ANIME CHARACTER ( NINJA HATTORI)

                    (NINJA HATTORI)

                 NINJA HATTORI-KUN,KNOWN AS NINJA HATTORI IN SOME COUNTRIES,IS A MANGA SERIES CREATED BY FUJIKO A. FUJIO,LATER ADAPTED INTO A TELEVISION DRAMA, A1981 ANIME SERIES, A VIDEO GAME AND A LIVE-ACTION MOVIE. IT IS CURRENTLY AIRING IN SEVERAL ASIAN COUNTRIES,INCLUDING INDIA.

               11-YEAR-OLD KENICHI MITSUBA IS AN AVERAGE KID WHO GOES TO SECONDRY SCHOOL AND STRUGGLES WITH HIS STUDIES, HE IS VERY STUBBORN AND IS A VERY LAZY AND THEREFORE ALWAYS ANDS UP FRUSTRATING HIS PARENTS AND TEACHER. HE LOVES TO FIND AN EASY WAYS OF THINGS MUCH TO THE ANNOYANCE OF HATTORY.

                 MEANWHILE A LITTLE NINJA  NAMED HATTORI KANJO BEFRIENDS KENICHI. HATTORI IS NOW A PART OF THE MITSUBA FAMILY ALONG WITH HIS BROTHER SHINZO,AND HIS NINJA DOG, SHISHIMARU. HATTORI HELPS KENICHI WITH HIS PROBLEMS, AND CONSTANTLY KEEPS AN EYE ON HIM,AS GOOD FRIEND. YUMEKO IS PORTRAYED AS KENICHI'S LOVE INTEREST.

                       THE MAIN ANTAGONIST KEMUMAKI, A COGA NINJA AND HIS NINJA CAT KAGECHIYO. KEMUMAKI ALWAYS TROUBLES KENICHI. KENICHI ASKS HATTORI TO TAKE REVENGE AS A RECURRING STORYLINE IN MANY EPISODES. ALTHOUGH HATTORI IS GOOD FRIEND, KENICHI SOMTIMES FIGHT'S WITH HATTORI DUE TO MISU DERSTANDINGS CREATED BY KEMUMAKI. SOMETIMES JIPPOU, TOGEJIROU AND TSUBAME HELP HIM.

THERE FIVE MAIN LOCATIONS IN SERIES: TOKYO CITY,SHINTO TEMPLE,IGA PROVINCE,IGA MOUNTAINS,KOGA VALLEY.

(about anime series)

      NINJA HATTORI THE FIRST MANGA SERIES WAS PUBLISHED IN KOBUNSHA'S SHONEN IN 1964 AND ENDED IN 1968. A SECOND MANGA SERIES WAS PUBLISHED BY SHOGAKUKAN IN VERIOUS KIDS MAGAZINES LIKE COROCORO COMIC,TELEVI-KUN AND OTHERS FROM 1981 TO 1988. THE FIRST ANIME SERIES AIRED ON T.V. ASAHI IN JAPAN FROM SEPTEMBER 28, 1981 TO DECEMBER 25, 1987 FOR A TOTAL OF 694 EPISODES. AMAZONPROME VIDEO INDIA BEGAN STREAMING THE SERIES IN ENGLISH,TAMIL,TELUGU, AND HINDI IN DECEMBER 2016. NETFLIX BEGAN STREAMING THE ''FIFTH SEASON'' OF THE INDIAN ENGLISH DUB IN THE U.S.,CANADA,U.K.,AUSTRALIA,AND INDIA ON DECEMBER 22,2018.

IN JANUARY 2012, NIKKEI ANNOUNCED ON ITS WEBSITE THAT A REMAKE OF THE ANIME SERIES UNDER PRODUCTION BY INDIAN PRODUCTION COMPANY RELIANCE MEDIAWORKS AND SHIN-EI ANIMAION. SHIN-EI ANIMATION IS CURRENTALY COLLABORATING WITH GREEN GOLD ANIMATION TO PRODUCE NEW EPISODES OF THE SERIES. THE NEW SERIES BEGAN AIRING IN INDIA AND INDONESIA ON MAY OF THE SAME YEAR. AS WELL AS CHINA.IT PREMIERED ON ANIMAX IN JAPAN ON MAY 13,2013. THE 1981 ANIME SERIES WAS RELEASED ON TWO,NINE-DISC DVD BOX SETS BY COLUMBIA MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT IN JAPAN. THE FIRST BOX SET WAS RELEASED ON AUGUST 31,2005, WHILE THE SECOND SERIES WAS RELEASED ON 2,NOVEMBER THAT SAME YEAR. THE JAPANISE DUB OF THE 2012 SERIES WAS RELEASED ON A FIVE-DISC DVD BOX SET,UNDER THE TITLE NINJA HATTORI-KUN RETURNS, BY TC ENTERTAINMENT,INC. ON JULY 11,2014 IN JAPAN. A LIVE-ACTION FILM NAMED ''NIN X NIN: NINJA HATTORI-KUN, THE MOVIE'' WAS RELEASED IN 2004.