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>the Longest-Running Kids Animated Series in History There are at least 4 still in production animes which are all longer But I guess "history" = US history

>the Longest-Running Kids Animated Series in History There are at least 4 still in production animes which are all longer But I guess "history" = US history Sazea-san 1969 https://myanimelist.net/anime/2406/Sazae-san https://myanimelist.net/anime/2406/Sazae-san Anpanman 1988 https://myanimelist.net/anime/1960/Sore_Ike_Anpanman https://myanimelist.net/anime/1960/Sore_Ike_Anpanman Shin-chan 1992 https://myanimelist.net/anime/966/Crayon_Shin-chan https://myanimelist.net/anime/966/Crayon_Shin-chan Nintama Rantaro 1993 https://myanimelist.net/anime/1199/Nintama_Rantarou https://myanimelist.net/anime/1199/Nintama_Rantarou

civilized 5y ago
Sazae-san at 52 years and still going strong. Wow! Had anyone heard of it before reading this post?
- johnzim 5y ago
  Yes! It's one of the few things I can watch and understand reliably in Japanese. It doesn't contain lots of slang or fantastical words.
- lovemenot 5y ago
  It's broadcast at dinner time on Sundays. So yes, living in Japan one can hardly fail to know it. Character don't age. Technology is not really present, so it's kind of timeless. Sazae herself is named after a shellfish. As are all the other main characters. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_cornutus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_cornutus
- gkanai 5y ago
  Everyone in Japan knows this animated show.
- sdrothrock 5y ago
  Sazae-san is such an institution here that there's slang describing the feeling when you watch it on Sunday night and know you have a full work week coming up: Sazae-san Syndrome.
  - frameset 5y ago
    That's interesting. Growing up in the UK as a child the equivalent of Sazae-san Syndrome was hearing the Antiques Roadshow theme. Even now when I hear that music it fills me with the Sunday night blues.
da_chicken 5y ago
Shin-chan is absolutely not aimed at kids. The manga was a seinen, or young adult men, demographic. It's an older demographic target than shonen like Naruto or Dragonball Z. An equivalent here would be South Park or Family Guy.
- Fordec 5y ago
  Then why was it on Fox Kids along side stuff like Digimon, Beyblade and Hercules[0] when I was a child? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_programs_broadcast_by_Fox_Kids https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_programs_broadcast_by_...
  - p1necone 5y ago
    English localizations of anime in that time period were often pretty heavily changed from the Japanese originals. I haven't seen this one in particular but I wouldn't be surprised if it was practically a different show by the time western translators and editors were done with it. Edit: Yep, from the wikipedia page: "Many characters had their names changed to American-sounding ones, the original background music was completely replaced with new background music, and scenes with nudity were edited to remove any signs of indecent exposure. Most adult jokes were re-made into family-friendly jokes, and the profanity was edited out. However, the frequent appearance of Shinnosuke's naked buttocks, as well as humor relating to breast-size and sexual themes, remained in the finished product. Some episodes that displayed adult material and mature content were not dubbed at all. Additionally, the episodes were dubbed out of their original order which created continuity errors. For example, episode 29 shows Shin bringing his classmates to visit his newborn sister, episode 30 shows his sister coming home from her birth in the hospital and in episode 52 it was revealed that Shin was going to have a sister."
    - atatatat 5y ago
      And I thought the people doing the subtitles of non-English films on Netflix were embarrassing. These guys didn't even try.
glandium 5y ago
Chibi Maruko-chan 1990 (but paused between 92-95 ; but even counting 1995 as start, that's still older than Arthur) https://myanimelist.net/anime/951/Chibi_Maruko-chan https://myanimelist.net/anime/951/Chibi_Maruko-chan https://myanimelist.net/anime/6149/Chibi_Maruko-chan_1995 https://myanimelist.net/anime/6149/Chibi_Maruko-chan_1995 Detective Conan, January 1996 https://myanimelist.net/anime/235/Detective_Conan https://myanimelist.net/anime/235/Detective_Conan
munificent 5y ago
> But I guess "history" = US history It could be that everyone in the US is self-centered and thinks the world ends at the edge of North America. Or perhaps the executive producer who was quoted simply didn't know of these shows and made an honest mistake.
- wil421 5y ago
  NPR is National Public Radio based in the US. Not sure why they would ever report on how long a Japanese anime that isn’t broadcast in US runs.
  - rd07 5y ago
    Well, they could also titled it "The Longest-Running Kids Animated Series In US". Naming it the longest animated series in history implied that there is no other animated series produced all around the world, which run longer than it.
    - MichaelZuo 5y ago
      I agree, the original poster is correct as the title is factually wrong by any reasonable definition of ‘kid’ and ‘animated series’. Hopefully NPR will correct the title to make it less misleading.
atian 5y ago
distributional evidence is the strongest form of evidence
kinow 5y ago
Agreed, I came looking to see if anyone was going to mention Sazae san. I thought detective Conan would be really old, but it's from 1996 https://myanimelist.net/anime/235/Detective_Conan https://myanimelist.net/anime/235/Detective_Conan. Lupin III is old but not sure if still in production https://myanimelist.net/anime/1412/Lupin_III https://myanimelist.net/anime/1412/Lupin_III
- Talanes 5y ago
  Lupin III has been airing new series semi-consistently up to the present, but I believe each part is a separate production.
l-_l-_l-_lo_ol 5y ago
I mean... you gotta kinda narrow it down at some point, considering this is an American site posted on by mostly Americans, in English.
- larsrc 5y ago
  Are you looking for the American version of the _Inter_net? It's over on yahoo.com.
- Tade0 5y ago
  I see this argument brought up often in such discussions, but the data doesn't seem to support it: https://www.similarweb.com/website/news.ycombinator.com/#overview https://www.similarweb.com/website/news.ycombinator.com/#ove... At least on desktop around 40% of the visitors are located in the US. One could argue that the other countries are represented by expat Americans, but the US also has a sizeable immigrant community.
  - hutzlibu 5y ago
    Ok, I am curious about that link: how reliable is that data? I mean, where did they even get their data from?
    - yorwba 5y ago
      They give a vague description of their data collection process here: https://www.similarweb.com/corp/ourdata/ https://www.similarweb.com/corp/ourdata/ I bet the raw data is pretty noisy (since most HN users probably won't e.g. allow a shady extension to report their browsing habits, Similarweb is likely only seeing a small sample of all traffic) but as long as the noise is uncorrelated with the demographics they're tracking, they can probably arrive in the right ballpark. Or you could just ask dang: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27656775 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27656775 Although I'm pretty sure he said something like "Last I checked, about 50% of HN readers were in the US" a few years ago as well, so I don't know whether that info is up to date.
vincvinc 5y ago
> "Arthur is the longest-running kids animated series in history [...]" said the show's executive producer Let's not forget the German Sandmännchen (children's bedtime stop motion animation) running since 1959 ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandm%C3%A4nnchen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandm%C3%A4nnchen And in Japan there's a few more in addition to the ones parent comment mentioned: Detective Conan January 8, 1996 Chibi Maruko-chan January 8, 1995 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_anime_series_by_episode_count https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_anime_series_by_episod...
- eru 5y ago
  The Sandmännchen ain't animated though, or is it now?
  - zahrc 5y ago
    Stop motion animation is still animation and as far as I can remember (born in 1994) it also had smaller cartoon animation clips.
    - fogihujy 5y ago
      It was a mixed bag; there was live action scenes aswell.
      - eru 5y ago
        There was also the West German and the East German Sandmaennchen.
aaron695 5y ago
PBS - "Arthur is an animated series aimed at viewers ages four to eight." Sazea-san is family for instance and rates across all age groups. Not sure about the others.

