Dame Oyaji
Dame Oyaji is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Mitsutoshi Furuya. It was serialized by Shogakukan in Shōnen Sunday from September 23, 1970 to July 28, 1982. Dame Oyaji received the 1979 Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen manga. The manga was compiled in thirty-nine tankōbon volumes, with Akebono Shuppan publishing the first 21 volumes under their Akebono Comics label and Shogakukan publishing the final 18 volumes under their Shōnen Sunday Comics label. All 39 volumes are available in eBook format via eBook Japan, the Shogakukan volumes subtitled as the "My Way" arc.
Plot
Dame Oyaji tells the story of Damesuke Amano, a hapless office worker who faces a tremendous amount of bullying on the job and especially at home, where he has absolutely no power or say in the runnings of the household whatsoever. Amano lives with his wife, Onibaba, his beautiful teenaged daughter Yukiko, and his grade-schooler son Takobo. Onibaba is an imposing, violent heifer of a woman who regularly berates and even physically assaults her husband and who enjoys nothing more than making his life miserable; Yukiko and Takobo frequently join in physically and psychologically abusing their father. The original manga is said to have been quite shocking to early 1970s Japan, in which the father was often still traditionally regarded as the head of the household.TV adaptation
The series was adapted as a 26-episode anime television series broadcast on Tokyo Channel 12 between April 2 and October 9, 1974. Each half-hour episode comprised two shorter stories of approximately ten minutes in length. The anime toned down the original manga's level of violence considerably for a prime-time TV audience and featured episodes which focused more on Takobo and his everyday school and home life. The Takobo-focused episodes in particular are kinder and gentler than the series as a whole.Characters
Amano family
Damesuke AmanoFuyuko Amamo
Yukiko Amano
Takobo Amano
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