Sunset on Third Street

Sunset on Third Street
The cover of the first volume of Sunset on Third Street
三丁目の夕日 (San-Chōme no Yūhi)
Genre	Comedy, Drama
Manga
Written by	Ryōhei Saigan
Published by	Shogakukan
Magazine	Big Comic Original
Demographic	Seinen
Original run	1974 – present
Volumes	65
Anime television series
Directed by	Tsuneo Maeda
Music by	Kentarō Haneda Yasuko Tomita (OP, ED) Kumiko Mori
Studio	Group Tac, Toho
Original network	TBS
Original run	October 12, 1990 – March 22, 1991
Episodes	27

Sunset on Third Street (三丁目の夕日 夕焼けの詩, San-Chōme no Yūhi Yūyake no Uta) is a Japanese manga series by Ryōhei Saigan. As of 2017, 65 volumes of the manga have been published. It was also a short-lived anime series from 1990 to 1991 and three films, Always Sanchōme no Yūhi, Always Zoku Sanchōme no Yūhi and Always Sanchōme no Yūhi '64, were based on stories and characters from the manga. It won the 27th Shogakukan Manga Award for general manga.

Overview

The comic is set in postwar Japan between 1955 and 1964 and focuses on stories illustrating the humor and pathos of ordinary life in the Japan of that era, mainly about the residents of the fictional Tokyo neighborhood of "San-Chome" - "Third Block" . However, many stories take place with one-story characters (not only people but animals and legendary creatures) and in other parts of Japan.

External links

• Sunset on Third Street (manga) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia