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Recently I had a discussion with friends about how hard they find it to follow
anime/manga series due to the sheer amount characters that get featured in a
series.

They claimed [detective-conan](/questions/tagged/detective-conan "show
questions tagged 'detective-conan'") featured more than 3000 characters
(roughly 5 per episode), which I debunked as most of those characters are
never mentioned again.

This statement was followed by [bleach](/questions/tagged/bleach "show
questions tagged 'bleach'") having around 250 characters, where it was even
important to remember the weapons names, as it might be important.

And Legend of Galactic Heroes which had 660 named characters, of which many
where regularly re-occurring or even considered main characters.

With that my curiosity followed, which series features the most re-occurring
named characters?


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Which series features the most re-occuring named characters?


The most I could find was
[Anpanman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anpanman#Characters) which is a
Guinness World Record Holder for a having cast consisting of 1768 characters
introduced over the first 980 episodes of the TV series and the first 20
films. That doesn't include the entire cast, apparently the producer nominated
even more characters but they weren't accepted.

[Guinness World Records](http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-
records/most-characters-in-an-animation-series) entry.


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