Sasuke (manga)

Sasuke
20th tankōbon volume cover published by Seirindō, featuring Sasuke
サスケ
Genre	Action, Drama, Historical[1]
Manga
Written by	Sanpei Shirato
Published by	Kobunsha (1961–1966 serialized) Seirindō (1962–1965) Shueisha (1966–1967) Akita Shoten (1969–2009) Kodansha (1974) Shogakukan (1977-2006)
Magazine	Shōnen [ja]
Demographic	Shōnen
Original run	July 1, 1961 – March 1, 1966
Volumes	20
Anime television series
Produced by	Kazuo Otomo
Written by	Junji Tashiro
Music by	Masafumi Tanaka
Studio	TCJ
Original network	TBS Television
Original run	September 3, 1968 – March 25, 1969
Episodes	29
Manga
Written by	Sanpei Shirato
Published by	Shogakukan
Imprint	Shōnen Sunday Comics
Magazine	Weekly Shōnen Sunday
Demographic	Shōnen
Original run	July 20, 1968 – May 25, 1969

Sasuke (Japanese: サスケ) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Sanpei Shirato. It was serialized in Kobunsha's Monthly magazine Shōnen [ja] from July 1961 to March 1966. A Remake ran in Shogakukan's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Sunday from July 1968 to May 1969.

Several publishers published the series in long term, Seirindō published 20 tankōbon volumes as rental from July 1962 to 1965; Shueisha published 15 volumes from September 1966 to April 1967; Akita Shoten published the series two times, first from December 1969 to November 1970 in eight volumes and republished it again in a new edition from June to October 2009; Kodansha published 15 volumes from January to August 1974; Shogakukan republished the series four times in new edition, first, from May to December 1990 in eight bunkoban volumes, the second time, in ten volumes from December 1995 to April 1996 and in nine volumes from October 2005 to June 2006.

TCJ produced a 29-episode anime television series adaptation that aired between September 1968 to March 1969 on TBS Television. In 1963, the manga, together with Shirato's other series Seton's Wild Animals, won the 4th Kodansha Children's Manga Award.