The Stubborn Samurai Boy poster

The Stubborn Samurai Boy poster

The Stubborn Samurai Boy

1991 1 Season 6Series

AnimationComedyAction & Adventure

The protagonist, Ishigaki Naokaku, a child of a lower-ranking samurai, gains admission to the prestigious Hagi Meirinkan Academy—an elite school exclusively for children of high-ranking samurai from distinguished families. Unwavering in his commitment to the bushido he believes in, Naokaku charges ahead with relentless determination, turning everything around him upside down. Though initially bewildered by his unorthodox ways, both his classmates and the adults in his life gradually find themselves inspired and transformed by his indomitable spirit.

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Yû Koyama

Creator

Masami Anno

Director

Junya Koshiba

Director

Kazunori Mizuno

Director

Hiroyuki Yokoyama

Director

Shigeru Ueda

Director

Masao Ito

Director

Kazunori Mizuno

Director

Top Cast

Chika Sakamoto

Chika Sakamoto

Chokkaku Ishigaki (voice) · 36 eps

Ai Orikasa

Ai Orikasa

Jun Takasugi (voice) · 36 eps

Tomomichi Nishimura

Tomomichi Nishimura

Narrator (voice) / Sakaki (voice) · 36 eps

Takeshi Aono

Takeshi Aono

Kotayu Ishigaki (voice) · 30 eps

Tōru Ōhira

Tōru Ōhira

Kaoru Tachibana (voice) · 29 eps

Mayumi Tanaka

Mayumi Tanaka

Terumasa Hojo (voice) · 28 eps

Kumiko Takizawa

Kumiko Takizawa

Kanae Ishigaki (voice) · 27 eps

Takehito Koyasu

Takehito Koyasu

Shintaro Go (voice) · 27 eps

Ikue Otani

Ikue Otani

Ayano (voice) · 24 eps

Kenichi Ogata

Kenichi Ogata

Hosokari (voice) · 23 eps

Issei Futamata

Issei Futamata

Tsukigata (voice) · 16 eps

Rica Matsumoto

Rica Matsumoto

Nikopin (voice) / Daisuke (voice) · 13 eps

Ichiro Nagai

Ichiro Nagai

Hojo (Terumasa's Grandfather) (voice) · 7 eps

Bin Shimada

Bin Shimada

Itachi (voice) / Shotaro (voice) · 5 eps

Megumi Hayashibara

Megumi Hayashibara

Children (voice) / Fukuda (voice) · 5 eps

Katsumi Suzuki

Katsumi Suzuki

Tawara (voice) / Terumasa's Attendant (voice) / Sokkin (voice) / Ohsugi (voice) · 5 eps

Keiko Toda

Keiko Toda

Hitomi (voice) · 4 eps

Kumiko Watanabe

Kumiko Watanabe

Girl (voice) / Kanae Ishigaki (voice) · 3 eps

Kazuyuki Sogabe

Kazuyuki Sogabe

Takuma (voice) · 3 eps

Akira Ishida

Akira Ishida

Additional Voices (voice) / Ichimonji (voice) · 2 eps