Sazae-san
| Sazae-san | |
|---|---|
| Original title | サ ザ エ さ ん |
| genre | Comedy , everyday life |
| Manga | |
| country |
 Japan
|
| author | Hasegawa Machiko |
| publishing company | Kodansha |
| First publication | April 1946 - February 1974 |
| expenditure | 68 |
| Television broadcast | |
| Country of production | Japan |
| original language | Japanese |
| Year (s) | from 1969 |
| length | 25 minutes |
| Episodes | over 7500 |
| First broadcast | October 5th, 1969 on Fuji TV |
Sazae-san ( Japanese サ ザ エ さ ん ) is a Yonkoma - Manga by the Japanese illustrator Hasegawa Machiko . It was first published from 1946 to 1974. The manga was implemented as an anime , real television series and in the form of several films. The series has been running since 1969 with over 7,500 episodes, making it the anime series with the longest running time.
content
The comic strips revolve around the 27-year-old Japanese woman Sazae Isono ( 磯 野 サ ザ エ ). She lives with her father Namihei Isono ( 磯 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 post-war Japan. First they live in Kyūshū , later Tokyo . After Sazae married Masuo Fuguta ( フ グ 田 マ ス オ ), she also takes his last name. Both have a son named Tarao Fuguta ( フ グ 田 タ ラ オ ).
Sazae has to help her family through the post-war period and the hunger and also later to fill the various roles in the household, as daughter, wife and mother. She also advocates women's rights and emancipation without disregarding tradition.
The stories each deal with problems of their time, so Sazae is angry about the American soldiers in the 1940s and the family has to fight against hunger. Later, the older family members are confronted with the modern achievements like shopping malls. The student movement in the 1960s is also an issue. Most of the time, the events remain simple and everyday. The choice of the characters' names also corresponded to the 1940s. Since there was famine, the characters in the entertainment media were mostly named after food, in Sazae-san after a turban snail ( Turbo cornutus ).
Manga publication
The manga was published in the local newspaper Fukunichi Shimbun from April 1946 . From 1949 to February 1974 the series appeared in the Asahi Shimbun newspaper . The comic strips each consist of four panels . The approximately 10,000 individual comic strips later appeared in 68 books collected by Kōdansha . The publisher also published the series in English.
Anime
Studio Eiken has been producing an anime television series based on the manga since 1969 . 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 has been broadcast in Japan by Fuji TV since October 5, 1969 . Each week a series of around 25 minutes is broadcast, which in turn consists of three individual episodes. The series comprises over 2100 episodes with 3 chapters each, which were broadcast with a market share of up to 39.4 percent. This makes Sazae-san one of the most successful anime series.
Until October 2013, Sazae-san was the last anime that was still traditionally drawn by hand on cels .
synchronization
| role | Japanese voice actor ( seiyū ) |
|---|---|
| Sazae | Midori Kato |
| Nanbutsu Isasaka | Eken Mine |
| Taeko | Emiko Tsukada |
| Ukie Isazaka | Eriko Kawasaki |
| Hiroshi Masuoka | Masuo |
music
The opening title Sazae-san and the closing song Sazae-san Ikka are from Yuko Uno .
Further adaptations
The manga was also adapted as a live action film (1956 and 1957) and a drama . The television series ran from 1965 to 1967, followed by a second on NHK in 1979 . Several songs have been written about Sazae-san . A radio play series was broadcast as early as 1955.
Success and importance
Sazae-san is the longest running anime television series. The anthologies of the manga sold over 20 million copies. There is a manga museum in Tokyo's Shibuya district . In addition, two research projects on the series were launched in 1981 and 1992.
Frederik L. Schodt justifies the success with the fact that the stories told are commonplace and so many could identify with the characters and laugh at their mishaps. Sazae also symbolizes the new Japanese woman who takes care of the family and traditions, but is optimistic and independent. The success of the series by Hasegawa contributed to the fact that women in Japan later became active as mangaka , which was previously a male-dominated profession.
According to Patrick Drazen, the success of the anime is also due to the fact that the early forms of the American series are used. Three short episodes each week, independent of each other, had also previously been successful in the USA.
In Japan, there is the term Sazae-san Syndrome ( サ ザ エ さ ん 症候群 , Sazae-san shōkōgun ), which describes a depressed mood on the Sunday night the series is on TV and reminds people that the weekend is over goes.
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of episodes up to 2016 at filmweb.pl, accessed on February 15, 2020.
- ↑ a b c d e Patrick Drazen: Anime Explosion - The What? Why? and wow! of Japanese Animation. P. 140 f. Stone Bridge Press, 2003.
- ↑ a b c d e Frederik L. Schodt: Manga! Manga! - The World of Japanese Comics. Pp. 61, 96 f. Kodansha International, 1983.
- ↑ fujitv.co.jp
- ↑ Last TV Anime With Physical Cels Makes Digital Transition. In: Anime News Network. September 27, 2013, accessed December 7, 2013 .
- ^ Mark MacWilliams: Introduction . In: Mark W. MacWilliams (Ed.): Japanese Visual Culture. Explorations in the World of Manga and Anime . ME Sharpe, 2008, ISBN 978-0-7656-1602-9 , pp. 4 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
Web links
- Fuji TV on the series (Japanese)
- Sazae-san in the Internet Movie Database
- Anime News Network about the manga and anime (English)