Sore Ike! Anpanman Premieres

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Premiere: Soreike! Anpanman ~~by TMS Entertainment premiered~~debuted on Nippon TV on 3 October 1988 and is still ~~airing, with over 1,300 episodes Based~~ airing. Earlier screen version: a one-off anime based on Takashi Yanase's picture books ~~(from 1973); Anpanman,~~ aired on NHK General TV on 13 March 1979, narrated by Meiko Nakamura, nearly a ~~hero~~ decade before this series. Production: TMS Entertainment (credited as Tokyo Movie Shinsha until 1995) produces the show, with ~~an anpan for a head, fights~~ Akinori Nagaoka and Shunji Oga as directors, music by Hiroaki Kondo and Taku Izumi, and Keiko Toda voicing the ~~germ Baikinman A full-length film has been released yearly since 1989 except 2020, along with 32 Christmas specials The~~ bean-bun hero. Scale: Wikipedia's infobox gives 1,640 episodes (3,450 segments) while its body text says more than 1,300, so the exact count is uncertain. Record: Guinness World Records verified in March 2009 that the franchise ~~overtook Hello Kitty as Japan's top-grossing character~~ had 1,768 characters across the first 980 TV episodes and the first 20 films, the most in ~~2002,~~ an animated franchise. The producers had applied with over ~~80 million books sold~~2,000, but items such as ~~of February 2019 It holds a~~ Pan Kojo and Baikin Shiro were disregarded. 2009 ~~Guinness World Record~~ milestones: the 1,000th TV episode was scheduled for 28 August 2009 and the 21st film opened on 4 July 2009; Yanase, then 90, was reportedly among the most ~~characters in an animated~~ surprised by the record. Source: the franchise ~~(1,768)~~grew out of Yanase's picture books, begun in 1973, with the hero fighting the germ villain Baikinman.
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Sore Ike! Anpanman Premieres
myanimelist.net· Posted Sep 19, 2026· Starts Oct 3, 1988· 50% of score
Premiere date confirmed on the title's own MyAnimeList listing.
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Anpanman on Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org· Added Sep 19, 2026· 50% of score
Wikipedia's Anpanman article confirms TMS Entertainment, the October 3, 1988 NTV premiere and the Guinness character record.
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Anpanman Gets Guinness World Record for Most Characters
animenewsnetwork.com· Published Jul 15, 2009· 0% of score
Verifies 1,768 characters across 980 episodes and 20 films, the 1988 premiere and 2009 milestones.^[1]

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