Ojarumaru

Ojarumaru
Cover of the 2010 Ojarumaru calendar
おじゃる丸
Genre	Comedy, Fantasy
Manga
Written by	Rin Inumaru
Published by	Shogakukan
Magazine	Ciao
Original run	1993 – 2006
Anime television series
Directed by	Akitaro Daichi
Music by	Harukichi Yamamoto
Studio	Gallop
Licensed by	US Enoki Films
Original network	NHK E-Tele
Original run	October 5, 1998 – present
Episodes	1590 (List of episodes)
Anime television film
Ojarumaru: A Happy Blue Back
Directed by	Akitaro Daichi
Written by	Reiko Yoshida
Music by	Harukichi Yamamoto
Studio	Gallop
Licensed by	US Enoki Films
Original network	NHK E-Tele
Released	January 1, 2000
Runtime	30 minutes
Anime film
Ojarumaru the Movie: The Promised Summer - Ojaru and Semira
Directed by	Akitaro Daichi
Produced by	Atsushi Ito Hisako Matsumoto
Written by	Reiko Yoshida
Music by	Harukichi Yamamoto
Studio	Gallop
Released	July 15, 2000
Runtime	47 minutes
Anime television film
Ojarumaru: Peril at the Full Moon Road -A 'Rare' Adventure of Our Prince-
Directed by	Akitaro Daichi
Written by	Mamiko Ikeda
Music by	Harukichi Yamamoto
Studio	Gallop
Licensed by	US Enoki Films
Original network	NHK E-Tele
Released	May 3, 2007
Runtime	50 minutes
Manga
Written by	Tatsuma Ejiri
Published by	Shueisha
Demographic	Shōnen
Magazine	Saikyo Jump
Original run	January 2012 – September 2014
Volumes	1 (List of volumes)
Anime television film
Ojarumaru Special: My Galaxy is Calling ~The 2 Wishing Stars~
Directed by	Akitaro Daichi
Written by	Masako Imai
Music by	Harukichi Yamamoto
Studio	Gallop
Licensed by	US Enoki Films
Original network	NHK E-Tele
Released	March 20, 2012
Runtime	54 minutes
Anime television film
Ojarumaru Special: Hinata in the Forgotten Forest
Directed by	Akitaro Daichi
Written by	Shuichi Kamiyama
Music by	Harukichi Yamamoto
Studio	Gallop
Original network	NHK E-Tele
Released	August 14, 2015
Runtime	29 minutes

Ojarumaru (おじゃる丸^?) is a Japanese Yonkoma manga series created by Rin Inumaru, serialized in Shogakukan's Shojo magazine Ciao from 1993 until its cancellation in 2006. A manga adaptation of the anime was published by Shueisha and serialized in Saikyo Jump in 2012. It was adapted as an ongoing anime series produced by NHK Enterprises, animated by Gallop, and broadcast on NHK E-Tele beginning in October 1998. The story focuses on the adventures of a 5-year-old Heian-era prince named Ojarumaru Sakanoue who accidentally time-warps to modern Japan and lives with Kazuma Tamura and his parents. The prince tries to understand modern Japan's culture, while making many new friends and dodging a trio of young oni who try to get back a scepter that he stole from Great King Enma. It has been released in some countries under the name Prince Mackaroo. The series has been dubbed in many languages.

It received an "Excellence Award" for animation at the 1999 Japan Media Arts Festival.

Around 1,000 years ago in Fairy World (妖精界 Yōsei-Kai) in the Heian era, a young prince from a noble family named Ojarumaru Sakanoue is bored of his life of privilege. He is later lured into Enma World (エンマ界 Enma-Kai) by the sound of a ukulele played by Great King Enma. Upon arriving, he steals Great King Enma's powerful scepter, which he uses in order to judge the dead. While getting chased by Great King Enma, he accidentally falls into the Moon Hole (月の穴 Tsuki no Ana), which time-warps him to modern Japan through the Full Moon Road (満月ロード Mangetsu Rōdo). The furious Great King Enma sends his three adopted oni children, Aobee, Kisuke, and Akane, who are known as the Oni Child Trio, to pursue Ojarumaru and get the scepter back. At the present time, Ojarumaru befriends a boy named Kazuma Tamura and lives with his family, thanks to his grandfather Tommy. While making many new friends and dodging the Oni Child Trio's efforts to retrieve the scepter, Ojarumaru has many adventures in Moonlight Town and encounters new things he's never seen before in his time period.