kiteretsu Daihyakka: Bouken Ouedo Juraki'' (1994)
* ''Kiteretsu Daihyakka: Chōjikū Sugoroku'' (1995)
}}
{{Infobox animanga/Footer}}
{{nihongo|'''''Kiteretsu Daihyakka'''''|キテレツ大百科||"Kiteretsu Large Encyclopedia"; commonly shortened to '''''Kiteretsu'''''}} is a Japanese [[manga]] series by [[Fujiko Fujio]] (Fujimoto alone),<ref name="fujiko" group="n"/> which ran in the children's [[magazine]] ''[[Chagurin|Kodomo no Hikari]]'' from April 1974 to July 1977. The manga was later made into a [[List of Kiteretsu episodes|331-episode]] [[anime]] television series that ran on [[Fuji TV]] from 27 March 1988 to 9 June 1996. The series was licensed for [[Spain]] by LUK Internacional under the title of "Kiteretsu, el primo más listo de [[Nobita Nobi|Nobita]]" (English translation: Kiteretsu, Nobita's Smarter Cousin).<ref>{{Cite web|title=LUK Internacional|url=http://lukinternacional.com/es/catalogo/kiteretsu.html|access-date=2021-06-24|website=lukinternacional.com}}</ref>

==Plot==
The series is the story of a scientific inventor boy genius named Eiichi Kite, a.k.a. Kiteretsu, a descendant of a great inventor named D. Kiteretsu Saisama, who has built a companion robot named Korosuke. He has friends such as Miyoko Nonohana, a girl in his neighborhood and love interest, Buta Gorira (Kumada Kaoru), a typical neighborhood bully, and his friend Tongari, a rich boy, who both often antagonize Korosuke and Kiteretsu (though they are in grade school). It also depicts Kiteretsu's frequent adventures in time with his friends and Korosuke in the time machine which he built.

==Characters==
; {{nihongo|Eiichi Kite|木手英一|Kite Eiichi}} (a.k.a., {{nihongo|Kiteretsu|キテレツ|}})
: An 11-year-old 5th grader who lives in [[Tokyo]]. He is the city’s one of the smartest kids who’s also an excellent genius student and is quite the smarty pants, has a strong mechanical and inventive aptitude, but the only thing he is weak at is [[sports]]. He can repair normal machines and invent variations of the Daihyakka gadgets. {{voiced by|[[Toshiko Fujita]]}}.

; {{nihongo|Korosuke|コロ助|}}
: Kiteretsu's lazy robot assistant who usually ends his sentences with {{nihongo|''nari''|ナリ|}}. He usually wears an artificial samurai sword. He is an invention in the encyclopedia. He was made by Kiteretsu himself. {{voiced by|[[Mami Koyama]] and later by [[Kazuko Sugiyama]]}}.

; {{nihongo|Miyoko Nonohana|野々花みよ子|Nonoha Miyoko}} (a.k.a., {{nihongo|Miyo-chan|みよちゃん|}}))
: A very intelligent girl who is one of Kiteretsu's best friends, and Kiteretsu's love interest. She is shown to be Kiteretsu's future wife in several time-travel episodes. She resembles Michiko Sawada from [[Perman]]. {{voiced by|[[Yuriko Yamamoto]], followed by [[Mayumi Shō]] and [[Chieko Honda]]}}.

; {{nihongo|Kaoru Kumada|熊田薫|Kumada Kaoru}} (a.k.a., {{nihongo|Butagorira|ブタゴリラ|}})
: One of Kiteretsu's friends who is the son of a green grocer who loves vegetables. He is a typical bully, but is mostly comic relief. {{voiced by|[[Hiroshi Ōtake]] and later by [[Naoki Tatsuta]]}}.

; {{nihongo|Kōji Tongari|尖浩二|Tongari Kōji}} (a.k.a., {{nihongo|Tongari|トンガリ|}})
: A rich boy and one of Kiteretsu's friends. He is easily frightened, and a best friend of Butagorira, though is quite often bullied by him. {{voiced by|[[Ryū Manatsu]] and later by [[Yūji Mitsuya]]}}.

