Charady's Daily Joke was a series of shorts about jokes from around the world. In each episode, Charady reads the joke of the day, and then a short animation follows. The series broadcasted everyday for a year from April 1st, 2009, to March 31st, 2010.[1]
This series as a whole was a industry-university collaborative work with Kyoto University of the Arts' Department of Character Design.[1]
Ryuji Masuda was the executive director of the project, but each episode is directed by different students from Kyoto University of the Arts Department of Character Design.[2] Screenplay was written by Daisuke Tengan. The series was produced by World Joke Lab, which was production companies THEFOOL Inc., Geneon Universal Entertainment, MEDIL, TV Kanagawa, Chiba Television Broadcasting, TV Saitama, Mie Television Broadcasting, Kyoto Broadcasting, and Sun Television under one name.[1]
Animation of the Charady segments was done by THEFOOL Inc., while all other animation and character design was done by students from Kyoto University of the Arts Department of Character Design.[2] Besides the main cast, all other voices provided were done by students of Kyoto University of the Arts' Voice Acting Department.[1]
The series can be viewed on YouTube with English subtitles up to episode #100,[3] but not from an official source. There are also 11 unsubbed episodes on YouTube, and 2 episodes on NicoVideo.
Cast[]
- Charady: Misako Yasuda
- Chobotan: Kenjiro Nakai
- Bath Buta: Anna Kitano
Additional Credits[]
Associate Directors:[4]
- Kōhei Yamamoto
- Takayuki Ito
- Tomoya Yasuda
- Yasuo Kurita
Planning: Shunsuke Koga (THEFOOL)[4]
Sound Producer: Morihiro Iwamoto[4]
Trivia[]
- There are 11 extra episodes and an unaired episode. All of them are DVD-exclusives.
- Bath Buta and Chobotan were the only main characters to be designed by two college students. Charady, the titular character, is designed by Wakako Masuda.
- Charady's voice actress, Misako Yasuda, is a film actress and a former gravure model.
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AD%E3%83%A3%E3%83%A9%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3%E3%81%AE%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AF%E3%81%AA%E6%AF%8E%E6%97%A5
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2009-02-25/charady-no-joke-na-mainichi-anime-website-online
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtABcpnRh2Oy5L70bH772zn1lmPsb6vVe
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=10657