Yam Roll
| Yam Roll | |
|---|---|
| Also known as | The Very Good Adventures of Yam Roll in Happy Kingdom |
| Genre | Comedy |
| Created by |
Jono Howard Jon Izen |
| Directed by | Jon Izen |
| Starring |
Joe Pingue Sunday Muse Dwayne Hill Robert Smith Gary Crawford |
| Country of origin | France |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 39 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Daniel Hawes, Catherine Tait, Liliana Vogt |
| Producer(s) | Daniel Hawes |
| Editor(s) | Jono Howard |
| Running time | 11 minutes |
| Production company(s) | March Entertainment |
| Release | |
| Original network | CBC Canada |
| Original release | February 6 – December 23, 2006 |
Yam Roll (or the long title, The Very Good Adventures of Yam Roll in Happy Kingdom) is a Canadian animated television series created by Jono Howard and Jon Izen airing on CBC Television in Canada, produced by March Entertainment. The series was first broadcast on February 6, 2006. It can be viewed on Saturday at 10:00am and 10:17am on local CBC channels as well as ABC2 (Australia) and HBO Asia.
Yam Roll features a cast of animated sushi characters, and other anthropomorphic instances of Japanese cuisine, all living in Happy Kingdom, a prosperous city which is upset quite often by monsters.
Yam Roll is the lead character, a taxicab driver by profession who wears a cowboy hat and boots. He is portrayed as an orange yam wrapped in rice, his body being circular in appearance, with stick-like arms and legs. Yam Roll is bestowed with a certain degree of super powers thanks to his instructor Katcho and the powers of Mount Foopi. These powers allow him to fly, lift incredibly heavy objects, and change form (into a door, a table, a potato masher, etc.). But despite his powers, Yam Roll leads a mostly normal life. Well, as normal as life gets in Happy Kingdom. Voiced by .
Quoting from March Entertainment's site [1]:
Yam Roll tells the story of an exotic land of sushi and how one of its inhabitants, a super-powered cab driver named Yam Roll, braves monsters and bad guys all in the name of unrequited love. Despite being well liked in Happy Kingdom due to his good nature and sweet, root-vegetable flavouring, Yam Roll is still a frustrated guy. Why? Because he is hopelessly in love with the town sweetheart, a spicy tuna roll named Minamiko.
With the help of his wise Zen master, Katcho Miso (an old lump of salty bean paste), his sidekick and best friend Ebi-san (a severely hyperactive shrimp), and the rest of his motley maritime crew, Yam Roll's life is always an exciting ride.
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