Toei Fushigi Comedy Series


The Toei Fushigi Comedy Series is a series of Japanese tokusatsu programs which was produced by Toei Company and was aired by Fuji TV from 9:00 am to 9:30 am on Sunday.

Features

This series is known as various superheroes similar to the Kamen Rider Series, Super Sentai Series, & Metal Hero Series. However, these shows mainly focus on cute robots similar to Robocon, cute & unusual creatures, masked individuals who get tracked down by school children, and magical girls.
Each one is supposed to invoke mysterious humor; hence the name fushigi, which means "mystery" in Japanese. This series of programs was shown throughout the 1980s and ended in the early 1990s. All these programs were created by Shotaro Ishinomori, creator of the Kamen Rider, Super Sentai & Robocon series of manga and tokusatsu, as well as many other Toei Superheroes.
This series is divided into three subcategories:
  • Robot and extra terrestrials: from Robot 8-chan to Morimori Bokkun.
  • Children's detective team: Hardgumi and Maringumi.
  • Magical girl: from Magical Chinese Girl Paipai! to Keeping-Words Sisters Chouchoutrian
Especially, the subcategory magical girl is known as "a gateway to female entertainers", female entertainers who starred in this magical girl series were selected for variety shows and anime theme songs after this series. Among them, Wakako Shimazaki who starred in "Magical Chinese Girl Ipanema!" has survived in the entertainment world until today in 2021.

List of series

  1. Robot 8-chan - Aired from October 4, 1981, to September 26, 1982
  2. Batten Robomaru - Aired from October 3, 1982, to September 25, 1983
  3. Pettonton - Aired from October 2, 1983 to August 26, 1984
  4. Dokincho! Nemurin - Aired from September 2, 1984, to March 31, 1985
  5. As You Please! Kamitaman - Aired from April 7, 1985, to March 30, 1986
  6. Morimori Bokkun - Aired from April 6 to December 28, 1986
  7. Omoikkiri Detective Team Hardgumi - Aired from January 11 to December 27, 1987
  8. German Detective Team Maringumi - Aired from January 10, 1988, to January 1, 1989
  9. Magical Chinese Girl Paipai! - Aired from January 9 to July 9, 1989
  10. Magical Chinese Girl Ipanema! - Aired from July 23 to December 24, 1989
  11. La Belle Fille Masquée Poitrine - Aired from January 7 to December 30, 1990
  12. Mysterious Nile Girl Thutmose - Aired from January 6 to December 29, 1991
  13. Sing! Great Dragon Palace - Aired from January 5 to December 27, 1992
  14. Keeping-Words Sisters Chouchoutrian - Aired from January 10 to October 31, 1993