History Anime / TimeBokan

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Perasuke/Parrosuke.
** Majo/Marjo.
** Grocky/Glocky.
** Walther/Walter/Warusa.
** Chorobou/Chorobo/C-Robot.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Alternate sources call the protagonists Lip and Pafu.

* BellyDancer: Muujo favorite outfits when she need to distract the Zender-Gorilla mecha. Episodes 37, 40, 41, 44 and 46 all feature Muujo dressed as a dancer in order to keep Zender-Gorilla from attacking.

* BellyDancer: In Episode 11, Mirenjo disguises as one while searching for the Firebird in AncientPersia, managing to get money from the local people in the meawhile.

* {{Bishonen}}: Sokkyu, apparently. Even Doronjo comments on his good looks in the ''Tatsunoko vs. Capcom'' crossover.

* ExcitedShowTitle: The show's full name is ''Gyakuten! Ippatsuman''.

* WackyRacing: The 1993 OVA ''Royal Revival'' (volume 1) involving all the villains of the franchise in an epic race with the winner became protagonist of the next volume. Naturally all try to cheat and sabotage the opponents, but, at the end, the winner is the Dorombo team (see above), but they still end up being punished by Dorokubei regardless.

* TimeTravel: The main deal of the franchise, with each episode set in a different era (and some times even in fictional stories). Ironically, ''Yatterman'' is the only exception.

* WackyRacing: The 1993 OVA ''Royal Revival'' (volume 1) involving all the villains of the franchise in an epic race with the winner became protagonist of the next volume. Naturally all try to cheat and sabotage the opponents, but, at the end, the winner is the Dorombo team (see above).

* BellyDancer: In Episode 11, Mirenjo disguises as one while searching for the Firebird in ancient Persia, managing to get money from the local people in the meawhile.

* BareYourMidriff: Mun-Mun wears a costume very similar to what either an Arabian princess or a belly dancer would wear in Episode 5.

Since ''Yatterman'' sort of became its own entity outside of the ''Time Bokan'' franchise, it gets its own page [[Anime/{{Yatterman}} here]].

** In the Italian dub, Majo is named Lady Margot, Grocky is Sgrinfia and Warusa is Birba.
* DubSpeciesChange: The Italian dub changes the second and third Time Bokan ships from a grasshopper and a stag beetle to a locust and a scorpion.

* [[SixtyFiveEpisodeCartoon 60 Episode Cartoon]]

* DubNameChange: Tanpei was renamed Jett and Junko became Starr in the ''Timefighters'' English releases of the original series. In the Spanish dub, Tanpei is Cosmo and Junko is Selena.

* DubNameChange: Tanpei and Junko become Jett and Starr, and Dr. Kieta becomes Professor Von Spock, in the U.S. ''[=TimeFighters=]'' dubs.

The first in the series was the aforementioned ''Time Bokan'' in 1975. It involved the aforementioned Battle Couple traveling through time to find a {{Plot Coupon}} and a missing scientist, while racing and going up against a Terrible Trio consisting of a {{Fat and Skinny}} male duo and a {{Stripperiffic}} female. Following this it was decided that Time Bokan would become a meta-series and each of the sequels would carry the name as a subtitle.

The rest of series: ''Zenderman'', ''[[Anime/TimePatrolTaiOtasukeman Otasukeman]]'', ''Yattodetaman'', ''Ippatsuman'', and ''Itadakiman'' would more or less feature the same concept. Some series would feature time travel, and others would be set in the present day. ''Yattodetaman'' and ''Ippatsuman'' are the only two series to not have a Battle Couple but rather a titular hero fighting the antagonists. They are also the only two series to feature {{Humongous Mecha}}. Following a 1993 OVA involving the then seven Terrible Trios in a parody of ''WesternAnimation/{{Wacky Races}}'', the eighth and final series ''Kiramekiman'' aired in 2000.

