He loves nature and animals and protects them from poachers. Tar-chan's hobby is cooking, and his specialty dish is eggplant with mustard and misozuke. Though there are often many humorous flashbacks to his past, whether or not any of them are true is unclear.

He was abandoned in the savanna as a baby and found and raised by Etekichi. His address is: African Savanna, Three Trees 7-4-10. Although long battles and emotional development began to unfold, after the end of these battles, the series would return to its gag style, switching back to the fighting style with each new battle.Īlthough the story is called Jungle King Tar-chan, Tar-chan and his friends actually live on a savanna, and a jungle setting is never actually used.Ĭharacters Tar-chan ( ターちゃん, Tā-chan) Voiced by: Gorō Kishitani Tar-chan is a young man who was raised in the African wild. As the series progresses, the simple episodic gag premise is switched to a fighting premise.

The series is about Tar-chan, a young man who was raised in the African savanna by the chimpanzee Etekichi, and his adventures protecting his home, his wife Jane, and his animal friends. The manga was adapted into a fifty-episode anime television series by Group TAC broadcast on TV Tokyo between October 1993 and September 1994. Midway through serialization, its name was changed to New Jungle King Tar-chan ( 新ジャングルの王者ターちゃん, Shin Janguru no Ōja Tā-chan), and continued until April 1995.

The manga was serialized in Shueisha's anthology Weekly Shōnen Jump from March 1988 to June 1990. Jungle King Tar-chan ( Japanese: ジャングルの王者ターちゃん, Hepburn: Janguru no Ōja Tā -chan) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Masaya Tokuhiro.

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