Golden Boy

Kintarou Ooe is a specialist in part-time work, riding all over the highways and byways of Japan on his trusty steed, the Mikazuki 5, and finding employment wherever he can. His adventures bring him knowledge and experience that can't be taught in a classroom, from political corruption to the delicacy of a young woman's heart. With nothing but the open road before him—not to mention the many beautiful women along the way—Kintarou pursues his spirit of education while attempting to hold down his various odd jobs, however undignified they may be. As he learns from each task he takes on, who knows what could happen? He might even be able to save the world one day. One thing is for sure—this will all be very educational!

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Ooe, Kintarou Main

Iwata, Mitsuo Japanese

Madame President Supporting

Tsuru, Hiromi Japanese

Hayami, Ayuko Supporting

Inoue, Kikuko Japanese

Terayama, Reiko Supporting

Tamagawa, Sakiko Japanese

Katsuda, Naoko Supporting

Minaguchi, Yuko Japanese

Chie Supporting

Kanai, Mika Japanese

Employee A Supporting

Inoue, Kikuko Japanese

Employee E Supporting

Kanai, Mika Japanese

Noriko's Father Supporting

Matsumura, Hikojiro Japanese

Employee D Supporting

Shimakata, Junko Japanese

Greenfield, Matt Producer, Script, ADR Director

Kitakubo, Hiroyuki Director, Sound Director, Episode Director, Storyboard, Theme Song Lyrics

Kikuchi, Yasuhito Episode Director, Storyboard, Animation Director, Key Animation

Abe, Masashi Episode Director

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Jul 6, 2007

Hush

Recommended

Golden Boy is about a twenty five year old guy, named Kintaro, who had completed all credits for college but dropped out right before graduation. He has decided to study all he can learn about life. He now specializes himself in day-dreaming, temporary part time jobs dealing with different areas of interest, and lets not forget, beautiful girls. Kintaro travels on his trusty pink bicycle, keeping notes about what he learns about life in his notebook, and living his life in the happiest of ways. Kintaro is a very caring guy, always trying to help out and learn new things from different people. Even though ... people try underestimate him during the series, they can only to be proved how great and determined Kintaro can be, aside of his naughty little toilet fetish. Each episode he gets a new job, finding himself in the difficult situations, and always managing to have a gorgeous woman involved in the story.

Golden Boy is an anime with really no plot what so ever, but for some reason, it just made me love it even more. The whole time it just focuses on Kintaro going from temporary job to temporary job always finding these beautiful women, with different stories to each episode. I laughed so hard on this anime, I cried. The animation was good for the most part; it would go from extreme detail to kindergarten drawing, which just made it even more ridiculously funny. The one and only main character, being Kintaro, had great development; he was very expressive, emotional, determinative, crazily kind person with high value. You just couldn’t help but love him, even with his toilet fetish and perverted ways.

I loved the different aspects they show during the series about life and people always in the funniest of ways. The music was good, I loved the opening theme. I also loved how they show him traveling on his bicycle in the opening, I don’t know why, and I can’t really tell you why, but I just loved it. The English dub version was pretty good, so I would say you could watch it subbed or dubbed. I think in the English dub, his voice talent expressed him better, and just matched his personality better.

The sense of humor is very sexual and perverted, which can be offensive to the people who don’t find that sense of humor appropriate. I personally find implication of this type of comical humor hilarious.

I think if you have a perverted sense of humor, you will really love this anime. It has brief nudity, not really that it has a lot of sex, or nudity, but the strong sexual humor taints this anime!!! Golden Boy is for the mature audience, eighteen and older. Even though this is a mature anime, it will bring tears to your eyes it is so comical. I would say, if you like Golden Boy, I would also recommend you to take the time and watch GTO, Great Teacher Onizuka, which is some what on the same level of humor, and reminded me a lot of each other.

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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Oct 20, 2014

literaturenerd

Mixed Feelings

Overview:

Do you enjoy really lowbrow comedy? Do you laugh from idiotic shows like Family Guy and find yourself embarassed that you actually laughed. I do! That is why I actually enjoyed Golden Boy, even if it kind of bruises my ego to admit it. Golden Boy came out in 1995 and never aired on TV here in the US, but the VHS hit US shelves and it was fairly well recieved by the few US anime critics at the time. Golden Boy is better known in Europe, where it was aired on MTV for some reason. This is a silly series, but it is ... fun, frequently hilarious, and even somewhat insightful on occation.

Story and characters: 5/10

The main character is named Kentaro Oe and he...is odd. He went to Japan's most elite university and met all the requirements to graduate with a Law Degree, but he dropped out before graduating so he could travel the world as a free spirit and perform oddjobs. He is a shameless womanizer and pervert, but at the same time a gentleman that doesn't take advantage of the various girls he meets. The story is divided into several oddjobs that basically follow the same formula. Kentaro takes the job, everyone thinks he is inept, he proves he isn't inept, a girl that initially disliked him falls for him, he rides off and leaves the girl wishing she had slept with him. The end. Although the plot is FAR from what I would consider good, it is funny and the series actually uses its predictability to comedic advantage. The viewer knows that certain jokes are coming and it somehow makes it funnier when they finally happen. For example, Kentaro is shown worshipping a recently used toilet in EVERY episode! You just know it is going to happen, much like Kenny dying on South Park.

Art: 7/10

The art is actually pretty good for a mid 1990s anime. It looked much better than most of its contemporaries and it has aged well.

Enjoyment: 8/10

The reason you watch a comedy is to laugh, and Golden Boy delivers the laughs! I would actually recommend the English Dub over the original Japanese on this one. I thought the English dub captured the goofiness of Kentaro's character better for some reason. I am aware that MTV Europe did a Russian dub, but I have never heard it and I can't say if it was good or not. This probably isn't going to be your favorite anime of all time, but you will have a good time! This anime knows exactly what it wants to be and it executes very well!

Overall: 6/10

I am not saying that Golden Boy is a great masterpiece, but it is a fun series that will provide some laughs to those of us that like dumb humor. It is a shame that this series isn't better known. I guess part of that is how old it is, but it has aged well and feels like it could have been made last year. I would give this one a try, even if it is just the first episode or 2. You will know after the first episode if this is your cup of tea or not, because the episodes are all quite similar.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Nov 1, 2019

otaku6910

Not Recommended

So it is 2019 and this is a review for an anime that is now 24 yerars old....mmmm..... why bother?
Me being relatively new to the wonderful wacky world of anime and manga, I somehow found this one via someone's list, and being a bit of an ecchi fan I decided to give it a go.
Story: the premise of the story is ok, it's just that the mc's behaviour and the way he leaves the various jobs is just not reasonable in most cases. Also, his obsession with hugging toilets really let the main character down a lot. The one redeeming feature was ... how it all tied together in the end.
Art: The art isn't bad, I was actually expecting a lot worse. The few ecchi scenes were actually not bad at all, boobs bounced nicely where required to, etc.
Sound was ...meh..... and his wacky laugh irritated the hell out of me, nevertheless I persevered.
Character: as mentioned above, the Mc's behaviour in awkward situations really annoyed me, his laugh annoyed me - for someone who has apparently done all the studying to get a degree, he often behaves like a damn perverted middle-schooler. some of the sexy female chars were lovely, and you can clearly see who are the unimportant chars to the main story. Some parts are totally cringe-worthy.
Enjoyment: I'm only giving it a 4 (Decent) because of some of the positive points mentioned above, otherwise it would be dreadful, and it's also the reason I just give it an overall score of 4. If I think too much about the cringe-worthy parts I might be tempted to just give it a 2, so this is it.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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