Sazae-san
Sazae -san (Japaneseサザエ さん) is a Yonkoma Manga Japanese illustrator Hasegawa Machiko. It was first published from 1946 to 1974. The manga has been implemented as an anime, Real TV series and in the form of several films. The series has been running since 1969 with over 2200 episodes, making it the anime series with the longest duration.
Content
The comic strips revolve around the 27- year-old Japanese sazae Isono (磯野 サザエ). She lives with her father Namihei Isono (矶 野 波 平), her mother Fune Isono (磯野 フネ) and her siblings Katsuo Isono (磯野 カツオ) and Wakame Isono (磯野 ワカメ) in a household in postwar Japan. First, they live in Kyushu, later Tokyo. After sazae Masuo Fuguta (フグ田 マスオ) has married, she also takes on the last name. Both have a son named Tarao Fuguta (フグ 田 タラオ).
Sazae must help you through the post-war period and the famine, and later the various roles in the household, fill in as a daughter, wife and mother of their family. They also occurs for women's rights and emancipation, without disregarding the tradition.
The stories each deal with problems of their time, then sazae annoyed in the 1940s about the American soldiers and the family must fight against hunger. Later, the older members of the family with the modern achievements, such as shopping centers, faced. The student movement in the 1960s is the subject. In most cases, the events remain simple and commonplace. The choice of the names of the characters corresponding to the 1940's. Since famine, the figures in sazae -san after a turban snail ( Turbo cornutus ) were named in the entertainment media mostly for food.
Manga publication
The manga was published from April 1946 in the local newspaper Fukunichi Shimbun. From 1949 to February 1974, the series was published in the newspaper Asahi Shimbun. The comic strip consisting of four panels. The approximately 10,000 individual comic strips were later collected in Kodansha in 68 books. The publisher brought the series out in English.
Anime
Since 1969, the studio Eiken produced an anime television series to manga. Was directed by Isao Yamamoto, Osamu Murayama, Takahiro Okada, Toru Murayama and Yonehiko Watanabe. The scripts were written by Masaki Tsuji, Noboru Shiroyama and Shun'ichi Yukimuro. The series is since October 5, 1969 broadcast by the broadcaster Fuji TV in Japan. Each week will be sent a sequence with a duration of approximately 25 minutes, which in turn consists of three episodes. The series includes more than 2,100 episodes, each with 3 chapters that were broadcast with a market share of up to 39.4 percent. This sazae -san is one of the most successful anime series.
Sazae -san, until October 2013, was still drawn traditionally with hand on the last Anime Cels.
Synchronization
Music
Other adaptations
The manga has also been adapted as a live-action film (1956 and 1957) and drama. The television series ran from 1965 to 1967, In 1979, a second on NHK. We have written several songs to sazae -san. In 1955 a radio radio drama series has been sent.
Success and significance
The collective volumes of the series sold more than 20 million times. For Manga is an art museum in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward. In addition, in 1981 and 1992 two research projects to series were launched. Sazae -san is the longest running anime television series.
Frederik L. Schodt explains the success so that the narrated events are commonplace and so many could identify with the characters and laugh at their misfortunes. Sazae also symbolizes the new Japanese woman, who cares for the family and the traditions, but is optimistic and independent. The success of the series illustrator Hasegawa contributed to that later women were active as mangaka in Japan, which was previously dominated by men a profession.
According to Patrick Drazen, the success of the anime is also based on the fact that the early forms of American series are applied. Three content independent short episodes per week were also in the U.S. earlier successful.
In Japan, there is the concept of sazae -san Syndrome (サザエ さん 症候群, sazae -san shōkōgun ), which refers to a depressive mood Sunday night that the series on TV running, and people are reminded that the weekend graduating approaches.