Steel Jeeg
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Kotetsu Jeeg DVD vol.5
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鋼鉄ジーグ (Kōtetsu Jīgu) |
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| Genre | Mecha |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Masayuki Akihi |
| Written by | Hiroyasu Yamaura, Keisuke Fujikawa, Toyohiro Ando |
| Studio | Toei Doga |
| Original network | NET (now TV Asahi) |
| Original run | October 5, 1975 – August 29, 1976 |
| Episodes | 46 |
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| Written by | Go Nagai |
| Illustrated by | Tatsuya Yasuda |
| Published by | Kodansha |
| Magazine | TV Magazine Otomodachi* |
| Original run | August 1975 – June 1976 |
| Volumes | 2 |
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Only a few stories were published in Otodomachi, but they are included in the tankōbon. |
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Only a few stories were published in Otodomachi, but they are included in the tankōbon.
Steel Jeeg (鋼鉄ジーグ Kōtetsu Jīgu?), also known as Kotetsu Jeeg or Koutetsu Jeeg, is a super robot anime and manga series created by manga artists Go Nagai and Tatsuya Yasuda. The anime television series was produced by Toei Doga (now Toei Animation). It was first broadcast on Japanese TV in 1975. The series lasted for 46 episodes. Steel Jeeg also ran as a manga in several children's publications.
A sequel series called Kotetsushin Jeeg (which appears to take place 50 years after the original show) aired on the satellite network WOWOW, beginning April 5, 2007.
Hiroshi Shiba is a young car racer who is mortally wounded. His father Professor Shiba, a talented scientist and archaeologist, manages to restore him to life by means of a powerful relic from the ancient and mysterious Jamatai Kingdom, a bronze bell which is hidden inside Hiroshi's body and turns him unknowingly into a sort of cyborg.
As the ruler of Jamatai, queen Himika, reawakens from her slumber in the underground, it is revealed that the bell is also key to the reconquest of the Earth surface. Her henchmen kill Prof. Shiba in vain pursue of the artifact, barely leaving the scientist time to upload his thought on a supercomputer at a specially built defense base. Anticipating the hidden menace, Professor Shiba has also prepared a giant fighting robot, Steel Jeeg, composed of interchangeable magnetic limbs and for which Hiroshi Shiba can become head and conscience. His mission is to defend modern Japan from the invaders, who also dispose of similar giant monsters (haniwa) and an army of minions. In such battles, Jeeg is also aided by a robot horse known as Panzeroid, and a fighting jet capable of shooting replacement components and specialized weapons for his body.
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