; Benzō Karino
: A friend and mentor of Kiteretsu and his friends, as well as a university student. He owns a car.  {{voiced by|[[Kaneta Kimotsuki]]}}.

; Michiko Kite (木手美智子 Kite Michiko)
: Kiteretsu's mother. {{voiced by|Yuri Nashiwa and later by [[Sumi Shimamoto]]}}.

; Eitarō Kite
: Kiteretsu's father. {{voiced by|[[Hideyuki Tanaka]] and later by [[Yusaku Yara]]}}.

; Kumahachi Kumada
: Butagorira's father.He owns a vegetable shop {{voiced by|[[Takeshi Aono]]}}.

; Sayuri Kumada
: Butagorira's mother. {{voiced by|[[Noriko Uemura]]}}.

; Kōichi Tongari
: Tongari's father. {{voiced by|Sanshirō Niita, followed by [[Hirohiko Kakegawa]] and [[Masato Hirano (voice actor)|Masato Hirano]]}}.

; Takako Tongari
: Tongari's mother. {{voiced by|Yuka Ōno}}.

==Media==
===Manga===
*''Kiteretsu Daihyakka'' vol. 1–3 (Tentōmushi Comics, [[Shogakukan]], 1977)
*''Kiteretsu Daihyakka'' vol. 1–4 (Fujiko F. Fujio Land, [[Chūō Kōron Shinsha]], 1984)
*''Kiteretsu Daihyakka'' vol. 1–2 (Shogakukan Koro r Bunko, Shogakukan, 1984)
*''My First BIG Kiteretsu'' vol. 1–2 (Shogakukan, 2003)

===Anime===
{{Main article|List of Kiteretsu episodes}}
The manga was later made into a 331-episode [[anime]] television series which ran on [[Fuji TV]] from 27 March 1988 to 9 June 1996. The series aired in [[South Korea]] on [[Cartoon Network (South Korea)|Cartoon Network]]. The series first aired in [[India]] on  [[Hungama TV]] in 2007. Later on [[Disney XD (India)|Disney XD]], [[Disney Channel (Indian TV channel)|Disney Channel]], [[Pogo (TV channel)|Pogo]] & [[Cartoon Network (Indian TV channel)|Cartoon Network]]. An English dub of the anime aired in India on [[Cartoon Network (India)|Cartoon Network]]. A [[remastered]] version of the series is aired on [[Hungama TV]] from April 2021 in [[India]]. As of September 2016, a [[remaster]]ed version of the series airs on [[Animax]] in Japan.<ref name="animax1">{{cite web|title=キテレツ大百科<リマスター版>|url=http://www.animax.co.jp/programs/249408|access-date=September 13, 2016|publisher=[[Animax]]|language=ja}}</ref>

====Staff====
*Planning: Taihei Ishikawa→Kenji Shimizu ([[Fuji Television|Fuji TV]]), [[Yoshirō Kataoka]] ([[Asatsu]])
*Producers:
**Kenji Shimizu→Minoru Wada→[[Yoshihiro Suzuki]] (Fuji TV)
**Yoshio Kataoka→Kazuhiko Ishikawa→Tateshi Yamazaki→Yutaka Sugiyama (Asatsu)
**Akio Wakana ([[Gallop (studio)|Gallop]])
**[[Tetsuo Kanno]] (Staff 21)
*Script: [[Shun'ichi Yukimuro]], [[Takashi Yamada]], Toshiyuki Aoshima, Satoshi Namiki, Tadaaki Yamazaki
*General Animation Directors: Tsukasa Tannai, Kazuyuki Kobayashi, [[Watanabe Hajime (animator)|Hajime Watanabe]], Nobuyuki Tokinaga, Shōjurō Yamauchi
*Art Director: Shichirō Kobayashi→Satoshi Shibata
*Backgrounds: Kobayashi Production, Studio Kanon
*Director of Photography: Shigeo Sugimura (credited as Yasuhiro Shimizu for part of it)→Hiroaki Edamitsu
*Music Director: Nobuhiro Komatsu
*Music: [[Shunsuke Kikuchi]]
*Director: Hiro Katsuoka→Keiji Hayakawa
*Executive Producer: Mikio Wakana
*Sound Producer: [[Yōsuke Kuroda]]

====Theme songs====
=====Opening theme songs=====
Listing includes the song title followed by the episodes and the singer in parentheses.

