8-man anus
| 8-man anus | |
|---|---|
| Original title | エ イ ト マ ン AFTER |
| transcription | Eitoman anus |
| genre | Action, science fantasy |
| Original video animation | |
| Country of production |
 Japan
|
| original language | Japanese |
| year | 1993 |
| Studio | JCStaff |
| length | 29 minutes |
| Episodes | 4th |
| Director | Yoriyasu Kogawa |
| music | Hitoshi Miyata |
| Manga | |
| country |
Japan
|
| author | Masahiro Suematsu |
| publishing company | Kodansha |
| magazine | Weekly Shōnen Magazine |
| First publication | 1994 - ... |
8-man after ( Jap. エイトマンAFTER , Eitoman After , also 8 Man After ) is a as original video animation published Anime of 1993, which on the manga series One Eight is based from 1963. A separate manga series appeared for the anime from 1994 onwards .
content
The 8-man , cyborg and police helper, has disappeared. Cybernetic body parts are now available to many, but this means that criminals have weapons built into body parts. To live with these, they need drugs that make them aggressive. Gang wars for control of technology and drugs will soon break out. The detective Hazama Itsuru is assigned to find a missing scientist who is believed to have been kidnapped by the gangs. Together with Sachiko, the friend of the missing 8-Man, he goes on a search. But when they find him, Itsuru is killed in a fight. The scientist Dr. Tani turns out to be the creator of 8-Man. He can save Itsuru's ghost and put it in a cyborg . Itsuru becomes the new 8-man who fights against organized crime with his superhuman powers. However, the memories of his human past bring him problems and make him unpredictable. At the same time, the need and crime is great because of the armed gangs and the drugs.
Production and publication
The anime was directed by Yoriyasu Kogawa at Studio JCStaff . The script was written by Yasushi Hirano , the character design was created by Kenichi Ohnuki and the mechanical design was done by Kunihiro Abe . Koji Honda , Norihisa Abe and Shinji Komori were hired as producers . The fact that the production took place so long after the original was published may be due to the success of Robocop some time before, which has a similar conceptual content and was influenced by the original Eight Man .
The short series of four episodes, each 29 minutes in length, was released on video from August 21 to November 22, 1993 in Japan. The anime was first shown in German at DF1 , under the title Cyber Desperado . He was later seen on K-Toon in the Premiere program. An English version was released by East2West Films in the UK and broadcast on the Sci-Fi Channel . There are also Korean, French, Spanish, Arabic, Portuguese and Philippine localizations.
synchronization
| role | Japanese speaker ( seiyū ) |
|---|---|
| Hazama Itsuru | Juurouta Kosugi |
| Sam O'Conner | Eiko Yamada |
| Tony Gleck | Issei Futamata |
| Sachiko Yokogawa | Mika Doi |
music
Hitoshi Miyata composed the music for the short series . For the credits of the episodes, the songs Eightman no Theme and Hohoemi no Mukougawa ( 微笑 み の 向 こ う 側 , last episode), both by Nobuyoshi Kuwano, were used.
Manga
In the magazine Weekly Shonen Magazine from the publisher Kodansha one of appeared from 1994 Masahiro Suematsu designed manga implementation of eight-man after .
reception
The Animania writes that the designs are " appealingly modernized and are reminiscent of a mixture of Michitaka Kikuchi and Yoshiaki Kawajiri , the story is an action-packed cyberpunk thriller ". The German version was successful both in translation and in the performance of the speakers and the OVA could be understood without knowledge of the original.
Web links
- Anime in Anime News Network (English)