civilized 5y ago

Sazae-san at 52 years and still going strong. Wow! Had anyone heard of it before reading this post?

johnzim 5y ago
Yes! It's one of the few things I can watch and understand reliably in Japanese. It doesn't contain lots of slang or fantastical words.
lovemenot 5y ago
It's broadcast at dinner time on Sundays. So yes, living in Japan one can hardly fail to know it. Character don't age. Technology is not really present, so it's kind of timeless. Sazae herself is named after a shellfish. As are all the other main characters. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_cornutus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_cornutus
gkanai 5y ago
Everyone in Japan knows this animated show.
sdrothrock 5y ago
Sazae-san is such an institution here that there's slang describing the feeling when you watch it on Sunday night and know you have a full work week coming up: Sazae-san Syndrome.
- frameset 5y ago
  That's interesting. Growing up in the UK as a child the equivalent of Sazae-san Syndrome was hearing the Antiques Roadshow theme. Even now when I hear that music it fills me with the Sunday night blues.

da_chicken 5y ago

Shin-chan is absolutely not aimed at kids. The manga was a seinen, or young adult men, demographic. It's an older demographic target than shonen like Naruto or Dragonball Z. An equivalent here would be South Park or Family Guy.

Fordec 5y ago
Then why was it on Fox Kids along side stuff like Digimon, Beyblade and Hercules[0] when I was a child? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_programs_broadcast_by_Fox_Kids https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_programs_broadcast_by_...
- p1necone 5y ago
  English localizations of anime in that time period were often pretty heavily changed from the Japanese originals. I haven't seen this one in particular but I wouldn't be surprised if it was practically a different show by the time western translators and editors were done with it. Edit: Yep, from the wikipedia page: "Many characters had their names changed to American-sounding ones, the original background music was completely replaced with new background music, and scenes with nudity were edited to remove any signs of indecent exposure. Most adult jokes were re-made into family-friendly jokes, and the profanity was edited out. However, the frequent appearance of Shinnosuke's naked buttocks, as well as humor relating to breast-size and sexual themes, remained in the finished product. Some episodes that displayed adult material and mature content were not dubbed at all. Additionally, the episodes were dubbed out of their original order which created continuity errors. For example, episode 29 shows Shin bringing his classmates to visit his newborn sister, episode 30 shows his sister coming home from her birth in the hospital and in episode 52 it was revealed that Shin was going to have a sister."
  - atatatat 5y ago
    And I thought the people doing the subtitles of non-English films on Netflix were embarrassing. These guys didn't even try.

