Forum - View topicThe Simpsons? Longest Running?
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Mohawk52
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According to the internet "The Simpsons" is touted as "the longest running animated television series" starting from 1988 and up to 400 episodes. I can't find any info about the longest anime series still running, but surely there is at least one series that could do better than that in terms of the same criteria?
Last edited by Mohawk52 on Thu Jun 28, 2007 7:16 am; edited 1 time in total |
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dormcat
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Iwatch2muchanime
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Doraemon and Sazae-san has almost 2000 episodes.
EDIT, dormcat posted links to another thread. |
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Mohawk52
Posts: 8202 Location: England, UK |
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Thanks Dormcat, I knew you would come up with the goods.
Strangely that link didn't appear on my search engine. Last edited by Mohawk52 on Thu Jun 28, 2007 6:55 am; edited 1 time in total |
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dormcat
Encyclopedia Editor
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What is this, fishing me with a bait? I expected a veteran like you could use the search engine more efficiently. |
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Mohawk52
Posts: 8202 Location: England, UK |
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Anyway that still points out how incorrect they are to boast so loudly the "the Simpsons is the longest running animated television series." |
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TestamentSaki
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They should state is as the "longest-running AMERICAN animated series."
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LightYagami
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Generally stated in the simpsons hold the longest running AMERICAN Animated record, which for an AMERICAN show is very impressive and I doubt that I will see another AMERICAN Animated show touch the AMERICAN animated episode record in my lifetme. BUT for the world record the simpsons misses it by a long shot. I also think the main qualifier(s) for this argument longest running anime seires should be the following: 1. The series episodes must be in duration of at least 20+ minutes(NO LESS). 2. Series that contain nothing but 5-10 minute segments per episode should NOT count. |
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abunai
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Those are artificial criteria, seemingly set up to favoritize the American-style animation programming. Plenty of animation traditions around the world deal with short-duration episodes, and these criteria would exclude many great Eastern European works, or even little gems like "La Linea". Of course, the obvious compromise is to look at total running time over the duration of the series. So a series of 1000 episodes of 10 minutes each would equal a series of 400 episodes of 25 minutes. - abunai |
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KyuuA4
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400 episodes for about 20 years... that's about 20 episodes a year. That really isn't much when y'break it down like that.
Well, during the "what is anime" arguments -- I've seem to notice that "animated series" tends to default as "American/Western/non-Japanese". Y'can check out the categorization used in Wiki as well. |
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jgreen
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The way I've always read it is that The Simpsons is the "longest running prime time animated series on American TV," which is most definitely true: it slaughtered The Flintstones' previous record of 167 episodes.
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Tony K.
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Uh.. right. So the answer's been found, and we have good threads for future refernece, thanks to dormcat. Moving on now, since The Simpsons isn't anime >_>...
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