# Taro the Space Alien (2000)

Taro the Space Alien ( うちゅう人田中太郎 ) is a 2000 Japanese anime series produced by Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions (ShoPro), as it is an anime adaptation of the manga with the same name by Yasunari Nagatoshi in August 1998. This anime series ran from April 17, 2000 to March 30, 2001 consisting 24 episodes (with all episodes included along side with the "junior high school versions" as well) each of them containing 21 minutes of runtime on TV Tokyo (Oha Suta), a 30-minute version of the anime was broadcast on Tokyo MX later in early 2007, and was rebroadcast in 2009 on Oha Suta as part of the Legendary Anime Selection. It is the second anime television series produced by Studio Hibari. Release Date: April 17, 2000 - March 30, 2001 Synopsis: Takashi Horimachi is an ordinary curious fifth grader attending "Anytown" Elementary School. One day, a very unusual transfer student named Taro Tanaka joins Takashi's class. Takashi and his classmates have never encountered anyone quite like Taro before. He is blue, has huge glowing eyes, pointy ears, a smooth bald head and one horn. Takashi, obsessed with trying to figure out this strange new visitor, attempts to track Taro's every move; and in the process he continuously falls victim to Taro's hilarious assortment of cosmic jokes and traps.

- Kind: Cartoon
- Year: 2000
- By: ShoPro
- Genres: Animation, Space
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/taro-the-space-alien)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Kids profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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