Akuma-kun

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Akuma-kun" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (June 2021) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Japanese. (October 2011) Click [show] for important translation instructions. View a machine-translated version of the Japanese article. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Japanese Wikipedia article at [[:ja:悪魔くん]]; see its history for attribution. You may also add the template {{Translated|ja|悪魔くん}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

Akuma-kun
First tankōbon volume cover
悪魔くん
Manga
Written by	Shigeru Mizuki
Published by	Toshansha
Original run	1963 – 1964
Volumes	3
Manga
Written by	Shigeru Mizuki
Published by	Kodansha
Magazine	Weekly Shōnen Magazine
Demographic	Shōnen
Original run	1966 – 1967
Volumes	1
Manga
Written by	Shigeru Mizuki
Published by	Shueisha
Magazine	Weekly Shōnen Jump
Demographic	Shōnen
Original run	1970 – 1971
Volumes	1
Live-action series
A 26 episode live-action series directed by Akira Kashima , Hajime Sato , Minoru Yamada , T. Kobayashi, Itaru Orita , K. Takemoto , Katsuhiko Taguchi. It ran from October 6, 1966, to March 30, 1967, and starred Mitsunobu Kaneko (of Giant Robo fame) as the titular character.
Anime television series
Directed by	Junichi Sato
Music by	Nozomi Aoki
Studio	Toei Animation
Original network	TV Asahi
Original run	April 15, 1989 – March 24, 1990
Episodes	42 (List of episodes)
Original net animation
Directed by	Junichi Sato[a] Fumitoshi Oizaki
Produced by	Daichi Nagatomi
Written by	Hiroshi Ōnogi
Music by	Akio Izutsu
Studio	Encourage Films Toei Animation
Licensed by	Netflix
Released	November 9, 2023
Runtime	21–28 minutes
Episodes	12

Akuma-kun (悪魔くん, lit. "Demon-kun") is a manga series written and illustrated by Shigeru Mizuki. Several versions of the manga exist, one of which was adapted into a live-action television series, and another into an anime television series. In addition, two movies were spawned from the anime television series: Akuma-kun: The Movie released in 1989 and Akuma-kun: Yōkoso Akuma Land e!! released in 1990.

An original net animation (ONA) series was released in November 2023 on Netflix.
Cite error: There are <ref group=lower-alpha> tags or {{efn}} templates on this page, but the references will not show without a {{reflist|group=lower-alpha}} template or {{notelist}} template (see the help page).