Modern anime fans are used to a 12 or 24-episode format for anime series, where, if they're lucky, their favorite prove might get a second or a third season. This wasn't the case a few decades agone, where anime kept on airing episode after episode, as is evidenced by series like Naruto and Dragon Ball.

Notwithstanding, while those serial concluded (despite their high number of filler episodes), there are anime like One Slice that are however ambulation to this date. In reality, there are anime much older than One Piece that take been airing their episodes for equally long as nearly half a century!

10 Palatial Da yo! Kaishain: Has Aired 900+ Episodes

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This 2019 slice-of-life ONA is peradventure the but show on this list that belongs to the post-2000 anime era. The reason it's been able to accumulate so many episodes within a short bridge of time is that each episode is merely 2 minutes long.

This anime tin can exist said to be a remake of the original show with the same proper noun. The story is fairly basic, where it follows the day-to-twenty-four hours life of a human named Kamoyama, who ends upwards working as the Sales Department Z'due south manager – for shellfish!

9 Ane Piece: Has Aired 950+ Episodes

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Monkey D. Luffy is a goofy teenage boy who also happens to be a pirate, but an anarchistic i. He does not loot places or conquer people – he'due south a pirate because he loves going on adventures and meeting new people.

Of grade, much similar any other pirate out in that location, Luffy has his eyes on the ultimate prize called I Piece; fortune and riches that are said to be limitless in their corporeality. Non to mention, whoever gets to the One Piece starting time, too gets the coveted title of the Pirate Male monarch.

viii Detective Conan: Case Closed: Has Aired ane,000+ Episodes

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7-year-erstwhile Shinichi Kudou start made his appearance on television on the 8th of Jan, 1996, where he was caught past criminals and given an experimental drug. When he opened his optics again, he was shocked to learn that he had the torso of a 7-yr-old boy!

Undeterred, he used his resources and intellect to build a new identity for himself and used his new life to solve varying criminal cases, including finding an antidote to this mysterious condition he was suffering from.

7 Crayon Shin-Chan: Has Aired 1,000+ Episodes

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Shinnosuke Nohara, more popularly known as Shin-chan, is a 5-year-old boy that lives quite an extraordinary life. Right from sumo wrestling in the name of love, to forgetting the commitment he fabricated to his friends – Shin-chan has done information technology all!

This slice-of-life anime's plot and stories are pretty episodic in nature, and information technology always focuses on the adventures of this naughty immature boy, along with other people in his life, including his friends, school teachers, and even higher girls!

6 Doraemon (2005): Has Aired 1,100+ Episodes

Doraemon (2005): Has Aired 1100+ Episodes

This is one name that even non-anime fans would recognize – such is the popularity of Doraemon. Its story revolves effectually a blueish robot cat that is from the hereafter that warns Nobita Nobi of his time to come generations' imminent doom. So, together, the duo sets out to make things right for Nobita's future generations.

To Doraemon's dismay, Nobita is the laziest and dumbest boy in his school. It seems that not even Doraemon'south gadgets from the future tin can help Nobita go a meliorate version of himself!

5 Little Miss Maruko: Has Aired 1,200+ Episodes

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The anime's offset episode aired in 1992, and information technology was picked up again in 1995. Information technology details the life of an otaku girl named Momoko Sakura, who earns the nickname "Chibi" (pregnant pocket-sized or trivial) due to her short tiptop.

She has her easily full with not only everything she has to bargain with at school (her weird friends, her strict teachers, the student committee members, and whatnot), only too all the drama she has to deal with at home as well.

4 Sore Ike! Anpanman: Has Aired 1,500+ Episodes

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Anpanman is a very unique superhero considering he was created when a Star of Life caused anpan (a Japanese dish) to come to life! Non only does Anpanman fight evil and proceed criminals at bay, but he also helps feed poor and hungry people, whenever he comes across them.

This is a lite-hearted anime that boasts quite a wide number of characters, and fans who are interested in enjoying something casual, fun, and laidback, this anime is highly recommended.

three Ojarumaru: Has Aired 1,800+ Episodes

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This children's show takes place ane,000 years ago, during the Heian era, where Ojarumaru finds a powerful magic object and is transported to modern-twenty-four hours Japan. Shocked and dislocated, Ojarumaru is immediately befriended by a sweetness boy named Kazuma.

Thanks to him, Ojarumaru is able to learn a lot about this new and fascinating globe, and slowly but steadily, he is also able to brand some peachy friends along the mode.

2 Nintama Rantarou: Has Aired 2,200+ Episodes

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Rantarou is a immature ninja who is always accompanied past his two in-training ninja friends – Shinbe (the chubby boy who'southward the barrel of all jokes) and Kirimaru (a young male child who's obsessed with the sound of money).

Whenever the boys are together, they do anything and everything except what they're supposed to do: railroad train to become strong ninja! They always get themselves involved in some bad-mannered situation or the other, after which they spend the rest of their time trying to get out of said sticky situations, without getting hurt.

1 Mrs. Sazae: Has Aired 7,000+ Episodes

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With its offset episode aired way dorsum in 1969, information technology's no surprise that this prove has managed to air such a massive number of episodes. In fact, information technology'due south earned itself a identify in the Guinness World Records for beingness the longest-running anime, ever.

The story revolves around a married lady, who is only recognized as Mrs. Sazae, and is essentially the anime version of a typical Japanese "family" plan. It'southward total of the mundane happenings in Mrs. Sazae's life and is the blazon of anime one can watch easily with their entire family unit.

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