Dame Oyaji

Directed by

Yoshitarō Nomura

Genre

comedy anime and manga

Country

Japan

How it feels

This anime is about a no-good dad and his family's daily misadventures. It follows the father's bumbling attempts to avoid responsibility, leading to slapstick situations.

slapstickabsurdcomedicfast-pacedquirkydatedgoofywhimsical

What happens

Dame Oyaji (ダメおやじ; lit. "No Good Dad") is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Mitsutoshi Furuya. It was serialized by Shogakukan in Shōnen Sunday from September 23, 1970 (issue 43) to July 28, 1982 (issue 30). Dame Oyaji received the 1979 Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen manga. The manga was compiled in thirty-nine tankōbon volumes, with Akebono Shuppan publishing the first 21 volumes under their Akebono Comics label and Shogakukan publishing the final 18 volumes under their Shōnen Sunday Comics label. All 39 volumes are available in eBook format via eBook Japan, the Shogakukan volumes (starting with volume 4) subtitled as the "My Way" arc. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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