*''Kiteretsu Daihyakka no Uta'' (キテレツ大百科のうた "The Song of Kiterestu Encyclopedia") (90-minute special on November 2, 1987, [[Mitsuko Horie]])
#''Oyome-san ni Natte Agenaizo'' (お嫁さんになってあげないゾ) (ep. 1–24, [[Kaori Moritani]])
#''Body dake Lady'' (ボディーだけレディー) (ep. 25–60, Junko Uchida)
#''Yumemiru Jikan'' (夢みる時間) (ep. 61–86, Megumi Mori)
#''Hajimete no Chū'' (はじめてのチュウ) (ep. 87–108, Anshin Papa)
#''Suimin Busoku'' (スイミン不足) (ep. 109–170, Chicks)
#''Oryōri Kōshinkyoku'' (お料理行進曲) (ep. 171–331, [[Yuka (singer, born 1970)|Yuka]])

=====Ending theme songs=====
Listing includes the song title followed by the episodes and the singer in parentheses.

*''Korosuke Machi wo Yuku'' (コロ助まちをゆく) (90-minute special, [[Fushigi Yamada|Kyōko Yamada]])
#''Magical Boy Magical Heart'' (マジカルBoyマジカルHeart) (ep. 1–16, Kaori Moritani)
#''Lace no Cardigan'' (レースのカーディガン) (ep. 17–24, [[Kaori Sakagami]])
#''Korosuke Rock'' (コロ助ROCK) (ep. 25–60, Junko Uchida)
#''Felt no Pencase'' (フェルトのペンケース) (ep. 61–86, Megumi Mori)
#''Merry ha tada no Tomodachi'' (メリーはただのトモダチ) (ep. 87–108, [[Toshiko Fujita]])
#''Hajimete no Chū'' (はじめてのチュウ) (ep. 109–170, 213–290, 311–331, Anshin Papa)
#''Happy Birthday'' (ep. 171–212, Yuka)
#''Uwasa  Kiss'' (うわさのキッス) (ep. 291–310, [[TOKIO]])

===Television drama===
In January 2002, [[NHK]] aired a two-hour one-shot live action [[Japanese television drama|drama]] featuring a [[computer-generated imagery|CGI]] Korosuke voiced by [[Mami Koyama]]. It was originally aired on [[NHK Educational TV]] on January 1, 2002.

===Games===
* On February 23, 1990, [[Epoch (company)|Epoch]] released an action game for the [[Nintendo Entertainment System|Famicom]].
* On July 15, 1994, another action game, ''Kiteretsu Daihyakka: Bouken Ouedo Juraki'', was released by Video System for the Game Boy.
* A [[board game]] titled ''Kiteretsu Daihyakka: Chōjikū Sugoroku'' was released on January 27, 1995 by Video System for the [[Super Nintendo Entertainment System|Super Famicom]].
* Another game was made for the [[Sega Pico]].{{Citation needed|date=June 2012}}

==Reception==
The anime was ranked 31st on a list published by [[TV Asahi]] in 2005 of the top 100 anime.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2005-09-23/tv-asahi-top-100-anime-part-2|title= TV Asahi Top 100 Anime Part 2|date= September 23, 2005|access-date= May 9, 2015|work= [[Anime News Network]]}}</ref>

==Notes==
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==References==
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==External links==
{{Portal|Children's literature}}
*[http://www.mxtv.co.jp/kiteretsu/ Official Tokyo MX website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150407065917/http://www.mxtv.co.jp/kiteretsu/ |date=2015-04-07 }}
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