Anime Monkeys ^_^

Valgaav · Post by **Valgaav** » Fri Apr 22, 2005 11:38 pm

Anyone know what anime has a lot of monkeys and/or monkey-related humor?

Arigatomina · Post by **Arigatomina** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 12:14 am

Er...dbz? Mostly apes (a few monster-sized ones, and the 'normal' one that hangs around 'heaven' making 'ooh' sounds).

Saiyuki - Goku is constantly being compared to a monkey, and there's an episode where the gang is followed, spied on, and later attacked by a mob of little monkeys.

narcted · Post by **narcted** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 3:07 am

Rumiko Takahashi sometimes uses monkeys. Monkeys appear every now and then in Ranma 1/2. There was also that episode with the missing Monkey-God in Inuyasha.

AquaSky · Post by **AquaSky** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 7:05 am

There are monkeys in the following :
Revolutionary Girl Utena (well, Chuchu's sort of a mouse/monkey hybrid)
Ask Dr. Rin
Green Green
Gokudo
Cromartie High School

pinky75910 · Post by **pinky75910** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 12:57 pm

During a large part of the "Noa's arc" mini-series of Yu-Gi-Oh, Tristan is turned into a cute little robot chimp.

pinky75910 · Post by **pinky75910** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 1:17 pm

You'll probably find some random episodes in Pokemon - I know there's a girl with one in the begining of Pokemon Movie 3.

In Mew Mew Power, or Tokyo Mew Mew, one of the girls, I think the yellow one, draws her power from a monkey and as such, has a slightly monkey influenced outfit.

ryu_koneko · Post by **ryu_koneko** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 2:49 pm

In Fruits Basket, Ritsu-chan-san's zodiac animal is the monkey. So Ritsu turns into a monkey. I don't remember exactly which episode, but it is in the last four.

ZaCloud · Post by **ZaCloud** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 7:16 pm

Oooh here's a good one: There's an entire episode of Get Backers where they're up against a band of monkeys!

PLENTY of monkey footage there. The monkeys also appear in a slightly earlier episode but only long enough to dog-pile on the guys in a lake. If you can't find the episodes in online guides then sometime I can find which eps they are.

pinky75910 · Post by **pinky75910** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 7:38 pm

ryu_koneko wrote:In Fruits Basket, Ritsu-chan-san's zodiac animal is the monkey. So Ritsu turns into a monkey. I don't remember exactly which episode, but it is in the last four.

Yeah, but that's like one, two episodes tops, and I think he's a monkey for about five seconds, if that.

TaranT · Post by **TaranT** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 2:36 am

Arigatomina wrote:Er...dbz? Mostly apes (a few monster-sized ones, and the 'normal' one that hangs around 'heaven' making 'ooh' sounds).

Saiyuki - Goku is constantly being compared to a monkey, and there's an episode where the gang is followed, spied on, and later attacked by a mob of little monkeys.

"Saiyuki" is the Japanese name for the old Chinese legend of the Monkey King. The monkey's name was Son Goku, which explains the references in the anime. More about that here.

On topic, there is an old movie by the name of Alakazam the Great. It was released in 1960 and might be the first anime movie ever made. It's a near-literal version of part of the old monkey-king tale. Osamu Tezuka was involved (direction, screenplay). It has many scenes with monkeys.