Sazae-San (7,920 Episodes)
Sazae-San aired 53 years ago for the first time. It holds the Guinness World Record for the longest-running television animated show ever.
Sazae-San - 7,920 Episodes, 53 Years Airing
It even holds the Guinness World Record for the longest-running television animated show ever.
The longest-running anime TV series is Fuji TV's Sazae-san (Japan), which was first broadcast on 5 October 1969 and has run for 53 years 58 days, as of 2 December 2022. Produced by the studio Eiken, the animation features Sazae and her family focusing on day-to-day life in the suburbs.
As far as I'm aware, FLCL is the shortest with 6 episodes each around 20 minutes, summing up to a good 2 hours.
Written and illustrated by Eiichiro Oda, One Piece has been serialized by Shueisha in the shōnen manga anthology Weekly Shōnen Jump since July 22, 1997. Shueisha has collected its chapters into individual tankōbon volumes. The first volume was released on December 24, 1997.
In the One Piece anime series, Zunesha is one of the tallest and biggest anime characters ever portrayed. As an elephant standing over 35,000 meters (more than 20 miles) tall, Zunesha's height and size leave many fans and characters in awe.
Ocean Quahogs (Clams)
Ocean quahogs live in the Atlantic and can live more than 400 years old. At 507 years of age, Ming the clam broke the Guinness World Record as the oldest animal in the world.
The Big Three was a term used to describe the three most popular running series during their golden age in Jump - One Piece, Naruto and Bleach.
One Piece first aired in October 1999 and has been consistently adding new episodes ever since. If you were to watch them all without any breaks or sleep, it would take you a total of 420.8 hours or 17.53 days. However, the bigger question is whether it's truly worth investing your time in this series.
Death Note is usually the first anime that beginners are recommended because it gives a perfect glimpse of everything anime has to offer.
Our Call: STREAM IT. Thus far, 91 Days is a slow-burn drama in anime form, and shows significant potential for meaningful storytelling. Only one episode in, and it already feels like a tragedy, whether Avilio gets his revenge or not.
One Piece celebrated the anime's 1000th episode in 2021, an achievement that reflects the dominance the shonen anime has enjoyed over the last two decades.
The series aired on TV Tokyo from October 2004 to March 2012, spanning 366 episodes.
The majority of anime series are given a 12-week block, known as a cour, in which their show can be aired weekly. This time constraint often means that most anime series delivers a complete story within the 12-episode runtime.
1)There are over 12,000+ anime shows to date. 2)Well, the MAL database has around 11000 anime, including OVA's/ONA's/other stuff. 3)According to the survey, more than 6,000 anime are produced, and more than 3,200 anime are aired on television.
Some estimates say more than a third of the world population, or 2.88 billion people watch anime. We look into more data on its popularity, anime industry, growth, demographics, and more below.