The Song of Tentomushi

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The Song of Tentomushi
Cover art from the first volume of Tentōmushi no Uta, as published by Shogakukan
てんとう虫の歌 (Tentōmushi no Uta)
Manga
Written by	Noboru Kawasaki
Published by	Shogakukan
Imprint	Tentōmushi Comics
Magazine	Shogakukan no Gakushō Zasshi
Demographic	Children
Original run	1973 – 1975
Volumes	4
Anime television series
Directed by	Hiroshi Sasagawa
Written by	Shigeru Yanagigawa Takao Koyama
Music by	Shunsuke Kikuchi
Studio	Tatsunoko Production
Original network	FNS (Fuji TV)
Original run	6 October 1974 – 26 September 1976[1]
Episodes	104

The Song of Tentomushi (Japanese: てんとう虫の歌, Hepburn: Tentōmushi no Uta, lit. 'The Ladybug's Song') is manga series by Noboru Kawasaki published from 1973 to 1975 by Shogakukan in their elementary school study magazines in the Shogakukan no Gakushō Zasshi series. The manga was collected in four volumes. An anime series adapted from the manga was created by Tatsunoko Productions.^[2] The anime was also broadcast in Italy under the title Coccinella. Following Inakappe Taishō in 1970, it was the second of Kawasaki's works to be made into animation by Tatsunoko.