Rikit

Rikit and Jacaro (Rikitto to Jakaro) is a Japanese anime series created by Fujiko J. Fujio.

Plot
Rikit is a Topanto sent by Jacaro's deceased cousin, Mokono Kamiya, from heaven to take care of his cousin Jacaro, an unlucky miserable 10-year-old boy who always get bad grades and is always made fun of.

Characters
Rikit is a topanto with the ability to grant wishes to anyone who wishes for it. He is good-herted and well-intended but is rather short tempered whenever anything someone wishes for gets misused or when someone wishes for physical harm on someone else. He was created by Fujiko F. Fujio to take care of Mokono Kamiya, who was murdered for being a Buddist, until Mokono sent Rikit to his cousin Jacaro so Rikit could take care of him.

Jacaro Fujio Jr is a 9-year old boy who is a student of Tezuka Makoto Community School. He is the owner of Rikit which he got from Mokono from heaven (although he chose to keep his a secret from his family). He is really lazy and clumsy but he actually likes to study (despite constantly getting bad grades) and he wants to become a manga artist when he grows up (he once got in trouble when Hakuro-sensei caught him making sketches instead of studing). Jacaro is revealed to be a huge fan of Fujiko F. Fujio and Fujiko A. Fujio and calls them the reason he wants to be a manga artist and that his favourite manga series is Doraemon.

Jacaro Fujio Sr is a 45-year old man who is the father of Jacaro and the husband Zotana Mizuno. He can be really furious to his son whenever he gets any bad grades but he is also supportive to him and hopes he would be a manga artist when Jacaro grows up. Jacaro is revealed to have known Hayao Miyazaki for years since he first met him in high school and has remained friends with him for years,

Zotana Mizuno is a 43-year old woman who is the mother of Jacaro and the Wife of Jacaro Fujio Sr. She is also as furious as her husband when it comes to her son but she tends to be more calmer than him. Zotana met Jacaro Sr when she was on a school tour to the Tezuka Osamu Manga Museum and they got married in the Fujiko Fujio Manga Museum.

Susie Tezuka is a 7-year old girl who is a student of Tezuka Makoto Community School. She is constantly bullied by most of her classmates for being the daughter of Tadamasa Goto, a retired Yakuza, but she is a kind and friendly girl with no interests of becoming a Yakuza but instead wants to be a Composer (she considered becoming a pop idol but reconsidered after learning about what happened to Mayu Tomita). Susie always sees Jacaro as nothing more as a friend although Jacaro seems to have a crush on her. Her best friend is Rikit's sister, Mikit.

Snaco Mizuta is an 11-year old boy who is also a student of Tezuka Makoto Community School. He is a very rich boy but he is actually a nice boy who only brags about his riches once a week. He is the best friend of Gio, whom he known since they were babies, and has a huge love for his mother.

Gio Date is a 15-year old boy who is the enemy (and friend) of Jacaro. He is really harsh and often thinks that violence is the best solution of a certain problem. It is revealed in episode 30 that his real name is Honoka Date (after an Ehine Girls member) due to being misgendered as a girl when he was actually a boy so because of this, his mother nicknamed him Gio so he wouldn't be embarrased.

Hakaru-Sensei is a 55-year old man who worked as a teacher for 19 years. He seems to be calmer than the principal but he often punishes his pupils (mainly Jacaro) whenever they get even one question wrong. His mother was a former solider of Japan while his father was also a Teacher.

Hiroshi-Sensei is a topanto who serves as a teacher of the collage Rikit graduated from. He is, as most people and topantos calls, a very peverted topanto with a habit of often sneaking into females bathroom but is netherless a wise topanto who wants to teach his students. He was created by Machiko Hasegawa to be a teacher.

Mikit is a topanto who is the younger sister of Rikit. She is overly excited about almost everything and is mostly childish but she is also sensible and very clever when it comes to bad situations. Mikit was created by Fujiko F. Fujio, who also created Rikit, and stay with him in his home.

Kana is a Mokano who is working as a doctor in Heaven. She loves almost everything but she is not a pushover and would get upset whenever someone treats her and her friends harshly, especially Rikit, whom she known for months. She was created by Takashi Yanase.

Naoki is a topanto with a PHD in wish granting. He is egoistic but he cares deeply about his friends, especially his creator, Osamu Tezuka. Naoki secretly has a crush on Mikit but as a running gag, he would always deny it whenever it gets brought up.

Hico, Paku, Koto, Pina, Miku, Mayu and Ruki are a group of topantos who are agents of heaven. They are often getting into arguments (especially with their occacial 8th member Rikit) but they are still best of friends and are always working together. Hico, Paku and Koto are created by Fujio Abatsuka while Ruki, Pina, Miku and Mayu are created by Yusuko Chūsonji.

Ceecee is a city fox who lives in a local park. She is the girlfriend of Rikit and often visits secretly when he's not taking care of Jacaro. She mostly thinks she is a cat due to her being raised by cats after her birth parents were killed by hunters during a hunting game.

Mokono Kamiya is a boy who is the deceased cousin of Jacaro. He was killed by a Christian for coming from a Buddist family when he was 1. Mokono is just as naughty as Jacaro but he cares about his friends. He is currently living with Fujiko F. Fujio and Mikit in Heaven.

Japanese Cast
Wasabi Mizuta: Rikit, Mikit, Zotana Mizuno, Snaco Mizuta, Paku, Ruki, Pina, Mayu

Makiko Ohmoto: Jakaro Fujio JR, Hico, Koto, Miku, Ceecee

Kaito Ishikawa: Jakaro Fujio SR, Gio Date, Hakaru-Sensei, Naoki, Hiroshi-Sensei

Masako Nozawa: Susie Tezuka, Mokono Kamiya, Kana

Arsia Date: Additional Voices

Osamu Hoshi: Additional Voices

UK Cast
John Ashu: Rikit, Jacaro Fujio SR, Snaco Mizuta, Naoki, Hico, Koto

Hetty Baynes: Kana, Jacaro Fujio JR, Paku, Ruki, Ceecee, Mikit

Will Hislop: Gio Date, Hakaru, Hiroshi

Dwan French: Zotana, Susie, Pina, Miku, Mayu, Mokono Kamiya, Ceecee

Colin Baker: Additional Voices

Riley Jones: Additional Voices

US/Canadian Cast
Mona Marshall: Rikit, Mikit

Tress MacNeille: Jacaro JR, Kana, Susie, Paku, Ruki, Mokono Kamiya

Neil Patrick Harris: Jacaro SR, Gio, Naoki

Mike Myers: Snaco, Hakaru, Hiroshi, Hico, Koto

Bryn McAuley: Zotana, Mayu, Miku, Pina, Ceecee

Susan Egan: Additional Voices

Jeff Bergman: Additional Voices

Production
During Super Animals's run, John created Rikit as a request by Makoto Tezuka for another comic strip but Ashu didn't know what to created and began thinking about an animal with wings of a bird, oval-shaped fangs and two different tails and ears of a cat and dog. He didn't know what to choose so he decided to put them all together and create Rikit (John also stated that he wished he had a Topanto so he can steal his ideas). The name "Topanto" came from an Instagram account and John named the Topanto Rikit from a common Tatalog word from the Philippines.

Trivia

 * Originally it was supposed to be a series of OVAs but John did not like it so it was made an Anime instead.
 * Despite being a Japanese Anime, Rikit was created by John Ashu in Ireland (just like all of the Fujiko J. Fujio characters that were created by John Ashu).