NaN/100 votesLoading...#1 - The Dragon Slayer
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 2/1/2004
Zorori meets Ishishi and Noshishi and they plan a way for Zorori to marry Princess Elzie by stealing her away from Arthur using a dragon robot. Zorori tries to play the hero and save her, but the boars ruin it. Zorori decides to keep searching for a princess and Ishishi and Noshishi follow him as his new apprentices. Based on book 1.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#2 - Big Duel, Zorori Castle
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 2/8/2004
Zorori must battle against five rouges to free a princess and win her castle. He gets magical shrinking and growing medicine to help him, and in the end the castle is destroyed when Ishishi and Noshishi grow to enormous proportions. The rescued princess has been cursed to sleep as a frog. Zorori kisses her but storms away when nothing happens. A minute later the princess returns to normal and awakens. Based on book 20.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#3 - I Love Mama
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 2/15/2004
Zorori is depressed on his deceased mother's birthday. When a fox mother loses her baby, Zorori promises to get him back. A sick Ishishi ends up taken away by an eagle and Zorori and Noshishi end up with the baby at the bottom of a ravine. They discover a huge treasure, but must leave it behind when Ishishi and the eagle come back to rescue them. The eagle crashes into the mother's home, but they arrive safely. Zorori gives the baby a giant diamond, the only piece of the treasure he brought along, to pay for a new home. Based on book 9.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#4 - The Mansion of Terror
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 2/22/2004
Zorori and the boars meet a group of monsters trying to be scary. They go to a nearby town to scare people, but are welcomed as entertainers. Zorori tries to show the monsters how to be scary by harnessing their abilities, but it all backfires. He builds a giant robot to scare the town with, but it goes haywire. They succeed in being thrown out of town and inciting fear. Based on book 2.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#5 - The Sacred Book
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 2/29/2004
Zorori races against a millionaire to the top of a mountain to claim the Bukkura Koita, a book said to tell deeply moving stories. Zorori gets ownership over the book, only to find out it tells nothing but oyaji gags.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#6 - The Wizard's Apprentice
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 3/7/2004
An evil wizard has turned a local town's residents into household objects. Zorori decides to become the wizard's apprentice to use magic in his pranks. The wizard works them hard for a week and then Zorori discovers the wizard's power comes from his magic rod and he was never going to teach him magic. Outraged, Zorori steals the rod and starts using magic. The wizard takes back the rod and shrinks down Zorori to squish him. The boars take the rod and undo all the wizard's spells, revealing the wizard was actually a tanuki child all along. Based on book 3.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#7 - The Great Pirates
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 3/14/2004
A drowning ship captain gives Zorori a golden parrot to give to his son Paru. The golden parrot has a treasure map. Zorori join's Paru's crew hoping to get buried treasure, but one of the pirates, Tiger, will do anything to get Zorori out of the way. He succeeds in shooting Zorori out of a cannon into the sea and reveals that he drowned the captain. Zorori comes back on a ship he transformed from a whale using the magic rod. Tiger steals the rod and wishes up a huge cannon that sinks his own ship. Zorori takes Paru to where the treasure is and they find a room filled with toy cars. Based on book 4.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#8 - Ghost Ship
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 3/21/2004
Arthur and Elzie are on their honeymoon and Zorori tricks them onto his ship so he can get Arthur to sign away his castle. Arthur refuses no matter how hard Zorori tries to force him to sign. Just as Arthur agrees to sign, Noshishi accidentally unplugs the ship, turning it back into a whale. Based on book 5.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#9 - The Chocolate Castle
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 3/28/2004
Duke Bururu is holding a contest with a chocolate castle as the prize. Every chocolate bar is a winner, but the winning message is printed on the white chocolate that's in-between the dark and milk chocolate layers. To win someone would have to lick away both sides of the chocolate to reach the center. Zorori does just that and goes to claim his prize, only to be told he still has to complete an obstacle course to reach and win his castle. Zorori manages to win the castle and set it adrift, only to have it melt in a warmer southern climate. Based on book 6.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#10 - The Giant Dinosaur
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 4/4/2004
A billboard advertises a real live dinosaur so Zorori and the boars go to see it. The dinosaur turns out to be a child and Zorori decides to capture his own dinosaur. They find one on a southern island and discover the dinosaur is a mother and figure out the dinosaur they saw was her kidnapped son. They all go back to where he is being held captive and free him. Based on book 7.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#11 - The Terrifying Car Race
