Locke the Superman
| Locke the Superman | |
Mirror Ring OVA DVD cover
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超人ロック (Chōjin Rokku) |
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| Genre | Action, Science fiction |
| Manga | |
| Locke | |
| Written by | Yuki Hijiri |
| Published by | SG Planning |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Original run | 1967 – 1971 |
| Volumes | 5 |
| Manga | |
| Locke the Superman: New World Command | |
| Written by | Yuki Hijiri |
| Published by | SG Planning |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Original run | 1977 – 1978 |
| Volumes | 1 |
| Manga | |
| Locke the Superman (original series) |
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| Written by | Yuki Hijiri |
| Published by | Shōnen Gahōsha |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Magazine | Shōnen King |
| Original run | 1979 – 1989 |
| Volumes | 38 |
| Manga | |
| Locke the Superman (Media Factory series) |
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| Written by | Yuki Hijiri |
| Published by | Media Factory |
| Demographic | Shōnen, Seinen |
| Magazine | Monthly OUT Monthly Megu Monthly Comic Flapper |
| Original run | 1991 – present |
| Volumes | 39 |
| Manga | |
| Locke the Superman (Shōnen Gahōsha series) |
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| Written by | Yuki Hijiri |
| Published by | Shōnen Gahōsha |
| Demographic | Seinen |
| Magazine | Young King OURs |
| Original run | 2004 – present |
| Volumes | 24 |
| Anime film | |
| Witch Era | |
| Directed by | Hiroshi Fukutomi |
| Written by | Atsushi Yamatoya |
| Music by | Goro Awami |
| Studio | Nippon Animation |
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| Released | April 14, 1984 |
| Runtime | 120 minutes |
| Original video animation | |
| Lord Leon | |
| Directed by | Noboru Ishiguro |
| Written by | Takeshi Hirota |
| Music by | Keiju Ishikawa |
| Studio | Nippon Animation |
| Released | October 25, 1989 – December 16, 1989 |
| Runtime | 30 minutes (each) |
| Episodes | 3 |
| Original video animation | |
| New World Command | |
| Directed by | Noboru Ishiguro |
| Written by | Takeshi Hirota |
| Music by | Tomoki Hasegawa |
| Studio | Nippon Animation |
| Released | August 21, 1991 – October 23, 1991 |
| Runtime | 50 minutes (each) |
| Episodes | 2 |
| Anime film | |
| Mirror Ring | |
| Directed by | Yusaku Saotome |
| Written by | Katsuhiko Koide |
| Music by | Masafumi Hayashi |
| Studio | PPM |
| Released | December 22, 2000 |
| Runtime | 65 minutes |
Locke the Superman (超人ロック Chōjin Rokku?) is a manga series by Yuki Hijiri which was later adapted into a movie and three OVA releases. The movie was given an obscure video release in the United States by Celebrity Home Entertainment as Locke the Superpower which was rather heavily edited to 92 minutes, removing violence, nudity and any adult bits. Both it and the OVAs were later licensed and released by Central Park Media under the original name. Ten volumes were published in Poland under the title Locke Superczłowiek.
As of 2012, Discotek has licensed the original Locke the Superman movie from 1984 and it was released on November 6. This is the first ever DVD release in the US. It would be from the uncut, remastered, anamorphic telecline print used for the Japanese DVD release. Discotek provided both the Japanese audio with English subtitles and the original English dub from the 80s, which was previously released on VHS.
The chronicle of the space age written through a certain immortal psionic's activity.
Yuki Hijiri published this manga series in a dojinshi published by Sakuga Group for the first time in 1967. He went to the commercial magazine, Monthly OUT by Minori Shobō, in 1978. It then appeared in Weekly Shōnen Gahōsha's Shōnen King from 1979 to 1988 when the magazine ceased publication. Thereafter the manga changed magazines many times.
Most chapters are equivalent to 1 or 2 volumes of the comics. The era of each chapter varies and the events do not occur in chronological order. The series "Detective Hunt and Assistant Locke" was originally a part of the series' main continuity. However, it became gradually inconsistent in a number of places eventually resulting in being retconned as taking place in a parallel universe.
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