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|status=<span style="color:orange;">'''Partially Lost'''</span>
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'''''Sennin Buraku''''' is a black and white anime series based on the four-panel comic strip series of the same name by Kō Kojima. It aired on Fuji TV from September 4, 1963, to February 23, 1964.<ref>[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=2363 The Anime News Network encyclopedia listing for the anime.] Retrieved 23 Oct '17</ref> It was the first title ever animated by the animation studio Tele-cartoon Japan (now known as Eiken), with the more well-known ''Gigantor'' following it in the same year.

The series is noteworthy for being (according to MyAnimeList's listings in the 'ecchi' genre) the first ecchi anime ever produced.<ref>[https://myanimelist.net/anime/8041/Sennin_Buraku MyAnimeList's listing for the anime.] Retrieved 23 Oct '17</ref> It was also the first anime to be broadcast in a late-night timeslot aimed at adult audiences.

Unlike a lot of older/black and white anime, most of ''Sennin Buraku'' has been preserved due to its legacy, remastered, and released on DVD in Japan. (These DVDs have been ripped to the Internet via torrent files.)<ref>[http://anonymemoose.blogspot.com/2016/01/sennin-buraku.html A torrent listing ripped from the DVD (the link to the actual torrent in the blog doesn't work), which says that episodes 12 and 19 are lost and missing from the home video release.] Retrieved 23 Oct '17</ref>

The original opening sequence is missing too. Although the song has been made available in numerous Japanese CD, the video part has never released in home media. In the DVD edition, the short introduction sequence initially used to present the episode title serves as the opening (with the anime title superimposed).

However, there are two episodes which are missing from home video releases due to the original masters being lost: episodes 12 ("Majo no Maki") and 19 ("Sanbiki no Kitsune no Maki").<ref>[http://www.animemorial.net/en/3-Sennin-Buraku Episode list and screenshots on Animemorial.] Retrieved 23 Oct '17</ref> At the time ''Sennin Buraku'' originally aired, home recording devices were very much a work in progress, with most models having a very limited run and going for up to $30,000 per unit. As such, it is highly unlikely, though not impossible, that any consumer has a home recording of these episodes.

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