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television series ''

The Laughing Salesman is a Japanese manga series created by Fujiko Fujio. The manga began as a one-shot series serialized in Shogakukan's ''Big Comic'' magazine on 1968, later becoming a full-fledged series published by Jitsugyo no Nihon Sha's ''Manga Sunday ...

'' is based in on the Japanese

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series of the same name created by

Fujiko A. Fujio was a manga writing duo formed by Japanese manga artists and . They formed their partnership in 1951, and used the Fujiko Fujio name from 1954 until dissolution of the partnership in 1987, upon Fujimoto's illness. The pair was best known ...

. The first animated series was produced by

Shin-Ei Animation is a Japanese animation studio owned by TV Asahi and founded in Tokyo in 1965 as A-Production by Daikichirō Kusube, who was previously an animator for Toei Animation. Shin-Ei is known for being the animation studio behind two of the anime tele ...

and commenced screening on TBS as part of the Gimme a Break variety show on 17 October 1989 and extended for three seasons with a total of 117 episodes which included 9 specials and 1 prologue pilot. The series consists of stories adapted from the manga as well as brand new original stories created for the anime. The series began with a short 4 minute prologue and each episode is 10 minutes in length. A number of specials were also released, often double-length and containing two separate self-contained stories. The names of the characters in the summaries are written in the Japanese order to obtain the alternate meaning or reference when both names are read aloud.

Season 1

The first animated series was produced by

and commenced screening on TBS as part of the Gimme a Break variety show on 17 October 1989. The series was directed by Toshirō Kuni with scripts by Yasuo Tanami and music by Kōhei Tanaka.

Season 2

Season 3

Special Programming

These episodes aired together on three specific days as 2 hour specials.

New Laughing Salesman

References

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