Golden Boy: Sasurai no o-benkyô yarô (1995) (V)

Directors:

Tatsuya Egawa
Hiroyuki Kitakubo

Writers:

Tatsuya Egawa (comic)
Matt Greenfield (English dub)

Genre:

Animation | Comedy

Plot:

Golden Boy is the story of Kintaro Oe, a twenty-five-year-old in pursuit of life's lessons. A brilliant student...

Plot Keywords:

Software | Bicycle | Women | Female Nudity | Water

Cast

Mitsuo Iwata	...	Kintaro Oe
Gorô Naya	...	Narrator
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Yôsuke Akimoto	...	A.B.C.D. Company President
Carol Amerson	...	Yuka (voice: English version)
Jan Angus	...	Noriko Katsuda (voice: English version)
Yvonne Aquire	...	Chie (voice: English version)
Yôko Asada	...	Young Ayuko Hayami
Curtis Billings	...	Instructor A, Animator B (voice: English version)
Carolyn Boone	...	Mother (voice: English version)
Charles Campbell	...	Track Announcer, Father, Narrator, Animator C, Animation Checker, Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Laura Chapman	...	Reiko Terayama (voice: English version)
Marcie Corder	...	Wife, Maid (voice: English version)
Mika Doi	...	Female Producer
Tatsuya Egawa	...	Thug A, Tatsuya Engawa
Angel Fisher	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Renee Foresman	...	Employee D (voice: English version)
Tiffany Grant	...	Madame President, Kogure's Girlfriend, Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Matt Greenfield	...	Thug A, Thug B, Yakuza B, Sakata, Porche Driver, Animator D, Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Wendy Hughes	...	Employee C (voice: English version)
Kikuko Inoue	...	Employee A, Ayuko Hayami
Kôji Ishii	...	Swin Instructor B
Tatsuyuki Ishimori	...	Bicycle Shop Man
Junko Iwao	...	Employee B
Shôzô Îzuka	...	Juzô Kachida
Mika Kanai	...	Employee E, Chie
Allison Keith	...	Employee A, Naoko Katsuda (voice: English version)
Hajime Koseki	...	Thug B
Jûrôta Kosugi	...	Hiroshi Kogure
Yuka Koyama	...	Yuka Kanzaki
Stuart Krohn	...	Animator A (voice: English version)
Takuri Kurebayashi	...	Bicycle Shop Woman
Jason Lee	...	Narration, Yakuza A (voice: English version)
Tristan MacAvery	...	Juzo Katsuda, Hiroshi Kogure, Butler, Boss, Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Kim McGraw	...	Instructor B (voice: English version)
Brenda Mikeska	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Yûko Minaguchi	...	Naoko Kachida
Yûko Mizutani	...	Swim Instructor A
Rob Mungle	...	Tatsuya Engawa (voice: English version)
Michiko Neya	...	Swim Instructor C
Kenichi Ogata
Andy Orjuela	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Rick Peeples	...	Bicycle Shop Man (voice: English version) (as Robert Peeples)
Rod Peters	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Marcy Rae	...	Bicycle Shop Woman (voice: English version)
Lorraine Reyes	...	Girl B, Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Mary Lou Reyes	...	Employee E (voice: English version)
Dan Rockwell	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Julio Rodriguez	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Erin Roseaire	...	Instructor C, Colorist (voice: English version) (as Erin Rosaire)
Phil Ross	...	Owner (voice: English version)
Jennifer Rutherford	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Yoshiko Sakakibara	...	Kogure's Woman
Kim Sevier	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Traci Shannon	...	Employee B (voice: English version)
Junko Shimakata	...	Employee D
Yuri Shiratori	...	Noriko
Doug Smith	...	Kintaro Oe
Spike Spencer	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Craig Stewert	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version)
Kurt Stoll	...	Wakamoto (voice: English version)
John Swasey	...	Director (voice: English version)
Wataru Takagi	...	Office Worker
Miki Takahashi	...	Employee C
Sakiko Tamagawa	...	Reiko Terayama
Lew Temple	...	Animator E (voice: English version)
Hiromi Tsuru	...	Software Company President
Sue Ulu	...	Ayuko Hayamizu (voice: English version)
Amanda Winn Lee	...	Girl A, Producer, Additional Voices (voice: English version) (as Amanda Winn-Lee)
Miho Yoshida	...	Office Lady

Also Known As:

Golden Boy (International: English title)
Yuka ni omakase

Runtime:

165 min (6 episodes)

Country:

Japan

Language:

Japanese

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Certification:

Argentina:16 | Chile:18 | USA:PG-13 | Spain:18 | Germany:16

Company:

Shueisha

Solid comedy

Believe me when I say this show is just plain hilarious. The basic story is about Kintaro Oe who travels from town to town taking part time jobs, chasing women, and learning all he can about life. Kintaro has to be one of the easiest to relate to characters ever made. He takes everything to the extreme, and it's just laugh out loud funny every time. From his constant never ending quest to study life, to tiny things he instantly blows up into life or death matters.

One of the funniest things about this show is simply Kintaro's constantly extremely over the top expressions and reactions. He spends a great amount of time in various super deformed modes like Dragon Half or Trigun. Other times in less then 0.1 seconds his face will turn not just serious, but manga-fighter-style life or death expressions like a weight lifter trying to benchpress a new record. It's hilarious.

If that wasn't enough, the writing is superb and the english voice acting couldn't possibly be better. Kintaro's English VA is just perfect and will have you rolling around when he's not even really saying anything. The one thing to mention though is this is without a doubt an Ecchi series. It practically defines the word. If you're an adult anime fan who can get a laugh out of movies like American Pie, you'll love this.

- Rirath_com