Anpanman

On the data. THIS PAGE DELIBERATELY SHOWS NO EPISODE COUNT FOR THE SERIES. There is no current published total, and the numbers in circulation count different things. A BROADCAST HOLDS TWO STORIES, NORMALLY. Japanese Wikipedia states the rule plainly: a first half and a second half, two episodes to a slot. Single story broadcasts used to happen irregularly and since 2008 are limited to the anniversary edition in the first week of October, which is exactly what the broadcast of 2 October 2026 was. So a story count runs around twice a broadcast count and both get printed as episodes. EVERY FIGURE THAT HAS A DATE ON IT. The 1,000th regular broadcast on 29 August 2009. Nine hundred and eighty episodes, which was the scope Guinness used in 2009. Episode 1,472 on 4 October 2019. The 1,500th recording on 24 March 2020 and the 1,500th broadcast on 1 May 2020. Broadcast 1,631 on 6 October 2023, the thirty fifth anniversary edition. Broadcast 1,640 on 22 December 2023, which is the last figure that can be tied to a date. English Wikipedia's infobox says 1,640 broadcasts and 3,450 segments, so its broadcast figure is effectively as of December 2023 and its segment figure has no source at all, while its own body text says over 1,300 episodes and contradicts the infobox. THE GUINNESS RECORD IS ABOUT CHARACTERS, NOT EPISODES. It is for the most characters in an animation series, at 1,768 different characters, verified as of March 2009 from the first nine hundred and eighty episodes and the first twenty films. The producers submitted over two thousand and Guinness struck out locations and disguises. The 1,768 is the single most misquoted number attached to this franchise and it is not an episode count. NO DATABASE IS USABLE. MyAnimeList says Unknown. TVmaze has no entry whatsoever and offers a form to request one. TheTVDB lists six hundred and ninety five episodes with three hundred unassigned, marks the show Ended, which is wrong, and its own pages disagree with each other. A separate MyAnimeList entry claiming 1,787 episodes from 1979 to 2005 conflates two different things and should be ignored. Anime News Network has an entry that could not be read. THERE ARE NO SEASONS. One continuous run since the April 1989 extension. What Japan divides it by is theme song generations and the annual October anniversary edition. TheTVDB invents thirty one numbered seasons with one missing in the middle. THE FILMS AND THE SHORTS ARE TWO DIFFERENT LISTS. Thirty seven features, one a year since 1989 apart from 2020. A separate line of shorts ran alongside them from 1990 to 2015. Adding the two together is the usual mistake. THE CHRISTMAS SPECIALS CANNOT BE COUNTED EITHER. English Wikipedia says thirty two were made and then lists twenty nine. Japanese Wikipedia says an hour long special every year from 1995 to 2010 and Christmas episodes every year since 2011 except 2024. No agreed total, so none is carried. IT DID NOT STOP WHEN THE AUTHOR DIED. Takashi Yanase died on 13 October 2013. The future of the broadcast was announced as undecided at the time and continuation was confirmed in 2014. The picture books ended with him; the series and the annual films carried on unbroken apart from the pandemic, which cost the 2020 film, stopped voice recording from April 2020 and forced reruns from that May, with new episodes back in August 2020. THERE IS NO CROSSOVER WITH ANOTHER FRANCHISE. What exists is influence and homage: One Punch Man was inspired by it, My Hero Academia has All Might reading it as a child, and a pop group named a song after it. Separately, NHK's 2025 drama Anpan is about Yanase and his wife and is not an Anpanman animation. ONE THING NOT TO COPY FROM WIKIPEDIA. Its infobox currently credits a writer whose name looks like vandalism. It is not carried here.

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