List of Sgt. Frog episodes
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The episodes of the Sgt. Frog
anime
series, originally titled as Keroro Gunso, is a Japanese
television series
produced and animated by Sunrise Inc.
It first began airing in Japan on the television network
TV Tokyo
on April 3, 2004, and has since broadcast over 300 episodes, which are normally constituted from two 15 minutes shorts mostly and sometimes one 30 minutes story. The anime is an adaptation
of Mine Yoshizaki
's manga
series of the same name, which was first serialized
in Japan's Shōnen Ace
in 1999, and has been toned down for children instead of focusing in teenagers. The anime itself is divided by seasons with a duration of a year (51 episodes per season, one per week except the first week of January), always starting and ending the first week of April.
The series centers around the invasion on Earth
of a Platoon of 5 frog-like aliens
and the mishaps that their incompetent and lazy leader cause. Around them are the human
figures that help them understand earth's culture.
In 2009, Funimation Entertainment
released the first English
dubbed version of the anime which has spanned a total of six 12 to 14-episode DVD sets, with the first four sets later re-released in two larger 25 to 26-episode box sets. To date, the first 78 episodes have been released in English by FUNimation.
anime
series had its running time reduced to 15 minutes in its original timeslot. However, a 2nd timeslot, which reruns the first 15 minute story and presents a new 15 minute one, called Keroro Gunso Otsu (ケロロ軍曹乙), was created. The "A" stories are the ones shown in the old timeslot, while the "B" stories are exclusive to the Otsu timeslot.
After timeslot changes caused by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami
, episode 356 was announced to be the final Keroro Gunso Otsu episode, with two stories exclusively airing in the night timeslot at a timeslot of 3:05am, announcement also referenced in the first airing of episode 355. However, after a few days that announcement was changed, and Keroro Otsu was just delayed for one week, returning to the original plans for the series' ending , although airing everything one week later.
Sgt. Frog
Sgt. Frog, known in Japan as , is a manga series by Mine Yoshizaki. It was later serialized into a TV anime series directed by Junichi Sato. Both the anime and manga are comedies that follow the attempts of a platoon of frog-like alien invaders to conquer Earth...
anime
Anime
is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....
series, originally titled as Keroro Gunso, is a Japanese
Japanese language
is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...
television series
Television program
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produced and animated by Sunrise Inc.
Sunrise (company)
is a Japanese animation studio and production enterprise. It is a subsidiary of Namco Bandai Holdings. Its former name was Nippon Sunrise, and prior to that, Sunrise Studios...
It first began airing in Japan on the television network
Television network
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TV Tokyo
TV Tokyo
is a television station headquartered in Toranomon, Minato, Tokyo, Japan. Also known as , a blend of "terebi" and "Tokyo", it is the key station of TX Network. It is one of the major Tokyo television stations, particularly specializing in anime...
on April 3, 2004, and has since broadcast over 300 episodes, which are normally constituted from two 15 minutes shorts mostly and sometimes one 30 minutes story. The anime is an adaptation
Literary adaptation
Literary adaptation is the adapting of a literary source to another genre or medium, such as a film, a stage play, or even ace video game...
of Mine Yoshizaki
Mine Yoshizaki
is a Japanese manga creator who first started his career by making dōjinshi based on video games. Yoshizaki also worked as an assistant to manga artist Katsu Aki...
's manga
Manga
Manga is the Japanese word for "comics" and consists of comics and print cartoons . In the West, the term "manga" has been appropriated to refer specifically to comics created in Japan, or by Japanese authors, in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 19th...
series of the same name, which was first serialized
Serial (literature)
In literature, a serial is a publishing format by which a single large work, most often a work of narrative fiction, is presented in contiguous installments—also known as numbers, parts, or fascicles—either issued as separate publications or appearing in sequential issues of a single periodical...
in Japan's Shōnen Ace
Shonen Ace
is a monthly shōnen manga magazine in Japan published by Kadokawa Shoten, started in 1994. Unlike the big shōnen weeklies with circulation figures in the millions, Ace is aimed at a less mainstream audience, and has a particular emphasis on anime tie-ins...
in 1999, and has been toned down for children instead of focusing in teenagers. The anime itself is divided by seasons with a duration of a year (51 episodes per season, one per week except the first week of January), always starting and ending the first week of April.
The series centers around the invasion on Earth
Earth
Earth is the third planet from the Sun, and the densest and fifth-largest of the eight planets in the Solar System. It is also the largest of the Solar System's four terrestrial planets...
of a Platoon of 5 frog-like aliens
Extraterrestrial life
Extraterrestrial life is defined as life that does not originate from Earth...
and the mishaps that their incompetent and lazy leader cause. Around them are the human
Human
Humans are the only living species in the Homo genus...
figures that help them understand earth's culture.
In 2009, Funimation Entertainment
Funimation Entertainment
Funimation is an American entertainment company. Originally founded in 1994 by Gen Fukunaga, the company became a subsidiary of Navarre Corporation on May 11, 2005...
released the first English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
dubbed version of the anime which has spanned a total of six 12 to 14-episode DVD sets, with the first four sets later re-released in two larger 25 to 26-episode box sets. To date, the first 78 episodes have been released in English by FUNimation.
Season 1: 2004 - 2005
Season 2: 2005 - 2006
Season 3: 2006 - 2007
Season 4: 2007 - 2008
Season 5: 2008 - 2009
Season 6: 2009 - 2010
Season 7: 2010 - 2011
The seventh season of the Sgt. FrogSgt. Frog
Sgt. Frog, known in Japan as , is a manga series by Mine Yoshizaki. It was later serialized into a TV anime series directed by Junichi Sato. Both the anime and manga are comedies that follow the attempts of a platoon of frog-like alien invaders to conquer Earth...
anime
Anime
is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....
series had its running time reduced to 15 minutes in its original timeslot. However, a 2nd timeslot, which reruns the first 15 minute story and presents a new 15 minute one, called Keroro Gunso Otsu (ケロロ軍曹乙), was created. The "A" stories are the ones shown in the old timeslot, while the "B" stories are exclusive to the Otsu timeslot.
After timeslot changes caused by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami
2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami
The 2011 earthquake off the Pacific coast of Tohoku, also known as the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, or the Great East Japan Earthquake, was a magnitude 9.0 undersea megathrust earthquake off the coast of Japan that occurred at 14:46 JST on Friday, 11 March 2011, with the epicenter approximately east...
, episode 356 was announced to be the final Keroro Gunso Otsu episode, with two stories exclusively airing in the night timeslot at a timeslot of 3:05am, announcement also referenced in the first airing of episode 355. However, after a few days that announcement was changed, and Keroro Otsu was just delayed for one week, returning to the original plans for the series' ending , although airing everything one week later.
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