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Superbook

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Superbook	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Super Book, or Anime Oyako Gekijō ("Animated Parent and Child Theater") in the original Japanese, was a Japanese-American animated Religious Edutainment series aiming to present stories and accompanying Aesops from the Old and New Testament of The Bible to Japanese children. Its original run lasted from 1981 to 1983, and was commissioned by Pat Robertson and his Christian Broadcasting Network, and produced by Tatsunoko Production (although much of the actual animation production was farmed out to other studios, including Studio Shaft) for TV Tokyo, although it was aired on affiliates of all of Japan's major television networks except NHK.note In 1981, the TX (TV Tokyo) network didn't yet exist, and even today has only a handful of affiliates, so the series was usually shown outside Tokyo on affiliates of other networks or on independent stations, in some cases on a delayed basis.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })The series focuses on the adventures of Christopher (Chris) Peeper and his best friend Joy. During the first episode, Christopher's father, an eccentric college professor who seems to specialize in Biblical archaeology, tells Christopher to clean out the attic, as it has gotten severely cluttered and messy. While Chris and Joy are working on the attic, some boxes fall over, and a strange book falls out of one of them. Taking the book to Chris's bedroom and failing to open it on their own, Christopher and Joy are startled to see a blinding light coming from it as it opens itself. Things then get even stranger; the book starts talking to them, identifying itself as the eponymous "Superbook". The book explains that it contains many stories inside, and that they need only peer into it to experience them.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); })Thus begin Chris and Joy's adventurers. Once an Episode, they (accompanied by Chris's toy robot Gizmo, who becomes a fully functioning robot during their adventures) travel within Superbook to experience one of the Biblical stories it contains and learn from them the morals each tale has to teach.Originally, the series' scope was merely limited to its aim of introducing Japanese viewers to Christianity and giving the then-up and coming CBN-Cable a flagship original animated show to fill its kids' programming slots in the US, but after apparent breakthrough success with both audiences (CBN claims over 8 million viewers tuned in at a time during its Japanese prime-time run), it was soon dubbed into a dozen more languages in the hopes of marketing the series to even more countries previously devoid of Christian childrens' content. To date, it's been localized into 43 different languages, and claims as many as 500 million total television viewers, making it one of the most widely distributed Japanese animated shows ever.The second series (Superbook II, or Pasokon Travel Tanteidan) took place two years after the first and had Superbook accidentally fall on a computer keyboard. This somehow transferred Superbook's powers to the computer, allowing anyone who wanted to see into the past. Unfortunately, Chris' dog Ruffles accidentally gets lost in time in the process. To find her, Chris' cousin Uriah (Uri for short; Sho's brother Yuu in Japanese) and Gizmo (now a fully functioning robot even outside Super Book, with a built-in computer for recall purposes) regularly travel back in time to find her, adding an overarching plot arc to the second series.In between the two series of Superbook, there was also a third, separate series called Flying House that focused more on stories from the New Testament, primarily the ministry of Jesus Christ.In 2011, a computer-animated reboot of the series was produced. The remake is notable for being the first animated series to air on ABC Family (who aired the original back when they were known as CBN Cable in the early 80's) since around 2005. Interestingly, the reboot has also begun airing in the nation where it all started - Japan - as of early 2018. Meanwhile, the original series can still be found on Trinity Broadcasting's Christian kids' channel Smile Of A Child (but in the wee morning hours - better prepare your DVR!note Only if you live in parts of the US and have AT&T U-Verse TV.).Compare to The Kingdom Chums, which also features time-traveling children (one of whom is Jewish) witnessing Bible stories and was also animated in Japan (though the chief production staff were American and thus it isn't considered "anime"). Compare also to the early Imagination Station installments of Adventures in Odyssey, which more directly involved the participants in the story.Most of the tropes that apply are tropes from The Bible. The ones listed here focus primarily on the original cast, the series, its premise, and any other characterization tropes not already accounted for on The Bible page.
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Superbook / int_1228314a	type	Strong as They Need to Be
Superbook / int_1228314a	comment	Strong as They Need to Be: Gizmo's wind-up function generally lasts until the plot requires him to break down. In the first episode this results in the Fall of Man.
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Superbook / int_1282bf4f	type	No Celebrities Were Harmed
Superbook / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: In episode 5, Joy is upset because she read in a fan magazine that her favorite singer, Barry Mannyhigh, married Olivia Piggyback.
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Superbook / int_157c6c4f	type	My Grandson, Myself
Superbook / int_157c6c4f	comment	My Grandson, Myself: How Chris and Joy explain looking the same when they meet the same person decades apart.
