The Hachiro Hideyaki Adventures (2003 TV series)

***The Hachiro Hideaki Adventures*** *(ハチローヒデアキの冒険)* is a Japanese live-action/animated hybrid series starring a Japanese comedian Hachiro Hideyaki (b. 1987) and his son Takeda Hideaki (b. 1997) and featuring animated characters from *Soreike! Anpanman*. It was produced by Hideaki TV, with animation by either TMS Entertainment or Nintendo Animation for Anpanman characters, and distribution by Nippon Program Services that ran from February 13, 2003 onward. It aired in the United States on Cartoon Network from 2004 onward with new episodes airing every Saturday. It started showing on NHK (Japan) and on MeTV digital subchannels in the United States of America on February 2017. A remastered version of the show aired on TubiTV on December 23, 2022, with the same English voice cast from Anpanman films reprising their roles on there instead of the Cartoon Network dub.

## Characters

### Live Action

* **Hachiro Hideaki** - A human male who has a fond of cartoons. In one episode, he is revealed that he hates dragons.
* **Kayumi Hideaki**- Hachiro's wife who adores all kawaii stuff.
* **Mayuri Sugiyama**- Hachiro's crazy fiancee, who likes dragons, and is afraid of extraterrestrial viruses. Hachiro kicked her out of his house on the first Valentine's Day special on February 7, 2003. In the Season 5 finale, "Hachiro's Christmas Misadventure", she was sent to jail for shoplifting at a Seiyu department store.
* **Sakura Yanase** - Takeda's adopted sister. She first appeared in a 2005 episode, where Takeda in the animated fly form met her in the orphanange in Anpanland. She later became his adopted daughter in a 2006 TV special. Her last name is referenced after Takashi Yanase, who is a creator of Anpanman and Baikinman.
* **Takeda Hideaki**- Hachiro's son who is a fan of personal hijinks and wears a superhero costume known to some people as "Bug Boy ", and is best friends with bread-headed people, object people, animals, aliens, cats and insects. He looks like a humanized version of Baikinman. According to one episode, he was born in Tokyo, Japan.
* **Bubbles** - A Japanese pop star who only appeared in the 2014 episode "Let It Be Purun's Bubbles!". She was concerned as a "Princess of Soap Bubbles Music", much to Hachiro's dismay. Baikinman reused the dirty bubbles (from the 2007 Anpanman movie *Anpanman: Purun the Soap Bubble') to turn Purun, Rollpanna, Shabondama and the Donburi Trio into the bubbles, but ended up being turn into one of them thanks to Anpanman.*

