CHANPIONFUTOSHI

Writer	FUJI Teruo SHICHIJO Mon
Major performers
Original work		Original name
Original author		Producer
Theme song		Broadcaster	Fuji Television Nippon Educational Televisionwork, Inc.
Production company		On Air date	1962/[11/5,12]
Broadcasting times	6,7	Onair time
Onair length		Director
Music staff		Design staff
Coaching staff		Other staff
Shooting location		Management	N02-12850-00
KANA		Reading
Classification	Scripts	Media	TV
Genre	Drama-Manga Original	Screens version
Transfer destination	National Diet Library	Digital Collections
Deterioration		Etc
Tags

Synopsis

Champion FutoshiFutoshi Daito, a boy blessed with extraordinary athletic talent, has demonstrated his abilities in various sports and achieved outstanding results. His everyday life is filled with success but is interrupted one day, when he confronts an oversized foreign professional wrestler and suffers his first defeat. Realizing his own lack of experience, Futoshi decides to apprentice under Rikidozan, the legendary leading figure in the Japanese wrestling world. Determined to prove that skill and technique can overcome even significant physical disadvantages, he steps into the wrestling world. As he undergoes rigorous training day after day, he faces numerous setbacks and hardships. However, with the encouragement of his companions, including his younger protégé Goro and Ruriko, a girl who takes care of orphans, he gradually begins to establish himself as a top-ranked professional wrestler. He eventually develops his own wrestling move, the Knockout Q, and takes to the new stage of the ring to further prove his toughness through battles with a series of formidable heel wrestlers who enter the Japanese professional wrestling world. This television drama aired on the Fuji TV network from November 1962 to May 1963. The story is based on a professional wrestling manga, serialized in Kodansha’s Weekly Shonen Magazine from 1962 to 1963. The original creator was Ikki Kajiwara, the renowned writer of Ashita no Joe (Tomorrow’s Joe), Tiger Mask, and other manga with illustrations drawn by Tatsuo Yoshida, the founder and first representative director of the animation studio Tatsunoko Production.

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