Osomatsu-kun
Alternative Titles
Synonyms
Japanese
おそ松くん
English
Information
Type
TVAired
Feb 5, 1966 to Mar 25, 1967
Episodes
56
Duration
25 min per ep
Season
winter 1966Broadcast
Saturdays at 19:30 (JST)
Studios
Studio Zero
Status
Finished Airing
Source
Manga
Rating
PG - Children
Genres
ComedyThemes
Demographics
ShounenStatistics
Rank
7245
Score
6.47
Scored by
866
Popularity
9561
Members
3943
Favorites
15
External Links
Synopsis
A wacky comedy about identical sextuplets causing wild pranks. Each episode features 2 stories. (Source: AniDB)
Background
Osomatsu-kun was Mainichi Broadcasting's first entry into the anime broadcasting. (Until the broadcast of in 2012, the network did not air an anime adaptation of a Shounen Sunday manga for 45 years.) The series later aired on Tokyo 12 Channel (later known as TV Tokyo) between the late 1960s and early 1970s. Osomatsu-kun was never broadcast again after the 1970s, and the original prints were thought to be lost until they were found in storage at the Senrioka studio of Mainichi Broadcasting in 1990. The series was finally released on DVD between 2001 and 2003.