The anime series, which has been on the air since 1969 and is still going strong, is history’s longest-running animated show.
One of the very first examples of modern manga, Sazae-san is another long-lived franchise that continues to have an audience today. It follows the daily life of the quirky young woman Sazae and her family in postwar Japan. It is one of the fundamental works that helped establish the yonkoma structure for manga, as well as the emergence of slice-of-life stories in the medium. The anime series, which has been on the air since 1969 and is still going strong, is history’s longest-running animated show.