Utsurun Desu
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by. It was serialized in Shogakukan's manga magazine Big Comic Spirits from 1989 to 1994, with its chapters collected in five volumes.
A video game, titled Utsurun Desu: Kawauso Hawaii e Iku!!!, was released in 1992. A three-episode original video animation, produced by DLE, was released in 2009. A series of 50-episode live-action shorts was released in that same year.
The manga has had over 3 million copies in circulation. It won the 37th Bungeishunjū Manga Award in 1991. It is regarded as one of the pioneers of the absurd.
Characters
;Kawauso;Kappa
;Professor Yamazaki
;Mitchie
;Shiitake
;Tami Inuyama
;Kawanuma
Media
Manga
Written and illustrated by, Utsurun Desu was serialized in Shogakukan's manga magazine Big Comic Spirits from 1989 to 1994. Shogakukan collected its chapters in five volumes, released from November 1990 to August 1994.A special chapter was published in Big Comic Spirits on November 12, 2012, as part of the "Heroes Come Back" anthology, which comprised short stories by manga artists to raise funds for recovery of the areas afflicted by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. A four-panel manga, titled, started in the Tokyo Shimbun newspaper on April 3, 2021. It changed to online publication on the newspaper's website on July 8, 2022.