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Superbook / int_19209d54	type	Sibling Rivalry
Superbook / int_19209d54	comment	Sibling Rivalry: Fred (Chris' father) and his younger brother (Uri's father). Averted in the English dub of series 2, as Sho's brother Yuu was rewritten as Chris's cousin Uri.
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Superbook / int_23473ae7	type	Adaptation Expansion
Superbook / int_23473ae7	comment	Adaptation Expansion: Series 2 does this in much the same way that Flying House did, expanding the Biblical storylines into multi-episode arcs and naming characters such as Lot's wife who were not named in Scripture.
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Superbook / int_23698fa8	type	Aborted Arc
Superbook / int_23698fa8	comment	Aborted Arc: In the English dub, after Chris' mom announces she's pregnant at the end of the first series, we never see a baby in the second series, nor is the pregnancy ever mentioned. The Japanese version keeps the continuity going, as Uriah (Yuu) is Christopher's (Sho) younger brother, albeit rewritten to his cousin in the English dub (also believable since Chris's uncle is a supporting character in the second series).
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Superbook / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
Superbook / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: Following the Garden-Hose Squirt Surprise mentioned above, Chris falls, landing in the flower bushes, and gets yelled at by his father. Chris's mother then intervenes to comfort her son, saying she's glad he didn't get hurt. While having tea and cake, Chris burns his tongue on the hot tea and drops his cup, shattering it. His mother is about to scold him when his father intervenes and reminds her, "We're glad he didn't get hurt, right?"
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Superbook / int_31033156	type	Chest Insignia
Superbook / int_31033156	comment	Chest Insignia: Again, the letter U on Uri's shirt.
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Superbook / int_33fa230b	type	Your Princess Is in Another Castle!
Superbook / int_33fa230b	comment	Your Princess Is in Another Castle!: Many episodes of the second series feature Gizmo and Uri following up on a promising lead as to Ruffles' whereabouts, only to end up disappointed.
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Superbook / int_35ae6a23	type	Lethal Chef
Superbook / int_35ae6a23	comment	Lethal Chef: In "The First Christmas," Prof. Peeper bakes a Christmas cake as a surprise for Chris and Joy, but ends up burning it.
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Superbook / int_3a3eb730	type	Adventures in the Bible
Superbook / int_3a3eb730	comment	Adventures in the Bible: The premise.
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Superbook / int_41aebb4a	type	Marilyn Maneuver
Superbook / int_41aebb4a	comment	Marilyn Maneuver: Joy in "Superbrain". When Ruffles runs passed her, the back of her skirt rises from Ruffles's motion briefly, but she holds the front in place.
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Superbook / int_4ee61c1f	type	Liar Revealed
Superbook / int_4ee61c1f	comment	Liar Revealed: The opening vignette of the "Samson and Delilah" episode features Chris lifting a barbell with the promise that his father will raise his allowance if he makes it to one hundred repetitions. When he makes it to one hundred, his father and Joy are thrilled - until Ruffles, the dog, picks up the barbell in her mouth.
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Superbook / int_52989fee	type	Narrator
Superbook / int_52989fee	comment	Narrator: Each episode features narration (which is possibly diegetic to the titular Superbook itself) explaining the setup of the various Biblical tales the kids are transported to.
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Superbook / int_56698261	type	Our Time Travel Is Different
Superbook / int_56698261	comment	Our Time Travel Is Different: Both the Videocassette and Wormhole kind, depending on which direction they're headed.
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Superbook / int_64c64cfb	type	Pink Girl, Blue Boy
Superbook / int_64c64cfb	comment	Pink Girl, Blue Boy: Azusa/Joy wears a pink shirt, and Sho/Christopher wears a blue jacket and blue jeans. The show's character designer, Akiko Shimomoto, was apparently fond of this trope as she used it in several other Tatsunoko series - see also The Littl' Bits.
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Superbook / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Superbook / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: In the German version, Christopher's name is Christian, and Azusa/Joy is known as Maria, or Ri for short, which seems fairly obviously a reference to the Mother of Christ. Chris/Sho is also named Christian in the French dub (Azusa/Joy is Aline and Ruffles is Molly in French, although Gizmo and Uri retain their English dub names).
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Superbook / int_6ef9d3fe	type	Christmas Episode
Superbook / int_6ef9d3fe	comment	Christmas Episode: "The First Christmas" in the first series. In addition to airing on CBN, it was also syndicated to some secular TV stations and broadcast as a special.
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Superbook / int_7175cb16	type	Clark Kenting
Superbook / int_7175cb16	comment	Clark Kenting: After Uri and Gizmo go to the computer and never went back for days, Chris and Joy have to make excuses to Chris' mother before she gets worried.
