Top 10 Anime Series With Highest Number Of Episodes Count

Published by Gintoki on March 31, 2022March 31, 2022

The Japanese anime industry was established a long time ago, to be precise in the early 20th century. The first successful anime series that made its name in the 1960s was Astro Boy and after that, the industry never looked back. Today, more than 20,000 anime are in existence but have you ever wondered which anime has the highest number of episodes count?

One Piece, Dragon Ball and Naruto are some of the well-recognized anime shows consisting of large numbers of episodes counted in the entirety of the series but, do you know that none of these three has the highest number of episodes count in anime history? Yes, that’s true the number one on the list is Sazae-san.

Sazae-san is the longest-running animated series in history and it holds the Guinness Book of World Record for this. The show started in 1969 and consists of more than 2500 episodes. Notably, the anime series is still in production and new episodes air every week on Fuji TV.

The complete list of the top 10 anime series with the highest number of episodes count is as follows:

#1 Sazae-san – 2500+ episodes (7500+ Stories)

#2 Pokémon – 1189 episodes (24 Seasons)

#3 Detective Conan – 1038 episodes (31 Seasons)

#4 One Piece – 1013 (20 Seasons)

#5 Dragon Ball – 847 (5 Sequels)

#6 Naruto – 720 (26 Seasons)

#7 Gintama – 367 (9 Seasons)

#8 Bleach – 366 (16 Seasons)

#9 Fairy Tail – 328 (7 Seasons)

#10 Yu-Gi-Oh – 238 (5 Seasons)

The listed anime are highly recognized all over the world and all these shows are immensely popular in not just Japan but in the West as well. However, there are also several other anime, specifically children based shows, which aren’t included in this list. Still, they also hold the record number of episodes and some of them are: Doraemon (700+), Shin-chan (1122) and Perman (526).

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