| Tama and Friends | |
 Cover of DVD volume 2. | |
| タマ&フレンズ (Tama ando Furenzu) | |
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| Original video animation | |
| Tama & Friends: Third Street Story | |
| Directed by | Tsuneo Maeda |
| Studio | Group TAC |
| Released | November 21, 1988 – November 1, 1990 |
| Runtime | 15 minutes |
| Episodes | 7 |
| Video game | |
| Tama and Friends: Great 3rd Street Adventure | |
| Developer | Advance Communication Company |
| Publisher | Bandai |
| Platform | Family Computer Disk System |
| Released | February 23, 1989[1] |
| Anime television series | |
| Tama of Third Street: Do You Know My Tama? | |
| Directed by | Tsuneo Maeda |
| Studio | Group TAC |
| Licensed by |
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| Original network | JNN (MBS, TBS) |
| English network |
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| Original run | July 3, 1993 – September 25, 1994 |
| Episodes | 29 |
| Anime film | |
| Tama of 3rd Street: Please! Search for Momo-chan!! | |
| Directed by | Tsuneo Maeda |
| Studio | Group TAC |
| Released | August 14, 1993 |
| Runtime | 90 minutes |
| Video game | |
| Tama of 3rd Street: Where is Momo-chan! | |
| Developer | Sega |
| Publisher | Sega |
| Genre | Educational |
| Platform | Kids Computer Pico |
| Released | July 1994 |
| Video game | |
| Tama of 3rd Street: Tama and Friends - 3rd Street Ghost Panic!! | |
| Developer | Tom Create |
| Publisher | Bandai |
| Platform | Game Boy |
| Released | August 5, 1994[2] |
| Video game | |
| Tama & Friends: 3rd Street Park Tamalympics | |
| Developer | Aspect |
| Publisher | Sega |
| Platform | Game Gear |
| Released | March 3, 1995[3] |
| Anime television series | |
| Tama and Friends: Search For It! The Magic Puni-Puni Stone | |
| Directed by | Tsuneo Maeda |
| Studio | Group TAC |
| Original network | Animax Sun TV Tokyo MX |
| Original run | May 6, 2006 – November 4, 2006 |
| Episodes | 26 |
| Anime television series | |
| Tama and Friends: Uchi no Tama Shirimasen ka? | |
| Studio | Kachidoki |
| Original run | October 1, 2016 – September 27, 2018 |
| Anime television series | |
| Uchitama?! Have you seen my Tama? | |
| Directed by | Kiyoshi Matsuda |
| Written by | Kimiko Ueno |
| Music by | Tom-H@ck |
| Studio | MAPPA Lapin Track |
| Licensed by | |
| Original network | Fuji TV (Noitamina) |
| Original run | January 9, 2020 – March 19, 2020 |
| Episodes | 11 |
Tama & Friends (タマ&フレンズ, Tama ando Furenzu) is a character franchise created by Sony Creative Products in 1983.
An OVA series based on the products titled Tama & Friends: Third Street Story (タマ&フレンズ 3丁目物語, Tama ando Furenzu San-chōme Monogatari) was produced by Sony Music Entertainment Japan and animated by Group TAC. The episodes were released between 1988 and 1990. All episodes, except the first, had two episodes put on a single cassette. The OVAs (except the first) aired on MBS and TBS under the name Tama of Third Street: Do You Know My Tama? (3丁目のタマ うちのタマ知りませんか?, San-Chōme no Tama: Uchi no Tama Shirimasen ka?) from July 3, 1993 to August 28, 1993. An anime movie, titled Tama of Third Street: Please! Find Momo-chan!! (3丁目のタマ おねがい!モモちゃんを捜して!!, San-Chōme no Tama: Onegai! Momo-chan wo Sagashite!!), was released in the same year. Additional 29 episodes were created and broadcast in 1994 on the same networks under the same name. The original series was licensed by 4Kids Entertainment in 2000[4][5] with a term lasting until March 2007[6] and dubbed into English. This dub was syndicated in late 2001 but never made it to home video. The original series is currently streaming in the US by Crunchyroll. Another anime series, known as Tama & Friends: Search for It! The Magic Puni-Puni Stone (タマ&フレンズ 探せ!魔法のプニプニストーン, Tama ando Furenzu: Sagase! Mahō no Puni-Puni Sutōn), aired on Animax in 2006.
A new series of animated shorts began airing in October 2016.[7] It is animated in Adobe Flash. In 2016, an official Korean version of the same name based on the series, created by Daewon Media, SEGA SAMMY GROUP and produced by Toonzone Studios & CJ ENM, was released worldwide for a Western audience.
A new anime television series titled Uchi Tama!? ~Uchi no Tama Shirimasen ka?~[8] by MAPPA and Lapin Track premiered from January 9 to March 19, 2020 on Fuji TV's Noitamina programming block.
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