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Superbook / int_71fde230	type	Garden-Hose Squirt Surprise
Superbook / int_71fde230	comment	Garden-Hose Squirt Surprise: This happens to Chris in the Job episode.
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Superbook / int_77480c5e	type	God Is Good
Superbook / int_77480c5e	comment	God Is Good: Unsurprisingly, this is one of the show's main recurring Aesops.
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Superbook / int_7923b4e7	type	The Oldest Profession
Superbook / int_7923b4e7	comment	The story of Joshua, as told here, never mentions Rahab's job once, and mostly glosses over the fact that literally everyone in Jericho (apart from her and her family) was slain (as well as the Israelites' complete genocide of the Promised Land's native inhabitants in general).
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Superbook / int_7b20b8d2	type	Alternative Foreign Theme Song
Superbook / int_7b20b8d2	comment	Alternative Foreign Theme Song: The Japanese versions of both series have an opening and ending theme different from the English opening. For series one, the Japanese opening song was adapted for the English version as the closing. Most other foreign language versions were adapted from the English dub and use either the English language themes or adaptations thereof, an exception being the Italian dub, which has a completely original song (and keeps the Japanese opening and closing animation).
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Superbook / int_7c88991a	type	Portal Book
Superbook / int_7c88991a	comment	Portal Book: The titular Superbook spontaneously transports the kids to the Bible Times depicted within.
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Superbook / int_7d7a7d0f	type	Opening Narration
Superbook / int_7d7a7d0f	comment	Opening Narration: The opening narration of just about every episode in the first season (at least in the English dub) referred to Chris's house as "the house just down the street and around the corner."
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Superbook / int_7e38c1a7	type	Her Code Name Was "Mary Sue"
Superbook / int_7e38c1a7	comment	Her Code Name Was "Mary Sue": Refreshingly averted with Joy/Azusa. She's portrayed similar to Shizuka from Doraemon in that although she seems to be somewhat of a goody-goody at first glance, she has her own character flaws, including jealousy and a tendency to lose her temper whenever Chris teases her.
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Superbook / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Superbook / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: In the Western dubs only. Series 1 ends with Chris's mother announcing she is pregnant. However, there's no mention of Chris having a baby brother in Series 2, and a viewer might assume she miscarried. In the original Japanese, Uri, rewritten in English as Chris's cousin, is Sho's younger brother Yuu.
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Superbook / int_87380797	type	Bible Times
Superbook / int_87380797	comment	Bible Times: Obviously, the setting for much of the show
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Superbook / int_8a1215e0	type	Bratty Teenage Daughter
Superbook / int_8a1215e0	comment	Bratty Teenage Daughter: The Sodom and Gomorrah episode depicts Lot's two daughters as such. Apparently they learned it from their mother.
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Superbook / int_91c651a1	type	Guilt-Free Extermination War
Superbook / int_91c651a1	comment	Guilt-Free Extermination War: Joshua and the Israelites's conquest of the Promised Land is portrayed this way in "Snakes and a Donkey" and several subsequent episodes, although the "extermination" part is mostly glossed over save for the narration mentioning how Joshua and his men "took possession of the land that God had given to be their own" over visuals of Joshua and the Israelites storming the walls of a burning city with faintly audible screams in the background.
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Superbook / int_9381f239	type	Clockwork Creature
Superbook / int_9381f239	comment	Clockwork Creature: Gizmo is a robot version of this, as when he runs down on power he explicitly needs the key on his back wound back up for him to even move again (he can still talk just fine).
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Superbook / int_9d1a935f	type	Brought to You by the Letter "S"
Superbook / int_9d1a935f	comment	Brought To You By The Letter U: Chris's cousin in the second series wears a shirt with a U on it. In Japanese, it's a bilingual pun, as the character's name is Yuu. It also left the English dubbers little choice but to rename him Uriah, or Uri for short.
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Superbook / int_a00edcf2	type	Extremely Dusty Home
Superbook / int_a00edcf2	comment	Extremely Dusty Home: Or extremely dusty attic, anyway, in Episode 1 of the first series. It's so dusty that Chris has to wear a mask to clean it, and he had even thought it was smoke at first when he came to visit. But it's also how he and Joy discover Superbook.
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Superbook / int_a62dca03	type	Year Inside, Hour Outside
Superbook / int_a62dca03	comment	Year Inside, Hour Outside: The kids and Gizmo literally experience days, if not weeks as the stories play out, but once they're done they are returned to their time, with no more than a minute, possibly five tops having passed. The Noah's Flood episode drops them into the story before the flood, and pulls them out after everyone emerges from the ark over a year later. When they get home it takes Christopher a moment to realize why his dad wasn't freaked out.
