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| Osomatsu-kun | |
 DVD box cover of the 1988 anime series | |
| おそ松くん | |
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| Genre | Comedy |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Fujio Akatsuka |
| Published by | Shogakukan Kodansha Shōnen Gahosha |
| Magazine |
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| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Original run | April 15, 1962 – January 15, 1969 (Sunday version) |
| Volumes | 34 |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Makoto Nagasawa |
| Studio | Children's Corner Studio Zero |
| Original network | MBS, NET |
| Original run | February 5, 1966 – March 25, 1967 |
| Episodes | 56 |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Akira Shigino |
| Studio | Studio Pierrot |
| Licensed by | |
| Original network | FNS (Fuji TV) |
| Original run | February 13, 1988 – December 30, 1989 |
| Episodes | 86 |
| Anime film | |
| Osomatsu-kun: Suika no Hoshi Kara Konnichiwa zansu! | |
| Directed by | Ryuichi Okumura |
| Written by | Tokio Tsuchiya |
| Music by | Yusuke Honma |
| Studio | Studio Pierrot |
| Released | March 18, 1989 |
| Runtime | 25 minutes |
| Anime television series | |
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Osomatsu-kun (Japanese: おそ松くん) is a comedy manga series by Fujio Akatsuka which ran in Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday magazine from 1962 to 1969. The series revolves around a group of sextuplet brothers who cause all sorts of mischief. It has been adapted into two different anime series of the same name, the first of which was produced by Studio Zero in 1966, and the second by Studio Pierrot in 1988. A new anime series by Pierrot, Mr. Osomatsu, began airing in October 2015 to celebrate Akatsuka's 80th birthday, with a manga adaptation by Masako Shitara serialized in Shueisha's You magazine from January 2016.
This series helped establish Akatsuka's reputation as a gag comic artist, long before his other popular manga, Tensai Bakabon, was released. Several adaptations of Charlie Chaplin routines can be found in the manga.
Osomatsu-kun has appeared in numerous special issues of Shōnen Sunday. In 1964, Akatsuka won the 10th Shogakukan Manga Award for Osomatsu-kun.[2]
- ^ "Discotek Posts Osomatsu-kun Anime's 1st Episode with English Subtitles". August 9, 2023.
- ^ 小学館漫画賞：歴代受賞者 [Shogakukan Manga Award: Historical Award Winners] (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Archived from the original on August 5, 2015. Retrieved August 19, 2007.