Mugen Monday - Fourth Edition

The life of the Editor-In-Chief of Spiel Anime looks like guzzling a large chunk of Anime liquid down his throat all day all the time. Upon such adventures, I do often come upon multiple fun topics.

While writers focus on some 2-3 article topics a day, editors have it hard (haha). We gaze through the abyss that is the growing Anime industry, checking each nook and cranny to find the most relentlessly-views-bringingly-extorbitant piece of information. And in doing the same, we come upon interesting things.

An amusing thought regarding the highest running Anime of all time

Quite recently, my memory of an old meme I had seen on Facebook was reimbursed. One of our writers pitched a topic that said “You won’t believe what’s the longest running Anime”, and the gimmick of the write-up was that it isn’t One Piece.

For something that has been running for well over 20 years, you’d think One Piece is the longest-running Anime piece in history. But Sazae san takes the helm with over 7000 episodes, and each episode is well over 23 minutes.

This brushed a linear line of thoughts into my otherwise waifu-encapsulated head. That Sazae-san has reached a lesser Western audience than certain other Anime. Then I wondered why shows like Doraemon and Shinchan burst up.

This line of thinking led me to realize that the latter only burst out in South Asia and partially in Eastern Asian countries. Singapore, Bhutan, Nepal, India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh were exposed to a localised Japanese Anime environment in the 1990s, beginning obviously with Dragonball Z.

• Sazae san is quite unlike Dragonball Z, which is the 90s action-fanatic’s greatest bible.

• For Sazae san dealt quite explicitly with a more Japanese cultural and daily household-kinda story setting than planetary expeditions.

• And perhaps partly because of that, it never scattered beyond the Japanese mainland and into the appeal of the global audience who had little idea of about Japan and its ways of being. Although today almost every other household has a moe-fan, so the statement is logistically invalid due to time changing.
  

While we are at it, do you know that Naruto, One Piece, and Bleach missed their golden opportunity to all air during the same weekly schedule? Yes, the Naruto reboot Anime was scheduled for last week, at the entry of which we finally would have seen the big 3 of Anime Shonen finally be aired in the same month.

Yet we missed it big when Naruto reboot producers felt the urgency of more time to refine their work, delaying the episode releases inevitably. But you know what you’re not missing?

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- From the Editor’s Desk

Rhytham Das, Editor-in-Chief, Spiel Anime