Oraa Guzura Dado

Oraa Guzura Dado
おらぁグズラだど
GenreComedy
Manga
Written byHiroshi Sasagawa
Published byShogakukan
MagazineWeekly Shōnen Sunday
DemographicShōnen
Original run1967 – 1968
Volumes2
Anime television series
Directed byHiroshi Sasagawa
StudioTatsunoko Production
Original networkFuji TV
Original run October 7, 1967 – September 25, 1968
Episodes52[1]
Anime television series
Directed byHiroshi Sasagawa
StudioTatsunoko Production
Original networkMegaTON (TV Tokyo)
Original run October 12, 1987 – September 20, 1988
Episodes44[2]

Oraa Guzura Dado (おらぁグズラだど, lit."Hey, I'm Guzura!"), also known as Gazula the Amicable Monster, Gudzulla or So It's Gudzulla,[3] is a comedy manga series which was serialized on Weekly Shōnen Sunday in 1967. The manga was based on Hiroshi Sasagawa's one-shot "Onboro Kaijū Guzura" published in the same magazine the previous year as the clumsy and straightforward character of Guzura was very popular at the time.[4]

Later a 52-episode comedy anime adaptation of the series, directed by Hiroshi Sasagawa and produced by Tatsunoko Production, was aired on Fuji Television between 7 October 1967 and 25 September 1968.

The anime was remade into a 44-episode series also directed by Sasagawa. The remake aired on TV Tokyo between October 12, 1987, and September 30, 1988.

  1. ^ "GUZURA" ｢おらぁグズラだど｣ (in Japanese). Tatsunoko Productions. Retrieved 11 September 2010.
  2. ^ ｢おらぁグズラだど｣ (in Japanese). Tatsunoko Productions. Archived from the original on 17 October 2012. Retrieved 11 September 2010.
  3. ^ Jonathan Clements, Helen McCarthy: The Anime Encyclopedia. Revised & Expanded Edition. Berkeley 2006, Stone Bridge Press, ISBN 978-1-933330-10-5, S. 222.
  4. ^ ｢おらぁグズラだど｣ (in Japanese). ASIN 4775912593.