Anime Ganbare Goemon

{{Infobox animanga/Header

|name = Anime Ganbare Goemon

|image = Anime Ganbare Goemon VHS cover.jpg

|image_size = 250px

|caption = VHS cover

|ja_kanji = アニメがんばれゴエモン

|genre = Adventure, science fiction

}}

{{Infobox animanga/Video

|type = TV series

|director = Katsuyoshi Yatabe

|producer = Koki Matsura

|writer = Yasushi Hirano

|music = Yasunori Tsuchida

|studio = Trans Arts

|licensee = {{english anime licensee

|NA = ADV Films

}}

|network = TBS

|first = October 4, 1997

|last = March 28, 1998

|episodes = 23

|episode_list =

}}

{{nihongo|Anime Ganbare Goemon|アニメがんばれゴエモン|Anime Ganbare Goemon}} is an anime television series, based on Konami's best-selling video game franchise Ganbare Goemon. The television series was produced by Trans Arts, aired from 1997 to 1998, ran for 23 episodes, and 5 volumes of videos were released on VHS and DVD. It was eventually picked up in North America for an English dub done by ADV Films under the name Legend of the Mystical Ninja.

Plot

The Demon Lord Makamuge intends to conquer both the game world and the real world, and is up to Goemon and his friends to prevent this from happening.

Characters

=Recurring=

;Goemon

:{{Voiced by|Yasunori Matsumoto|Vic Mignogna}}

;Ebisumaru

:{{Voiced by|Kenichi Ogata|Chris Patton}}

;Sasuke

:{{Voiced by|Chika Sakamoto|Greg Ayres}}

;{{nihongo|{{visible anchor|Yae}}|ヤエ}}

:{{Voiced by|Aya Hisakawa|Jessica Boone}}

;Omitsu

:{{Voiced by|Sakura Tange|Kira Vincent-Davis}}

=Original=

;{{nihongo|{{visible anchor|Tsukasa Ishikawa}}|石川　ツカサ|Ishikawa Tsukasa}}

:{{Voiced by|Tomoko Kojima|Tiffany Grant}}

;{{nihongo|{{visible anchor|Junichiro Ishikawa}}|石川　純一郎|Ishikawa Jun'ichirō}}

:{{Voiced by|Isshin Chiba|Andy McAvin}}

;{{nihongo|{{visible anchor|Yoko Ishikawa}}|石川　洋子|Ishikawa Yoko}}

:{{Voiced by|Michiko Neya|Lorinda Boyd}}

;{{nihongo|{{visible anchor|Itakaro}}|イタカロー|Itakarō}}

:{{Voiced by|Isshin Chiba|Chris Patton}}

;{{nihongo|{{visible anchor|Doctor Mudanashi}}|ドクタームダナシ|Dokutā Mudanashi}}

:{{Voiced by|Kazumi Tanaka|David Born}}

;{{nihongo|{{visible anchor|Seppukumaru}}|セップク丸|Seppukumaru}}

:{{Voiced by|Toshiyuki Morikawa|David Born}}

;{{nihongo|{{visible anchor|Goemon Impact}}|ゴエモン・インパクト|Goemon Inpakuto}}

:{{Voiced by|Kentarō Itō|George Manley}}

;{{nihongo|{{visible anchor|Hatarino}}|ハッタリーノ|Hatarino}}

:{{Voiced by|Masato Amada|Greg Ayres}}

;{{nihongo|{{visible anchor|Asuka Tsuchiya}}|土屋　明日香|Tsuchiya Asuka}}

:{{Voiced by|Kyōko Hikami|Hilary Haag}}

;{{nihongo|{{visible anchor|Monoshirinosuke Momochi}}|百地　物知介|Momochi Monoshirinosuke}}

:{{Voiced by|Jun'ichi Sugawara|Jim McClellan}}

;{{nihongo|{{visible anchor|Noboru Mejirodai}}|目白台　ノボル|Mejirodai Noboru}}

:{{Voiced by|Yoshinori Fujita|Kevin Corn}}

;{{nihongo|{{visible anchor|Nyanko}}|ニャンコ|Nyanko}}

:{{Voiced by|Kumi Sakuma|Monica Rial}}

;{{nihongo|{{visible anchor|Rokudenashi}}|ロクデーナシ|Rokudenashi}}

:{{Voiced by|Yuri Shiratori|Patricia Duran}}

;{{nihongo|{{visible anchor|Tomoe Nishimura}}|西村　知笑|Nishimura Tomoe}}

:{{Voiced by|Kumi Sakuma|Patricia Duran}}

;{{nihongo|{{visible anchor|Makuamuge}}|マクアムーゲ|Makuamūge}}

:{{Voiced by|Masaki Aizawa|Rick Pearsall}}

;{{nihongo|{{visible anchor|Mama Mejirodai}}|目白台　ママ|Mejirodai Mama}}

:{{Voiced by|Chika Sakamoto|Shelley Calene-Black}}

Production

The 1997 anime features Goemon, the main character in Konami's video game franchise Ganbare Goemon, being pulled "from his magical medieval world to become a superhero on Earth".{{Cite book |last=Clements |first=Jonathan |title=The Anime Encyclopedia: A Century of Japanese Animation |last2=McCarthy |first2=Helen |date= |publisher=Stone Bridge Press |year=2015 |isbn=978-1-61172-018-1 |edition=3rd Revised |location=Berkeley, California |chapter=Go For It, Goemon!}} It was directed by Shigeru Omachi and Katsuyoshi Yatabe. Goemon had been previously featured in the 1991 OVA GFIG: Nightmare Dimension. After the television series, Goemon then appeared in the "short movie" GFIG: Battle to Rescue Earth (1998).