is a manga written and illustrated by

Tetsuya Chiba is a Japanese manga artist famous for his sports stories. Chiba's works include ''Ashita no Joe'', his best known work, and ''Notari Matsutarō''. Many of his early titles are still in print due to continued popularity. Life He was born in Ch ...

. It ran in ''

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'' for nearly eight years and received an anime adaptation in 1977. The series received the Kodansha Cultural Children's Award (not to be confused with the

Kodansha Manga Award is an annual award for serialized manga published in the previous year, the event is sponsored by the publisher Kodansha. It is currently awarded in three categories: '' shōnen'', '' shōjo'', and general. The awards began in 1977, initially w ...

) in 1976.

Plot

Teppei Uesugi and his father have long since lived deep in the forest in search of buried treasure. Since he has not been a member of cultured society for a long time, Teppei is wild and unmannered. One day, Teppei's uncle finds him and Teppei finds out that he is actually from a very prestigious family and had five siblings. For the first time in his life, he will have to attend school and live under his grandmother's rules. Can Teppei really adapt to his new environment?

Characters

Masako Nozawa is a Japanese actress, voice actress and narrator. Throughout her life, she has been affiliated with Production Baobab, 81 Produce and self-owned Office Nozawa; she is also affiliated with Aoni Production. Her late husband, Masaaki Tsukada, was ...

as Teppei Uesugi * Akiko Tsuboi as Azumi Uesugi * Masao Imanishi as Hiromi Uesugi *

Tohru Furuya Toru is a masculine Japanese given name. Possible writings Toru can be expressed with several kanji. Some examples: *徹, "penetrate" *透, "transparent" *享, "enjoy" *亨, "smoothly" *暢, "freely" The name can also be written in hiragana と ...

as Yoshiyuki *

Makoto Kōsaka is a Japanese voice actress affiliated with Tokyo Actor's Consumer's Cooperative Society. She is best known for voicing Hiromi Oka in ''Aim for the Ace!'', O-jirō in '' Little Ghost Q-Taro'', and Mari Sakurano in ''Brave Raideen''. Biography M ...

as Kanako * Shozo Iizuka as Yoshioka *

Youko Matsuoka Yoko and are Japanese feminine given names. ''Yōko'' is sometimes transliterated as Yohko and Youko. The name ''Yoko'' is almost always written with the kanji (''ko''), meaning "child". The syllable ''ko'' is not generally found at the end ...

as Onigiri

References

External links

* {{Nippon Animation Anime series Anime series based on manga Fuji TV original programming Kendo in anime and manga Kodansha manga Nippon Animation Shōnen manga