Golden Boy (Video 1995)
"Golden Boy: Sasurai no o-benkyô yarô" (original title)

Golden Boy is the story of Kintaro Oe, a twenty-five-year-old in pursuit of life's lessons. A brilliant student, he dropped out of Tokyo Universiy's law program because he had had mastered ... See full summary »

Directors:

Tatsuya Egawa, Hiroyuki Kitakubo

Writers:

Tatsuya Egawa (comic), Matt Greenfield (English dub),

Stars:

Mitsuo Iwata, Gorô Naya, Yôsuke Akimoto

Cast

Credited cast:
Mitsuo Iwata	...	Kintaro Oe
Gorô Naya	...	Narrator
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Yôsuke Akimoto	...	A.B.C.D. Company President
Carol Amerson	...	Yuka (voice)
Jan Angus	...	Noriko Katsuda (voice)
Yvonne Aquire	...	Chie (voice)
Yôko Asada	...	Young Ayuko Hayami
Curtis Billings	...	Instructor A, Animator B (voice)
Carolyn Boone	...	Mother (voice)
Charles Campbell	...	Track Announcer, Father, Narrator, Animator C, Animation Checker, Additional Voices (voice)
Laura Chapman	...	Reiko Terayama (voice)
Marcie Corder	...	Wife, Maid (voice)
Mika Doi	...	Female Producer
Tatsuya Egawa	...	Thug A, Tatsuya Engawa
Angel Fisher	...	Additional Voices (voice)

Storyline

Golden Boy is the story of Kintaro Oe, a twenty-five-year-old in pursuit of life's lessons. A brilliant student, he dropped out of Tokyo Universiy's law program because he had had mastered the entire curriculum. Now he lives a simple life, traveling on his bicycle and working numerous part-time jobs ranging from software companies to noodle restaurants in order to learn everything that he can about the world. Although he's a kind and giving person, Kintaro's only weakness lies in his lust for beautiful women. However, as long as he can control himself, he may just manage to save the day, and win a few hearts in the process.

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Plot Keywords:

software | bicycle | nudity | food | swimming lesson | 

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Genres:

Animation | Comedy

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Certificate:

PG-13

Details

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Also Known As:

Golden Boy

Company Credits

Production Co:

Shueisha

Technical Specs

Runtime:

165 min 165 min (6 episodes)

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Did You Know?

Crazy Credits

At the end of the credits of every episode, after the music stops, we hear a girl say something in Japanese. It translates to "Is the music first?".

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Connections

Featured in Anime Abandon: Genocyber: Part II (2012)

User Reviews

Solid comedy

Believe me when I say this show is just plain hilarious. The basic story is about Kintaro Oe who travels from town to town taking part time jobs, chasing women, and learning all he can about life. Kintaro has to be one of the easiest to relate to characters ever made. He takes everything to the extreme, and it's just laugh out loud funny every time. From his constant never ending quest to study life, to tiny things he instantly blows up into life or death matters.

One of the funniest things about this show is simply Kintaro's constantly extremely over the top expressions and reactions. He spends a great amount of time in various super deformed modes like Dragon Half or Trigun. Other times in less then 0.1 seconds his face will turn not just serious, but manga-fighter-style life or death expressions like a weight lifter trying to benchpress a new record. It's hilarious.

If that wasn't enough, the writing is superb and the english voice acting couldn't possibly be better. Kintaro's English VA is just perfect and will have you rolling around when he's not even really saying anything. The one thing to mention though is this is without a doubt an Ecchi series. It practically defines the word. If you're an adult anime fan who can get a laugh out of movies like American Pie, you'll love this.

• Rirath_com