Children's dramas1970s1980s1990s
Children’s dramas in the nineties
Title Period
broadcast		 No of
times
broadcast		 Broadcasting
station
(network)		 Outline
Pretty Girl Masked Powatorin January 7 – December 30, 1990 51 Fuji Television Network Much admired drama. A climax phrase, “I will fight to the last of my love and the end of my life”, became popular.
Mysterious Girl Totomesu January 6 – December 29, 1991 51 Fuji Television Network Sanae Horikawa of Saotome Juku plays the role of an exotic heroin who fights 51 devils from the Nile.
Sing Songs! Great Ryugu Castle January 5 – December 27, 1992 41 Fuji Television Network Ishinomori’s musical world. All of the subtitles are fish names. This program makes you laugh.
What Is Said Is Done, Three Sisters, Shushutorians January 10 – October 31, 1993 42 Fuji Television Network Three sisters, Yukiko, Tsukiko and Hanako, fight to protect the happiness and peace of 1993, the year of the rooster.
Robocon January 1999 – January 2000 51 TV Asahi Network Robocon revived after 25 years. Superb casting including MIE as the mother and Ikkei Watanabe as the father.
■Comment■
Fuji Television Network’s children’s drama series aired for twelve years, starting with Robot 8-chan in 1981 and ending in 1993 with What Is Said Is Done, Three Sisters, Shushutorians. These children’s dramas, where famous actors, actresses and mass media celebrities play and a surreal world exists, established a great movement which cannot be said to be only for children. These dramas were also good for adult viewers. Then TV Asahi Network rebroadcast the Robocon series after a gap of 25 years. Supporting characters such as Mr. Gantsu appear, albeit with changes. After broadcasting Robocon, Masked Rider Kuuga was shown, kicking off the Heisei Era Masked Rider series. After Robocon, no children’s drama based on Ishinomori’s works has been produced, except for live-action hero dramas.
1980s