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is a Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
ese shojo
Shojo

The term refers to manga marketed to a female audience roughly between the ages of 10 and 18. The name Romanization of Japanese the Japanese language wikt:?? , literally "young girl"....
 manga
Manga

, , are comics and print cartoons , in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 20th century. In their modern form, manga date from shortly after World War II, but they have a long, complex pre-history in earlier Japanese art....
 written by Shun'ichi Yukimuro
Shun'ichi Yukimuro

Shun'ichi Yukimuro is a veteran screenwriter for television anime series. During a career spanning some four decades, Yukimuro has written over 3,000 TV anime scenarios, including episodes of many classic series produced by the Toei Animation studio....
 and drawn by Shizue Takanashi
Shizue Takanashi

is a Japanese mangaka known for illustrating the anime series Ojamajo Doremi series. In 1981, she won the Kodansha Manga Award for shojo for Ohayo! Spank....
. The series has been adapted as an anime
Anime

is animation in Japan and considered to be "Japanese animation" in the rest of the world. Anime dates from about 1917.Anime, in addition to manga , is extremely popular in Japan and well known throughout the world....
 television series, broadcasted in Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
 from 1981 to 1982, and a theatical movie released in 1982. In 1981, it received the Kodansha Manga Award
Kodansha Manga Award

is an annual award for Serial manga published in the previous year, sponsored by the publisher Kodansha. It is currently awarded in four categories: Kodomo's, shonen, shojo, and general....
 for shojo
Shojo

The term refers to manga marketed to a female audience roughly between the ages of 10 and 18. The name Romanization of Japanese the Japanese language wikt:?? , literally "young girl"....
.

k (voiced by Noriko Tsukase
Noriko Tsukase

Noriko Tsukase was a Japanese female seiyuu active during the 1970s and 1980s.Tsukase was born Noriko Hara in Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Kanagawa Prefecture....
), the main character, is a dog whose owner went missing on the high seas. While awaiting his return Spank strays at the beach everyday.






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is a Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
ese shojo
Shojo

The term refers to manga marketed to a female audience roughly between the ages of 10 and 18. The name Romanization of Japanese the Japanese language wikt:?? , literally "young girl"....
 manga
Manga

, , are comics and print cartoons , in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 20th century. In their modern form, manga date from shortly after World War II, but they have a long, complex pre-history in earlier Japanese art....
 written by Shun'ichi Yukimuro
Shun'ichi Yukimuro

Shun'ichi Yukimuro is a veteran screenwriter for television anime series. During a career spanning some four decades, Yukimuro has written over 3,000 TV anime scenarios, including episodes of many classic series produced by the Toei Animation studio....
 and drawn by Shizue Takanashi
Shizue Takanashi

is a Japanese mangaka known for illustrating the anime series Ojamajo Doremi series. In 1981, she won the Kodansha Manga Award for shojo for Ohayo! Spank....
. The series has been adapted as an anime
Anime

is animation in Japan and considered to be "Japanese animation" in the rest of the world. Anime dates from about 1917.Anime, in addition to manga , is extremely popular in Japan and well known throughout the world....
 television series, broadcasted in Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
 from 1981 to 1982, and a theatical movie released in 1982. In 1981, it received the Kodansha Manga Award
Kodansha Manga Award

is an annual award for Serial manga published in the previous year, sponsored by the publisher Kodansha. It is currently awarded in four categories: Kodomo's, shonen, shojo, and general....
 for shojo
Shojo

The term refers to manga marketed to a female audience roughly between the ages of 10 and 18. The name Romanization of Japanese the Japanese language wikt:?? , literally "young girl"....
.

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Spank (voiced by Noriko Tsukase
Noriko Tsukase

Noriko Tsukase was a Japanese female seiyuu active during the 1970s and 1980s.Tsukase was born Noriko Hara in Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Kanagawa Prefecture....
), the main character, is a dog whose owner went missing on the high seas. While awaiting his return Spank strays at the beach everyday. One day he meets Aiko Morimura (voiced by Mari Okamoto), a junior high school student, whose father went also missing on a yacht tour ten years ago. Her mother, a designer for hats, left for Paris, leaving Aiko in the care of her uncle, Mr Fujinami. Abandoned, Aiko believes that her father is still alive and awaits his return. She's recently lost her pet dog, Papi, which was a good-bye present from her mother, in a car accident leaving her totally devastated. In the course of the anime Spank begins to lighten up her gloomy mood as he is a clumsy and merry dog with lots of heart. She also falls in love with a friend of Spank's missing owner. Whereas, Spank finds his love for the pet cat of Anna's classmate.

A very amusing and sweet anime, Ohayo! Spank also found tremendous popularity outside Japan, dubbed into French
French language

French is a Romance language spoken around the world by around 80 million people as first language, by 190 million as second language, and by about another 200 million people as an acquired tongue, with significant speakers in 54 countries....
 (as Claire et Tipoune), German
German language

German is a West Germanic languages, thus related to and classified alongside English language and Dutch language. It is one of the world's world language and the most widely spoken mother tongue in the European Union....
 (as Hallo! Kurt), Spanish
Spanish language

Spanish or Castilian is a Romance languages that originated in northern Spain, and gradually spread in the Kingdom of Castile and evolved into the principal language of government and trade....
, Italian
Italian language

Italian is a Romance languages spoken by about 63 million people as a first language, primarily in Italy. In Switzerland, Italian is one of four Linguistic geography of Switzerlands....
, and Arabic
Arabic language

Arabic is a Central Semitic language, thus related to and classified alongside other Semitic languages languages such as Hebrew language and Aramaic language....
, but remains unreleased in English
English language

English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
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