Obake no Q-Tarō
| Obake no Q-Tarō | |
Obake no Q-Tarō on the cover of Bessatsu Shōnen Sunday | |
| オバケのQ太郎 (Obake no Kyū-Tarō) | |
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| Genre | Comedy |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Fujiko Fujio |
| Published by | Shogakukan |
| Imprint | Tentōmushi Comics |
| Magazine | Weekly Shōnen Sunday Bessatsu Shōnen Sunday |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Original run | 1964 – 1966 |
| Volumes | 12 |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Masaaki Osumi |
| Music by | Hiroshi Tsutsui |
| Studio | A-Production Tokyo Movie |
| Original network | TBS |
| Original run | August 29, 1965 – June 28, 1967 |
| Episodes | 96 |
| Manga | |
| Shin Obake no Q-Tarō | |
| Written by | Fujiko Fujio |
| Published by | Shogakukan |
| Imprint | Tentōmushi Comics |
| Magazine | Shogakukan Learning Magazine And other Shogakukan children's magazines |
| Demographic | Children |
| Original run | 1971 – 1973 |
| Volumes | 4 |
| Anime television series | |
| Shin Obake no Q-Tarō | |
| Directed by | Tadao Nagahama |
| Produced by | Harutoshi Kawaguchi Kensuke Fujii (NTV) |
| Music by | Naozumi Yamamoto |
| Studio | A-Production Tokyo Movie |
| Original network | NTV |
| Original run | September 1, 1971 – December 27, 1972 |
| Episodes | 70 (140 segments) |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Masuji Harada Hiroshi Sasagawa (Chief director) |
| Produced by | Junichi Kimura Yoshiaki Koizumi (TV Asahi) Yoshio Katō Seitarō Kodama (Shin-Ei Animation) (Asatsu-DK) |
| Music by | Shunsuke Kikuchi |
| Studio | Shin-Ei Animation |
| Original network | ANN (TV Asahi) |
| Original run | April 1, 1985 – March 29, 1987 |
| Episodes | 510 |
| Anime film | |
| Obake no Q-Tarō: Tobidase! Bake Bake Daisakusen | |
| Directed by | Hiroshi Sasagawa |
| Music by | Shunsuke Kikuchi |
| Studio | Shin-Ei Animation |
| Released | March 15, 1986 |
| Runtime | 15 minutes |
| Anime film | |
| Obake no Q-Tarō: Toidase! 1/100 Daisakusen | |
| Directed by | Hiroshi Sasagawa |
| Music by | Shunsuke Kikuchi |
| Studio | Shin-Ei Animation |
| Released | March 14, 1987 |
| Runtime | 15 minutes |
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Obake no Q-Tarō (Japanese: オバケのQ太郎, Hepburn: Obake no Kyū-Tarō) is a Japanese manga series by Fujiko Fujio about the titular obake, Q-Taro, who lives with the Ōhara family. Q-Tarō, also known as "Q-chan" or "Oba-Q", is a mischief-maker who likes to fly around scaring people and stealing food, though he is deathly afraid of dogs.
The story is usually focused on the antics of Q-Tarō and his friends. The manga was drawn in 1964–1966, 1971–1974, 1976 by the duo Fujiko Fujio (Hiroshi Fujimoto and Motoo Abiko). An English manga volume was published in Japan as Q the Spook.
There are three anime series adaptations of Obake no Q-Tarō. The first was shown on the Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS) in black and white, and ran from 1965 to 1967. The second series, produced in color, ran from 1971 to 1972 on Nippon TV. The third series ran from 1985 to 1987 on TV Asahi.
The series was broadcast in the United States in the 1970s as Little Ghost Q-Taro, making it one of only three works by Fujiko Fujio to reach North America. In France, one of the episodes of the 1965 series was aired in November 1967 as part of ORTF Chaine 2's Japanese week, complete with French subtitles.