Tetsujin 28-go
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鉄人28号 (Tetsujin Nijūhachi-gō) |
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| Genre | Action, Adventure, Mecha |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Mitsuteru Yokoyama |
| Published by | Kobunsha |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Magazine | Shōnen |
| Original run | July 1956 – May 1966 |
| Volumes | 24 |
| Television drama | |
| Directed by | Santaro Marune |
| Original network | NTV (1960) |
| Original run | February 1, 1960 – April 25, 1960 |
| Episodes | 13 |
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| Directed by | Yonehiko Watanabe |
| Produced by | Kazuo Iohara |
| Written by | Kinzo Okamoto |
| Music by | Toriro Miki Nobuyoshi Koshibe Hidehiko Arashino |
| Studio | TCJ |
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| Original network | Fuji TV (1963–1966) |
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| Original run | October 20, 1963 – May 25, 1966 |
| Episodes | 97 |
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| 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, 1992 – March 30, 1993 |
| Episodes | 47 |
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| 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, 2013 – March 26, 2016 |
| Episodes | 139 |
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| Written by | Atsushi Oba |
| Published by | Shueisha |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Magazine | Saikyō Jump |
| Original run | June 2013 – present |
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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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