Pokonyan!

{{Short description|Japanese anime television series}}

{{Expand Japanese|topic=manga|ポコニャン|date=April 2021}}

{{Infobox animanga/Header

| name = Pokonyan!

| image =

| image_size =

| caption =

| ja_kanji = ポコニャン!

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| genre =

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{{Infobox animanga/Print

| type = manga

| title =

| author = Fujiko F. Fujio

| illustrator =

| publisher = Ushio Publishing Co., Ltd.

| publisher_en =

| demographic = Kodomo

| imprint = Kibō Comics

| magazine = Kibō no Tomo

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| published =

| first = April 1975

| last = May 1978

| volumes = 2

| volume_list =

}}

{{Infobox animanga/Video

| type = tv series

| title =

| director = Hiroshi Sasagawa (Chief Director)
Seitarō Hara

| producer =

| writer = Shun'ichi Yukimuro

| music = Masae Sagara
Keita Miyahara

| studio = Animation 21

| licensee = Enoki Films USA

| network = NHK General TV (eps 1-150)
NHK Educational TV (eps 151-170)

| network_en =

| first = April 5, 1993

| last = March 30, 1996

| episodes = 170

| episode_list =

}}

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Pokonyan! ({{lang|ja|ポコニャン}}) is a 1993–1996 anime series produced by NHK. There are 170 episodes, each 10 minutes long. It is licensed by Enoki Films as Rocky Rackat!."[http://enoki-films.co.jp/pro_rockyrackat.php ROCKY RACKAT!]" Enoki Films. Retrieved on March 27, 2014.

Pokonyan! was very popular in the 1990s, when there was a tanuki trend.Clements, Jonathan and Helen McCarthy. The Anime Encyclopedia, Revised & Expanded Edition: A Guide to Japanese Animation Since 1917. Stone Bridge Press, November 6, 2012. {{ISBN|1611725151}}, 9781611725155. [https://books.google.com/books?id=rZg4AAAAQBAJ&pg=PT682 page unstated] (Google Books PT 682) "Tanuki were certainly 'in' at this point in the 1990s—the unrelated Pokonyan was a big hit at the same time."