You Gotta Quintet


You Gotta Quintet is a Japanese musical children's television program which aired on NHK Educational. It is the 2nd NHK puppet variety show overall, the first one being Hotch Potch Station.

About the show

The program offers witty interpretations of classical music for children featuring puppets and a variety of music and cultural entertainment. This program introduces music into daily life for the pleasure of children, and features a musical group called The Evening Quintet. They play folk songs, and classical music, with a variety of instruments such as piano, violin, and clarinet.
In 2023, from 15 September to 6 October, NHK rebroadcast 20 selected episodes from 2003 and 2007 as part of their E-Tele Time Machine program.

Program

Quintet

  • 1st part: Theme song displaying different seasons
  • 2nd part: Puppet show
  • 3rd part: Animation or other material
  • 4th part: Concert
  • 5th part: Credits

Quintet Petit

Quintet Petit was broadcast from April 3, 2006 to March 30, 2007 and March 31, 2008 to March 27, 2009. It used the third and fourth parts from the main show.

Characters

;Akira
;Score
;Flat
;Aria
;Sharp
;Chi-bō

Partial list of original songs

The original songs are written by Kei Shimoyama and composed by Akira Miyagawa.
  • "Midnight Zoo"
  • "It's Good to Cry"
  • "Lie"
  • "I Hate Practicing
  • "My habits
  • "Devil's Advocate"
  • "Someday When I Become a Star"
  • "I Got Hungry"
  • "I Am Thinking Now"
  • "The Yawning Song"
  • "The Secret Chocolate"
  • "Baby"
  • "Tomorrow"
  • "The Cello Player in Front of the Square"
  • "Golden-ringed dragonfly"
  • "I ate Too Much"
  • "The Happiness Xmas"
  • "Oh, it Smells Good"
  • "Look at the Sky"
  • "Talking with Flowers"
  • "Apology Scat"
  • "Cleaning Waltz"
  • "My Shadow"

Theme song

The 'You Gotta Quintet' Theme" is used to open and close the show. The lyrics of the theme song changes depending on the seasons; the spring version from March to May, summer from June to August, autumn from September to November, and winter from December to February. The lyrics of the opening theme changed starting in 2007.

Singing corner

In this featurette the Quintet song team presents original songs, works derived from classical material, and folk songs.

Repeat and Rebroadcast

Repeat

  • Puppet shows and animations from the fourth to the second part does not mean it is not a new one every time. Get a new one, but sometimes, most times are just trying to shuffle a play for broadcasting up to that point I did a full re-broadcast. This system is called repeat.
  • Only posts from the viewer does not repeat this.

Rebroadcast

;Quintet
;Quintet Petit

CDs and DVDs

CDs

  • You Gotta Quintet: Songs
  • You Gotta Quintet: Classics
  • You Gotta Quintet: Concert
  • You Gotta Quintet: à la Carte
  • You Gotta Quintet: Are Kore
  • I'm Thinking About It
  • You Gotta Quintet: Midnight Zoo
  • You Gotta Quintet: Dream Continuation
  • You Gotta Quintet Best Selection 66 Songs
  • You Gotta Quintet: What! Sense?

DVDs

  • Classic
  • Original
  • Harvest Festival
  • It Is This What!
  • A Concert Almost Empty
  • Ten Komori
  • The Only Anime
  • The Whole Years
  • ''GOOOOOAL!（ゴール！）''

Awards

On December 1, 2005, the program won an Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union Award in the children/young people program section with the notation "that was able to stream down splendor, the pleasure that this program used the doll, and the music had" at the 42nd annual general meeting in Hanoi, Vietnam.

Production

  • Producer/Director: Kei Shimoyama
  • Music: Akira Miyagawa, Zenyō Nagayama, Vega Ensemble, Face Music
  • Drawing supervision: Ryuji Fujieda and his design studio
  • Character design: Ryuji Fujieda and his design studio
  • Animation: Tadahiko Horiguchi
  • Puppets produced by: Matsushima Hiroshi
  • Puppetmaster: Kigutsunoki
  • Supervision: Yasuhiro Kondō
  • Production Company - 81 Produce
  • Studio - NHK