Zenmai Zamurai information

Zenmai Zamurai (ぜんまいざむらい) is a Japanese children's cartoon created by Momoko Maruyama and Ryōtarō Kuwamoto (m&k). It aired daily in the mornings and afternoons on NHK Educational TV in Japan. The series focuses on the main title character, Zenmai Zamurai, who lives in a small Japanese village known as Karakuri Oedo (からくり大江戸). Zenmai helps protect his friends and save his village against evil. The settings for the series mostly takes place during the Edo period of Japan over 200 years ago. Two short features were shown in the mornings and afternoons both five minutes long. Its exclusion from the 2010-11 NHK programming schedule signifies the end of its run on the station, but reruns for the series continued to air on the Hi-Vision BS premium channel until March 27, 2011.^[1] The series came back and aired on Kids Station until April 2011.

On December 31, 2006, three new episodes were broadcast as "New Year's Eve Special" with a longer opening theme song. The series was produced in standard image quality with an aspect ratio of 4:3. After April 2009, no new episodes were released, and on March 26, 2010, the series ended with over 215 episodes.