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== Anime and Manga ==

* [[The Other Wiki]] has [[wikipedia:List of manga series by volume count|a list of manga]] and [[wikipedia:List of anime series by episode count|anime contenders]].

* Currently holding the record (for those who can read it): ''[[Golgo 13]]'', 155 volumes running for [[Long Runners|nearly 50 years]]—and that's just the manga.

* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' has been going strong since 1996, with no less than four manga series, three TV shows, and two movies.

* ''[[JoJo's Bizarre Adventure]]''. The original manga ran weekly for nearly 15 years with one hiatus between Part 5 and Part 6. If you add up the number of chapters between all six parts of ''JoJo'' and the pseudo-sequel ''Steel Ball Run'', that adds up to 790 chapters and counting.

* The ''[[Dragon Ball]]'' manga by Akira Toriyama ran for 42 volumes and 519 chapters for 11 years. The anime spans for 606 episodes, counting 153 episodes from ''[[Dragon Ball]]'', 291 episodes from ''Dragon Ball Z'' , 64 episodes from ''[[Dragon Ball GT]]'' and 98 episodes from ''[[Dragon Ball Kai]]''.

* ''Kochira Katsushika-ku Kameari Kouen Mae Hashutsujo'', or ''[[Kochikame]]'', has been running for more than 30 years in a weekly magazine and legend says the author/studio never went on hiatus. They have 166 volumes and are still going strong.

* ''[[One Piece]]''. Add the [[Kudzu Plot]] and [[Loads and Loads of Characters]], and you'll understand why it can be hard to catch up with the story. Skimming it only makes you miss plot points that come up [[Chekhov's Gun|volumes later]]. New readers are sometimes directed to start as late as Volume 50 to prevent [[Continuity Lock Out]] (at least it supplies recaps).

* ''[[Inuyasha]]'' has over thirty of those little yellow books to read. In total, it has 558 chapters, done over a course of ten years.

* ''[[Pokémon]]''. The [[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]] anime and the [[Pokémon Special|manga]] have both lasted over a decade, adapting five [[One Game for the Price of Two|installments]] of the video games with 39 volumes and 600 episodes and counting.

** To a somewhat lesser extent is the slapstick Japanese only ''[[Pocket Monsters (manga)|Pocket Monsters]]'' manga, the first adaptation of the games. It's 26 volumes long and still going strong.

* ''[[Detective Conan]]''/''Case Closed''. Hundreds and hundreds of chapters...and the damned detective is [[Status Quo Is God|''still'']] stuck as a kid! To be exact, As of February 2012, there's 805 chapters and 74 or 75 volumes published in Japan.

* ''[[Berserk]]'', at 35 volumes and still going.

** However, given the amount of [[Schedule Slip]] ''Berserk'' suffers, it would be a little easier to catch up.

* ''[[Sazae-san]]'' has over 6,400 5-minute episodes, making it the longest running animated program and longest running non-soap opera fictional show in the world. And it's still in production.

* ''[[Hajime no Ippo]]'' is over 900 chapters.

* ''[[Naruto]]'' is pushing into this territory, exacerbated by the infamous [[Filler]] Hell in the anime adaptation.

* ''[[Legend of Galactic Heroes]]'' is 110 episodes long, not counting gaiden materials or movies, and each episode is 25 minutes long. Watching all of them consecutively will take over 45 hours.

* ''[[Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle]]'' is 232 chapters long plus an epilogue. Not much compared to the other examples here, but if you want to understand what's going on in the background, you have to read ''[[xxxHolic]]'', which is itself 213 chapters.

** As well as ''[[Cardcaptor Sakura]]'', ''X/1999'', and ''[[Tokyo Babylon]]''.

* As of this writing, ''[[Bleach]]'' has 48 volumes out and about 20 extra chapters that haven't yet been put into a volume. That brings us to a total of just about 450 chapters. Author [[Kubo Tite]] has proclaimed that he wants the series to last at least 10 more years.

* Start watching ''[[The Slayers]]''. Then realize that there are 5 series, adding up to 104 episodes, each of 22 monutes long, adding up to a reasonable value of 38 hours. [[Oh Crap|Then realize on top of that, there are 5 feature length movies and 2 OVA series]]. All in all, you'll have 44+ hours of shows to watch. Good luck.

** And then you realize that are still 10+ light novel volumes released.

* ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' has 355 chapters over 38 volumes, though the original goal of ~400 chapters was [[Aborted Arc|aborted]] due to being [[Screwed by the Network|Screwed By The Diet]]. Count the side mangas, the Negima Neo manga, the anime adaptions and various OVA and you will be busy for a while—though even 38 volumes is still not long enough to even make the list of long runners on [[The Other Wiki]].

* [[Mariasama ga Miteru]] has 2 [[Twelve-Episode Anime]], one with 24 episodes and three 45 minutes OVAs. Add to that the 35+ Light novels and you'll be occupied for a long while.

* [[That Guy With The Glasses]]. Even just catching up to the more popular series like [[The Nostalgia Critic]], [[The Spoony Experiment]], and [[Atop the Fourth Wall]] is pretty intimidating by this point...then you consider that as the site goes on there's more and more crossovers and in-jokes between an ever-growing number of contributors, meaning that for everything to make sense you'll need to go all over the site trying to watch everything in chronological order. It's even worse if they happen to have stories that arc over dozens of reviews.

* The [[SCP Foundation]]. There are over a ''thousand'' anomalous items documented, and more are written up every day (even if about half of them quickly get deleted). And once you make your way through the entire list? There's still the [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/foundation-tales Foundation Tales] section (as well as [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/creepy-pasta the collection of general creepypasta stories]). Make sure you have a comfortable chair... and can handle being afraid to sleep at night.