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  • Archive Panic:
    • More than 8,330 seven-to-eight minute episode segments, and the number's still growing. Moreover, there's something of an actual archive panic concerning the show, as most episodes haven't been released on home video or made available on Amazon and thus very few copies of its many episodes even exist. It's unclear how many might well be lost.
    • Add points that almost no ripping groups (that is, all the groups that record all the anime that come out in Japan in order to be uploaded to the Internet) have touched this anime whatsoever. So, finding broadcasted episodes is a very difficult (likely impossible) task to run, and preserving them, much more.
    • Luckily (or unluckily, depending on your perspective), it would still take a while to watch all of the episodes you can find. It would take 20 hours of non-stop viewing to watch everything that's already on Amazon, and that number might grow in the future.
  • Germans Love David Hasselhoff: It has a decent following in China.
  • It's Popular, Now It Sucks!: While very obscure outside of Japan, some hardcore Otaku who know of Sazae-san and its mainstream popularity in Japan resent the series for various reasons related to this. For example, Sazae-san being labeled as a stereotype of what the elderly conservative majority in Japan wants all anime to be like (combined with their general marginalization of Otaku), which was especially prevalent when Tokyo mayor Shintaro Ishihara introduced the Youth Ordinance Bill.
  • Retroactive Recognition: Katsuo's first voice actress was Nobuyo Oyama, who would later become famous for voicing Doraemon. Her stint on the show was very short-lived, only lasting 12 episodes.
  • Unintentional Uncanny Valley: The realistic versions of Sazae-san's characters made for the anime's 50th anniversary will haunt your nightmares.
  • Values Dissonance:
    • Much of Sazae's home life seems quaint by modern standards, and even in Japan, the series is enjoyed primarily as nostalgia for the Showa-era boom times. This is in contrast to the comic's postwar origins and Sazae's (for the time and place) extremely liberated, feminist views.
    • In an early episode, when Tarao is being bratty, Sazae punishes him by locking him in the shed for several hours, and even forgets he's in there until after dinner. This wouldn't fly nowadays for multiple reasons, even in Japan.

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