Larryboy: The Cartoon Adventures

Larryboy (also known as Rarībōi or ラリーボーイ) is an Japanese superhero drama anime series developed by Paramount Television. The first episode was "The Angry Eyebrows", was premiered on January 3, 1986 on TV Saitama and produced by the company Paramount Television. The episode came to an end with "The Good, The Bad and the Eggly!", premiered on January 6, 1989, the Larryboy "TV Saitama" era episodes using Paramount Television "Blue Mountain" logo. Larryboy was animated in 2D animation by MGM premiered in Akihabara, Tokyo in July 1985. From September 2010 onwards, Animax aired the content of all four of the 1980s Japanese Larryboy episodes on its Paramount+ block alongside airings of first . Larryboy also currently streams on Paramount+ in Japan, a over-the-top streaming service.

Larryboy: The Cartoon Adventures
Genre	Anime Crime Action Superhero Drama Sci-fi
Country of origin	Japan
Original language	Japanese
No. of episodes	4
Production
Running time	23 minutes
Production companies	Television Saitama Gulf+Western Paramount Television (NTSC version of the countries only) 20th Century Fox Television (PAL version of the countries only) Big Idea (uncredited)
Original release
Network	Television Saitama - TV Saitama (TVS テレビ埼玉)
Release	January 3, 1986 (1986-01-03) – January 6, 1989 (1989-01-06)
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Premise

The 1986-89 Japanese superhero drama anime series revolves around the character Larry's superhero alter ego Larryboy as he tries to manage his life as a superhero while working as a janitor for the Daily Bumble newspaper in Bumblyburg.

Characters

Larryboy only carries over four characters: Larry the Cucumber, Bob the Tomato, Junior Asparagus, and Archibald Asparagus, with reprising their respective roles.

Voice actor	Role	Description
Japanese actor #1	Larry the Cucumber	The janitor Larry and his superhero alter ego, Larryboy.
Japanese actor #2 and #3	Archibald Asparagus	Larryboy's butler. Unlike previous the 60s' Astro Boy and Batman episodes, this character is named Archie instead of Alfred.
	Bob the Tomato	Larry's boss, who works as the head of the Daily Bumble newspaper.
Japanese actor #4	Junior Asparagus	A kid editor of the Daily Bumble.
Japanese actor #5	Vicky Cucumber	One of the members of the Daily Bumble. She is the love interest of Larry.
	Mother Pearl	The Alchemist's evil sidekick and mother.
Japanese actor #6	The Alchemist	A villain who appeared in the second Japanese episode.
	Officer Olaf	Bumblyburg's resident policemen.
	Chief Croswell
	Awful Alvin	A villain who first appeared in "Larryboy and the Angry Eyebrows".
	Herbert and Wally	The eggplant brothers.
Japanese actor #7	Bok Choy	The wise teacher of the superhero class that Larryboy attends.
Japanese actor #8	Greta Von Gruesome	A villainess with a German accent who appeared in the final two episodes from Japan from 1988 to 1989.

Episodes

No.	Title	Directed by	Written by	Storyboards by	Original release date
1	"Larryboy and the Angry Eyebrows"	Unknown	Unknown	TBA	January 3, 1986 (1986-01-03)
Larryboy fights a "cheese-breathing cow dragon", but discovers that it is Herbert and Wally in disguise and the duo are arrested. Soon after, Larryboy breaks an inventor's "KnitMaster 3000" (which recycles hair collected in bathtub drains). Despite Larryboy's apology and the promise to repair the device, the inventor, Ma Mushroom, holds a grudge against him. Awful Alvin, planning to take control of Bumblyburg, releases eyebrows that force everyone to hold onto their anger. Soon, the eyebrows are attached to everyone who is angry. Larryboy confronts Alvin and soon an eyebrow attaches to him, which he lets go after remembering that he should let go of his anger. Soon, the citizens also let go of their anger and the eyebrows leave them. Larryboy, using the now-fixed KnitMaster, turns the eyebrows into a night cap. Alvin rues the loss of his eyebrows and his anger causes the eyebrows, now in night cap form, to entrap him. Alvin is arrested, and Ma (seeing the KnitMaster) lets go of her anger and her eyebrow leaves her.
2	"Leggo My Ego!"	Unknown	Unknown	TBA	February 13, 1987 (1987-02-13)
Larryboy is at the local carnival when the cotton candy machine malfunctions. Following its violent explosion, Archie discovers a bottled substance known as Ultra Sucrose Enhancement Catalyzer, which Officer Olaf suspects was used for "chemical sabotage" of the machine. Larryboy runs into the Alchemist and is about to smell his flower; however, Olaf warns against it just in time and Larryboy supposedly sniffs no trace of the spray from the flower. However, after the Alchemist is thrown in Olaf's van and driven off, Larryboy begins to feel superior to the entire town and puts down the citizens, causing them to be shrunk, captured, and taken to the Alchemist's lab. Larryboy soon realizes what he's done and arrives at the lab, only to be confronted by a much deadlier and more dangerous version of himself - the Alter Ego. After fighting it, Larryboy then remembers he needs help from Archie and his friends, which causes the Alter Ego to shrink and eventually disappear and returning the town residents to normal size. In retaliation, the Alchemist takes Bob hostage. After dropping him at Herbert and Wally's firing of jelly donut juice at him, he inadvertently releases the spray on his mother (Mother Pearl), who flings it back at him and shrinks him. Soon after, Mother Pearl and the Alchemist are apprehended by the cops.
3	"The Yodelnapper!"	Unknown	Unknown	TBA	May 13, 1988 (1988-05-13)
At Mr. Snappy's Extremely Gigantic Toy Emporium, Larryboy accidentally knocks down a chemistry set which falls on clay sets creating the monstrous Crazy Clay Monster. The monster attacks Larryboy, but he puts it asleep by playing a toy saxophone. Larryboy then goes to a concert of his favorite yodeler, Einger Warblethroat. However, the performance goes wrong when Greta Von Gruesome kidnaps Einger and takes him to her castle to join other yodelers that she is holding captive. Archie disguises Larryboy, who poses as a yodeler and gets "yodelnapped" and taken to the castle. Larry releases the trapped performers, but the group falls into a pit and is attacked by an army of Greta-controlled Hula Heidi dolls. After defeating the dolls with the help of Einger, Larryboy apprehends Greta. The five rescued yodelers then put on a "Tribute to Larryboy" concert. The Crazy Clay Monster returns to fight Larryboy, but is interrupted and begins dancing to polka music as the performers yodel Larryboy's theme song.
4	"The Good, The Bad and the Eggly"	Unknown	Unknown	TBA	January 6, 1989 (1989-01-06)
Awful Alvin and Greta Von Gruesome are out of jail. After three flying pigs with bacon-and-egg guns shoot down the Larry-Plane, Larryboy is saved by the Dark Crow, who is the hero of a neighboring town. The two team up to fight the pair, but Larryboy makes a mistake and the two steal a machine called the Overeasy Egg Ray which turns anything not alive into eggs. Using it, they steal various antiques from a museum and kidnap Vicky. Larryboy and the Dark Crow are stripped of their supersuits and are captured. After getting free, Larryboy destroys the Overeasy Egg Ray but is knocked out. Larryboy is freed by the Dark Crow and the duo capture Alvin and Greta and send them back to jail.

Home media

All of the videos were released in both VHS in Japan in the 1980s and DVD in Asia in the 2010s formats. They were also released as a set or included with the other Larryboy videos in: Paramount: The Greatest Japanese Anime Hits (1988), and Paramount Presents: Larryboy (2021).