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 4/11/2004
Duke Bururu is having another contest, this time for a new car and a year's supply of ice cream. Zorori once again wins by sucking on an ice pop stick for two hours to reveal the winning message. But like last time, there's a catch. Zorori must win a miniature car race before he can get his prize. With the help of Paru who now owns a toy car parts shop, they modify their toy car to run on fart power. Zorori, Ishishi, Duke Bururu, and Koburu shrink down and race the cars, with Zorori as the winner. Bururu congratulates them and gives them their prize: Three cups of ice cream and a tricycle attached to a wagon with the image of the new car on a cardboard cut-out over it. Based on book 21.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#12 - The Terrifying Amusement Park
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 4/18/2004
Zorori builds an amusement park to try to steal Elzie and Arthur's castle. The free day pass they received and signed states that at the end of the day, Zorori would get their castle. Arthur wants to rip it up, but Elzie wants to spend the day at the park. Zorori's attempts to steal the pass from them fail and when he does get it, he's hurled into the air on a firework that destroys the pass when it goes off. Based on book 8.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#13 - The Delicious School
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 4/25/2004
Zorori and the boars are starving when Dracula comes by and tells them the Monster School Teacher is sick and Zorori is wanted as a substitute. Seeing this as his chance to get food, he agrees to sub. Despite making all the classes food oriented, he still doesn't get any food. Out of desperation he eats an entire room filled with garlic, leaving him with a terrible smell. The students give Zorori tons of food as a parting gift, but Zorori is too full from the garlic to eat it.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#14 - The Mysterious Airplane
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 5/2/2004
As Zorori plays with a toy plane, he remembers his father who left him and his mother years ago to pursue his dreams of flying the skies in a plane he built himself. An officer comes by and tells him the toy plane was stolen and the boars said they took it by mistake. They run from the police and end up on Money's plane, but partway through the flight the plane has engine trouble and crashes into a snowy mountain. Zorori builds a new plane from the remains and they fly off. They are low on gas when a red plane comes out of nowhere and points them to a nearby city. The red plane quickly vanishes and they get Money back home safely. Zorori is left wondering if the pilot was his father. Based on book 16.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#15 - The Giant Monster
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 5/9/2004
Noshishi wins a lifetime supply of sweets and Zorori uses it to build a castle out of candy in the shape of a monster. Once the castle is done, a news report says a giant monster has appeared in the city, one who loves sweets. It heads toward Zorori's castle, and Zorori tries to stop him. All his plans fail and the monster destroys the castle. The monster starts to cry and Zorori realizes the monster is just a child who mistook the castle for his mother. Zorori wants to help him but Noshishi objects to the idea of taking care of a dinosaur, giving Zorori an idea. He takes the monster to the dinosaur mother and asks her to take care of him. Based on book 10.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#16 - A Decisive Battle! Cards VS Crayons
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 5/16/2004
Zorori and the twins meet a living card. The card takes them to its village and explains that since Zorori has the Bukkura Koita, he is the hero of legend that will protect them from the crayons. The crayons have been harassing the cards by drawing all over them. The cards have agreed to give their paper castle to Zorori if he helps defeat the crayons. Zorori agrees but the crayons have their eyes set on coloring the castle. The battle of cards vs. crayons has begun!
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#17 - Hanako's Ghost
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 5/23/2004
Zorori and the twins accidentally trespass on the private property of a famous rich soccer player. Amazed at the castle like mansion, Zorori decides to become a soccer player and become rich enough to buy his own Zorori Castle. When he can't join a soccer team, he decides to form his own. Visiting the local elementary school, he tries to recruit the school's soccer team. The kids refuse and insult him. Zorori backs off but vows to seek revenge. He hears about the rumor of Hanako-san. She's a ghost that haunts the third floor boy's bathroom. The soccer team agrees that they will investigate and disprove the rumor, and Zorori decides he will scare them when they do. But, what happens when the real Hanako-san shows up? Based on book 14.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#18 - Terrifying Soccer
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 5/30/2004
Zorori and the boy's soccer team are now going head to head in a soccer match! The stakes are high. If Zorori wins, the soccer team will have to join his Zorori League. If he loses, he'll have to leave town. Based on book 14.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#19 - Arrested!!
