History Trivia / SazaeSan

** And now Eiken's stopped using cels for the show entirely

* [[LastOfHisKind Last of its Kind]]: This show has become famous among animation-buffs for being the very last traditionally-animated (hand-drawn on acetate cels and shot on film) cartoon in the world. Literally every other piece of "commercial" animation on the planet, if it's not already an AllCGICartoon, is at least composited and coloured digitally[[note]]For reference, the last traditionally-animated anime film was ''Anime/PrincessMononoke''; the last American TV cartoon to switch to digital production was ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' in 2004; ''WesternAnimation/HappinessIsAWarmBlanketCharlieBrown'' was drawn by hand, uniquely for a 2011 film[[/note]].

* AuthorExistenceFailure: Namihei's original seiyuu Creator/IchiroNagai died on January 27, 2014 while working on the anime after 44 years.

* HeyItsThatVoice: In the first three months of the show's broadcast, Katsuo was voiced by Nobuyo Ōyama, best known as the voice of Anime/{{Doraemon}}.
** Midori Kato was the original voice of Manga/OsomatsuKun before she landed her role as Sazae.

** It is no longer cel animated. It has digital ending since of April 2009 and the whole thing since 2013.

** TheOtherWiki has a different version of the story, in that "doctors at Tohoku University Hospital and the National Center for Child Health and Development raised concerns that children may try to imitate Sazae and potentially choke on food". What the true story was is still a mystery.

* TheOtherDarrin: Despite its long run this trope is averted with Sazae and Tara whose voices are still performed by the same actors after more than 46 years. However, there have been changes with voice actors for Masuo (2 actors) Katsuo (3), Wakame (3), Namihei (2), and Fune (2)[[note]]Before that, one 2009 episode had someone else perform her, only because the voice actress was sick that day[[/note]].

* OutlivedItsCreator[=/=]AuthorExistenceFailure: Machiko Hasegawa died in 1992.

* TheOtherDarrin: Despite its long run this trope is averted with Sazae and Tara whose voices are still performed by the same actors after more than 45 years. However, there have been changes with voice actors for Masuo (2 actors) Katsuo (3), Wakame (3), Namihei (2), and Fune (2)[[note]]Before that, one 2009 episode had someone else perform her, only because the voice actress was sick that day[[/note]].

* TheOtherDarrin: Despite its long run this trope is averted with Sazae and Tara whose voices are still performed by the same actors after more than 40 years. However, there have been changes with voice actors for Masuo (2 actors) Katsuo (3), Wakame (3), Namihei (2), and Fune (2)[[note]]Before that, one 2009 episode had someone else perform her, only because the voice actress was sick that day[[/note]].

* TheOtherDarrin: Despite its long run this trope is averted with Sazae, Tara, and Fune, whose voices are still performed by the same actors after more than 40 years[[note]]One 2009 episode had someone else perform Fune, only because the voice actress was sick that day[[/note]]. However, there have been changes with voice actors for Katsuo (3 actors), Masuo (2), Namihei (2), and Wakame (3).

* OutlivedItsCreator: Machiko Hasegawa died in 1992.

* HeyItsThatVoice: In the first three months of the show's broadcast, Katsuo was voiced by Nobuyo Ōyama, best known as the voice of {{Doraemon}}.

** It's also the only still-running Japanese animated program that predates {{Anime}} as a distinct style, and is thus, not one.

** This same "no home video" philosophy is probably the reason why, [[NoExportForYou even if foreign licensors would ever ''want'' to license ''Sazae-san'', they probably couldn't.]]

* TheOtherDarrin: Despite its long run this trope is averted with Sazae, Tara, Namihei, and Fune, whose voices are still performed by the same actors after more than 40 years[[note]]One 2009 episode had someone else perform Fune, only because the voice actress was sick that day[[/note]]. However, there have been changes with voice actors for Katsuo (3 actors), Masuo (2), and Wakame (3).

** This same "no home video" philosophy is probably the reason why, even if foreign licensors would ever ''want'' to license ''Sazae-san'', they probably couldn't.