glandium 5y ago

Chibi Maruko-chan 1990 (but paused between 92-95 ; but even counting 1995 as start, that's still older than Arthur) https://myanimelist.net/anime/951/Chibi_Maruko-chan https://myanimelist.net/anime/951/Chibi_Maruko-chan https://myanimelist.net/anime/6149/Chibi_Maruko-chan_1995 https://myanimelist.net/anime/6149/Chibi_Maruko-chan_1995 Detective Conan, January 1996 https://myanimelist.net/anime/235/Detective_Conan https://myanimelist.net/anime/235/Detective_Conan

munificent 5y ago

> But I guess "history" = US history It could be that everyone in the US is self-centered and thinks the world ends at the edge of North America. Or perhaps the executive producer who was quoted simply didn't know of these shows and made an honest mistake.

wil421 5y ago
NPR is National Public Radio based in the US. Not sure why they would ever report on how long a Japanese anime that isn’t broadcast in US runs.
- rd07 5y ago
  Well, they could also titled it "The Longest-Running Kids Animated Series In US". Naming it the longest animated series in history implied that there is no other animated series produced all around the world, which run longer than it.
  - MichaelZuo 5y ago
    I agree, the original poster is correct as the title is factually wrong by any reasonable definition of ‘kid’ and ‘animated series’. Hopefully NPR will correct the title to make it less misleading.

atian 5y ago

distributional evidence is the strongest form of evidence

kinow 5y ago

Agreed, I came looking to see if anyone was going to mention Sazae san. I thought detective Conan would be really old, but it's from 1996 https://myanimelist.net/anime/235/Detective_Conan https://myanimelist.net/anime/235/Detective_Conan. Lupin III is old but not sure if still in production https://myanimelist.net/anime/1412/Lupin_III https://myanimelist.net/anime/1412/Lupin_III

Talanes 5y ago
Lupin III has been airing new series semi-consistently up to the present, but I believe each part is a separate production.

l-_l-_l-_lo_ol 5y ago

I mean... you gotta kinda narrow it down at some point, considering this is an American site posted on by mostly Americans, in English.

larsrc 5y ago
Are you looking for the American version of the _Inter_net? It's over on yahoo.com.
Tade0 5y ago
I see this argument brought up often in such discussions, but the data doesn't seem to support it: https://www.similarweb.com/website/news.ycombinator.com/#overview https://www.similarweb.com/website/news.ycombinator.com/#ove... At least on desktop around 40% of the visitors are located in the US. One could argue that the other countries are represented by expat Americans, but the US also has a sizeable immigrant community.
- hutzlibu 5y ago
  Ok, I am curious about that link: how reliable is that data? I mean, where did they even get their data from?
  - yorwba 5y ago
    They give a vague description of their data collection process here: https://www.similarweb.com/corp/ourdata/ https://www.similarweb.com/corp/ourdata/ I bet the raw data is pretty noisy (since most HN users probably won't e.g. allow a shady extension to report their browsing habits, Similarweb is likely only seeing a small sample of all traffic) but as long as the noise is uncorrelated with the demographics they're tracking, they can probably arrive in the right ballpark. Or you could just ask dang: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27656775 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27656775 Although I'm pretty sure he said something like "Last I checked, about 50% of HN readers were in the US" a few years ago as well, so I don't know whether that info is up to date.

vincvinc 5y ago

> "Arthur is the longest-running kids animated series in history [...]" said the show's executive producer Let's not forget the German Sandmännchen (children's bedtime stop motion animation) running since 1959 ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandm%C3%A4nnchen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandm%C3%A4nnchen And in Japan there's a few more in addition to the ones parent comment mentioned: Detective Conan January 8, 1996 Chibi Maruko-chan January 8, 1995 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_anime_series_by_episode_count https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_anime_series_by_episod...

eru 5y ago
The Sandmännchen ain't animated though, or is it now?
- zahrc 5y ago
  Stop motion animation is still animation and as far as I can remember (born in 1994) it also had smaller cartoon animation clips.
  - fogihujy 5y ago
    It was a mixed bag; there was live action scenes aswell.
    - eru 5y ago
      There was also the West German and the East German Sandmaennchen.

aaron695 5y ago

PBS - "Arthur is an animated series aimed at viewers ages four to eight." Sazea-san is family for instance and rates across all age groups. Not sure about the others.