'Big Edo Rocket') is a 2001 stage play written for the Gekidan Shinkansen theater troupe by Kazuki Nakashima and directed by Hidenori Inōe, with a novelization released in August of the same year.

A twenty-six episode anime television series by Madhouse was broadcast in Japan from April to September 2007.

It is a comedic story often breaking the fourth wall, that involves a fireworks maker in medieval Edo and his efforts to build a rocket to carry an alien back to her people on the Moon.

Throughout the series, the characters use terms and items that have not been created yet, including a pocket calculator and television sets.

Additionally, backgrounds in the series show shops with signs advertising electronics, specifically TVs and DVDs.

In episode 12, Onui and Shunpei repeatedly pass back and forth between 1842 Edo and a modern Japanese railway station, even riding the train in one scene, without taking any notice of the change.