"Kodomo no omocha" (1996) TV series 1996-1998

User Rating:

8.3/10   

Creator:

Miho Obana

Seasons:

1 | 2

Genre:

Animation | Comedy | Drama | Romance

Plot:

The story of super hyper child star Sana Kurata. Her mother is an award winning writer who has strange...

Plot Keywords:

Child Star | Slapstick | School | Anime | Kids And Family

Cast

Shizue Oda	...	Sana Kurata (56 episodes, 1996-1997)
Hikita Tomoko	...	Babbit (56 episodes, 1996-1997)
Tatsuya Nakazaki	...	Akito Hayama (51 episodes, 1996-1997)
Laura Bailey	...	Sana Kurata (51 episodes, 1996-1997)
Chris Cason	...	Babbit (51 episodes, 1996-1997)
Jerry Jewell	...	Akito Hayama (51 episodes, 1996-1997)
Hana Kino	...	Misako Kurata (36 episodes, 1996)
John Burgmeier	...	Rei Sagami (36 episodes, 1996)
Colleen Clinkenbeard	...	Misako Kurata (36 episodes, 1996)
Ryô Naitô	...	Rei Sagami (35 episodes, 1996)

Also Known As:

"Child's Toy"
"Kodocha" (Japan) (short title)

Runtime:

Japan:22 min (102 episodes)

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Color:

Color

Certification:

USA:TV-PG

It's so difficult to be an "exceptional" child...

Sana Kurata is 11 years old girl, cheerful and with much energy. OK, she already works... Erhem, right, she is a child TV star what doesn't mean she can escape classes! All right! She has a busy schedule, then everything is planned. And there's her manager - who she made her "boyfriend" after met him heartbroken and miserable at streets... If she doesn't care him who will do? It's a waste of time to be at school and don't even pay attention, right? Well, seems like the boys don't agree with that... Specially the leader Akito Hayama, the king of cool and unpassion. But don't understimate a girl's strength! Sana will do her best to learn SOMETHING at school, and no boy will stop her. Well I thought that was a regular show about girls versus boys. But it was much more. It's about how difficult is to be kid. To live until grow up! The characters are so lovely made, that you can feel then. They are right here in this world, everyone of them. They sorrow, they laugh, they cry or not... Nobody understand your own heart, and that's what we have here. Disguised as a show about a STAR child, Kodomo no Omocha is a tale to children and to grown ups. A tale to help everyone of us to remember how hard is to be child, how easy we forget the wrong ways of our parents and repeat that in our children, the feelings of a girl forwards an older man... every facet of human being is there, put in a way simple but yet very caring... Because everyone have to love something...