''Inai Inai Baa!'' () is a Japanese children's TV program broadcast by

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for infants, toddlers, preschoolers, and kindergarteners (0–6 years old), consisting of gymnastics, songs, educations, etc. It first premiered on April 1, 1996.

Overview

NHK's program for infants, which started broadcasting in 1996. The audience rating of NHK education as a children's program is the most popular program, following '' Okaasan to Issho'' and ''Miitsuketa!''.個人視聴率調査
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Characters

There is an amount of characters that appear in the show.

Puppets

Regular

Poupo's friends

Songs

The many songs in the show is designed to be fun and exciting for babies and young children, and is only 1 to 2 minutes in length. Across the years, many well-known lyricists, composers, picture book authors, musicians and scriptwriters had contributed to adding songs into the show. In the beginning, the team behind the show were not intending to have songs by famous people, but would end up doing so as they were introduced by people involved in the program (e.g. lyricists). Gymnastics songs that play in every episode aired change every few years, and feature movements to help develop the infant mind. There are also songs to teach about lifestyle habits (e.g. eating, brushing teeth, tidying up) in a puppet show. However, even if a girl is replaced, the videos are not replaced and are kept.

Normal songs

* Looks like something good will happen! (2022-) * Fruits Purupuru (2025-) * Maple Tree Song (2011-2023) * Yaho☆ (2023-) * Tetotetotetote (2019-2023, 2025-)

Lifestyle habits songs

* Ah, It's Delicious! () (2023-)

Specials

20th Anniversary Special! -Always Together!-

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the show in April 2016, a 30-minute special was aired on January 2 of the same year (rebroadcasting on January 11). This featured many past segments making a return. Some of the special included a medley of gymnastics songs from the past, a felt puppet segment featuring puppets of past girls and characters from the show (excluding Penta), and the full version of the 20th anniversary song, Always Together (ずーっといっしょ). It was also released on

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. Special messages and pictures from the past girls of the show were also released.

References

External links

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