Anpanman (character)

Anpanman
	; 面包超人
Gender	Male
First Appearance	Ep1 - Anpanman's Birth
Voiced By	Keiko Toda; Toshie Kusunoki (Anpanman/rining bell muscial fairy tales record); Mitsuki Jun (fly! Anpanman musical;voice only); Ghia Burns (Tubi; English dub); Cristina Hernández (Tubi; Spanish dub)
Species	Red bean bread
Other names	Korean- 호빵맨 (Hoppangman); Chinese- (面包超人); English fandub - (Bean Bun Man); English dub pitch - (Anpanbreadman)
Age:	2 (EP01, bread person years); 3 years old (bread person years)

Anpanman (アンパンマン)(面包超人, Miànbāo chāorén) is the titular main protagonist of Anpanman, and he is the superhero character the show is named after. His head is made of anpan, which is Japanese bread filled with sweet anko. His enemy and the main antagonist of the show, Baikinman, was born on the same day as him. His gender is male. He goes by the English name of "Bean Bun Man" and “面包超人” in Chinese.

Official Website description

He's everyone's hero that flies to anywhere to help those hungry or in need. He was born when a star of life landed on the bread that uncle Jam made with all his heart. When Baikinman does something wrong, he punishes him with his "Anpunch".

Appearance

Anpanman wears a red-orange uniform and a brown cape. His gloves, boots, and belt are yellow along with a smiley face symbol on his chest. He has a large round head made of anpan, bread filled with sweet red bean paste. He has a large red nose in between his rosy cheeks, and a big smile.

Personality

Anpanman is happy and friendly, ready to help anyone who needs assistance. His cape is always flapping in the wind, as he spends all day every day flying around saving and helping anyone who needs him. He does everything from pushing carts to finding lost pets, and fighting off any trouble makers. He even pulls off parts of his own head to feed poor, hungry people. He doesn't need to eat or drink to sustain himself and has never been seen eating, as it is believed the bean jam in his head allows him to sustain himself in this manner.

He seldom eats anything but he makes sure that everyone else around him get enough to eat. Instead of eating, he drowns the energy from the anko in his head.

When Anpanman comes across a starving creature or person, he lets them eat a part of his head, making him weaker and causes him to replace his head to regain his strength. He also has super hearing, which allows him to respond to anyone who calls his name out in distress, anywhere in the world.

Relationships

Baikinman

Born on the same day as he he's Anpanman's arch nemises. Anpanman is always fighting Baikinman punishing him for his evil deeds and/or general mischef. However, Anpanman dosent hate Baikinman; When they frist met Anpanman tried to politely tell Baikinman that what he was doing was wrong, also he tried to befriend him on occasion. In the edutanement specials they seam to get along pretty well.

Shokupanman

They frist met when he saved Anpanman and Currypanman from Baikinman; Since then they have been close friends working alongside each other and currypanman

Currypanman

Trough Currypanman did make some slightly rude coments about Anpanman when they frist met they where quick to become close friends and work along each other and Shokupanman.

Uncle Jam

Since he's his creator and raised him since infancy Anpanman is very close to uncle Jam, they are often seen together in episodes and their relationship is very heavily implied to be that of a father and son, trough Anpanman calls uncle Jam by his name. (He did call him "papa" at one point very early and before any anime but it did not last long).

Butterko

Butterko raised Anpanman alongside Jam so he's also very close to her, trough not as close as he is with uncle Jam.

Cheese

Anpanman rescued Cheese when he was just a boy, since then Cheese has been his loyal pet dog. Early on Cheese would sometimes accompany Anpanman on patrols.

Dokin chan

He also punishes her alongside Baikinman when they cause trouble but overall they seam pretty neutral on each other since Dokin chan dosen't want anything with Anpanman.

Melonpanna

Trough they aren't officaly sibilings Melonpanna is like a litte sister to Anpanman, since she's young and was the youngest of the heros before Creampanda he protects her as well. In the edutanement specials he's always wiling to help her and Creampanda learn.

Rollpanna

When she's black Rollpanna she trys to kil Anpanman so he fights her altrough against his wil since deep down Rollpanna is an ally. When she's in her good verson they seem to be good friends.

Creampanda

Being somewhat of a adoptive little brother to Anpanman, Hes always wiling to teach young Creampanda about streigth and what truely means to be a hero. He also helps him and Melonpanna learn in the edutanement specials.

Abilities/Powers

An-punch/An-kick: His hands and leg are shaped like earbuds for punches and kicks have super powers, being able to shatter metal to pieces and send huge robots flying into the distance. Shokupanman and Currypanman also have similar attacks, and when performed with each other creating Double or Triple punches.

Regeneration: Whenever Anpanman's head is damaged, he can easily replace it with a new head restoring him to full strength.

Weakness

If anything happens to his head it weakens him. This includes water, measles, mumps, rubella, mold (Kabirunrun), getting wet or dirty and even pulling off parts of his own head himself to feed others. With each bit of damage made to his head he gets weaker, eventually losing his power to fly and move. However, all of these are fixed if he gets a new head. In order to prevent his head from getting wet when underwater or in wet weather, he wears a bubble-like helmet to protect it.

When his cape gets torn, he loses the power to fly. This is the same with all capes with flying powers. His cape can be repaired by Butterko, giving it back its power.

He also save his friends when their body is being wrapped with bandages by Houtaiman.

Character Songs

Anpanman's March (feat. Dreaming)
Anpanman Gymnastics (feat. Dreaming)
なんのために飛ぶ (lit. "What's the Point of Flying?")
Anpanman Ondo "99 (feat. Dreaming)
The Amazing Anpanman (feat. Bonny jacks)
Anpanman Picture Song "89
The Anpanman Drawing song (feat. Dreaming)
Happy Birthday!
Do-Re-Mi-Fa-Anpanman
Runda of Courage

Anpanman’s merchandise/baby product

Nepia Genki! Anpanman Limited Edition Diapers

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Trivia

His name in Korean (Hoppangman) comes from 호빵 (hoppang), which is a steamed bun filled with red bean paste that is commonly seen in South Korea.
His English name in the Doragang fandub is “Bean Bun Man”.
His Chinese name in the Chinese Dub is “面包超人” (Miànbāo chāorén).
Anpanman is the character that inspired the famous mangaka ONE to create the One-Punch Man franchise.
Saitama’s design is based on Anpanman. Which explains why they don’t have any hair.
Early on in the 70s, Anpanman could have his whole head eaten and he would be just fine. In the current anime, however this state was only shown in the 2011 movie, where in this state he's completely paralyzed and unable to move.
He has glossophobia, which is a great and irrational fear of speaking in public (in Anpanman's case especialy acting).
His signature attack the 'Anpunch" was actually an ad-lib by his voice actress Keiko Toda, that she did while testing for the role.

Anpanman
面包超人
Gender	Male
First Appearance	Ep1 - Anpanman's Birth
Voiced By	Keiko Toda Toshie Kusunoki (Anpanman/rining bell muscial fairy tales record) Mitsuki Jun (fly! Anpanman musical;voice only) Ghia Burns (Tubi; English dub) Cristina Hernández (Tubi; Spanish dub)
Species	Red bean bread
Other names	Korean- 호빵맨 (Hoppangman) Chinese- (面包超人) English fandub - (Bean Bun Man) English dub pitch - (Anpanbreadman)
Age:	2 (EP01, bread person years) 3 years old (bread person years)