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Tetsujin 28-go

Tetsujin 28-go
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鉄人28号
(Tetsujin Nijūhachi-gō)
Genre Action, Adventure, Mecha
Manga
Written by Mitsuteru Yokoyama
Published by Kobunsha
Demographic Shōnen
Magazine Shōnen
Original run July 1956May 1966
Volumes 24
Television drama
Directed by Santaro Marune
Original network NTV (1960)
Original run February 1, 1960April 25, 1960
Episodes 13
Anime television series
Directed by Yonehiko Watanabe
Produced by Kazuo Iohara
Written by Kinzo Okamoto
Music by Toriro Miki
Nobuyoshi Koshibe
Hidehiko Arashino
Studio TCJ
Licensed by
Siren Visual (former)
Madman Entertainment (2010–present)
NBC Enterprises (1964–1966)
The Right Stuf (2009–present)
Siren Visual (former)
Madman Entertainment (2010–present)
Original network Fuji TV (1963–1966)
English network
ATV-0 (1968)
TEN-10 (1968)
SAS-10 (1968–1969)
WPIX-TV (1964–1966)
Adult Swim (2006)
Original run October 20, 1963May 25, 1966
Episodes 97
Anime television series
Tetsujin 28-go FX
Directed by Tetsuo Imazawa
Written by Hideki Sonoda
Studio Tokyo Movie Shinsha
Original network NTV (1992–1993)
Original run April 5, 1992March 30, 1993
Episodes 47
Anime television series
Tetsujin 28-go Gao!
Directed by Tatsuji Yamazaki
Produced by Shotaro Muroji
Daisuke Hara
Written by Mitsutaka Hirota
Tatsuji Yamazaki
Music by Hiroki Nozaki
Studio Eiken
Original network Fuji TV (2013–2016)
Original run April 6, 2013March 26, 2016
Episodes 139
Manga
Written by Atsushi Oba
Published by Shueisha
Demographic Shōnen
Magazine Saikyō Jump
Original run June 2013 – present
Anime
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Tetsujin 28-gō (Japanese: 鉄人28号 Hepburn: Tetsujin Nijūhachi-gō?, lit. "Iron Man No. 28") is a 1956 manga written and illustrated by Mitsuteru Yokoyama, who also created Giant Robo. The series centred on the adventures of a young boy named Shotaro Kaneda, who controlled a giant robot named Tetsujin 28, built by his late father.

The manga was later adapted into four anime TV series, a Japanese television drama and two films, one live action and one animated. Released in 1963, the first series was among the first Japanese anime series to feature a giant robot. It was later released in America as Gigantor. A live-action movie with heavy use of CGI was produced in Japan in 2005.

Mecha were popularized by Japanese anime and manga, and the first humanoid giant robot is Tetsujin 28-Go; who was controlled externally via remote control by an operator. The first occurrence of mecha being piloted by a user from within a cockpit was introduced much later in the manga and anime series Mazinger Z by Go Nagai, first published in 1972.

Tetsujin 28-go was serialized in Kobunsha's Shōnen Magazine from July 1956 to May 1966, for a total of 97 chapters. The series was collected into 12 tankōbon volumes, which are re-released every ten years.

Yokoyama's Tetsujin, much like Osamu Tezuka's Astro Boy, was influenced by the artist's wartime experiences. In Yokoyama's case, this was through the bombing of Kobe in World War II.


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