Jungle King Tar-chan

Jungle King Tar-chan
First tankōbon volume cover
ジャングルの王者 ターちゃん♡
(Janguru no Ōja Tā-chan)
GenreAction, comedy[1]
Manga
Written byMasaya Tokuhiro
Published byShueisha
ImprintJump Comics Deluxe
MagazineWeekly Shōnen Jump
DemographicShōnen
Original runMarch 21, 1988June 11, 1990
Volumes7
Manga
New Jungle King Tar-chan
Written byMasaya Tokuhiro
Published byShueisha
ImprintJump Comics
MagazineWeekly Shōnen Jump
DemographicShōnen
Original runJune 18, 1990April 17, 1995
Volumes20
Anime television series
Directed byHitoshi Nanba
Produced by
  • Keisuke Iwata
  • Toshihiko Fujinami
  • Shūji Imai
  • Katsutoshi Kanesaka
Written by
Music byNaoki Yamada
StudioGroup TAC
Original networkTV Tokyo
Original run October 14, 1993 September 29, 1994
Episodes50
Video game
PublisherBandai
GenreAction
ReleasedJuly 29, 1994
Video game
Great World Tour Brawl
PublisherBandai
GenreAction
ReleasedSeptember 18, 1994

Jungle King Tar-chan (Japanese: ジャングルの王者ターちゃん, Hepburn: Janguru no Ōja Tā-chan) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Masaya Tokuhiro. The manga was serialized in Shueisha's anthology Weekly Shōnen Jump from March 1988 to June 1990; midway through serialization, its title was changed to New Jungle King Tar-chan, and continued until April 1995. The overall series' chapters were collected in 27 tankōbon volumes.

The manga was adapted into a 50-episode anime television series produced by Group TAC, broadcast on TV Tokyo between October 1993 and September 1994.

  1. ^ 「ジャングルの王者ターちゃん」デジタルリマスター版のDVD BOX化が決定. Animeanime.jp. (in Japanese). December 12, 2014. Archived from the original on May 6, 2019. Retrieved May 6, 2019.