It was a co-production between Japan and the Netherlands based on the comic strip Boes created by Wil Raymakers and Thijs Wilms.

The series ran on the Japanese network TV Tokyo from 7 April 1987[1]–29 March 1988.

Ox Tales is still remained to appear as a column strip in several Dutch daily and weekly newspapers.

The series follows the adventures of Boes as he runs the Funny Farm, containing possibly every animal known.

Kimi no freedom (君のフリーダム) Joke DE mou dash (ジョークDE猛ダッシュ) The series has been aired in several countries outside Japan and has been dubbed and subtitled in English and numerous other languages.