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series written by

Shiro Yadama is a Japanese author. His most famous work, ''Hare Tokidoki Buta'', known in English as ''Fair, then Partly Piggy'', was later written as an anime series (titled ''Tokyo Pig'' in English) by Shinichi Watanabe. Works Yadama's works were transla ...

. Some books were translated into English by Keith Holman. The book is about a boy named Noriyasu Hatakeyama who starts writing "tomorrow's" journal entries when he finds out the days start happening just the way he writes them. A 30-minute animated film was created by Oh! Production and

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and released on August 23, 1988. An

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animated by Group TAC aired on

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from July 3, 1997 to September 29, 1998. It was rebroadcast on

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, it was renamed ''Tokyo Pig''. The English dub of ''Tokyo Pig'' was produced by Miramax Television and Buena Vista Sound Services and had all the original Japanese music completely replaced with a new musical score and all the original Japanese sound effects completely replaced with new American-made sound effects. It was also translated into Chinese and

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(under the name ''Sunny Pig''). It was broadcast from September 2002 to March 2003 in the United States on

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. Miramax Home Entertainment released ''Tokyo Pig'' only on one DVD with no VHS equivalent and having previews for '' Chicken Little'', '' Bionicle 3: Web of Shadows'', '' Spider-Man: The Venom Saga'' and ''

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'' playing before the ''Tokyo Pig'' DVD on it.

Main characters

; / Spencer Weinberg-Takahama : ; / Sunny Pig : ; / Mom : ; / Dad : ; / Dizzy Lizzy : ; / The Weather Lady :

Other characters

; / Angus : ; / Eggman : ; / Tiffany Van Hootenberg : ; / Wigstaff : ; / Sweater Girl : ; / Ms. Spelt : ; / Principal Tezuka : ; / Shadow Lady ; / Mrs. Tingly a.k.a. Lady Fujian ; / Dark Sunny : ; / Wenworth : : Snow Queen

Music

; Theme songs ; Opening: # "Tsuyoki na Futari" (強気なふたり) by Yumi Yoshimura (Episodes 1-17) # "Karette Tokidoki Buta" (カレって時々ブタ) by TSUNAMi (Episodes 18-36) # "BOO~Onaka ga Karaku Hodo Warattemitai~" (BOO ～おなかが空くほど笑ってみたい～) by

The Gospellers The Gospellers (ゴスペラーズ) are a Japanese a cappella vocal group made up of Tetsuya Murakami, Kaoru Kurosawa, Yuji Sakai, Yoichi Kitayama and Yutaka Yasuoka. History Originally formed by Murakami and Kurosawa (along with 4 other membe ...

(37-61) ; Ending: # "I'm Home" (ただいま, ''Tadaima'') by Ami Onuki (Episodes 1-17) # "Airplane Cloud" (ヒコーキ雲, ''Hikouki Kumo'') by Flower Companies (Episodes 18-36) # "Ah Buta da! 〜Tsuitachi yu kai ni ikiru uta〜" by Delicious Pigs (Episodes 37-61)

Crew

English crew

* Steve Kramer - Voice director

Picture books

Episode list

References

Bibliography

* - NDC913

External links

Shiro Yadama's website

''Hare Tokidoki Buta'' (TV)
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