Omusubiman

Omusubiman (おむすびまん) (Omusubi in the Tubi English dub) is a character in the Anpanman anime. He's a rice ball headed wandering ronin (masterless samurai) who travels around helping those in need. He's often seen with his disciple Komusubiman.

official website description

A very strong hero of justice who travels around many lands. He just can't see someone in trouble. He uses umeboshi to defeat bad guys.

Appearance

Omusubiman has a triangular rice ball for his head, dot eyes, rosy cheeks and a pink round nose. He wears brown traditional Japanese clothing, brown zoris (a type of sandal) and a greyish blue cape. He is also often seen wearing a round straw hat.

Omusubiman hears a shriek from Butterko

Omusubiman thanking Anpanman for saving him

Omusubiman with Komusbiman

Personality

As a samurai, Omusbiman is very reserved and calm, he has a very strong sense of justice and will always help anyone he finds in danger. Like a good samurai should he follows the principles of "bushido" (justice, bravery, compassion, courtesy, honesty, honor, loyalty and self-control)

Relationships

Butterko

They where implied to be in a long distance relationship, with Omusbiman bringing her gifts and writing letters to her. However this relationship hasnt been brought up in a while.

Komusubiman

He is omusbiman's young disciple, often seen together Omusbiman teaches young Komusbiman the ways of a samurai, as a master should.

Songs

• Lunlun Omusubi Benevolence (ルンルンおむすび仁義)

Trivia

• Omusubiman was so popular that he got his own spin-off series of books and shorts, which was only vaguely related to the Anpanman franchise.
• Like Anpanman, Shokupanman, Currypanman and Tendonman, Omusbiman is played by a female voice actresses. However, Omusubiman does not sound like a young boy but like a old lady. However with his recent va change he started souding a tad more masculine.
• In april of 2025 Omusbiman's va Hisako Kyouda was replaced by Masako Nozwa.
• , his theme song Lunlun Omusubi Benevolence is sung by Shino Yanagi, who played Omusubiman/LunLun in the 1983 musical.
• Omsubiman has an official name in the English dub which is Omusubi. However, in the English version of Courage Rin Rin, he only shows up as a background character in the dubbed movies, so his name was not mentioned at that point.
• In the Cinar dub his name is "Riceball-Head".
• According to the Q&A section of the official Website, it is unknown what kind of filling both Omusubiman and Komusbiman have. However, it is implied to be pickled plums (umeboshi).
• In the Anpanman musical "Fly! Anpanman; Anpanman and Omusbiman", Omusbiman is actually the alter ego of the star child and space princess Lunlun Nanda, which inspired both the star child Lunlun from episode 2B "Anpanman and Currypanman" and also princess Lunlun Nanda from the 1989 movie "The tear of the Sparkling Star" in which Omusbiman does play a role in. This musical is also where his theme song came from.