Notari Matsutarō | |
のたり松太郎 | |
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Genre | Sports |
Manga | |
Written by | Tetsuya Chiba |
Published by | Shogakukan |
Demographic | Seinen |
Magazine | Big Comic |
Original run | August 1973 – March 1998 |
Volumes | 36 |
Original video animation | |
Released | November 22, 1990 – April 25, 1991 |
Episodes | 10 |
Notari Matsutarō (のたり松太郎 ) is a Japanese sports manga series written and illustrated by Tetsuya Chiba about sumo wrestling. It was serialized by Shogakukan in Big Comic from August 1973 to June 1993, then after a hiatus it returned from October 1995 to March 1998. Notari Matsutaro received the 1978 Shogakukan Manga Award for seinen/general manga.[1]
It was adapted as a series of ten Original Video Animations (OVAs) released between November 22, 1990 and April 25, 1991.