Ape Escape (Japanese TV series)

Ape Escape, known in Japan as Let's Get Saru Getchu (レッチュ　ゲッチュ　サルゲッチュ, Retchu Getchu Saru Getchu), is a series of computer-generated anime shorts produced by Shogakukan Music & Digital Entertainment and Sony Computer Entertainment for TV Tokyo in 2002. It is based on the Ape Escape video game series, with the characters and designs based on Ape Escape 2 in particular. The series consists of 76 45-second shorts that aired as part of the Oha Suta variety program in Japan. In 2004, three of these shorts were dubbed into English and aired in the inaugural Nicktoons Film Festival. One of the festival's founders, Frederator Studios, would later produce their own series of Ape Escape shorts in 2009.

This article is about the 2002 computer animated Ape Escape shorts for TV Tokyo. For the 2006 Japanese anime series sometimes called Ape Escape -On Air-, see Saru Get You -On Air-. For the 2009 Frederator Studios shorts, see Ape Escape (American TV series).
Ape Escape
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レッチュ　ゲッチュ　サルゲッチュ
(Retchu Getchu Saru Getchu)
GenreAction, Adventure, Comedy
Anime television series
Directed byYorifusa Yamaguchi
StudioShogakukan Music & Digital Entertainment
Sony Computer Entertainment
Original networkTV Tokyo
English network
  • US: Nicktoons (3 episodes only)
Original run April 2002 – September 2002
Episodes76
Anime film
Ape Escape: Battle for the Golden Pipo Helmet
Directed byYorifusa Yamaguchi
StudioShogakukan Music & Digital Entertainment
Sony Computer Entertainment
ReleasedAugust 17, 2002
Runtime22 minutes

A 22-minute movie based on the series, entitled Ape Escape The Movie: Battle for the Golden Pipo Helmet (劇場版サルゲッチュ 黄金のピポヘル・ウッキーバト), was released on August 17, 2002, in Japan. The film was attached to Beyblade: Fierce Battle and produced with assistance by Polygon Pictures.

Sony Computer Entertainment released a DVD featuring the entire series of shorts, as well as the movie on December 19, 2002, in Japan. The DVD came with a "Yappari Saru Get Chu" dance instruction video, and an exclusive Afrosaru trading card.

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