Tetsujin 28-gō

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Tetsujin 28-gō ( Japanese 鉄 人 28 号 , to dt. "Iron man No. 28") is a manga series by the Japanese illustrator Mitsuteru Yokoyama from the years 1956 to 1966. The work can be classified into the genre Shōnen and Mecha and was adapted as anime and real film.

action

The Tetsujin 28-gō robot was built by Japanese scientists during World War II to be used against the Allies . But the laboratory was bombed and the robot was therefore not used. The robots appear to have been destroyed and the scientist Shikashima is considered dead. After the war, criminals use robots to commit crimes in Tokyo . When these also break in at Shikashima, who is in hiding, he teams up with Doctor Kaneda and his son and hobby detective Shotaro. They find out that the criminals' robots come from the armaments laboratory and that they are now also looking for robot number 28. But Shikashima converts him into a police agent who is controlled by Shotaro. Both parties are trying to get each other's robots, with the scientists soon also being helped by the police under Inspector Ōstuka. Eventually the criminal robots can be destroyed and the criminals killed or arrested.

Tetsujin is then handed over to Shotaro, who works with him for the police. Doctor Shikashima withdraws. In the following time, other criminals kept appearing whom the police wanted to counter with more robots.

Creation and publication

During the Second World War, there was already a manga in Japan in 1943 in which scientists developed a giant robot as a weapon against the Allies. Mitsuteru Yokoyama took up this idea again in 1956 with Tetsujin 28-gō .

The manga was published in individual chapters from July 1956 to May 1966 in the manga magazine Shōnen Magazine of the Kobunsha publishing house . The manga is still being reissued to this day.

Adaptations

Television series

When Japanese broadcaster Nippon Television one was from February 1, 1960 to March 25, 1960 drama aired. Santaro Masune directed the 13 episode production of Shoki Pro.

Anime TV series

Television broadcast
Original title 鉄 人 28 号
Tetsujin 28-gō
Country of production Japan
original language Japanese
year 1963
length 25 minutes
Episodes 96
genre Shōnen , mecha
idea Mitsuteru Yokoyama
First broadcast Oct. 20, 1963 - May 27, 1965 on Fuji TV
synchronization

The Tele-Cartoon Japan studio produced an 83-part anime television series based on the manga in 1963. The series was executed in black and white and as a limited animation in cel animation . The anime was broadcast from October 20, 1963 to May 27, 1965 by Fuji TV in Japan and was the second Shōnen anime series. The content of the series differs from that of the manga, and new story arcs were often pursued. In addition, Doctor Kaneda was already involved in the development of Tetsujin No. 28 in the manga.

The series was broadcast in the United States in 1966 under the title Gigantor . In addition to changing the title and name, individual scenes and allusions to the death of opponents were also removed. 13 more episodes were also produced. The American version was created under the direction of Fred Ladd, Lou Singer and Gene Raskin produced new background music. Some episodes also appeared here on VHS.

It was also translated into Portuguese.

The first series was followed by three more. In 1980 Taiyō no Shisha: Tetsujin 28-gō ( 太陽 の 使者 鉄 人 28 号 ) was shown on Japanese television, followed in 1992 by Chōdendō Robot: Tetsujin 28-gō FX ( 超 電動 ロ ボ 鉄 人 28 号 FX ). In 2004 TV Tokyo broadcast the remake Tetsujin 28-gō .

synchronization

role Japanese speaker ( seiyū )
Shotaro Kaneda Kazue Takahashi
Ōtsuka Kōsei Tomita
Shikishima Minoru Yada
Kenji Murasame Toshio Ando
teller Yuzuru Fujimoto

Movies

For the manga, the real- life film Tetsujin 28-gō ( 鉄 人 28 号 ) was released in Japan . The 114-minute film was directed by Shin Togashi.

In addition, on March 31, 2007, the anime film Tetsujin 28-gō: Hakuchū no Zangetsu ( 鉄 人 28 号 白昼 の 残月 ) premiered in Japan. Yasuhiro Imagawa directed the Palm Studio production .

Reception and meaning

The manga and its first film adaptation as an anime had a great influence on later works of the mecha genre , they belonged to the first generation of such works in Japan.

The American version was relatively successful in its time, but quickly forgotten. In particular, the music in the series was popular with young audiences. Along with Astro Boy and Kimba, the White Lion, she was one of the first anime to be broadcast in the United States.

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d Trish Ledoux and Doug Ranney: The Complete Anime Guide p. 11 f. Tiger Mountain Press, Issaquah (Washington), 1995
  2. a b c d e Patten, 2004, p. 314 ff.
  3. Paul Gravett: Manga - Sixty Years of Japanese Comics, p. 57. Egmont Manga and Anime, 2004.
  4. a b Patten, 2004, pp. 240/263
  5. German Film Institute - DIF / German Film Museum & Museum of Applied Arts (ed.): Ga-netchû! The Manga Anime Syndrome p. 116 f. Henschel Verlag, 2008.
  6. Patten, 2004, p. 293
  7. Patten, 2004, p. 46

literature

  • Fred Patten: Watching Anime, Reading Manga - 25 Years of Essays and Reviews . Stone Bridge Press, 2004.

Web links

Commons : Tetsujin 28-go  - collection of images, videos and audio files

* Anime News Network about the manga and the first anime series (English)