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This serialized program was made after a long interval, but unfortunately only four episodes were put on the air when its advertising agency when bankrupt. Eight episodes had been completed in film, and they were broadcast by some rural area stations. This is a horror comedy in which a Western-style house in Romania is bought and brought to Tokyo, with the inhabitants still inside. They are Don Dracula the vampire, his daughter Chocola and his servant Igor.

CREDIT

(C) Tezuka Productions Co., Ltd.
Broadcast via TV Tokyo network / 23 minutes / In color / 4 episodes
Jin Production / April 5, 1982 - April 26, 1982, Mondays 7:00 - 7:30 PM

STAFF

Original Manga: Tezuka Osamu
Producer: Ikeda Kimio
Planning: Tezuka Productions Co., Ltd., Sankyo Planning
Story line and Screenplay: Koyama Takao
Chief Director: Ochiai Masamune
Rendition: Nomura Kazushi, Nikaido Toshiyuki, Hirabayashi Jun, Kasai Tatsuya
Animation Director: Uchiyama Masayuki
Art Director: Shimokawa Tadami
Sound Director: Toriumi Toshiki
Producers: Toriumi Toshiki, Tanzawa Junichi, Yui Masatoshi
Cooperation: Green Box
Theme Songs:
"Paradise Dracula": lyrics by Takada Hiroo, music by Kuni Kawauchi, arrangement by Takeichi Masahisa and vocals by Utsumi Kenji, Kourogi '73
"Daddy is a vampire": lyrics by Koyama Takao, song and arrangement by Takeichi Masahisa and vocals by Niikura Yoshimi

EPISODES

1 Here Comes the Dracula Killer
For no apparent reason, Don Dracula, the vampire, and his beloved daughter Chocola happen to move to Japan from Romania. They live peacefully in Nerima, a remote area outside Tokyo, until Hellsing, an expert on destroying vampires, comes after them from Holland. Staff Screenplay: Koyama Takao Director: Ochiai Masamune

2 Risky Vampire Tour
Earl Dracula finds it difficult to adjust to Japanese culture, which is very different from Romanian culture. His daughter Chocola, however, looks much happier here than in the boring Romanian castle. Getting anxious about Chocola, who is going to a disco yet again, he also ventures out into the town. There, he and Chocola come into contact with the "Japan Friendship Club of Vampires," but... Staff Screenplay: Koyama Takao Director: Ochiai Masamune

3 The Man in a Frame Who Walks
Inside a parcel delivered to their house at midnight is a portrait of a terribly distorted-looking man. They hang it on the wall, but feel disgusted to look at it. When they try to take it off the wall, they find it is stuck there. Moreover, the man in the picture emerges from the frame and sneaks into Chocola's room. Staff Screenplay: Koyama Takao Director: Ochiai Masamune

4 Where Goes the Half-fish Man?
Chocola and her boyfriend Nobuhiko are strolling on the beach when they find a building called "Research Institute for Exterminating Vampires." Out of curiosity, Chocola and Earl Dracula sneak into the building. Then women made of vinyl appear in front of them. What are they? Staff Screenplay: Koyama Takao Director: Ochiai Masamune

5 Success? The Cribbing Plan
School examinations will begin in a few days at the school Chocola attends. She tries to study hard, but cannot concentrate at all because Earl Dracula makes such a ridiculous fuss every night. After she scolds him, Earl Dracula makes a cheating pencil to help her with her exam and puts it stealthily into her bag, but... Staff Screenplay: Koyama Takao Director: Ochiai Masamune

6 Bizarre! Devil in the Cram School
The science fiction club room at the school Chocola attends is going to be used as a storeroom. So the students look for a new room. Finally they find a house that used to be a cram school, and decide to rent it. The house, however, turns out to be haunted by demons. Poltergeist phenomena occur one after another and torment them. So Earl Dracula starts to investigate the house. Staff Screenplay: Koyama Takao Director: Ochiai Masamune

7 The panda and the tiger are also precious lives
A beautiful girl is lying on the road at night. Her blood has been sucked by Earl Dracula. In contemporary Japan, however, nobody would believe that she has been attacked by Dracula. So the residents who have found her take the assault to have been by an animal when they see the wounds, made by sharp teeth, on her neck. Moreover, it has been in the news that a tiger and a panda have escaped during transport and are wandering about the neighborhood. People think it is the tiger that has attacked her, and try to capture the panda and shoot the tiger. As Chocola has become friends with the animals, she gets angry with the people, wondering why they do not try to save both animals. Staff Screenplay: Koyama Takao Director: Ochiai Masamune

8 Scared of garlic, the cross, and the dentist
Earl Dracula is craving for blood. He has not had the fresh blood of beautiful women for days. He will die of starvation. When he finally finds a beautiful woman, he sneaks into her bedroom. He is about to bite her neck when he discovers that she has had dinner garnished with plenty of garlic. Finding it more than he can bear, he runs away only to faint from hunger. Then comes an ambulance with a red-cross mark! The environment in this country is way too much for Dracula to live in. Staff Screenplay: Koyama Takao Director: Ochiai Masamune



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