Takoyaki Mantoman (たこやきマントマン) is a Japanese anime television series. It is about a group of caped, crime-fighting takoyaki men.^[1] It was produced by Pierrot and broadcast for 77 episodes on TV Tokyo from April 1998 to September 1999. The anime was based on a series of children's picture books published in the 1990s.

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