CATDOLL: The "Osomatsu-kun" BD will not include the first episode of the animation. Is it because they went too far?

"Osomatsu" is a work by the late Japanese cartoonist Fujio Akatsuka. It was adapted into an animation for the third time in the new October series, attracting the attention of many viewers. After the first episode of the animation was aired, the audience was very surprised because this episode contained too many spoof elements, which affected many popular animations. Seeing this scene, the audience even worried about the production team, "Is it really okay to play like this?"

Today (November 5), the official Twitter account of "Osomatsu-kun" released a statement, announcing that the first volume of the BD and DVD originally scheduled to be released next year will not include the first episode of the animation. After seeing this news, Japanese netizens unanimously said, "Maybe the official has gone too far" and "Will it really become the legendary first episode?"

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Although the official website did not explain why the first episode was not included, according to the news, the online broadcasting platform will stop broadcasting the first episode on November 12. Some fans who have saved the video also expressed their excitement - "Great! I still have this dreamy first episode!"

Let’s review some of the content from the first episode of “Osomatsu-kun”. Although it contained many spoof elements, the audience still enjoyed watching it.

The first episode was full of spoofs of many well-known works, such as the beginning of the spoof "Meteor Garden" and "Uta no Prince-sama". In the second half, he even put on a wig and clothes to spoof "Love Live!", "Attack on Titan", "Kuroko's Basketball", "Sailor Moon" and many other works. Some netizens also speculated that the publisher of the spoofed work might have called to complain...

"Osomatsu" was serialized in "Weekly Shonen Sunday" (Shogakukan) from 1962 to 1969, with a cumulative circulation of over 10 million copies. It is one of Fujio Akatsuka's classic masterpieces. This work was adapted into a TV animation twice, in 1966 and 1988, so this is the third time it has been adapted into a TV animation after 27 years.