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Superbook / int_a65288e2	type	Ascended Extra
Superbook / int_a65288e2	comment	Ascended Extra: Chris's dog, Ruffles. Despite being sort of the "mascot" character of the first series (and is featured in all the Japanese promotional artwork), she never accompanies the kids and Gizmo on their adventures and is only seen in the "modern world" framing stories. In the second series, while she gets much less screen time, she is much more important to the story, as she gets sucked back in time by the now-computerized Superbook and Gizmo and Uri have to follow her back in time to find her.
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Superbook / int_a939d96a	type	Adults Are Useless
Superbook / int_a939d96a	comment	Adults Are Useless: In the case of Chris' parents, or at the very least his dad.
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Superbook / int_b8e3f20a	type	Demoted to Extra
Superbook / int_b8e3f20a	comment	Demoted to Extra: Chris/Sho and Joy/Azusa in the second series. They remain at home and monitor Uriah/Yuu's and Gizmo's progress on the computer, and get the unenviable job of trying to formulate excuses to explain Uriah's and Ruffles' absence.
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Superbook / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Superbook / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: In one episode, Joy has a dream about a dress that she wants but that keeps flying away from her when she draws near to it. As a surprise, Chris's mother buys Joy an exact replica of the dress in the dream, but when Joy tries it on, it's too small for her. Chris jokes that the meaning of Joy's dream must have been that she wasn't supposed to have the dress, because she's too fat for it. Joy doesn't find this funny and begins angrily chasing him around the house.
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Superbook / int_bf0e5040	type	Christian Fiction
Superbook / int_bf0e5040	comment	Christian Fiction: Whether the Bible stories themselves are fiction is far beyond the scope of this wiki, but the stories in the "modern" world at the beginning and end of each episode definitely count.
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Superbook / int_c72eea14	type	Religious Robot
Superbook / int_c72eea14	comment	Religious Robot: Gizmo, of course. He even refers to himself as a "crusader-bot" on several occasions.
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Superbook / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Superbook / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Delilah in the "Samson and Delilah" episode (series 1) is given a Mae West voice, at least in the English dub.
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Superbook / int_cdc4a218	type	Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act
Superbook / int_cdc4a218	comment	Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act: Despite their occasional attempts, something always happens that prevents the kids and Gizmo from changing the course of any event depicted in scripture, thereby ensuring events play out as they did. One example was Gizmo running towards Eve to stop her from eating from the Forbidden Fruit. And he would have succeeded, if not for his gears winding down at exactly that moment, immobilizing him as the Fall from the Garden happened. Chris then tried to stop Eve - but the snake lunged at him and blocked his passage. Played with in the "First Christmas" episode - Gizmo managed to push two soldiers, who were looking to hunt down and kill the baby Jesus at King Herod's order (and threatened Chris when Chris tried to stop them), off a cliff. It ended up being a moot point, because Mary and Joseph were instructed in a dream to return home by a different route to avoid Herod's soldiers.
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Superbook / int_dd6f0fc4	type	Shonen Hair
Superbook / int_dd6f0fc4	comment	Shonen Hair: Christopher, as the page image blatantly shows.
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Superbook / int_e2c4b927	type	Dub Name Change
Superbook / int_e2c4b927	comment	Dub Name Change: Applies to many of the Western dubs. Sho, Azusa, Zenmaijikake, and Kichomu (the dog) became Christopher, Joy, Gizmo, and Ruffles in English. See also Meaningful Name for some other examples.
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Superbook / int_e43c66bd	type	Art Evolution
Superbook / int_e43c66bd	comment	Art Evolution: Between series one and two. Series two features cleaner, more consistent animation, much less Cheeky Mouth, and refreshed character designs for Chris and Joy (since they are now several years older, although they still wear the same outfits as the first series). Part of it is likely Tatsunoko switching its subcontracting animation studio from Production LOOSE (now Lifework) to Studio Shaft.
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Superbook / int_e624f0e8	type	Suspiciously Specific Denial
Superbook / int_e624f0e8	comment	Suspiciously Specific Denial: In the "First Christmas" episode. After seeing the newborn Jesus, Chris gets moody and begins furiously punching a tree.
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Superbook / int_f688816f	comment	Priceless Ming Vase: In one episode, Chris ends up breaking a vase while skating. Thankfully for him and Joy, it's averted when Prof. Peeper reveals the vase was actually a genuine fake.
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Superbook / int_fcbcc221	comment	Robot Buddy: Gizmo fills this role when he is brought to life by Superbook. Later enforced in Season 2 when he is explicitly given artificial intelligence.
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