Sunset on Third Street
Sunset on Third Street | |
三丁目の夕日 (San-Chōme no Yūhi) | |
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Genre | Comedy, Drama |
Manga | |
Written by | |
Published by | Shogakukan |
Magazine | Big Comic Original |
Demographic | Seinen |
Original run | 1974 – present |
Volumes | 65 |
Anime television series | |
Directed by | Tsuneo Maeda |
Music by | Kentarō Haneda Yasuko Tomita (OP, ED) Kumiko Mori |
Studio | Group Tac, Toho |
Original network | TBS |
Original run | October 12, 1990 – March 22, 1991 |
Episodes | 27 |
Sunset on Third Street (三丁目の夕日 夕焼けの詩, San-Chōme no Yūhi Yūyake no Uta) is a Japanese manga series by . As of 2017, 65 volumes of the manga have been published. It was also a short-lived anime series from 1990 to 1991 and three films, Always Sanchōme no Yūhi, Always: Sunset on Third Street 2 and Always Sanchōme no Yūhi '64, were based on stories and characters from the manga. It won the 27th Shogakukan Manga Award for general manga.[1]
Overview[]
The comic is set in postwar Japan between 1955 and 1964 and focuses on stories illustrating the humor and pathos of ordinary life in the Japan of that era, mainly about the residents of the fictional Tokyo neighborhood of "San-Chome" - "Third Block" . However, many stories take place with one-story characters (not only people but animals and legendary creatures) and in other parts of Japan.
References[]
- ^ 小学館漫画賞:歴代受賞者 (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Retrieved 2009-12-27.
External links[]
- Sunset on Third Street (manga) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
- Manga series
- 1974 manga
- 1990 anime television series
- Sunset on Third Street
- Anime series based on manga
- Comedy anime and manga
- Drama anime and manga
- Group TAC
- Mainichi Broadcasting System original programming
- Seinen manga
- Shogakukan manga
- Tokyo Broadcasting System Television original programming
- Winners of the Shogakukan Manga Award for general manga
- Manga stubs