* [[LastOfHisKind Last of its Kind]]: This show has become famous among animation-buffs for being the very last traditionally-animated (hand-drawn on acetate cels and shot on film) cartoon in the world. Literally every other piece of "commercial" animation on the planet, if it's not already an AllCGICartoon, is at least composited and coloured digitally[[hottip:*: For reference, the last traditionally-animated anime film was ''PrincessMononoke''; the last American TV cartoon to switch to digital production was ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' in 2004; ''WesternAnimation/HappinessIsAWarmBlanketCharlieBrown'' was drawn by hand, uniquely for a 2011 film]].
* TheOtherDarrin: Despite its long run this trope is averted with Sazae, Tara, Namihei, and Fune, whose voices are still performed by the same actors after more than 40 years[[hottip:*: One 2009 episode had someone else perform Fune, only because the voice actress was sick that day]]. However, there have been changes with voice actors for Katsuo (3 actors), Masuo (2), and Wakame (3).
* OutlivedItsCreator: Machiko Hasegawa died in 1992.

* [[LastOfHisKind Last of its Kind]]: This show has become famous among animation-buffs for being the very last traditionally-animated (hand-drawn on acetate cels and shot on film) cartoon in the world. Literally every other piece of "commercial" animation on the planet, if it's not already an AllCGICartoon, is at least composited and coloured digitally[[hottip:*: For reference, the last traditionally-animated anime film was ''PrincessMononoke''; the last American TV cartoon to switch to digital production was ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' in 2003, although ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' aired traditionally-animated episodes after that point; ''WesternAnimation/HappinessIsAWarmBlanketCharlieBrown'' was drawn by hand, uniquely for a 2011 film]].

* [[LastOfHisKind Last of its Kind]]: This show has become famous among animation-buffs for being the very last traditionally-animated (hand-drawn on acetate cels and shot on film) cartoon in the world. Literally every other piece of "commercial" animation on the planet, if it's not already an AllCGICartoon, is at least composited and coloured digitally[[hottip:*: For reference, the last traditionally-animated anime film was ''PrincessMononoke''; the last American TV cartoon to switch to digital production was ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' in 2003, although ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' aired traditionally-animated episodes after that point; WesternAnimation/HappinessIsAWarmBlanketCharlieBrown was drawn by hand, uniquely for a 2011 film]].

* [[LastOfHisKind Last of its Kind]]: This show has become famous among animation-buffs for being the very last traditionally-animated (hand-drawn on acetate cels and shot on film) cartoon in the world. Literally every other piece of "commercial" animation on the planet, if it's not already an AllCGICartoon, is at least composited and coloured digitally[[hottip:*: For reference, the last traditionally-animated anime film was ''PrincessMononoke''; the last American TV cartoon to switch to digital production was ''TheSimpsons'' in 2003, although ''Ed, Edd, & Eddy'' aired traditionally-animated episodes after that point since it never went digital and was cancelled shortly after]].
** It's also among, if not ''the'' last commercial non-{{anime}} cartoon made in Japan.

* ExecutiveMeddling: Necessary example. Sazae used to end every episode by throwing a bean in the air and swallowing it. When a child choked to death imitating her, this was changed; she now ends every episode by challenging the viewer to jan-ken-pon (rock/paper/scissors).
* HeyItsThatVoice: In the first three months of the show's broadcast Katsuo was voiced by Nobuyo Ōyama, best known as the voice of {{Doraemon}}.
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Despite its long run not one episode was ever officially released on VHS or DVD. This was from a request the creator Machiko Hasegawa made before she died. In fact, episodes broadcast before [=VCRs=] became the norm are extremely difficult to find because they've never been shown again since its original broadcast. This is partly the reason why the 40th anniversary special from 2009 was a big event: they pulled out some old episodes from the 1970s and broadcast them again for the first time in ''decades''.
* TheOtherDarrin: Despite its long run this trope is averted with Sazae, Tara, Namihei, and Fune, whose voices are still performed by the same actors after more than 40 years.[[hottip:*:One 2009 episode had someone else perform Fune, only because the voice actress was sick that day.]]. However, there has been changes with voice actors for Katsuo (3 actors), Masuo (2), and Wakame (3).