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 6/6/2004
Zorori, Ishishi, and Noshishi arrive in a new town, where Zorori starts to play pranks on the town's citizens that is until a wanted poster comes out, framing him for stealing the town's prized golden statue. Angry at how the picture on the wanted poster looks nothing like him, Zorori sets out to create a new one and plasters the posters all over town but then the police catch up with him and to his shock, Zorori gets thrown in jail. Based on book 15.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#20 - The Great Escape
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 6/13/2004
Zorori and the twins are serving out their sentence in prison. Part of their punishment includes being rehabilitated into productive members of society. Warden Gomez is determined to turn Zorori into a respectable character, and Zorori is determined to escape. But how will he escape an inescapable prison? Based on book 15.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#21 - Ishishi and Noshishi's First Errand
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 6/20/2004
While on an errand to buy a cream puff for Zorori, Ishishi and Noshishi encounter a girl named Malteinu who is being pursued by two men. They agree to help her avoid the two men's pursuit as she searches for a red flower to give as a birthday present for her mother.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#22 - The Great Rocket Plan
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 6/27/2004
A mysterious crop circle has appeared in farmer Gus' sweet potato field. Seeing Zorori and the twins investigating, he assumes they're the one who did it. Zorori tells him it wasn't them but a UFO that did it. Gus doesn't believe them and tells them to catch the UFO that damaged his crops. He then traps them in the enclosure with an electric fence. Zorori wonders what to do while Ishishi and Noshishi decide to eat some of the sweet potatoes. Suddenly, an actual UFO appears and abducts Noshishi! Zorori and Ishishi are stunned that a real UFO showed up and can do nothing as Noshishi is taken to space. Now Zorori and Ishishi must build a rocket to go and rescue Noshishi, but how will they do it? Based on book 11.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#23 - The Mysterious Aliens
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 7/4/2004
Zorori and Ishishi have traveled to a far-off planet to rescue Noshishi. The space aliens that abducted him are using him to test out Earthling's intelligence. Since they have no more room on their planet, they want to take over the Earth but want to make sure they can do it easily. Noshishi fails the intelligence test, which is comprised of four riddles, but Zorori steps in to ace the test and save the Earth... Or has he? Looks like the test had a second part: A test of strength. Zorori now must face four fierce space monsters or he and the Earth are doomed. Based on book 11.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#24 - Zorori's Dream Castle
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 7/11/2004
A house with Artificial Intelligence is being given as a lottery prize! But wait, it's Duku Bururu and his assistant Koburu-kun who are giving the house away. Surely they are up to no good again. But this time, they made sure Zorori would win! What's their plan? To show off the amazing house Duke Bururu built so they could sell them and make a fortune. Unfortunately for them, they made the house too perfect and Zorori has run away with it! All goes well for Zorori until he transforms the house into a castle...
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#25 - A Fiance Appears!?
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 7/18/2004
What started as a good day quickly turned bad when Zorori finds a sign with a riddle about him on it. As he storms off angry about it, he finds a strange building that requires a riddle to enter. He solves all the riddles, but finds out that the person who put them up to solve was the space alien princess! She's come to Earth to marry Zorori and has even brought the wedding to him. Will Zorori marry her or leave her at the alter? Based on book 13.
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The Best Episodes of Kaiketsu Zorori
Every episode of Kaiketsu Zorori ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Kaiketsu Zorori!
Adapted from the popular storybooks of the same name by Yutaka Hara, Kaiketsu Zorori follows the adventures of a scheming fox named Zorori, who is...
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Best Episodes Summary
"The Dragon Slayer" is the best rated episode of "Kaiketsu Zorori". It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 2/1/2004. This episode scored NaN points higher than the second highest rated, "Big Duel, Zorori Castle".