Sazae-san

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Sazae-san
Cover of the eleventh volume of the manga, depicting the lead character Sazae riding a horse with her little sister Wakame.
サザエさん
Genre	Slice of Life
Manga
Written by	Machiko Hasegawa
Published by	Asahi Shimbun
English publisher	JP: Kodansha Bilingual Comics
Magazine	Fukunichi Shinbun Asahi Shimbun, etc.
Original run	April 22, 1946 – February 21, 1974
Volumes	68 (6,477 comic strips)
Anime television series
Produced by	Kouya Watanabe (2016–) Youichi Tanaka (2016–)
Music by	Nobuyoshi Koshibe Kunihiro Kawano
Studio	Eiken
Original network	Fuji TV
Original run	October 5, 1969 (1969-10-05) – present
Episodes	2,744 (8,723 segments)

Sazae-san (Japanese: サザエさん) is a Japanese yonkoma manga series written and illustrated by Machiko Hasegawa. It was first published in Hasegawa's local paper, the Fukunichi Shinbun (フクニチ新聞), on April 22, 1946. When the Asahi Shimbun wished to have Hasegawa draw the four-panel comic for their paper, she moved to Tokyo in 1949 with the explanation that the main characters had moved from Kyūshū to Tokyo as well. The first Sazae-san strip run by the Asahi Shimbun was published on November 30, 1949. The manga dealt with everyday life and contemporary situations in Tokyo until Hasegawa retired and ended the series, with the final comic published on February 21, 1974.

As of 1999, the manga had over 86 million copies in circulation, making it one of the best-selling manga series of all time.^[1] An anime television adaptation by TCJ (later renamed Eiken) began airing in Japan in October 1969 and holds the Guinness World Record for the longest-running animated television series.^[2] It has also been adapted into a radio show, theatrical plays and songs.^[3]