In 2016, Tatsunoko announced that, as part of celebration for their 55th anniversary, they are producing a new entry in the series called ''Anime/TimeBokan24'', co-produced by Creator/Level5. The new series debuted in the Fall2016Anime season. The 1993 OVA, ''Time Bokan: Royal Revival'', has been [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2013-10-17/sentai-filmworks-adds-time-bokan/royal-revival-video-anime licensed]] by Creator/SentaiFilmworks for a US release.

Many of the series in the franchise became big international hits across Europe and Latin America, but the original 1975-76 series was the only one from the original franchise to reach the United States, in two dubbed feature-length edits titled ''Time Fighters'' and ''Time Fighters in the Land of Fantasy'', released in 1984.

* CutAndPasteTranslation: Jim Terry's American Way company cobbled the first season of Time Bokan into two 95-minute features, ''Time Fighters'' and ''Time Fighters in the Land of Fantasy''. This remains the only installation of the classic franchise to reach the United States (at least in dubbed form).

* [[invoked]]MilestoneCelebration: Episode 40 celebrates the sixth anniversary of the franchise. Here, the characters interpret themselves in a theatrical play.
** TheCameo: Some of the other characters from the previous series appear in the audience during this performance.

* ReluctantFanserviceGirl: Mirenjo. After Doronjo, she is probably the "Time Bokan" villainess that is more stripped ending half-naked. In the episode 40 (quoted above) happen to her three times!.

* ActionGirl: Koyomi.

* TheBigGuy: Daigoron (Karen's robot-bodyguard).
** TheBrute: Sukadon for the villains.

* FountainOfYouth: Episode 43 has all the main characters turned into children after a MadScientist that lives in their same building accidentally leaks a gas that makes living beings younger.

* ThemeNaming: According to one theory, if the correct romanization of the bad guys' names are "Walther" and "Glocky", they could be a reference to firearms, specifically the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walther_Arms Walther]] and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glock Glock]] manufacturers.

* FantasticVoyagePlot: In episode 37 where heroes and villains fight in the brain of a support character.

* AllLoveIsUnrequited[=/=]CrazyJealousGuy: Kokematsu is in love with Mirenjo without any hope and, obviously, he is jealous of Baron Don Fan Fan.

* [[CelibateHero Celibate Villain]]: Mirenjo Invokes this trope by putting aside her feelings for Baron Don Fan Fan.

** An episode has a reverse situation with Kokematsu use a corrisive liquid on Koyomi clothes. In another episode he use an [[XRayVision XRay]] pistol on Koyomi and Karen, but thanks to Yattodetman's interference the ray end...on Mirenjo!.

* InTheNameOfTheMoon: Yattodetman's speech: “Surprise, peach tree, pepper tree! From the ends of time I’ll get you! At last I came through, I’ve finally came through, Earth’s Idol Yattodetaman!”.

* LivingMacGuffin: The Firebird.

* NudityEqualsHonesty: Invoked and subverted in episode 42 where Mirenjo strip herself to heroes mecha for prove her "new" honesty. But is just the usual act.

* SuperStrength: Sukadon. Several micro-sketches have him show off his strength in hilarious ways.

The rest of series: ''Zenderman'', ''Otasukeman'', ''Yattodetaman'', ''Ippatsuman'', and ''Itadakiman'' would more or less feature the same concept. Some series would feature time travel, and others would be set in the present day. ''Yattodetaman'' and ''Ippatsuman'' are the only two series to not have a Battle Couple but rather a titular hero fighting the antagonists. They are also the only two series to feature {{Humongous Mecha}}. Following a 1993 OVA involving the then seven Terrible Trios in a parody of ''WesternAnimation/{{Wacky Races}}'', the eighth and final series ''Kiramekiman'' aired in 2000.

** In ''Yattodetaman'' and ''Ippatsuman'', the mechas are larger and form into a SuperRobot.

* BellyDancer: In Episode 11, Mirenjo disguises as one while the Firebird is said to be in ancient Persia. And when she actually dances, she's ''not'' bad at all; the citizens of Baghdad throw money at her for her performance.

* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: A frequent RunningGag in this series. At the end of each battle, the bad guys are begging Mecha Robot for mercy, but they always end up insulting him accidentally (or not). The result... not so good.

* LovesMyAlterEgo: Koyomi is in love with Yattodetman, but she sees Wataru as a loser.

** There was a 3-episode OVA in the 90's called ''Sengoku Bushou Retsuden Bakufu Hissatsuman'', made by the same studio behind the ''Anime/CasshanRobotHunter'' OVA. Despite being directed by franchise director Hiroshi Sasagawa and being thematically similar to other ''Time Bokan'' series, Tatsunoko does not consider it a part of the franchise.

* AbsoluteCleavage: Atasha's Ojamaman costume.
* AccidentalKiss: Atasha and Gekigasuki in episode 10.
* AccidentalMisnaming:
** Sometimes Atasha accidentally calls Sekovich with the name of one of his counterparts from the earlier series.
** The second half of the series introduces Professor Onuki, that keeps being called "Professor {{Tanuki}}" (or similar names) by other characters.
* AnimalMecha: Multiple throughout the series.
** The Time Patrol spaceships are all patterned after birds: the good guys's Sunday Go is designed to look like a DeliveryStork, while the bad guys's Andromedama Go looks like a [[VileVulture vulture]] and can also transform into [[OminousOwl an owl-shaped hovercraft]]. Tonnan, the Time Patrol director, owns a pelican-shaped spaceship, and in an episode a rooster-shaped emergency ship appears.
** Out of the six main mechas used by the Otasukemen, five are based on animals: a [[AmphibianAtLarge frog]], a rhinoceros, a seal, a tanuki and an orangutan.
** After some brief stints with mechs based on the faces of various characters (either real or fictional), the Ojamamen mechas also start to be animal based, at first with MixAndMatchCritters and then with regular animals.
* {{Animorphism}}: Episode 47 features Gekigasuki's father coming to the Time Patrol to make a comic about them visiting Colonial America and meeting Creator/BuffaloBill. As he decides to depict all the characters as {{Funny Animal}}s, the episode also starts depicting them as such: Hikaru and Nana become a dog and a bunny, Atasha, Sekovitch, Dowalski and Gekigasuki become respectively a fox, a weasel, a boar and a horse (they then transform into a pig, a wolf, a gorilla and a giraffe while in their Ojamaman suits, and the final scene also depicts them as a butterfly, a mantis, a cockroach and a grasshopper), Tonnan and Onuki become respectively a lion and a tanuki, Tomomot becomes a {{Kappa}}, Gekigasuki's father is a donkey and Buffalo Bill a jaguar.
* ArtificialIntelligence: [[spoiler: Tomomot, surprisingly. He is a computer-generated figure created by Gekigasuki, programmed [[TheTapeKnewYouWouldSayThat to be able to answer to any question they make about his plans]] so that his appearances can look like a live broadcast.]]
* BearsAreBadNews: One of the mechs used by the Otasukemen is based on the mythological Japanese hero Kintaro. As the original Kintaro was known for sumo wrestling with bears, the Otasuke Kinta uses a living bear on a leash as a weapon.
* BigBad: Tomomot.
* CreatorCameo: Franchise creator Hiroshi Sasagawa appears multiple times as the Time Patrol officer Dr. Sasayabu.
* CustomUniformOfSexy: Downplayed, but Atasha's Time Patrol uniform features a skirt instead of shorts and lacks the knee-high socks other female officers wear, allowing for {{Panty Shot}}s and showing more bare leg than usual.
* DarkIsEvil: The Ojamamen costumes are all black to contrast the white of the Time Patrol outfits.
* DickDastardlyStopsToCheat: Once per episode, the villains sabotage the good guys's spaceship to ensure they will arrive on destination first.
* DifferentInEveryEpisode: The Ojamamen's final attack in early episodes is preannounced by an orchestra of small robots popping out from the mech's cockpit. The director haves a different face each time, usually being some kind of ShoutOut (for example, in one episode the director is actually [[Anime/ScienceNinjaTeamGatchaman Joe the Condor]] and comments that he's in the wrong show)
* DressingAsTheEnemy: Episode 45 has the Ojamamen committing robbery in Beverly Hills disguised as the Otasukemen in order to frame them as criminals... this absolutely backfires, because their failures end up making people believe they're comedy actors.
