, also known as ''Mechanical Boy Dotakon'' and ''Robot boy Dotakon'', is a humorous

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written by Hosuke Fukuchi that began running in the magazine ''

Manga Sunday , also known by the nickname , is a defunct Japanese weekly ''Seinen manga, seinen'' List of manga magazines, manga magazine published by Jitsugyo no Nihon Sha. It started to be published under the name in 1959. On June 5, 2012, it start to be p ...

'' in 1968 and that was later adapted into an

anime is Traditional animation, hand-drawn and computer animation, computer-generated animation originating from Japan. Outside of Japan and in English, ''anime'' refers specifically to animation produced in Japan. However, in Japan and in Japane ...

television series consisting of 28 episodes, which was directed by Takeshi Shirato and first broadcast on

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in 1981.

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* 1968 manga 1981 anime television series debuts Fuji TV original programming Comedy anime and manga Jitsugyo no Nihon Sha manga {{anime-tv-series-stub