It was thought that this anime was lost for many years, until the 1990s when 16mm prints of the show were found at a TV station warehouse.
The Matsuno brothers have puns in their names:
- "Osomatsu" means "lame" or "ill-prepared"
- "Karamatsu" is the Japanese word for the larch
- Choromatsu is named after "choroi", which means "easy" or "simple"
- Ichimatsu is named after "ichimatsumoyo", which means "check pattern"
- "Jushimatsu" means "society finch"
- and "Todomatsu" is a fir tree.
Iyami was named after the term "iyami", which means "gaudy".