Oyako Club
| Oyako Club | |
Title card, showing the human family and the bright yellow alien father and son. | |
| 親子クラブ (Oyako Kurabu) | |
|---|---|
| Genre | |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Shoutarō Murodera |
| Produced by | Shoutarō Murodera |
| Studio | Eiken |
| Original network | Fuji Television |
| Original run | October 3, 1994 – March 30, 2013 |
| Episodes | 1,818 |
Oyako Club (Japanese: 親子クラブ, Hepburn: Oyako Kurabu) was a Japanese interstitial anime television series that aired from 3 October 1994 to 30 March 2013 in the Kantō region on Fuji TV in Japan. Each episode was five minutes in length, and a total of 1,818 episodes were aired.
The series follows two aliens who move in with a Japanese family. The aliens are used by the show to teach children about Japanese culture, manners, food, and humor using animation and periodic, brief live-action segments. The series is not well known outside of Japan, and it has been included in multiple "longest running anime" lists and praised for its humor.