Tiger Mask II
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Cover of the 2001 re-release of the first manga volume
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タイガーマスク (Taigā Masuku) |
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| Genre | Sports (professional wrestling) |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Ikki Kajiwara |
| Illustrated by | Naoki Tsuji |
| Published by | Kodansha |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Magazine |
Bokura Magazine (1968–1969) Weekly Shōnen Magazine (1970–1971) |
| Original run | 1968 – 1971 |
| Volumes | 14 |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Takeshi Tamiya |
| Written by |
Masaki Tsuji Tadashi Kondo Toyohiro Ando |
| Music by | Shunsuke Kikuchi |
| Studio | Toei Animation |
| Original network | Yomiuri TV |
| Original run | October 2, 1969 – September 30, 1971 |
| Episodes | 105 |
| Anime film | |
| Directed by | Takeshi Tamiya |
| Studio | Toei Animation |
| Released | 1970 |
| Anime television series | |
| Tiger Mask II | |
| Directed by | Kozo Morishita |
| Written by | Haruya Yamazaki |
| Music by | Shunsuke Kikuchi |
| Studio | Toei Animation |
| Original network | TV Asahi |
| Original run | April 20, 1981 – January 18, 1982 |
| Episodes | 33 |
| Live-action film | |
| Directed by | Ken Ochiai |
| Produced by | Toshiaki Nakazawa Hidehiro Ito Yoshihiro Yamamoto |
| Written by | Hidehiro Ito Itaru Era Ken Ochiai Michael Welles Schock |
| Music by | Koji Endo |
| Studio | Shochiku |
| Released | November 9, 2013 |
| Runtime | 90 minutes |
Tiger Mask (Japanese: タイガーマスク Hepburn: Taigā Masuku?) is a Japanese manga series written by Ikki Kajiwara and illustrated by Naoki Tsuji. The series was first published in Kodansha's Bokura Magazine from 1968 to 1971 and was later published in Weekly Shōnen Magazine from 1970 to 1971. It was later adapted into an anime series by Toei Animation which first aired on Yomiuri TV on October 2, 1969 and ended its run on September 30, 1971, airing 105 episodes. In real life, the name has been used by a succession of Japanese professional wrestling characters as a gimmick. The Tiger Mask persona is instantly recognizable by its trademark mask, designed to look like a tiger's head, as well as the combination of high flying attacks and martial arts in the ring.
In the manga and anime, Tiger Mask (whose real name was Naoto Date) was a feared heel wrestler in America who was extremely vicious in the ring. However, he became a face after returning to Japan when a young boy said that he wanted to be a villain like Tiger Mask when he grew up. The boy resided in an orphanage, the same one that Tiger Mask grew up in during his childhood. Feeling that he did not want the boy to idolize a villain, Tiger was inspired to be a heroic wrestler.
The main antagonist in the manga and anime was the Tiger's Den, a mysterious organization that trained young people to be villainous wrestlers on the condition that they gave half of their earnings to the organization. Tiger Mask was once a member of the Tiger's Den under the name "Yellow Devil", but no longer wanted anything to do with them, instead donating his money to the orphanage. This infuriated the leader of the organization and he sent numerous assassins, including other professional wrestlers, to punish him.
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