Dotto! Koni-chan

Dotto! Koni-chan
ドッと!KONIちゃん
Anime television series
Directed by	Shinichi Watanabe (1–13) Kenji Yasuda (14–26)
Produced by	Mitsutoshi Kubota (Shaft) Nobuhiro Oosawa (Genco)
Written by	Masaharu Amiya
Music by	Toshio Masuda
Studio	Shaft
Original network	Animax
Original run	November 26, 2000 – May 29, 2001
Episodes	26

Dotto! Koni-chan (ドッと!KONIちゃん) is a Japanese anime television series directed by Shinichi Watanabe and animated by Shaft. It aired on Animax from November 26, 2000, to May 29, 2001, and was produced by Animax and Genco.

Plot

The series revolves around a boy named Koni, who is the center of attention. He can be whatever he wants, a lifeguard, a fireman, a samurai, or an astronaut. He is the luckiest boy in the whole world, and everything goes well for him. Koni always lives crazy adventures with his friends High, Moro and Nari, and his dog Afro.

Characters

• Koni-chan (KONIちゃん, KONI-chan): The main character, an oversized boy. He is modeled after sumo wrestler Konishiki Yasokichi. Koni is a singer, an athlete, an astronaut, a salesman and is anything he wants to be. It's powerful, people all over the world love it, and as the narrator says, the crowd applauds it. He's the luckiest guy in the world, he buys a single ice cream and gets the "another one" on the stick to get another ice cream free of charge, and so on. Without a doubt, quite a character. It's kind of Nari's "platonic love" during one episode.
• High: He is a hyperactive, mischievous and intelligent boy, but woe betide anyone who crosses his path, since he has terrible outbursts of rage, to the point that many times he has a flame of fire that runs through his entire body that burns everyone. He is in love with Moro.
• Moro: A girl with pink hair held in pigtails. She thinks of herself as the "sex symbol" of the show. She believes that she can solve everything with her beauty. She is a good friend, wants to be famous, and wants to marry a man of money (preferably an old man from whom she can inherit a large fortune). On several occasions she tries to conquer Koni (because he is famous and the center of everyone's attention), which makes her a loving rival to Lovely-sensei.
• Nari: A boy who wears glasses. He is a millionaire and egomaniacal child and believes that everything in life can be solved with money (and he always walks around with 10,000 yen bills). He loves round things and hence, in one chapter, he is totally attracted to Koni. In addition, he loves to fly.
• Afro: Koni's talking pet dog. As his name implies, he has an afro.
• Lovely-sensei: Koni, High, Moro and Nari's teacher. One day she fell in love with Koni, and because of this she always chases him.
• Emi: An android girl with a TV for a head. Named after the company Toshiba-EMI.
• Pesome: A green hand puppet.

Episodes

• 1. We are the KONI-chan/School wars? /Sneaking in
• 2. How to take a proper ID photo/ @KONI's house!/The figure skating king!?
• 3. Fishing Panic/Standing Reading Showdown!/The Legend of the Holy Knight KONI
• 4. One Day Branch Manager - Fierce Battle Edition/Advanced Code Girl/KONI of the Underworld
• 5. Special Training Sam Sam (It's Cold, It's Cold) Up!?/Magical Squid Girl Surume-chan/KONI-chan Hell Tour
• 6. Happy New Year and goodbye!?/Goodbye KONI-chan!?/Hello, happy new year
• 7. I like round things!/The laid-off man is the Dark General/How's George doing these days?
• 8. Change, change, change/The Tragic Werewolf/Fight! KONI Ranger 750!
• 9. Until I Burn Out.../KONI-chan's Holiday/Taxi Driver's Depression
• 10. Love's Onsen Tamago/The Ambitions of the Soshigaya Okura Electronics Club/Weekly Shonen KONI
• 11. Armored Wife / Midday Betrayal/Saba Samurai of the Seven Seas/Rocketman's Hot Winter
• 12. Anko and the Frog/Soshigaya Okura Electronics Club Again/KONI-chan's Saiyuki
• 13. Noodles KONI-chan/Goodbye HIGH-chan/What's your name!?
• 14. The Trading Card Strategy!?/The Highly Advanced Cordless Girl/Fairy Tales That Textbooks Don't Teach
• 15. Shoot for the moon!/First love?! First love with HIGH-chan?!/Ninja... stealth... ninja soba?!
• 16. KONI-chan Fell Down/First Diet Plan/It's Drawing
• 17. KONI-chan's Tenacity!/Macaron vs. Seki Macaron/Mysterious Friends
• 18. Runner-up in Love and Youth/Three of Them Go!/Like or Hate
• 19. KONI makes a big appearance!/'Shino Ryu' appears! The filming site is in an uproar!!/KONI-chan's complete guide
• 20. Tell me about the secret party!/KONI makes a huge transformation/Dotto Karuta Part 1
• 21. I want a ghost photo!/All Night Dotto KONI/Dotto Karuta Part 2
• 22. Kick, Kick, Knock,/Memories are forever. Goodbye, Dried Squid,/The Truth is a Harsh Aesop's Fable
• 23. Words matter.../What on earth is this "volume?/Ah, Armor Family!/Burn in the ring!
• 24. Qualifications will save the world!/Happy Wedding, Lovely Sensei!!/Dotto KONI-chan Character Encyclopedia
• 25. Flowers for the KONI statue/Advanced code rampage/Dash!! The poisonous machine KONI races!!
• 26. The Dotto Treasure Appraisal Team,/The Biggest Guest Appears in History!?/Because He's a Character!

External links

• Dotto! Koni-chan (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia