[ANIME] Majokko Tickle [1978]

Title: Majokko Tickle (魔女っ子チックル)
Type: TV series
Broadcast period: 1978-03-06 ~ 1979-01-29
Broadcast time: Monday, 19:00-19:30
Number of episodes: 45
Running time: 30 minutes
Channel: TV Asahi
Genre: Fantastique, comédie, magie
Production cooperation: Neomedia, Nippon Sunrise, Kaze Pro (produced for Toei Co. Ltd. NOT Toei Doga)
Original: Go Nagai, Dynamic Production
Director: Takashi Kuoka
Episode directors: Atsushi Takagi, Tôru Sakata, Takashi Hisaoka, Tôru Sakata, Yûji Uchida, Kenji Nakano, Fumio Tashiro
Scenario: Mitsuru Majima, Tatsuo Tamura, Yoshimi Shinozaki, Sukehiro Tomita, Hirohisa Soda, Akiyoshi Sakai, Naoko Miyake, Masaki Tsuji, Michiko Aihara, Masao Harashima, Shigemitsu Taguchi, Yu Yamamoto, Shunichi Yukimuro, Toyohiro Ando, Tomoko Konparu, Kyoko Sagiyama
Stage: Hideo Yamada, Atsushi Takagi, Shuji Iuchi, Hiroshi Ashibe, Katsutoshi Sasaki, Kunihiko Yuyama, Watake Na
Character design: Hiroshi Takahisa, Osamu Motohara
Animation director: Takeshi Tamazawa, Yuji Uchida, Kanji Hara, Masuo Ani, Yoshiteru Kobayashi, Otojiro Kato
Background: Shin Kato
Producer: Yuyake Usui (TV Asahi), Ei Matsunaga (Daiko Advertising Inc.), Kojin Ono (Toei Co. Ltd.)
Music: Takeo Watanabe
Songs: Mitsuko Horie
Lyrics: Go Nagai (OP), Saburo Yatsude (ED)
Musical themes: "Majokko Tickle" (OP), "Tickle Tiko no Cha-cha-cha" (ED)
Voice actors: Rihoko Yoshida (Tickle Komori), Yoko Asagami (Tiko Komori), Keiko Han (Tiko, last episode only), Toyoko Komazawa (Hina Komori), Hiroshi Otake (Fuyukichi Komori / Donta), Haruko Kitahama (Haruko Komori), Isamu Tanonaka (Ago), Sachiko Chijimatsu (Pochi), Keiko Yamamoto (Fuko), Haruko Kitahama (Satomi), Akira Kamiya (Saburo), Hiroshi Masuoka (Takakura-sensei), Kazuko Sugiyama (Hanamura-sensei)

Other names: Magical Girl Chikkle, Majokko Chikkuru, Drôle de fée (fr), Cosquillas Magicas (Spanish), Lilli un guaio tira l'altro (it), Magical Girl Tickle, Magiczne Igraszki (pl), Magique Tickle (fr)



DVD:



2005-12-09; Majokko Tickle Vol.1, 2 discs, Toei Video, DSTD-6311, http://www.7andy.jp/dvd/detail/-/accd/D0098411 http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B000AMKS8M http://shop.toei-video.co.jp/shop/ProductDetail.do?pid=DSTD06311


2006-01-21; Majokko Tickle Vol.2, 2 discs, Toei Video, DSTD-6312, http://www.7andy.jp/dvd/detail/-/accd/D0103246 http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B000C1YW7Y http://shop.toei-video.co.jp/shop/ProductDetail.do?pid=DSTD06312


2006-02-21; Majokko Tickle Vol.3, 2 discs, Toei Video, DSTD-6313, http://www.7andy.jp/dvd/detail/-/accd/D0105030 http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B000CSUU9G http://shop.toei-video.co.jp/shop/ProductDetail.do?pid=DSTD06313


2006-03-21; Majokko Tickle Vol.3, 2 discs, Toei Video, DSTD-6314, http://www.7andy.jp/dvd/detail/-/accd/D0108571 http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B000E6G0XQ http://shop.toei-video.co.jp/shop/ProductDetail.do?pid=DSTD06314

Videos:
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French Opening:


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A relatively unknown series by Nagai outside of Japan. A lot ask probably why this was produced by Toei if the conflict with Toei Doga was active. Simple. It wasn't produced by Toei Doga but by Neomedia and Nippon Sunrise, with the collaboration of a company known as Kaze Pro. You'll notice that the copyright doesn't indicate Toei even in the video games where Tickle appeared. It's part of the reason Majokko Ticle wasn't released as a VHS or LD, since the copyright isn't from Toei Animation. The other probable reason has to do with the conflict that Toei Animation had with Nagai, because Toei Co. Ltd. can produce TV series, but Toei Animation takes care of the video market. Once the Grendizer conflict was resolved, it was possible to release DVDs of Majokko Tickle.



It's a magical girl anime mainly for little girls. Don't forget that his first mangas, before Harenchi Gakuen, was for the most part targeted to little kids and girls.



Links:
http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=anime&aid=3053
http://www.animemorial.net/en/246-Majokko-Tickle
http://www.allcinema.net/prog/show_c.php?num_c=89448
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/魔女っ子チックル
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=1474
http://www.toei-video.co.jp/DVD/sp21/chikkuru.html
http://www.mazingerz.com/PAPY/chickle.html
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~wx5h-ktb/anime/tickle/tickle1.html
http://www.accessup.org/janime/7_A_20Child_27s_20Witch_20Tickle/
http://www.bekkoame.ne.jp/~neruofu/data/tvtitle/tikulu.htm
http://anime.marumegane.com/1978/chikkuru.html
http://www.planete-jeunesse.com/sources/series.php3?cle=310&sec=1
http://www.animeka.com/animes/detail/magique-tickle.html
http://www.animeland.com/animebase/anime/voir/1938/Magique-Tickle
http://www.manga-sanctuary.com/bdd/serietv/2792-magique-tickle-drole-de-fee/



This is an original topic by jfgslo from GO NAGAI, GO!

This anime was broadcasted in France in the eighties under the name: Drôle de fée but i never see that in french in Quebec, Canada. Anyway is not my favorite king of work from Nagai. I'm not sure if the manga version was drawing by him...