O~i! Ryoma - Outline

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  • Broadcast as an anime on NHK television from April 7, 1992 to March 30, 1993.
    • Scenes from Shanghai to his return to Japan were cut and connected to the assassination scene. Until the Meiji Restoration, his actions are presented in digest.
    • The opening and closing themes are sung by the author Tetsuya Takeda.
    • There is a VHS version but no DVD is currently available. The series has not been rebroadcast.
    • It is the first anime to be broadcast in stereo on NHK via airborne signal.
  • In October, 2005 theatrical troupe Guinyaon staged an adaptation produced by and starring Tadahisa Mimata (三又忠久, Mimata Tadahisa?), born May 27, 1967
  • Based on the novel Ryōma ga yuku by Ryōtarō Shiba (司馬遼太郎, Shiba Ryōtarō?), born August 7, 1923; however, it differs in that unlike the novel it details the early years of Sakamoto's life in Tosahan (modern-day Kōchi Prefecture) and the discrimination against the country gōshi (郷士?) by the upper class jōshi (上士?) samurai. Instead of relating Ryōma's struggle to overthrow the Tokugawa bakufu, the novel focuses on this class struggle. The result is an arguably more empathetic story. Specifically Yōdō Yamauchi (山内 容堂, Yamauchi Yōdō?) (November 27, 1827 – July 26, 1872), jōshi samurai Shōjirō Gotō (後藤 象二郎, Gotō Shōjirō?) (April 13, 1838 – August 4, 1897) and politician Itagaki Taisuke are all dramatized as villains in conflict with Ryōma. The descendants of Yamauchi have objected to his vilification in this way. In fact, author Tetsuya Takeda appeared in a 2006 Taiga drama Kōmyō ga Tsuji (功名が辻) as a vassal of Yamauchi.
  • Largely fictional. For example, gōshi samurai Zuizan Takechi (武市 瑞山, Takechi Zuizan?) (October 24, 1829 – July 3, 1865) and Izo Okada appear as childhood friends; after becoming a lordless samurai Ryōma goes to Shanghai; Ryōma has an interview with 14th shogun Tokugawa Iemochi; Ryōma is oppressed from childhood by Shōjirō Gotō and Itagaki Taisuke.

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