Norakuro

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Norakuro
Manga volume 1 cover (1975 bunkoban edition)
のらくろ
Manga
Written by	Suihō Tagawa
Published by	Kodansha
Magazine	Shōnen Kurabu
English magazine	US: Kramer's Ergot
Demographic	Shōnen
Original run	1931 – 1981
Volumes	36
Anime television series
Directed by	Toru Murayama
Music by	Hidehiko Arashino
Studio	TCJ
Original network	FNS (Fuji TV)
Original run	5 October 1970 – 29 March 1971
Episodes	26
Anime television series
Norakuro-kun
Directed by	Masami Anno
Studio	Pierrot
Original network	FNS (Fuji TV)
Original run	4 October 1987 – 2 October 1988
Episodes	50

Norakuro (Japanese: のらくろ) is a Japanese manga series created by Suihō Tagawa, originally published by Kodansha in Shōnen Kurabu, and one of the first series' to be reprinted in tankōbon format.^[1] The titular protagonist, Norakuro, or Norakuro-kun, is an anthropomorphic black and white dog inspired by Felix the Cat.^[2] The name Norakuro is an abbreviation of norainu (野良犬, stray dog) and Kurokichi (黒吉, the name of the dog, literally meaning "black luck").