Tsuyoshi Shikkari Shinasai: Tsuyoshi no Time Machine de Shikkari Shinasai

My Discord colleagues in the Inka kairetsu have a dismissive term for the vast bulk of anime that is neither outstanding nor outstandingly bad: they call it mid. A mid anime won't knock your socks off, but it won't bring your last meal back the wrong way either. And if ever there was a show that deserved to be called mid, its 1993's Tsuyoshi Shikkari Shinasai: Tsuyoshi no Time Machine de Shikkari Shinasai (Tsuyoshi, Hold Tight: Tsuyoshi, Hold Tight in the Time Machine).

Tsuyoshi Time Machine is a "movie" spin-off (more like an OVA or side story, really) of an anime sitcom, Tsuyoshi Shikkari Shinasai, which ran for 112 episodes from 1992 to 1994. The series is about Tsuyoshi Iwaka, an 18-year-old who lives at home with his parents and two older sisters. His father is away for work. His mother Yoshiko and siblings Keiko and Noriko are terrible at cooking and housework, so all the domestic chores fall to Tsuyoshi. His oldest sister, Keiko, is combative and tends to beat him up all the time. 

Apparently, this is humorous, although the parent series has not been translated. Well, Ozzie and Harriet seemed humorous in the 1950s.

Time Machine purports to tell Keiko's backstory. At age 12, her first crush breaks a promise to meet her for a New Year temple visit; she has distrusted all men every since.

As the show opens, Tsuyoshi and his friend Watanabe are ogling some new hentai magazines. 

Discovered and chased by Watanabe's younger sister and her friends, they take refuge in an inventor's lab. They climb into and inadvertently trigger the inventor's time machine, getting thrown 12 years into the past. 

A much younger Keiko runs off with one of the time machine's power crystals, stranding the two boys. 

They must retrieve the crystal by befriending young Keiko, yet avoid changing the past, in order to get back to the future. 

Yeah, we've seen this story before.

As I said, mid. The voice cast is well-known:

• Onosaka Misaya (Ikawa Tsuyoshi) played Kubota Kazuhi in Nineteen 19, Shuntaro in Aika, Mihara Ichirou in Angelic Layer, Isaac in Baccano!, Zelos in Tales of Symphonia, J.D. in Neo Angelique, Leeron in Tenga Toppa Gurren Lagann, Takeshi in the Prince of Tennis franchise, Vash in Trigun, and a personal favorite, Azazel in the Yondemasu yo, Azazel-san series. He also played Calion in the 1987 movies version of MAPS, an Orphan release, and the1994 Maps OVAs.
• Tsuru Hiromi (Ikawa Keiko, his sister) debuted as Perrine in Perrine Monogatari. She went on to play Kashima Miyuki in Miyuki, Madoka in Kimagure Orange Road, and Mikami Reiko in Ghost Sweeper Mikami. She also played Sister Angela  in One Pound Gospel, Sara in Mother: Saigo no Shoujo Eve, Sonnet Barge in Blue Sonnet, Fengji in the third Sangokushi movie, Keiko in Hiatari Ryoukou, Nozomi in Nozomi Witches, Jill in A Penguin's Memories, UFO-chan in Dokushin Apartment Dokudami-sou, Milk in Karuizawa Syndrome, Kiyomi, the motorcycle rider, in Sotsugyou: Graduation, Asuza in Laughing Target, and big sister Shizuka in Tomoe's Run!, all Orphan releases.
• Hagimori Junko (Iwaka Noriko, his sister) played Li Chang in Blue Gender, Haruka in Rokudenashi Blues, Junna in Chameleon, Haruka in Kimama ni Idol, and a refugee in the third Sangokushi movie. The last three are Orphan releases. 
• Chiba Shigeru (Watanabe Tsukasa, his friend) played Megane in the Urusei Yatsura franchise and Nezumi in later GeGeGe no Kitarou movies. He played the title role in Kigyou Senshi Yamazaki: Long Distance Call and appeared in Ai no Kusabi, Akai Hayate, Bagi, Condition Green, and Yamato 2520, all Orphan releases. 
• Kataoke Tomie (Ikawa Yoshiko, his mother) played Blonda in Don Dracula, Tomeko in Meisou-ou Border, Bogud's mother in Michite Kuru Toki no Mukou ni,and appeared in Bagi, all Orphan releases. 
• Mitsuishi Kotono (Watanabe Yumi, Tsukasa's younger sister) played the title roles in Excel Saga, Birdy the Mighty, and the Maze TV and OVAs, Mink in Dragon Half, Katsuragi Misato in the Evangelion properties, Rosalia in the Angelique franchise, Kagura in the original Fruits Basket, Eri in Love Get Chu, and of course, Sailor Moon in the Sailor Moon franchise. She played the leads in Mother: Saigo no Shoujo Eve and Oshare Kozou wa Hanamaru, as well as Oshina in Hidamari no Ki, and appeared in Gakkou no Yuurei volume 1, Blazing Transfer Student, Nagasarete Airantou, and Yamato 2520, all Orphan releases.
• Shiozawa Kaneto (Minamoto, the mad inventor) played the title role in To-Y, Orochimaru in Tengai Makyou, Shin in Hiatari Ryoukou, Iason in Ai no Kusabi, Rock Holmes in Fumoon, Shiina in Chameleon, Sanzou in Tezuka Osamu Story: I am Son Goku, Kouhei in Karuizawa Syndrome, Amakusa Jiro in One Pound Gospel, Kaname in Bride of Deimos, and Kurahashi Eiji in Nine, all Orphan releases. He also played Joe in Tokimeki Tonight, Yoshio in Miyuki, Takeshi in Touch, D in Vampire Hunter D, Narsus in the Arslan Senki OVA, Rosario in Dragon Half, and Abriel senior in Crest of the Stars.

The director, Misawa Shin, directed many long series, including Kochikame, Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Children, Gakuen Nanafushigi, and the parent series to this movie.

One translation note. On their way home, young Tsukyoshi and Noriko sing the opening lines of Nanatsu no Ko, a famous Japanese children's song from the 1920s.

I'm not sure how this laserdisc came into Orphan's possession, but it was ripped on the Domesday Duplicator, encoded, and released as a raw. Eventually, Perevodildo picked it up, translated it, and timed it. ninjacloud fine-timed. I edited and typeset. Nemesis and Topper3000 QCed. The encoder wishes to remain anonymous.

Tsuyoshi Shikkari Shinasai: Tsuyoshi no Time Machine de Shikkari Shinasai will take a half hour of your life without leaving much of an impression, but it's the only example of the Tsuyoshi series to be released in English to date. (heponeko released raws for the entire series, but I am seriously not interested, y'know?) You can get the show from the usual torrent site or from IRC bot Orphan|Arutha in channels #nibl or #new on irc.rizon.net.