Longest-running yonkoma manga

Yonkoma (literally “four frame”) manga is the Japanese equivalent of western newspaper strips. The longest running example of this form is Sennin Buraku (Hermit Village) by Kō Kojima. The manga ran on a weekly basis in the adult magazine Weekly Asahi Geinō from October 1956 to 7 August 2014, a span of 58 years, with a total of 2,861 episodes produced in over that time. Ko Kojima has been the mangaka (manga creator) on Sennin Buraku since its inception and he still draws the strip to this day. It is a romantic comedy strip set in a traditional Japanese village around the Edo period. It frequently deals with adult themes.

Despite the form's name, not all Yonkoma consists of just four frames, but it is the most common term for short-form manga strips.

The line of distinction here is between shorter “newspaper” comic strips and longer multipage strips often serialized and then collected into tankōbon – standalone books.

Sennin Buraku went on an "indefinite break" for the author’s personal reasons. The strip may return, but is currently considered "on hiatus".