Utsurun Desu.

• Ja Kanji — 伝染るんです。 • Genre — Nonsensical comedy

• Type — manga • Author — Sensha Yoshida • Publisher — Shogakukan • Magazine — Big Comic Spirits • First — 1989 • Last — 1994 • Volumes — 5

• Type — ova • Director — Mankyū • Studio — DLE • First — August 21, 2009 • Last — October 23, 2009 • Episodes — 3

• Portal — yes Utsurun Desu is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Sensha Yoshida. It was serialized in Shogakukan's seinen manga magazine Big Comic Spirits from 1989 to 1994, with its chapters collected in five tankōbon volumes. A video game, titled Utsurun Desu: Kawauso Hawaii e Iku!!!, was released in 1992. A three-episode original video animation (OVA), 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 Gag manga (genre).

• Kawauso • Chafurin: • Kappa • Mamiko Noto: • Professor Yamazaki • Tomokazu Seki: • Mitchie • Mai Nakahara: • Shiitake • Raikō Sakamoto: • Tami Inuyama • Norio Wakamoto: • Kawanuma • Yukitoshi Tokumoto:

Written and illustrated by Sensha Yoshida, Utsurun Desu was serialized in Shogakukan's seinen manga magazine Big Comic Spirits from 1989 to 1994. Shogakukan collected its chapters in five tankōbon 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 Kawauso Seven, started in the Tokyo Shimbun newspaper on April 3, 2021. It changed to online publication on the newspaper's website on July 8, 2022.

A video game, titled Utsurun Desu: Kawauso Hawaii e Iku!!!, published by Takara, was released for the Nintendo Famicom on March 6, 1992.

A three-episode original video animation (OVA), produced by DLE, was released on DVD from August 21 to October 23, 2009.

A 50-episode live-action series, consisting of one-minute short episodes, was released on the BeeTV mobile phone television service starting on October 6, 2009.