Late Night! The Genius Bakabon

Late Night! The Genius Bakabon
深夜! 天才バカボン
(Shinya! Tensai Bakabon)
Created byFujio Akatsuka
Anime television series
Directed byHoru Tokozawa
Produced by
  • Koji Fuji
  • Kazuyoshi Ozawa
  • Makoto Hijikata
  • Genta Ozaki
  • Takayoshi Minematsu
  • Izumi Furusawa
  • Tomoyuki Saito
Written byHoru Tokozawa
Music by
StudioStudio Pierrot+
Licensed byCrunchyroll
Original networkTV Tokyo, TVO, TVA, BS TV Tokyo
Original run July 11, 2018 – September 26, 2018
Episodes12
Manga
Written byMiho Asada
Published byShogakukan
MagazineMonthly Sunday Gene-X
Original runJuly 19, 2018 – October 18, 2018
Volumes2

Late Night! The Genius Bakabon (深夜! 天才バカボン, Shinya! Tensai Bakabon) is a Japanese anime television series based on the manga Tensai Bakabon by Fujio Akatsuka, serving as the fifth television series in the Tensai Bakabon franchise. Produced by Pierrot+, the series aired on TV Tokyo and other channels from July 11 to September 26, 2018. A manga adaptation by Miho Asada ran on Shogakukan's Monthly Sunday Gene-X magazine from July to October 2018 with its chapters being collected into two tankobon volumes.[1][a]

Cast

See also: Tensai Bakabon § Characters
Character Voice actor
Bakabon Miyu Irino
Bakabon's papa Arata Furuta
Bakabon's mama Noriko Hidaka
Hajime Ai Nonaka
Rerere no Ojisan Akira Ishida
Honkan Toshiyuki Morikawa
Unagi-inu Takahiro Sakurai

Production

The series was announced on April 2, 2018. The series was directed and written by Horu Tokozawa with Takashi Yamamoto as assistant director, character designs by Takaaki Wada and music by Kenichiro Suehiro and Akihiro Manebe with music production by Avex Pictures. Notably, this is the first installment in the Tensai Bakabon series not to feature Eiko Masuyama as Bakabon's mother in any capacity with her now being voiced by Noriko Hidaka.[2] The opening theme is titled "Baka-Bonsoir" performed by the main cast under the name "B.P.O: Bakabon-no-Papa Organization" while the ending theme is titled "Kaze wa Fuiteru (風は吹いている)" performed by Ketsumeishi.[3][4]

Crunchyroll streamed the series.[5]

Notes

  1. ^ Shogakukan originally published the original run of the Tensai Bakabon manga from 1967 to 1971 when Fujio moved his later publications to Kodansha.

References

  1. ^ Hodgkins, Crystalyn (2018-07-02). "Manga Briefs Roundup: June 2018". Anime News Network. Retrieved 2025-08-12.
  2. ^ Antonio Pineda, Rafael (2018-04-02). "Tensai Bakabon Family Comedy Manga Gets New TV Anime After 18 Years". Anime News Network. Retrieved 2025-08-12.
  3. ^ Hodgkins, Crystalyn (2018-04-27). "New Tensai Bakabon Anime Reveals Theme Song Artists". Anime News Network. Retrieved 2025-08-12.
  4. ^ Sherman, Jennifer (2018-06-27). "New Tensai Bakabon Anime Promo Video Streamed". Anime News Network. Retrieved 2025-08-12.
  5. ^ Ressler, Karen (2018-07-03). "Crunchyroll Adds 7 More Summer Simulcast Series". Anime News Network. Retrieved 2025-08-12.
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