Dash! Yonkuro | |
Dash! Yonkuro volume 1 front cover
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ダッシュ!四駆郎 (Dasshu! Yonkarō) |
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Genre | Action, Tournament, Comedy |
Manga | |
Written by | Zaurus Tokuda |
Published by | Shogakukan |
Demographic | Children |
Magazine | CoroCoro Comic |
Original run | December 1987 – March 1992 |
Volumes | 14 |
Anime television series | |
Directed by | Hiroshi Sasagawa |
Studio | Staff 21, Aubekku & Tokyu Agency |
Licensed by | Studio PV (Italy) Animation International Ltd. (Hong Kong) |
Original network | Junior TV, TV Tokyo |
Original run | October 3, 1989 – March 27, 1990 |
Episodes | 25 |
Dash! Yonkuro (ダッシュ!四駆郎? Dasshu! Yonkurō) is a Japanese manga series created by Zaurus Tokuda. The manga was adapted into an anime television series consisting of only one season of 26 episodes aired by TV Tokyo.
Dash! Yonkuro was serialized in the monthly CoroCoro Comic from December 1987 until March 1992. The growing popularity of the comic strip resulted in an animated adaptation, financed by the Tamiya Corporation.
Zaurus Tokuda was a prolific writer of Mini 4WD comics, including: "Kaze no racer! Otokogi (The Wind Racer! Otokogi)", "Dash 10" and "Mirai Boy Racer! V-twin (The Racer of the Future! V-twin)".
In 2015, Hyper Dash! Yonkuro, a revival/spin-off series, authored by Hiroyuki Takei (under Tokuda's family approval), began serialization in CoroCoro Aniki magazine.
Auvek, Shogakukan Productions Co., Ltd., Staff 21, Tamiya Plastic Model Corporation, Tokyu Agency, Abukekku and Zaurus Tokuda collaborated to produce the animated series. Dash! replaced Mister Ajikko and aired on TV Tokyo from October 3, 1989 to March 27, 1990 with a season of 25 Episodes.
Dash! Yonkuro was also eventually distributed overseas in Italy, South Korea, the Arab World and the Philippines. The anime was broadcast in Italy and South Korea in the early nineties, and Malaysia in 1996.
The contests in this work come carried out are on sterrati tracings, going behind blot some and controlling them through of the said maces "guide sticks", it is in of the tracks constructed purposely for the Mini 4WD.
Tamiya produced numerous new Mini 4WD from 1986 to 1989, some like for tradition, the models are uniquely designed, others instead were reproductions of radio control (R/C) cars, they therefore produced the first Mini 4WD independent from the use of remote controls: Dash-1 Emperor (model# 18012), Dash-2 Burning Sun (model# 18015), Rising Bird (model# 18017), Dash-3 Shooting Star (model# 18019), Dash-4 Cannonball (model# 18022) and Dash-5 Dancing Doll (model# 18023).