is a manga

Manga

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 and anime

Anime

is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....

 series created by Yasunari Nagatoshi. In 2000, the manga received the Shogakukan Manga Award

Shogakukan Manga Award

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 for children's manga.

Viz Media

VIZ Media

VIZ Media, LLC, headquartered in San Francisco, is an anime, manga, and Japanese entertainment company. It was founded in 1986 as VIZ LLC. In 2005, VIZ LLC and ShoPro Entertainment merged to form the current VIZ Media LLC, which is jointly owned by Japanese publishers Shogakukan and Shueisha, and...

 is the licensor of the series in the United States

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. The series has not had a release in English

English language

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The series' protagonist is , a fifth grader at "Anytown" Elementary School. A transfer student named enters Takashi's class. Taro Tanaka turns out to be a space alien. Takashi becomes obsessed with trying to figure out the origins of Taro.

Summary

Takashi is just a regular fifth grader when a new student, Taro Tanaka, appears. Later Toby realizes that Taro is an alien and tries to find out more about him. He has many adventures with Taro. Takashi soon gets into much trouble and starts to have a bad reputation because of Taro such as giving his friend Rika an explosive bomb for her birthday (which Taro had switched with a Taro doll Takashi had meant to give Rika). Taro also constantly makes Takashi annoyed, like one time Taro invited Takashi to his birthday party, but Taro made Takashi walk to the end of a long hallway to go to his room (at the end of the hall was a sign that said turn around). When they went back to the beginning of the hall, Takashi finds that Taro's room was hidden near the entrance of Taro's house. Taro also makes Takashi really embarrassed like for example, Taro somehow made the entrance to a bathroom of an amusement park turn in to a rollercoaster ride where all Takashi's clothes flew off and he was stuck up there the entire day hangin on for life.

Characters

A fifth grade boy that lives in Anytown. He starts to have a bad reputation when Taro comes to his school.

Voice actors

• Panchiyuho - Taro Tanaka
• Sachi Matsumoto
  Sachi Matsumoto
  is a Japanese voice actress.-Notable voice roles:*Hasmodye in Fantastic Children*Link and Aryll in The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker*Link in The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass*Toon Link in Super Smash Bros...
  
   - Takashi Horimachi
• Chinami Nishimura
  Chinami Nishimura
  is a Japanese voice actress who has voiced characters in both the Japanese and English-dubbed versions of Pokémon. Nishimura was born in Chiba Prefecture...
  
  - Kyoko Asada (浅田きょう子 Asada Kyōko)

External links

• Viz Media webpage on Taro the Space Alien