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Utsurun Desu

Japanese manga series

Field	Value
image	Utsurun Desu vol 1.png
caption	First ja volume cover, featuring Kawauso
ja_kanji	伝染るんです。
genre	Nonsensical comedy

is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by . It was serialized in Shogakukan's ja manga magazine Big Comic Spirits from 1989 to 1994, with its chapters collected in five ja volumes.

A video game, titled Utsurun Desu: Kawauso Hawaii e Iku!!!, was released in 1992. A three-episode original video animation (OVA), produced by DLE, was released in 2009. A series of 50-episode live-action shorts was released in that same year.

The manga has had over 3 million copies in circulation. It won the 37th Bungeishunjū Manga Award in 1991. It is regarded as one of the pioneers of the absurd .

Characters

;Kawauso : : ;Kappa : : ;Professor Yamazaki : : ;Mitchie : : ;Shiitake : : ;Tami Inuyama : : ;Kawanuma : :

Media

Manga

Written and illustrated by , Utsurun Desu was serialized in Shogakukan's ja manga magazine Big Comic Spirits from 1989 to 1994. Shogakukan collected its chapters in five ja volumes, released from November 1990 to August 1994.

A special chapter was published in Big Comic Spirits on November 12, 2012, as part of the "Heroes Come Back" anthology, which comprised short stories by manga artists to raise funds for recovery of the areas afflicted by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. A four-panel manga, titled , started in the Tokyo Shimbun newspaper on April 3, 2021. It changed to online publication on the newspaper's website on July 8, 2022.

Video game

Main article: Utsurun Desu: Kawauso Hawaii e Iku!!!{{!}}''Utsurun Desu: Kawauso Hawaii e Iku!!!''

A video game, titled Utsurun Desu: Kawauso Hawaii e Iku!!!, published by Takara, was released for the Nintendo Famicom on March 6, 1992.

Original video animation

A three-episode original video animation (OVA), produced by DLE, was released on DVD from August 21 to October 23, 2009.

Live-action shorts

A 50-episode live-action series, consisting of one-minute short episodes, was released on the mobile phone television service starting on October 6, 2009.

Reception

The manga has had over 3 million copies in circulation. In 1991, the series won the 37th Bungeishunjū Manga Award. It is regarded as one of the pioneers of the absurd .

Notes

References

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