What Animal Family Is A Raccoon In

Japanese anime serial by Nihon Animation

あらいぐまラスカル ( Araiguma Rasukaru )
Rascal the Raccoon
Screenshot of the opening logo of Araiguma Rascal
Genre	Drama
Anime tv set serial
Directed by	Masaharu Endō Hiroshi Saitō (1-33) Shigeo Koshi (34-52)
Produced by	Junzō Nakajima Yoshio Katō
Written by	Akira Miyazaki Shōgo Ōta Kasuke Satō
Music by	Takeo Watanabe
Studio	Nippon Blitheness
Original network	Fuji TV
English network	JET Idiot box
Original run	2 January 1977 – 25 Dec 1977
Episodes	52

Rascal the Raccoon ( あらいぐまラスカル , Araiguma Rasukaru , literally Raccoon Rascal, with the Japanese word for raccoon significant "washing behave") is a Japanese blithe series by Nippon Animation.^[1] It is based on the 1963 autobiographical novel Rascal, A Memoir of a Improve Era by Sterling Due north.

In the past, Rascal, the pop fictional raccoon character in a child's anime, manifested itself as a pet throughout Nihon households, leading to the devastation of endless national heritages. In contempo years, however, Rascal'south popularity has been in steady decline, just some renewed involvement has been constitute in the form of digital stickers and merchandise.^[two] ^[3]

Japanese cast [edit]

Masako Nozawa as Rascal
Toshihiko Utsumi as Sterling North
Yoshiko Matsuo as Theodora "Theo" Due north
Michiru Haga every bit Jessica N
Masato Yamanouchi as Willard Due north
Kuniko Kashii equally Elisabeth Due north
Yūji Shikamata every bit Oscar Sunderland
Akio Nojima as Carl
Eken Mine as Federiko
Hisako Kyouda as Clarissa
Ichirô Nagai as Thurman
Kazuko Sugiyama equally Sensei
Masahiko Murase as Conway
Masako Nozawa as Greta Sunderland
Masaya Taki equally Slammy
Miina Tominaga as Alice
Mikio Terashima as Doctor Michel
Miyoko Asou every bit Hacket
Takako Sasuga equally Martha
Takeshi Kuwabara as Arthur
Tohru Furuya equally Tom
Toshiya Ueda every bit Futon

The Storyline [edit]

The anime revolves around a young boy who decided to provide shelter to a raccoon that was discovered by a hunter. Every bit the male child attempted to domesticate the wild fauna as part of his family, he before long realized through trials and tribulations that his efforts were futile and decided to release Rascal dorsum into the wild.^[4]

Music [edit]

The series uses two pieces of theme music for the opening theme and the ending theme. The opening theme vocal is called "Rock River eastward" ( ロックリバーヘ , Rokku Ribâ eastward , lit. "To Rock River"), and the catastrophe theme is "Oide Rascal" ( おいでラスカル , Oide Rasukaru , lit. "Rascal Come"), both sung by the Japanese vocalist by Kumiko Oosugi. The opening theme was subsequently used equally the main gameplay theme for the 1981 arcade game Frogger. The show'south music was equanimous past Takeo Watanabe, who worked on many anime of the 1970s and 80s.

Touch on [edit]

Raccoons are an invasive species in Japan and there is bear witness that Rascal the Raccoon has contributed enormously to the problem of invasive raccoons in Nihon. Like other invasive species, raccoons in Japan have few natural predators.^[5]

Although the anime Rascal the Raccoon's storyline revolves around the difficulties of taking in a raccoon as a pet, Japanese citizens became inspired to import raccoons in to the land as their pet, leading to unforeseen consequences.^[iv] In Japan, upwardly to one,500 raccoons were imported equally pets each yr after the success of Rascal the Raccoon. In 2004, the descendants of discarded or escaped animals lived in 42 of 47 prefectures then to all 47 prefectures by 2008.^{[half dozen]} These raccoons are at present a pest in Japan and imports of raccoons are now banned.

The importation of raccoons was banned considering people in Japan started releasing their pet raccoons in to the wild—especially after the terminal episode of Rascal the Raccoon was released. Additionally, raccoons can become as well violent and hard to handle once they grew upward, which further encouraged people to release them.^[5]

This negatively afflicted Nihon's natural ecosystem and homo-made infrastructures and it was estimated that virtually 80% of the temples in Japan were damaged past raccoons including Byōdō-in in Kyoto which has more than than 900 years of history.^[4] ^[vii] Raccoons attributed to Rascal also caused the devastation of crops in the agricultural sector^[four] and Japan suffers an estimated of 30,000,000 yen annually from the effects in the agronomical sector solitary.^[viii]

Fifty-fifty with backfire from beast advocates, the Japanese government decided to adopt the 0% tolerance policy where the goal is to impale every bit many raccoons as possible. This includes killing thousands of raccoons each yr. The government also placed a lot of tight sanctions to minimize the chances of existence able to import any more raccoons into the land.^[iv] In 2003, the Hokkaido government specifically implemented the 10-yr plan to completely eradicate raccoons in Japan. However, attempts proved to be mostly futile every bit there was not enough financial support.^[viii]

Rascal appearances [edit]

Rascal appeared in commercials, games and anime.

The Adventures of Peter Pan (1989)
Pokapoka Mori no Rascal (2006, aired in Kids Station)
Araiguma Rascal Special in Monster Strike game (game and CM)
Meitantei Rascal (2014, aired in NHK Educational Goggle box)
Line, a Southward Korean Advice Application^[ii]

Video games [edit]

Araiguma Rascal: Raccoon Rascal, puzzle game developed by J-Forcefulness and published by Masaya on 25 March 1994 for the Super Famicom.
Oide Rascal, action game developed by Agatsuma Entertainment and published by Tam on 25 April 2001 for the Game Boy Color.

References [edit]

^ "Araiguma rasukaru" (1977) Internet Movie Database (Retrieved 3 October 2009)
^ ^a ^b "RASCAL – LINE stickers". LINE Store . Retrieved 2020-10-22 .
^ "rascal the raccoon". www.amazon.com . Retrieved 2020-11-05 .
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Macewan, Matthew (2014-11-21). "Rascal's Secret Plan: the Raccoon Invasion of Japan". Tofugu . Retrieved 2020-ten-16 .
^ ^a ^b ZankDigiTrash (January 12, 2013). "Rascal the Raccoon Anime and effects on Japan". Youtube. Archived from the original on 2021-12-17. Retrieved October 24, 2020.
^ 山﨑晃司・佐伯緑・竹内正彦・及川ひろみ (2009). 茨城県でのアライグマの生息動向と今後の管理課題について (PDF). 県自然博物館研究報告 (in Japanese). 12: 41–49. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 29, 2011. Retrieved July 3, 2011.
^ Rascal the Raccoon , retrieved 2020-x-16
^ ^a ^b Ikeda, Tohru; Asano, Makoto; Matoba, Yohei; Abe, Become (December 31, 2004). "Present Status of Invasive Alien Raccoon and its Impact in Nihon". Global Environmental Inquiry: 125–231 – via Google Scholar.