Judo Boy

Judo Boy (紅三四郎, Kurenai Sanshirō, "Scarlet Sanshiro") is a Japanese anime television series created by Tatsuo Yoshida and directed by his brother, Ippei Kuri (birthnamed Toyoharu Yoshida). The series aired on Fuji TV from April 2, 1969, to September 24, 1969, totaling 26 episodes.^[1][2] While originally based on a manga by Kuri and Yutaka Arai, published by Shueisha in 1961, the series was also followed by two manga adaptations, the first written by Yoshida and illustrated by Mamoru Uchiyama published in Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday from July 28 to November 17, 1968,^[3] and a four-chapters series written and illustrated by Yoshida in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump from May 22 to July 10, 1969.^[4]

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紅三四郎（くれない さんしろう） (Kurenai Sanshirō)
Genre	Martial arts
Manga
Written by	Ippei Kuri
Illustrated by	Yutaka Arai
Published by	Shueisha
Magazine	Shōnen Book
Demographic	Shōnen
Original run	January 1961 – March 1962
Volumes	1
Manga
Written by	Tatsuo Yoshida
Illustrated by	Mamoru Uchiyama
Published by	Shogakukan
Magazine	Weekly Shōnen Sunday
Demographic	Shōnen
Original run	July 28, 1968 – November 17, 1968
Volumes	1
Anime television series
Directed by	Ippei Kuri (chief) Hisayuki Toriumi
Produced by	Tatsuo Yoshida
Written by	Jinzō Toriumi
Music by	Nobuyoshi Koshibe
Studio	Tatsunoko Production
Licensed by	Sentai Filmworks (English)
Original network	Fuji TV
Original run	April 2, 1969 – September 24, 1969
Episodes	26
Manga
Written by	Tatsuo Yoshida
Published by	Shueisha
Magazine	Weekly Shōnen Jump
Demographic	Shōnen
Original run	May 22, 1969 – July 10, 1969
Volumes	1

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The series stars a teenage martial artist named Sanshiro (voiced by Ikuo Nishikawa), trained in the Kurenai School of Jiujitsu and centers around his search for his father's killer. Accompanying Sanshiro is an orphaned boy named Kenbo (voiced by Kenbo Kaminarimon) and his pet dog Boke (voiced by Hiroshi Otake). Sanshiro's only clue to his father's murderer is a glass eye left on the scene of the crime, suggesting that his father's murderer was one-eyed. Thus many of the villains Sanshiro fought during the course of the series were one-eyed or had one eye concealed with an eye-patch.

The second opening theme was performed by Mitsuko Horie (her first) when she was just 12 years old.