Gamba no Bouken

Gamba no Bōken
Gamba and his friends
ガンバの冒険 (Ganba no Bouken)
Genre	Adventure
Created by	Atsuo Saitō
Anime television series
Directed by	Osamu Dezaki
Produced by	Tooru Ueno Sankichirou Kusube
Written by	Mitsuru Majima Yutaka Kaneko Souji Yoshikawa Hideo Takayashiki Atsushi Yamatoya Yoshio Takeuchi
Music by	Takeo Yamashita
Studio	A-Production Tokyo Movie
Original network	NNS (NTV)
Original run	April 7, 1975 – September 29, 1975
Episodes	26
Anime film
Boukenshatachi: Gamba to 7-biki no Naka Ma
Directed by	Shinzo Azaki
Studio	Tokyo Movie Shinsha
Released	March 4, 1984
Runtime	93 minutes
Anime film
Gamba to Kawauso no Bouken
Directed by	Shunji Ōga
Music by	Hiroaki Kondo
Studio	Tokyo Movie Shinsha
Released	July 20, 1991
Video game
Gamba no Bouken: The Puzzle Action
Publisher	Bandai
Genre	Puzzle, action
Platform	PlayStation
Released	March 4, 2003
Other media
2015 film

Gamba no Bouken (ガンバの冒険, lit. Adventures of Gamba) is a Japanese anime series based on the 1972 novel Boukenshatachi: Ganba to 15-hiki no Nakama (冒険者たち ガンバと15ひきの仲間, lit. The Adventurers: Gamba and His Fifteen Companions) by Atsuo Saitō and directed by Osamu Dezaki. Its 26 episodes were broadcast on Nippon TV between April 7 and September 29, 1975 and was animated by Tokyo Movie. The first film, a compilation feature returning to the title of the book the series was based on, was released on March 4, 1984 and was animated by Tokyo Movie Shinsha. The series has been adapted into a film, titled Ganba to Kawauso no Bouken (ガンバとカワウソの冒険, lit. The Adventures of Gamba and Otters), which was released in Japan on July 20, 1991 and again was animated by TMS. In March 2003, Bandai released a puzzle and action PlayStation game called Gamba no Bouken: The Puzzle Action.

A 3D CG animated film adaptation was released in Japan on October 10, 2015, titled Gamba: Gamba to Nakama-tachi (GAMBA ガンバと仲間たち),^[1] which was later released in the United States by Lionsgate and Grindstone Entertainment Group in 2017 that changed many character names under the title Air Bound. Prior to this, an English version was produced by SC Films International under the name Gamba 3D, and without character name changes.^[2]