Obatarian (Japanese: オバタリアン) is a yonkoma manga series by Katsuhiko Hotta[1] which was published by Takeshobo in Manga Life from 1988 through 1998. An anime series was adapted from the manga in 1990 by Sunrise, which aired on TV Asahi. The title Obatarian (or Obattalion) is a Japanese buzzword from the late 1980s, created as a pun portmanteau of the Japanese word おば (oba, meaning "middle-aged woman") and the Japanese title (Battalion/バタリアン) of the 1985 zombie comedy movie The Return of the Living Dead.

Obatarian
Cover of the first volume of Obatarian
オバタリアン
GenreComedy
Manga
Written byKatsuhiko Hotta
Published byTakeshobo
MagazineManga Life
DemographicSeinen
Original run19881998
Volumes13
Anime television film
Directed byTetsurō Amino
Written byShun'ichi Yukimuro, Toshiki Inoue
Music byKohei Tanaka
StudioSunrise
Original networkTV Asahi
ReleasedApril 3, 1990
Runtime70 minutes

The series won the 1989 Bungeishunjū Manga Award.[2]

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  1. ^ オバタリアンとは Kotobank (in Japanese)
  2. ^ "文藝春秋漫画賞". Comic Lab. Archived from the original on February 13, 2012. Retrieved April 2, 2015.
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