Tensai Bakabon

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Tensai Bakabon
The cover of Tensai Bakabon volume 2
天才バカボン
Genre	Comedy
Manga
Written by	Fujio Akatsuka
Published by	Kodansha Shogakukan
Magazine	Weekly Shōnen Magazine (April 9, 1967–February 23, 1969, June 27, 1971–January 12, 1975, October 26, 1975–December 5, 1976) Monthly Shōnen Magazine (August 1967–January 1969, August 1974–December 1978) Weekly Shōnen Sunday (August 24, 1969–April 5, 1970) Shōnen Sunday Deluxe (September 1969–June 1970) Weekly Bokura Magazine (May 10, 1971–May 31, 1971) Monthly TV Magazine (December 1971–August 1977) Comic BonBon (October 1987–October 1991) Hero Magazine (October 1989–January 1991) Bom Bom Deluxe (November 1991–December 1992)
Demographic	Shōnen
Original run	April 9, 1967 – December 5, 1976 (Shōnen Magazine version)
Volumes	38
Anime television series
Directed by	Hiroshi Saito
Music by	Takeo Watanabe
Studio	Tokyo Movie
Original network	NNS (YTV)
Original run	September 25, 1971 – June 24, 1972
Episodes	40
Anime television series
Ganso Tensai Bakabon
Directed by	Yoshio Takeuchi Makura Saki Shigetsugu Yoshida Hideo Takayashiki
Written by	Yutaka Kaneko Noboru Shiroyama Haruya Yamazaki Atsushi Yamatoya
Music by	Takeo Watanabe
Studio	Tokyo Movie
Original network	NNS (NTV)
Original run	October 6, 1975 – September 26, 1977
Episodes	103
Anime television series
Heisei Tensai Bakabon
Directed by	Hiroshi Sasagawa
Studio	Studio Pierrot
Original network	FNS (Fuji TV)
Original run	January 6, 1990 – December 29, 1990
Episodes	46
Anime television series
Rerere no Tensai Bakabon
Directed by	Hayato Date
Studio	Studio Pierrot
Original network	TXN (TV Tokyo)
Original run	October 19, 1999 – March 21, 2000
Episodes	24
Anime television series
Shinya! Tensai Bakabon
Directed by	Toru Hosokawa
Written by	Toru Hosokawa
Studio	Pierrot+
Original network	TV Tokyo, TV Osaka, TV Aichi
Original run	July 10, 2018 – September 25, 2018
Episodes	12

Tensai Bakabon (天才バカボン, lit. "Genius Bakabon")^[a] is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Fujio Akatsuka, which began publication on April 9, 1967, in Weekly Shōnen Magazine. It is about the misadventures of a dim-witted boy (Bakabon) and his idiotic father, the latter of whom eventually becomes the central character.

It has been adapted into five anime television series. The first two series produced by Tokyo Movie were broadcast in the 1970s for 40 and 103 episodes respectively. The third and fourth series were produced by Studio Pierrot and broadcast in 1990 and 1999–2000, for 46 and 24 episodes respectively. The fifth series was produced by Pierrot+ and broadcast for 12 episodes in 2018.

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