He comes to Monshiro Town with his Interface Robot, Kid, in order to reach the coveted TAISHI-Level inventor's license.

Starting as a fledgling C-Level inventor and initially failing quite a bit, he meets a variety of characters on Planet Sharaku on his quest to be the best.

The musical had an original story by Yūji Mitsuya (one of the series' ADR directors), and starred Mizuki Sano as Kanipan, Yuta Enomoto as Salt, Ayako Morino as Nuts, Tetsurō Adachi as Ravioli, Masami Suzuki as Naruto and Mino, Chieko Higuchi as Taffy, and Kanako Mitsuhashi as Milk.

[13] A one-shot manga adaptation written and illustrated by Toshio Tanigami was serialized in the October 1998 issue of Bessatsu CoroCoro Comic.

The monthly CoroCoro Comic magazine also published new information about the anime in its March 1999 issue, as well as game advertisements and articles by Sega and Taito from June to October of that year.

However, the anime series was produced instead, and the game was eventually cancelled due to the immediate announcement of Chō Hatsumei Boy Kanipan.

Super Inventor Boy Kanipan Play Kid DCDC (Deshideshi)) is a VMU game released by Sega on April 22, 1999.

is a creative role-playing video game developed by Quintet, Shade and Zerosystem, and released by Sega for the Dreamcast on July 8, 1999.

[15][18][17] The game involves players combining parts and materials to create weapons, equipment and other inventions, and using them to search for Professor Shu.

Players can create all types of items using the Invention System, as well as "Cores", which will give them new frames and increase the number of Interface Robots that they can have.

It is compatible with the Jump Pack and the VMU game, Chō Hatsumei Boy Kanipan Asonde Kid DCDC (Deshideshi), from which players can transfer data and download minigames.

[15][16][17] Voices were provided by Junko Takeuchi as Kanipan, Rie Iwatsubo as Kid, Kan Tanaka as Professor Shu and Tacos, Kanako Mitsuhashi as Milk, Masami Iwasaki as Igor, Harumi Ikoma as Nuts, Takashi Matsuyama as Pochi and Borscht, Kei Mashima as Professor Pepperoni, Hiroki Takahashi as Namuru, Eiji Takemoto as Nachos and Piroshiki, Takeyoshi Naito as Macaroni, Maaya Sakamoto as Maria, Chieko Higuchi as Popo, Nanaho Katsuragi as Ravioli, Haruhi Nanao as the Secretary, Satoshi Tsuruoka as Morozoff, and Yumi Kakazu as Angelica.

Although the title is different from the previously-released Dreamcast version, the content is almost the same; character voices are omitted due to hardware limitations, and the graphics and gameplay were poor.

Despite this, the game had 2D accents including new sprite animations and particle effects, an improved interface, altered cutscenes, and added areas that were intended to be in the Dreamcast version but did not make the final cut.

Inventor Boy Kanipan DVD-BOX), was released by E-Net Frontier on January 26, 2007, with a postcard included as a bonus.

Super Inventor Boy Kanipan DVD-BOX), a box set containing all 21 episodes, was released the following month on February 23, 2007.