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An anime entitled, Soreike! Anpanman, was just accepted into the Guinness Book of World Records for highest number of characters in an animated franchise. The children’s superhero comedy show is listed with having 1,768 different characters appear on the show’s first 980 episodes.

Originally airing on October 3, 1988, Soreike! Anpanman has stayed strong for over twenty years. Each episode is twenty four minutes long and cut into two parts, each twelve minutes in length. The show is aired by Nippon Television, who have also shown such anime as, Death Note, Ouran High School Host Club, and Miyazaki films. The series has had twenty feature films that have been released since 1989, several animated shorts, and sold over fifty million books since 2006.

Bandai opened a Anpanman Children’s Museum in 2007 in Yokohama, Japan, even going so far as the open an Anpanman hair solon inside the museum later that year. The show is heavily promoted through merchandise, anything from video games to clothing, snack foods and even the “Anpanman Train” in Matsuyama, a train painted bright pinks and blues with characters from the show along the sides.

The producers originally applied to enter the show into the Guinness Book of World Records with 2,000 characters in May, but some of them, such as, Pan Kojo and Baikin Shiro were not accepted, so the number was dropped to the current record of, 1,768. This coming August 28th, Anpanman will be airing its 1,000th episode, a historical event within itself.

The creator of Anpanman, Takashi Yanase, is currently 90 years old and apparently said the person who was most surprised by the record the show had produced was actually Yanase himself. Even at his age, Yanase is still working in the manga realm as a judge for the Japanese Cartoonist Awards.

Takashi Yanase began writing the Anpanman manga in 1968, having been inspired when he was a solider struggling through World War II. Anpanman is a superhero who fights his enemy, Bacteria Man, in each episode of the show while helping those who live in the town. He patrols the area around Uncle Jam’s house and is a symbol of justice.

Many of the characters are designed or named after foods, such as, Melonpanna (melon bread), Currypanman (curry filled bread), Shokupanman (sliced white bread), and of course, Anpanman, who is named after a bread filled with a bean jam.