Furiten-kun

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Furiten-kun
フリテンくん
Manga
Written by	Masashi Ueda
Published by	Takeshobo
Magazine	Kindai Mahjong Kindai Mahjong Original Gamble Punch
Demographic	Salaryman, Seinen
Original run	1980 – 1984
Anime film
Directed by	Takashi Sugiyama
Produced by	Tokumaro Saijo
Written by	Haruya Yamazaki Noboru Shiroyama Taku Sugiyama Tsunehisa Itō
Music by	Tachio Akano
Studio	Oh! Production
Released	April 11, 1981
Runtime	78 minutes
Manga
Published by	Takeshobo
Magazine	Manga Life
Demographic	Salaryman
Original run	November 1984 – 1994
Volumes	19
Manga
Osusume Furiten-kun
Written by	Masashi Ueda
Published by	Takeshobo
Magazine	Manga Life
Demographic	Salaryman
Original run	1991 – 1992
Volumes	8
Manga
Written by	Masashi Ueda
Published by	Takeshobo
Magazine	Manga Life
Demographic	Salaryman
Original run	January 2001 – February 2002
Manga
Shin Furiten-kun
Written by	Masashi Ueda
Published by	Takeshobo
Magazine	Manga Life
Demographic	Salaryman
Original run	March 2002 – present
Volumes	3

Furiten-kun (フリテンくん) is a yonkoma manga series by Masashi Ueda which has been serialized in several magazine. In the early 1980s, the manga was published simultaneously in Takeshobo's Kindai Mahjong, Kindai Mahjong Original, and Gamble Punch.^[1] It was then published in Manga Life magazine from November 1984 (in the first issue of the magazine) to 1994. The series was started again in January 2001 and is currently running in Manga Life. The title of the series was changed to Shin Furiten-kun (新フリテンくん) in March 2002. The manga was adapted into a theatrical film and an OVA in the early 1980s.^[2][3]

Several pachinko systems have been released which feature Furiten-kun as the theme.^[4][5] It won the 28th Bungeishunjū Manga Award along with Ueda's Kariage-kun in 1982.^[6]