Golden Boy

8.2
199530m

Kintaro Oe is a 25-year-old boy who left Tokyo University and now lives a simple life, traveling by bicycle to learn everything he can about the world.

Production

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Trailers & Videos

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Seasons

6 Episodes • Premiered 1995

Kintaro, despite having met the requirements for a law degree, left Tokyo University without graduating. Golden Boy depicts his living the life of a free spirit, roaming Japan from town to town, job to job. During his travels, Kintaro meets several women whose lives he dramatically changes, despite poor first impressions. He constantly observes and studies the people and events around him, recording his findings in a notebook he carries on his belt.

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1. Computer Studies

7.7

Kintaro obtains a janitorial job at an all-woman software firm led by the Ferrari-driving, skimpily-clad Madame President. An electrical accident jeopardizes the firm's future, allowing Kintaro to put his newly acquired programming skills to the test.

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2. Temptation of the Maiden

7.9

Working as a campaign staffer for a mayoral candidate, Kintaro is assigned to tutor his boss' attractive teenaged daughter, Naoko Katsuda, who wants more from him than help with her math homework.

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3. Danger! The Virgin's First Love

7.3

A car accident has left the owner of a udon restaurant temporarily handicapped, and Kintaro is helping out and learning the trade. The owner's daughter, Noriko has a well-heeled boyfriend, but a series of events leads Kintaro to doubt his sincerity.

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4. Swimming In the Sea of Love

7.2

Kintaro has challenged the local swimming coach (and former Olympic athlete) to a race, but he first needs to learn how to swim. While training, however, his situation with the coach, Ayuko Hayami is compromised.

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5. Unstoppable Youth

7.1

Kintaro becomes a servant in a traditional-style mansion of a wealthy family, but is quickly dismissed. He then challenges the daughter Reiko Tarayama, who abhors men and has a fetish for her motorcycle, to a race.

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6. Animation is Fun!

7.9

Chie is a cel-painter at the animation studio where Kintaro works as an errand-boy. Production difficulties ensue, and Kintaro must rely on old friends to pull things through.

Cast

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Mitsuo Iwata

Kintaro Oe (voice)

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Gorō Naya

Narrator (voice)

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Reviews

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ArkhamKnightRider

1/10

Whenever I hear people talk about this OVA/movie, I always here about how I just don't understand it and that the main character, Kintaro Oe, is an inspirational character and see themselves in him.

So what these people are saying is that they look up to a pervert who nearly destroys a companies files just to prove himself to be better than the women he works with, takes advantadge of a girl who has been abused by her boyfriend just so he can get in her pants, stalks a swim teacher to the point she has to file restraining orders against him, forces a biker to fall in love with him and makes fun of her motorcycle kink, and sees women as a pair of tits and a pussy to fuck.

Yeah no thanks, I rather not look up to the anime equivalent of of Harvey Wienstein.

Honestly in hindsight, Golden boy is even worse than I remember and is tied with Gorno as the worst movie I have seen.

FUCK YOU/10

K

kagetsu

I remember watching Episode 6 at Anime Expo with a bunch of fans and laughing it out at the top of our lungs.

This anime is a representation of what anime has evolved to today into series like Love Flops (Renai Flops) or Tsundere series like Love Hina.

Great in so many ways, perversion comedy, a series not to be taken for its literal meaning just how desperate some otaku boys can be to get near a girl lol. 10/10

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