Details
Title: 向井荒太の動物日記
Title (romaji): Mukai Arata no Dobutsu Nikki
Tagline: 愛犬ロシナンテの災難
Tagline (romaji): Aiken Rosinante no Sainan
Also known as: Mukai Arata's Animal Diary: The Disaster of My Dog Rosinante
Episodes: 10
Viewership rating: 15.2
Broadcast network: NTV
Broadcast period: 2001-Jan-13 to 2001-Mar-17
Air time: Saturday 21:00
Theme song: Boku no Senaka Niwa Hane ga Aru by KinKi Kids
Synopsis
The star of the show is Rosinante, a lovable Labrador retriever, whose master, a commuter train conductor, dies while Rosinante is spending the night at the impromptu weekend dog hotel a veterinary professor has set up at the university to collect a little extra cash. With a touch of the loyal Hachiko in him, Rosinante greets all the passing trains his master used to ride. Such loyalty leads Domoto to adopt Rosinante even if it does mean getting thrown out of his apartment building and having to live in the girl's dorm.
"Dear Diary, the dogs broke out of the veterinary clinic again today . . .", you would think was written by a person. Well, the whole story is in fact told by a dog, Rosinante, one of the inhabitants of a university veterinary clinic. Chief among his writings is happy-go-lucky yet hapless vet student, Mukai Arata, who is at bliss with animals. The question is, can Arata get along with his peers and professors as well as he can with the animals he cares for? -- NTV
Cast
Domoto Tsuyoshi as Mukai Arata
Mizuno Maki as Yamaguchi Kanako
Abe Natsumi as Rndo Haruna
Akiyama Jun as Kudo Michiru
Yamada Maiko as Sakuraba Emiri
Nezu Jinpachi as Urashima Ichiro
Kitamura Soichiro as Tono Iori
Kiki Kirin as Haruko
Hosokawa Toshiyuki as the narrator, voice of Rosinante
Furuoya Masato as the chief priest of the temple
Nakazawa Yuko (cameo)
Domoto Koichi (cameo)
Production Credits
Screenwriter: Yoshida Tomoko, Fukuda Takuro (福田卓郎), Fukuda Chizuko (福田千津子)
Producer: Ikeda Kenji (池田健司), Nakazawa Susumu (中沢晋), Sato Atsushi
Director: Otani Taro, Hosono Hidenobu (細野英延)
Mukai Arata no Dobutsu Nikki
