Tetsujin 28
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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 |
| Manga | |
| 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.
In the final phase of the Pacific War, the Imperial Japanese Army were developing a gigantic robot "Tetsujin 28-go" as the secret weapon to fight against the Allies. However, Japan had surrendered before they can complete its construction. After the war, Dr. Kaneda, the developer of Tetsujin 28-go passed his robot to his son Shotaro Kaneda.
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.
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