Obatarian (Japanese: オバタリアン) is a yonkoma manga series by Katsuhiko Hotta^[1] which was published by Takeshobo in Manga Life from 1988 through 1998. An anime series was adapted from the manga in 1990 by Sunrise, which aired on TV Asahi. The title Obatarian (or Obattalion) is a Japanese buzzword from the late 1980s, created as a pun portmanteau of the Japanese word おば (oba, meaning "middle-aged woman") and the Japanese title (Battalion/バタリアン) of the 1985 zombie comedy movie The Return of the Living Dead.

Obatarian
Cover of the first volume of Obatarian
オバタリアン
Genre	Comedy
Manga
Written by	Katsuhiko Hotta
Published by	Takeshobo
Magazine	Manga Life
Demographic	Seinen
Original run	1988 – 1998
Volumes	13
Anime television film
Directed by	Tetsurō Amino
Written by	Shun'ichi Yukimuro, Toshiki Inoue
Music by	Kohei Tanaka
Studio	Sunrise
Original network	TV Asahi
Released	April 3, 1990
Runtime	70 minutes

The series won the 1989 Bungeishunjū Manga Award.^[2]