* DubSpeciesChange: The Italian dub changes the species of three of the Otasukeman mechas: the frog is turned into a toad, the seal into a sea lion and the tanuki into a groundhog. One of the Ojamaman mechas from a later episode is also changed from a pangolin to an armadillo.
* EdutainmentShow: Alongside the explainations of historical events, later episodes feature brief presentations of whatever animal the Ojamamen's mech is based on, expecially when it's based on some kind of SeldomSeenSpecies.
* TheFaceless: Atasha's mysterious "special someone" she keeps a photo of in her necklace. Multiple times her teammates try to peek at it to check if it's one of them or someone else, but they never manage to see it. Subverted in the finale, when we finally see the photo: [[spoiler:it's Atasha herself]].
* FanserviceExtra: Few episodes, usually with other Time Patrol girls.
* FourthWallMailSlot: Some episodes have, after the end, an extra scene where the main characters answer to fan mail or comment their ideas for new mini-mechs.
** MediumShiftGag: In episodes 26 and 27, photos of fans {{Cosplay}}ing as the main characters are shown.
* FunWithPalindromes: Tomomot haves a palindrome name and often remarks it as his most distinctive trait.
* GenerationXerox: Episode 46 features the future descendants of both the heroes and villains from the year 4000, and they're all dead ringers of their ancestors.
* GhostLegLottery: The heroes have multiple mechs. Which one they use in each episode is chosen via a Ghost Leg game on their ship's main computer.
* HackYourEnemy: [[spoiler: In the final episode, it turns out that Tomomot's appearances were transmitted by a circuit Gekigasuki planted inside Hinebot, Hikaru and Nana's robot companion. This is also the reason Hinebot begins to spin around doing the so called "Kai Kai Dance" every time Tomomot sends a message to the Ojamaman: it's a glitch caused by the circuit.]]
* HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood: Dowalski. Since his mother wanted to turn him into a modern day Hercules, when he was a baby she fed him with liquor instead of milk and forced him to wear a training harness every day. Then, when he grew up, she began to throw him down a cliff he had to climb up to come back home ''every single day''. It's not surprising that he got huge childhood traumas and fears his mother.
* InsaneTrollLogic: Tomomot's plan. The history book he just wrote is completely wrong? Just hire some guys to go back in time and change the past so that it matches the book!
* InUniverseFactoidFailure: Tomomot's history book is filled with lies and inaccuracies, attributing multiple events to his ancestors and claiming that multiple famous figures from the past were either the opposite of what is known (Al Capone was never arrested and forced the FBI to disband, the Gettysburg Address promoted corruption and encouraged bribing, Lawrence of Arabia was a weakling) or something completely different (Benjamin Frankin invented takoyaki, Hans Christian Andersen worked in a Barnum-like circus showing off a "real" mermaid, the Shinsengumi moved to Africa and helped in the construction of the Suez Channel). The Ojamaman's job is to change the past so that these claims become the truth.
* LivingWithTheVillain: In an odd twist for this series, both the heroes ''and'' the villains work in the same police SpaceStation as Time Police.
* TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler:Gekigaski. He's the one who created Tomomot in the first place, and all the tasks he gave to the Ojamaman were just tests to prove that history can be changed so that [[WellIntentionedExtremist he can then do it by himself to save the Earth from being destroyed by its own inhabitants]].]]
* MayTheFarceBeWithYou: Episode 46 haves the main characters travel to the future to help their descendants. The Ojamamen descendants are Stormtrooper-like soldiers led by Ojamavader (a Darth Vader {{Expy}} and Tomomot's descendant), fighting against rebel soldiers (led by Hikaru and Nana's descendants who are also expies of Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia) and stationing on a Death Star-esque base.
