Beelzebub (2011/12) Studio Pierrot Original animation drawing VERY RARE Hand-drawn by an official animator who worked on the anime It’s made during the production and for the production. Very rare and incredible artwork See photos. Beelzebub (Japanese: べるぜバブ, Hepburn: Beruzebabu) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Ryuhei Tamura. It is the story about a first year student at a school for juvenile delinquents. It was first published in 2008 as a one-shot in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump, subsequently winning the fourth Gold Future Cup. The manga was then serialized in the same magazine, from February 2009 to February 2014, and then transferred to Jump Next!! as Beelzebub: Bangai-hen, where it ran from May 2014 to March 2015. The Pierrot+ studio produced an original video animation (OVA) adaptation, which premiered at the Jump Super Anime Tour in October 2010. This was followed by a 60-episode anime television series, which aired between January 2011 and March 2012.