Tsuide ni Tonchinkan

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name = Tsuide ni Tonchinkan


caption = Volume 1 of "Tsuide ni Tonchinkan".
ja_name = ついでにとんちんかん
ja_name_trans = Anyway it doesn't matter
genre = ComedyInfobox animanga/Manga
title =
author = Koichi Endo
publisher = flagicon|Japan Shueisha
demographic =
magazine = Weekly Shōnen Jump
first =
last =
volumes = Infobox animanga/Anime
title =
director = Shin Misawa
Tomomasa Yamazaki
studio = Studio Comet
network = Fuji Television
first = 10 October 1987
last = 1 October 1988
episodes = 43 [Ann anime|id=3163]

nihongo|"Tsuide ni Tonchinkan"|ついでにとんちんかん is a gag manga series by Koichi Endo which first appeared in "Shōnen Jump" in issues 49–50 in 1984, and then ran from 1985 (issue 14) through 1989 (issue 22). There are 18 volumes of the manga. The manga was adapted into a 43–episode anime series which ran on Fuji TV from October 10 1987 through October 1 1988. "Tonchinkan" aired directly following "High School! Kimengumi".

Anime

Cast

*Leader / Nukesaku Aida: Yō Yoshimura
*Red / Tonbū Chun: Kaneto Shiozawa
*Gurin / Chinpei Hatsuyama: Junichi Kanemaru
*Shiron / Kanko Shirai: Noriko Hidaka
*Police Chief: Hiroshi Ōtake
*Akuzō Dokuoni: Takeshi Aono
*Muyō Amachi: Yoku Shioya
*Ibarakishi: Yusaku Yara
*Andy Jones: Saeko Shimazu
*Pon Honda: Naoko Matsui
*Yatsu Akashi: Tomimichi Nishimura
*Kyōko Yoshizawa: Yōko Kawanami
*Shūzō Dokuoni: Naoki Tatsuta
*Nanashi no Gonbee: Bin Shimada
*Taika no Babaa: Kazuyo Aoki
*Alien: Hiroshi Ōtake & Sukekiyo Kameyama
*Nuke-chan Robo: Yō Yoshimura

Staff

*Script: Takao Koyama, Takashi Yamada, Shigeru Yanagawa, and others
*Chief Director: Yūzō Yamada
*Character Designer: Hiroshi Kanazawa
*General Animation Director: Hiroshi Kanazawa
*Art Director: Jirō Kawano
*Audio Director: Hiro Yamazaki
*Music: Shunsuke Kikuchi
*Production Assistance: Studio Comet
*Produced by Fuji TV and NAS

Theme songs

;Opening:
#"Gomen ne Cowboy" (Ushirogami Hikaretai)
#"Hora ne, Haru ga Kita" (Ushirogami Hikaretai)
#"Mugiwara de Dance" (Akiko Ikuina)

;Ending:
#"Möbius no Koibito" (Ushirogami Hikaretai)
#"Dare mo Shiranai Blue Angel" (Ushirogami Hikaretai)
#"Yume ni Aitai" (Akiko Ikuina)

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