Anyone know what the longest Anime/Manga series is?

[Tybbe]

Yeah thats true... :P Its always some higher on the mountain anyway none are in my favv of watch able anime list Still its anime and thats make it a little sad.. haha nah just joking just aint something i would watch :P

Watched somehow when i was younger but thats in the past

[Guido]

Chibi Maruko-chan
First series (1990-1992) + Second series (1995-ongoing) already aired 550 episodes.

[bayoab]

Originally Posted by Guido

Sazae-san
The longest running anime ever since its debut in 1969. Over 1700 episodes to this date and continues on.

Actually, because of the way Sazae-san counts, they are nearing 6000. (Each 24 minutes episode is composed of 3 stories, each of which is numbered.)

[wingdarkness]

WTH is that show about that it can last 6000 eps?

[Mr_Paper]

Think of it like The Simpsons, there is no real overall plot with each episode/story having little relavence to the others which allows for an almost infinite number of stories.

[wingdarkness]

So I gander the animation has improved drastically thru the course of the series...I still can't believe that show has been on since the 60's... I don't know how anyone can come up with 6000 different ideas on a show...Do the characters get older or just stay the same age??

[Theowne]

Originally Posted by bayoab

Actually, because of the way Sazae-san counts, they are nearing 6000. (Each 24 minutes episode is composed of 3 stories, each of which is numbered.)

But when comparing it with other anime shows for length, it's more appropriate to use the previous number.....

[bayoab]

Originally Posted by wingdarkness

So I gander the animation has improved drastically thru the course of the series...I still can't believe that show has been on since the 60's... I don't know how anyone can come up with 6000 different ideas on a show...Do the characters get older or just stay the same age??

Really, think of it like the simpsons, except the stories are more of the nostalgia type and the plots aren't intertwined. The animation has improved but the characters still look the same.

Originally Posted by Theowne

But when comparing it with other anime shows for length, it's more appropriate to use the previous number.....

Except the previous number doesn't really show the fact that its been on for 37 years.

Actually wait.. Doraemon has 2000 episodes? It should only have around 1400 because there is a 10 year gap between when it started and when Sazae-san started.

Edit: Confirmed, Doraemon 1973 has 52, Doreamon 1979-2005 has ~1100, Doraemon 2005 has 54.

[KelpieAr]

Omg I Never Knew There's Lik +1000 Eps Shows Still Airing......o.o

[panzerfan]

Doraemon is still running. Nobita and his pals should consider looking into collecting pension and social insurence by this point.

[tugatosmk]

Kochikame started in 1996 and is still ongoing, having more than 300 episodes by now.

[bayoab]

Originally Posted by tug

Kochikame started in 1996 and is still ongoing, having more than 300 episodes by now.

Kochikame ended last winter.

[Quarkboy]

Isn't sazae-san not only the longest (in time period, not in episode) running anime, but it's actually the longest running television program of any kind, animated or otherwise, in the entire world?

I think I heard that somewhere...

[C.A.]

Originally Posted by Quarkboy

Isn't sazae-san not only the longest (in time period, not in episode) running anime, but it's actually the longest running television program of any kind, animated or otherwise, in the entire world?

I think I heard that somewhere...

With help from Yahoo and Guiness World Records, I got the answer in 5 seconds:

Guiness World Record for Longest-Running TV Show:

Meet the Press, 2649 shows

Link to Guiness page on 'Meet the Press': http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/index.asp?id=47851

[Eclipze]

Originally Posted by C.A.

With help from Yahoo and Guiness World Records, I got the answer in 5 seconds:

Guiness World Record for Longest-Running TV Show:

Meet the Press, 2649 shows

Link to Guiness page on 'Meet the Press': http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/index.asp?id=47851

So...is that series still on-going? If not, given 10-20 year more (counting that the show is aired once per week, counting 24 minutes as an episode), Sazae-san/Doraemon would be able to surpass that number.

[C.A.]

Originally Posted by Eclipze

So...is that series still on-going? If not, given 10-20 year more (counting that the show is aired once per week, counting 24 minutes as an episode), Sazae-san/Doraemon would be able to surpass that number.

The Guiness World Records only recognised its record on February 4 2001.

The show is still running according to wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meet_the_Press

What's more is that written in the wiki article, 'Meet the Press' 1992 became a 44 minute(1 hour with commercials) show, it originally was a 22 minute show. You can say from 1992 - 2006, 15 years of 'Meet the Press', is actually around 29/30 years worth of tv.

[Eclipze]

Which equates to having dominance(?) in terms of length then.

[Cythraul]

Originally Posted by C.A.

With help from Yahoo and Guiness World Records, I got the answer in 5 seconds:

Guiness World Record for Longest-Running TV Show:

Meet the Press, 2649 shows

Link to Guiness page on 'Meet the Press': http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/index.asp?id=47851

While that's all well and good...

The 15,000th televised episode of Guiding Light will air in September 2006. Due to this series run, it is not only considered to be the longest soap opera, but the longest series of any show created.

The program was created by legendary soap writer Irna Phillips, and began as an NBC radio serial on January 25, 1937 before moving to CBS on June 30, 1952, as a televised serial.

(emphasis mine)

Beat that.

[Mr. DJ]

Originally Posted by Unmei

What about Conan?? Isn't there a few hundred episodes in that series?

Currently....Detective Conan is on Episode 449

Dragonball/Dragonball Z/Dragonball GT - together it comes up to 505 episodes, 4 Dragon Ball Movies, 13 DBZ Movies, 1 DBZ OAV, 2 DBZ Specials, 1 GT Movie and 1 Dragonball Anniversay Movie

[BaltazarDZ]

Which Anime has the most series? I kinda know Pokemon has over 500, but is it really the highest count? Can anyone tell me the top of longest aired and with most series Anime?