Oh! Edo Rocket

Oh! Edo Rocket
Cover of the novel
大江戸ロケット
(Ō Edo Roketto)
Genre
Novel
Written byKazuki Nakashima
Published byRonsosha
PublishedAugust 7, 2001
Manga
Written byKazuki Nakashima
Illustrated byUna Hamana
Published byKodansha
MagazineMonthly Afternoon
DemographicSeinen
Original runFebruary 25, 2007July 25, 2009
Volumes3
Anime television series
Directed bySeiji Mizushima
Written byShō Aikawa
Music byYusuke Honma
StudioMadhouse
Licensed by
Original networkTV Saitama, Tokyo MX, Chiba TV, RKB, HBC, TV Aichi, MBS
English network
Original run April 3, 2007 September 26, 2007
Episodes26

Oh! Edo Rocket (Japanese: 大江戸ロケット, Hepburn: Ō Edo Roketto, lit.'Big Edo Rocket') is a 2001 stage play written for the Gekidan Shinkansen theater troupe by Kazuki Nakashima and directed by Hidenori Inōe, with a novelization released in August of the same year. A manga adaptation illustrated by Una Hamana was serialized in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Monthly Afternoon from February 2007 to July 2009, with its chapters collected in three tankōbon volumes. A twenty-six episode anime television series by Madhouse was broadcast in Japan from April to September 2007. It is a comedic story often breaking the fourth wall, that involves a fireworks maker in medieval Edo and his efforts to build a rocket to carry an alien back to her people on the Moon. The anime series was licensed in North America by Funimation.

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  2. ^ a b Yegulalp, Serdar. "Oh! Edo Rocket: The Complete Series". About.com. Archived from the original on January 20, 2013. Retrieved March 18, 2022.