### Animated

* **Usabotto** / **Rabbot** - A robot rabbit and an another friend of Hachiro. Magearna (from *Pokémon*) is said by many Japanese moviegoers to resemble this character.
* **Anpanman**- The another main character of the show besides Hachiro and Takeda. He is a boy whose head is a bun made by Uncle Jam. His name comes from the fact that he is a man with a head made of bread that is filled with red bean paste. He doesn't need to eat or drink to sustain himself and has never been seen eating, as it is believed the bean jam in his head allows him to sustain himself in this manner. His weaknesses are water and anything else that makes his head dirty (In order to prevent his head getting wet when underwater or in wet weather, he is usually seen with his head concealed inside a protective bubble in such situations). According to one episode, Anpanman came to life when a shooting star landed in Uncle Jam's oven while he was baking. He has two special attacks: An-punch and An-kick (with stronger variations of both). When Anpanman comes across a starving creature or person, he lets the unfortunate creature or person eat part of his head. He also has super hearing in that he can respond to anyone that calls his name out in distress from anywhere in the world.
* **Cheese** - A dog that lives in Uncle Jam's bakery in Anpanland. He tends to be an effective sidekick to Takeda and Anpanman when they're around.
* **Currypanman**- Another of Anpanman's friends. His head is made from currypan, a pastry filled with red-hot curry. He is quick tempered and hot-headed on the surface, but gives way to a kind and sentimental interior. Tends to be the strongman of the trio. Wields the Curry-punch and Curry-kick, which are similar to the fighting techniques of Anpanman's other sidekicks. However, he can also use the hot curry concealed in his head as a weapon, using it to burn villains. A running gag in several episodes has him spitting curry at Baikinman's mouth, causing Baikinman to inflate with spiciness and flies away.
* **Shokupanman** / **Bread Head Man**- A friend of Anpanman. His head is made from sliced white bread. He is handsome and level-headed and kind, but narcissistic. Tends to be the thinker of the trio. His job when not helping Anpanman is serving lunch to the schoolchildren. Dokinchan has a crush on him. Wields the White Bread Punch and White Bread Kick, which are similar to Anpanman's fighting techniques. He also has a multi-functional delivery van known as the Shokupanman-go with many implements to help avoid trouble.
* **Melopanna** - Anpanman's friend. Her head is made from melon bread. She is extremely softhearted, being caring and sensitive, and is sometimes clever. When she's in trouble, she usually needs Anpanman or somebody else to save her, or if there is no one available, she calls out for her sister, Rollpanna. Sometimes she likes hanging out with Cheese. Her special attack, the Melo-Melo Punch, makes bad guys woozy with affection or awakens others from deep sleep.
* **Rollpanna** - Melonpanna's older sister who has two hearts: A red one of goodness, and thanks to Baikinman, a blue one of evil. The sight of Anpanman can trigger her evil heart while the sight of Melonpanna can trigger her good one. She started out in the series as a loner at Baikinman's beck and call, but she broke from his power and wanders the world doing good deeds, but stays away from others for fear of what she would do if her black heart is triggered. Her nickname is "The tragic heroine". Uses a gymnastics ribbon as her main weapon. She can use it to wrap up her enemies or cause tornadoes.
* **Creampanda** - The youngest of Anpanman's friends and the foster brother of Melonpanna and Rollpanna. He is 6 years old. His head is made from a cream bun and his eyes look like those of a panda's. Despite his immaturity and relative weakness as compared to Anpanman and his hero friends, he is courageous, protective of his friends, and has a "never give up" attitude. He has an immature character causes him to sometimes get into petty squabbles and competitions of one-upsmanship with the other younger characters on the show. Because his head resembles a hand, he has a special headbutt attack called the "Guu-Choki-Punch" (Guu-Choki-Pa means Rock, Scissors, Paper in Japanese). Relatively powerful when it connects, it fails to connect more often than not.
* **Baikinman**- Anpanman's arch-nemesis and an anthroporphic germ from Planet Virus. He is the leader of the Viruses and resembles a fly with large teeth, pink eyes, purple lips, two antennas, fly-like wings, a purple nose, a zigzag-shaped tail, a black furry body, and a slimy blue tongue. His ambition is to destroy Anpanman and spread germs, viruses, pathogens, protozoa, and bacteria all over the latter's world, yet he is perfectly content to play tricks, steal, and bully those weaker than him. According to one episode, he and Anpanman were born at the same time, making them physical representations of moral dualism. He has a weakness to soap, which shrinks him to the size of a fly. He constructs machines and thinks of intricate plans to counteract Anpanman's strength.
* **Dokinchan** / **Dokeen** - Baikinman's female partner in crime. She's an alien virus who is selfish, demanding, childish, and greedy, but sometimes shows kindness, as demonstrated by her crush on Shokupanman.
* **Kokinchan** / **Koreen** - A little alien virus girl from Baikin Planet who sees Dokinchan as her older sister. Kokinchan occasionally visited Earth in an egg to come play with Dokinchan, much to Dokinchan's dismay. She was eventually given her own UFO so she could come and leave freely. Kokinchan is a cute little girl who shows her bratty and scheming side when she doesn't get her way. Her specialty is pretending to cry to get what she wants. If anyone is hit by her tears, they start to cry uncontrollably.
* **Horrorman** / **Horror** - A skeleton who often works with Baikinman and Dokinchan. Although he seems scary on the outside, he is very weak and often falls to pieces, and can magically put the pieces back. He is neither a hero nor a villain. His special attack is the Bone Boomerang, where he takes off one of his bones and throws it. He is also in love with Dokinchan and often stalks her.
* **Aokinman and Akakinman**- Baikinman's brothers, who looks like Baikinman, except they were blue and red instead of black.
* **Baikin Senin** - An old alien virus hermit who lives in a house in the mountains, he acts like a mentor to Baikinman and friends. He is very tough on Baikinman, punishing him with work, or hitting him on the head if he fails. He is also tough on Horrorman, but gets along better with him than Baikinman. He has a soft spot for Dokinchan, and spoils her. He can fly on a magic cloud, or with a UFO that looks like a convertible car. He keeps an array of mystical and magical relics at his home.
* **Kuropanman** - Baikinman's new sidekick, who always annoys Hachiro by putting a tape of *Kyumi and Ryu* episodes and punching at him. Hachiro always called him "Bad Bread Guy!" His voice sounded exactly like Kieba from *Yu-Gi-Oh!*. In the episode "Dragon Hater", he was shipped to a far-away place where people uses his head as food. He escaped from the island and was finally defeated by Anpanman in the 2005 episode "Kuropanman Returns".
* **Vaccineman** - A purple, Baikinman-based monster who resembles a lot like Piccolo from *Dragon Ball Z*. He "warp-jumped" from City Z to Earth. He appeared in several episodes. In this show, his catchphrase is "I'm not Baikinman!" In one episode, his name was misspelled as "Vaikinman". He later appeared in the web manga series *One-Punch-Man*.
* **Phantom KHV** - Another Baikinman-based monster who only appears in the 2013 episode "The Phantom KHV". While Baikinman is lost at the mall, Dokinchan mistakes the Phantom KHV that attacks the mall for Baikinman. Anpanman tries to stop the Phantom KHV before Baikinman came in and attacked him. Before the Phantom KHV appeared in that episode, he appeared in the2004 manga and 2008 anime series*Hayate the Combat Butler*.
* **Shiroikinman**- Baikinman's shy little brother, who looks exactly like him, except he has white fur instead. He likes to be friends with Anpanman and Sugar. He was prone to motion sicknesses and vomiting, as shown in the episode "The Great Carnival".
* **Hōrensōman**- An anthropomorphic spinach. Yes, an anthropomorphic spinach. We're not kidding.
* **Sugar** - A small cat who speaks in a Japanese accent and develops a crush on Baikinman, who often avoid her because he's allergic to cats and her habit to coming close to him gave him pink rashes, sneezes and sometimes bloat like a balloon. Sugar is light purple-colored and purple eyes. Tips of her arms, feet, tail and her outer-ear coloring are dark purple. She inspired the design of Sugar Sprinkles from the TV series *Littlest Pet Shop*(2012 -present).
* **The Moles, Warts and Freckles**- A group of moles, warts and freckles that are blown from the woman's face and chased people around, and trying to zoom onto their faces. They only appeared in the episode "Attack of the Blemishes!".