The Gutsy Frog

The Gutsy Frog
First tankōbon volume cover
ど根性ガエル
(Dokonjō Gaeru)
GenreGag comedy
Manga
Written byYasumi Yoshizawa
Published byShueisha
ImprintJump Comics
MagazineWeekly Shōnen Jump
DemographicShōnen
Original runJuly 27, 1970June 14, 1976
Volumes27
Anime television series
Directed by
Written by
Music byKenjiro Hirose
Studio
Original networkJNN (ABC, TBS)
English network
Original run October 7, 1972 September 28, 1974
Episodes103 (206 segments)
Anime television series
The Gutsy Frog 2
Directed byTsutomu Shibayama
Produced by
  • Yasuji Takahashi
  • Shunzō Katō
Written byYoshio Urasawa et al
Music byReijirō Koroku
StudioTokyo Movie Shinsha
Original networkNNS (NTV)
Original run September 7, 1981 March 29, 1982
Episodes30 (60 segments)
Anime film
New Gutsy Frog: The Gutsy Pillow
Directed byTsutomu Shibayama
Music byReijirō Koroku
StudioTokyo Movie Shinsha
ReleasedMarch 13, 1982 (1982-03-13)
Runtime38 minutes
Television drama
Directed by
  • Shintarō Sugawara
  • Shunsuke Kariyama
  • Shunpei Maruya
  • Yūma Suzuki
Produced by
  • Hibiki Itō
  • Hidehiro Kawano
  • Hiroko Okura
Written byYoshikazu Okada
Music byHajime Sakita
Studio
  • Nippon TV
  • AX-ON Inc.
Original networkNippon TV
Original run July 11, 2015 September 19, 2015
Episodes10

The Gutsy Frog (Japanese: ど根性ガエル, Hepburn: Dokonjō Gaeru) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yasumi Yoshizawa. It was serialized in Shueisha's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump from July 1970 to June 1976, with its chapters collected in 27 tankōbon volumes. A 103-episode anime television series by Tokyo Movie was broadcast on ABC and TBS from October 1972 to September 1974; a second anime television series, titled The Gutsy Frog 2 (known in Japan as New Gutsy Frog), was broadcast on Nippon TV from September 1981 to March 1982. An anime film was released in March 1982. A ten-episode television drama aired on Nippon TV from July to September 2015.