Anpanman

Posted by Alfredo J. Martiz J. (Panama City, Panama) on 21 July 2008 in Miscellaneous.

Anpanman, written by Takashi Yanase, a Japanese writer of children's stories, is one of the most popular anime cartoon series in Japan. Yanase has been writing Anpanman since 1968. The television series called Soreike! Anpanman has been on the air in Japan since 1988.

Yanase became inspired by the idea of Anpanman while struggling to survive as a soldier in World War II. He many times became faced with the prospect of starvation which made him dream about eating a bean-jam filled pastry called Anpan.

In each episode, Anpanman fights with Baikinman (the villain in the story, coming from "Germ World", and the leader of the Viruses) and helps the people of the town.

Anpanman is the main character of the anime, whose head is a bun made by Jam Ojisan. His name comes from the fact that he is a man with a head made of bread (Japanese: pan, a loanword from the Portuguese word meaning "bread") that is filled with bean jam (Japanese: an) called an anpan. His weakness is water or anything that makes his head dirty. He regains his health and strength when Jam Ojisan bakes him a new head and it is placed on his shoulders. Anpanman's damaged head, with Xs in his eyes, flies off his shoulders once a new baked head lands. He was created when a shooting star landed in Jam Ojisan's oven while he was baking. He has two special attacks called: An-punch and An-kick (with stronger variations of both).
When Anpanman comes across a starving creature or person, he lets the unfortunate creature or person eat part of his head. He also has super hearing in that he can respond to anyone that calls his name out in distress from anywhere in the world.

Reference: Wikipedia

Hiroo. July 20th, 2008

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