Osomatsu-kun
Osomatsu-kun DVD volume 18 cover
おそ松くん
Genre	Comedy
Manga
Author	Fujio Akatsuka
Publisher	Shogakukan Kodansha Shōnen Gahosha
Demographic	Shōnen
Magazine	Shōnen Sunday (April 15th, 1962-January 15th, 1969) Shougaku Ichinensei(April 1966-March 1967) Boy's Life (May 1966-December 1966) Shōnen King ((?) 1972-December 1973) Comic Bom Bom (November 1987-March 1990) Monthly TV Magazine (February 1988-January 1990)
Original run	April 15th 1962 – January 15th 1969 (Shōnen Sunday version)
Volumes	1-25 (Shōnen Sunday/Boy's Life editions) 25-31 (Shōnen King edition) 32-34 (Comic Bombom/TV Magazine editions)
TV anime
Director	Akira Shigino
Studio	Studio Zero
Network	MBS
Original run	1966 – 1967
Episodes	60
TV anime
Director	Akira Shigino
Studio	Studio Pierrot
Network	Animax, Fuji TV
Original run	1988 – 1989
Episodes	88
Anime film
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Osomatsu-kun (おそ松くん^?) is a manga series by Fujio Akatsuka which ran in Shōnen Sunday from 1962 to 1969. It has been adapted into two different anime series of the same name, the first in 1966, produced by Studio Zero, and the second in 1988, produced by Pierrot and aired across Japan on Fuji Television and the anime satellite television network, Animax.

This series helped establish Akatsuka's reputation as a gag comic artist, long before his other popular manga, Tensai Bakabon. Osomatsu-kun has appeared in numerous special issues of Shōnen Sunday. Akatsuka has also included several manga adaptations of routines from Charlie Chaplin movies in the series.

In 1964, Akatsuka won the 10th Shogakukan Manga Award for Osomatsu-kun.^[1]

Contents 1 Anime 1.1 1966 series 1.1.1 Cast 1.2 1988 series 1.2.1 Cast 2 References 3 External links

[edit] Anime

[edit] 1966 series

[edit] Cast

• Osomatsu: Midori Katō
• Choromatsu: Keiko Yamamoto
• Ichimatsu/Todomatsu: Haruko Kitahama
• Jūshimatsu: Mie Azuma
• Karamatsu: Fuyumi Shiraishi
• Iyami: Kyōji Kobayashi
• Chibita: Kazue Tagami→Yōko Mizugaki
• Hatabō: Takako Sasuga
• Dekapan: Setsuo Wakui

[edit] 1988 series

[edit] Cast

• Osomatsu: You Inoue
• Choromatsu: Rica Matsumoto
• Todomatsu: Megumi Hayashibara
• Karamatsu/Hatabō: Mari Mashiba
• Jūshimatsu/Totoko: Naoko Matsui
• Ichimatsu/Kaasan: Mari Yokoo
• Iyami: Kaneta Kimotsuki
• Chibita: Mayumi Tanaka
• Dekapan: Tōru Ōhira
• Dayōn/Kemunbasu: Takuzō Kamiyama
• Tōsan/Beshi: Tetsuo Mizutori (Kenichi Ogata episodes 85-88))
• Omawari-san/Nyarome/Rerere no Ojisan: Shigeru Chiba

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Osomatsu-kun - Studio Pierrot
• Osomatsu-kun - Studio Pierrot (Japanese)
• Animax official site
• Pachinko Slots screenshots (Japanese)