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The first animated segments seem to go back all the way to 1907, and most of
those older segments only got broadcast in cinemas and the likes. Even after
those, most animated segments on TV consisted of short animations of roughly a
few seconds.

So with that my question: Which anime _series_ was the first to be aired on
Japanese television? And I am asking about multi-episode series, or multi-
segment series.


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Which anime series was the first to be aired on Japanese TV?


I assumed you mean first TV series anime.

> Mighty Atom became the first popular anime television series in 1963.
> Contrary to popular belief, Atom was not the first anime series broadcast in
> Japan; that honor falls to **Otogi Manga Calendar** , which began
> broadcasting in 1962.

From [Otogi Manga Calendar Wikipedia
Page](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otogi_Manga_Calendar)

> Otogi Manga Calendar (おとぎマンガカレンダー Otogi Manga Calendar?) was a black and
> white Japanese anime series aired from 1961 to 1964. It was the first anime
> series ever televised.

Sorry if I understood your question wrongly.

Source:  
[Y!A: What was the first anime ever aired in
Japan?](https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090529063100AANnoCt)  
[Anime and Manga: Brought to You by WikiProject Anime and Manga
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According to [the Trivia section on IMDb page of "Future Boy
Conan"](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077013/trivia/?ref_=tt_trv_trv), it says
it was the first.

> First animated series to air on Japanese Public TV, NHK.


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Films were released in cinemas, not broadcast, but there were animated films,
Japanese TV animations in the 50s were commercials or interstitials, Otogi
Manga calendar was a TV animation, but not the first anime series, Astro Boy
has been first because, it was the first regularly broadcasted anime series.


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