''Manu'' is a French

animated series An animated series is a set of animated works with a common series title, usually related to one another. These episodes should typically share the same main characters, some different secondary characters and a basic theme. Series can have either ...

, based on comic books by cartoonist

Frank Margerin Frank Margerin (born 9 January 1952, in Paris) is a Franco-Belgian comics, French author and illustrator of comics. Biography After lycée, secondary school, Margerin went to a school of applied art, where he met Denis Sire. He joined Sire's ba ...

. It premiered in 1991 and was about a teenager 'Manu' and situations in his own life, with the rest of his family and his friend Robert. It used to air in the

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(Dubbed into English) on the now defunct Children's Channel between 1992 and the channel's closure in 1998. It was produced by the French

animation studio An animation studio is a company producing animated media. The broadest such companies conceive of products to produce, own the physical equipment for production, employ operators for that equipment, and hold a major stake in the sales or rentals ...

"Jingle", and the French and defunct network

La Cinq La Cinq () was France's first privately owned free-to-air television network. Created by politician Jérôme Seydoux and Italian media mogul Silvio Berlusconi, the network broadcast from 1985 to 1992. The contract for France's fifth terrest ...

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* 1990s French animated television series 1991 French television series debuts French children's animated comedy television series {{animation-tv-prog-stub