* MixAndMatchCritters: From episode 21 to 33, the villain mechs are all designed as fusions between animals, such as an elephant with a mouse head, a chameleon with vulture wings and a crocodile with grasshopper legs.
* NonUniformUniform: Alongside Atasha's CustomUniformOfSexy, Gekigasuki is the only male Time Patrol officer whose uniform haves long pants and knee-high boots instead of shorts and ankle-length boots.
* TheOlympics: Episode 37, aired as a tie-in for the 1980 Summer Olympic Games, features Hikaru and Atasha leading the two teams of a sport event for Time Patrol members. The Ojamamen cheat by bringing multiple historical figures in their team (mainly because they plan to sell the trophy to recover their lost funds), but at the end the competition is cancelled and the trophy is split in two so that each team gets half of it... and it turns out to be ''tiny'', much to Atasha's disdain.
* PoliceAreUseless: Because the Otasukemen are so good at stopping the TerribleTrio and setting things back in their proper place, the rest of the Time Patrol never really get their own chance to shine.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler: Subverted. At the end of the series, the four villains perform a HeroicSacrifice by blowing themselves up to stop a comet that's about to hit Earth. However, before the meteorite explodes, one can make out 4 rescue ships leaving the spaceship.]]
* ReluctantFanserviceGirl: Atasha. Beyond the classic amount of ClothingDamage, a RunningGag has her caught in the middle of the dress sequence when the trio switch from her Time Patrol outfits to Ojamamen costume.
* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: The Otatsukemen's stock and trade. It's part of their job as Time Patrol officers to maintain temporal order, after all.
** Inverted with Ojamaman, who usually do [[MakeWrongWhatOnceWentRight the exact opposite.]] In fact, most of the temporal paradoxes in the series are caused by them under Tomomot's orders.
* ShoutOut: Hikaru and Nana's RobotBuddy Hinebot is clearly designed after JustForFun/RobbyTheRobot.
* SickeninglySweethearts: Hikaru and Nana, multiple times. The "training sessions" they're given at the end of each episode are less actual training and more an excuse to allow them to be a cute couple with nobody around looking at them.
* SixthRanger: Gekigasuki, introduced early on as an apprentice joining Atasha's team but not as an active part of the Ojamaman team, becomes their fourth member starting from episode 13.
* TimePolice: Both the two main characters and the villainous Terrible Trio work for the Time Patrol, whose job is to prevent alterations of history. Both the antagonist trio (which later [[SixthRanger becomes a quartet]]) and the good guys have secret identities; the former group as Ojamaman, who try to alter history following the whims of Big Bad, and the latter group as the titular Otasukeman, who always manage to put everything back in place.
* TrainingFromHell: At the end of each episode, the Time Patrol director forces everyone to do a training session because they apparently did nothing while the Ojamaman and Otasukeman were fighting. He allows them to choose randomly between two types of training: a hard and dangerous session, and an easy, enjoyable session that often barely qualifies as an actual training. The bad guys always wind up with the former. In certain episodes they don't have time for the training, but whatever they have to do intead (cleaning the base's windows, taking their medical checkups or even having dinner) still features the two options.
** ThrowTheDogABone: In one episode however, they manage to get the easy training (and leave the heroes with the other).
* WeatherReport: The Ojamaman computer gives the bad guys sights of their future in form of weather reports. Usually very negative.

* TrainingFromHell: At the end of each episode, the chief of police allows the main cast to choose randomly between two types of training: a hard and dangerous session, and an easy, enjoyable session that often barely qualifies as an actual training. The bad guys always wind up with the former. In certain episodes they don't have time for the training, but whatever they have to do intead (cleaning the base's windows, taking their medical checkups or even having dinner) still features the two options.