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Bincho-tan (TV)

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Alternative title:
びんちょうタン (Japanese)
備長炭 (Chinese (Taiwan))
Themes: iyashikei
Objectionable content: None
Plot Summary: This is a story about a little girl who lives in an old house in the mountains. Her name is Bincho-tan. Each episode depicts a day in the life of Bincho-tan as she prepares her breakfast in the morning, goes to the forest to gather vegetables, does her household chores and rests at night after a day's work. She is surrounded by a group of close friends who adds color to her ordinary yet simple life.
User Ratings: 194 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 15 votes (sub:15)
 Excellent: 22 votes (sub:20, raw:1, others:1
1 Spanish subtitled
)
 Very good: 45 votes (sub:40, ?:1, dub:1, others:3
1 Spanish subtitled
1 French subtitled
1 Russian subtitled
)
 Good: 48 votes (sub:43, dub:3, raw:1, others:1
1 French subtitled
)
 Decent: 28 votes (sub:26, dub:2)
 So-so: 20 votes (sub:20)
 Not really good: 4 votes (sub:3, others:1
1 Russian subtitled
)
 Weak: 8 votes (sub:8)
 Bad: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Awful: 2 votes (sub:2)
 Worst ever: 1 vote (sub:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 451 users, rank: #2303 (of 9857)
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 6.990 (Good), std. dev.: 1.8804, rank: #4129 (of 10009)
Weighted mean: 6.914 (Good), rank: #4207 (of 10009) (seen all: 7.29 / seen some: 5.97 / won't finish: 4.68)
Bayesian estimate: 6.950 (Good), rank: #3688 (of 7550)
Running time: 12 minutes per episode
Number of episodes: 12
Episode titles: We have 12
Vintage: 2006-02-02 to 2006-04-15
Opening Theme:
"Iroha (いろは)" by CooRie
Ending Theme:
"Binchō Ondo (びんちょう音頭)" by Mai Kadowaki
Official website:
Official "Bincho-Tan" Website @ TBS Animation (Japanese)
Links: We have 1
Trivia: We have 2
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Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Kazuhiro Furuhashi
Series Composition: Kazuhiro Furuhashi
Storyboard:
Eiji Suganuma
Kazuhiro Furuhashi
Episode Director:
Eiji Suganuma
Hiroshi Ishida
Housei Suzuki
Katsuya Asano
Kazuhiro Furuhashi
Masashi Ishihama
Shigeru Ueda
Music: Taku Iwasaki
Original creator: Takahito Ekusa
Character Design: Tetsuhito Saito
Art Director: Kazuhiro Itō
Animation Director:
Eiji Suganuma
Katsuya Asano
Masaru Yamada
Masashi Ishihama
Tetsuhito Saito
Sound Director: Takuya Hiramitsu
Director of Photography: Masayuki Kawaguchi
Producer:
Kazuhiro Nagata
Keiichi Matsuda
Ken Ōkawara
Mitsuteru Shibata
Naohiro Tafu
Yoshihisa Nakayama

Background Art: Kazuhiro Inoue (Studio Tulip; eps 7-12)
Color design: Shinji Matsumoto
Editing: Masahiro Matsumura
Key Animation:
Akemi Kobayashi
Akiko Isohata
Ayako Sasaki
Eiji Suganuma
Hajime Yoshida
Hiroko Kanehara
Hiromi Muranaka
Hiromitsu Hagiwara
Hironori Hano
Hitomi Fujii
Katsuya Asano
Kazuhiko Yokota
Kazuya Nakamura
Koji Yabuno
Masashi Ishihama
Megumi Yamazaki
Michinori Shiga
Miyuki Abe
Natsuko Suzuki
Sakiko Yoshida
Sanae Narazaki
Satoru Kusuda
Satoshi Ishino
Takahiro Chiba
Takao Ozone
Takeshi Imai
Takeshi Miyamoto
Tokuyuki Matsutake (OP)
Tomotaka Shibayama
Wataru Yamamoto
Yasuhiro Okuda
Yōichi Ishikawa
Yōko Kikuchi
Yoshihiro Takeda
Yoshiko Nakamura
Yū Yamashita
Yūichirō Fukaya
Planning: Kazumi Kawashiro
Public Relations: Mizuho Tanaka (TBS)
Sound Producer:
Akira Yoshikawa
Yuka Sakurai
Sound Production:
Hiroko Hirose
Tomohiko Yaginuma
Yoko Hirose
Theme Song Arrangement: Kaoru Okubo (OP)
Theme Song Composition: rino (OP)
Theme Song Lyrics:
rino (OP)
Takahito Ekusa (ED)
Theme Song Performance:
CooRie (OP)
Mai Kadowaki (ED)
Ai Nonaka as Bincho-tan

Kikuko Inoue as Narration
Mai Kadowaki as Chiku-tan
Misato Fukuen as Chiku-rin
Momoko Saito as Aloe
Rina Satō as Ren-tan
Sakura Nogawa as Kunugi-tan

Fumihiko Tachiki as Mr. Oak
Kenichi Ogata as Madake-jiichan
Miyu Matsuki as Pukashuu
Naoko Suzuki as Chishanoki-sensei
Reiko Suzuki as Ume-baachan
Seiko Fujiki as Aloe's mother
Tomomichi Nishimura as Suda-jii
Yasumichi Kushida as Buddhist Priest Shuro
Japanese companies
2nd Key Animation: Mook Animation
Animation Production: Studio DEEN
Backgrounds: Studio Tulip
Broadcaster:
Mainichi Broadcasting System (2006-03-11)
Tokyo Broadcasting System
Finish Animation:
E-cho
Production I.G
In-Between Animation:
E-cho
Mook Animation
Noside
Key Animation:
Mook Animation (ep 1)
Nakamura Production (ep 1)
Music Production: Frontier Works
Photography: Megumi
Production:
Bincho-tan Production Team
Tokyo Broadcasting System
Production Collaboration:
Bandai Visual
Frontier Works
Sound Production: Zack Promotion
English cast
English staff
(none)
Andrea Kwan as Bincho-tan

Candice Moore as Kunugi-tan
Claudia Thompson as
Chiku-tan
Narration
Emily Woo Zeller as
Aloe
Chiku-rin
Sarah Hauser as Ren-tan

Sarah Hauser as
Aloe's mother
Pukashuu
English companies
Italian staff
Italian companies
(none)
Broadcaster:
Boing 
Disney XD 
Frisbee 
Italia 1 
Jetix Italia 
K2 
Man-Ga 
Dubbing: Merak Film 
Italian cast
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) staff
Chinese (Taiwan) companies
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) cast
(none)

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