Daitetsujin 17 | |
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Genre | Tokusatsu Superhero Kyodai Hero Super Robot |
Created by | Shotaro Ishinomori |
Developed by | Shozo Uehara Masaru Igami |
Directed by | Minoru Yamada |
Starring | Masahiro Kamiya Midori Takei Tadao Nakamaru Go Haraguchi Shungo Mitsui Naoyuki Sugano Junko Otsuki Masahiro Takashina Hitoshi Takahashi Mayumi Watanabe Kaho Shimada Akihiko Hirata Rinichi Yamamoto Akira Yamaguchi Ulf Otsuki Rushia Santo Mio Ota |
Voices of | Hiroshi Mizushina Mieko Muramatsu Kyoji Kobayashi |
Country of origin | Japan |
Original language | Japanese |
No. of episodes | 35 |
Production | |
Production companies | Toei Company Ishimori Productions |
Original release | |
Network | MBS |
Release | March 18 November 11, 1977 | –
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Daitetsujin 17[1] (大鉄人17, Daitetsujin Wan-Sebun) is a 1977 tokusatsu series created by Shotaro Ishinomori and produced by Toei. It revolves around a giant battle robot commanded by a young boy who fights the giant robots of an evil organization bent on world conquest. It is similar to Giant Robo in premise and how it ends.
The opening theme was performed by Ichirou Mizuki, Koorogi '73 and The Chirps.
Popy manufactured several toys based on the series - notably a transforming Chogokin version of the robot One-Seven (later released in America for the Godaikin line), vehicles based on One-Seven's Flying Fortress mode, the Sub Machine Flying Car, the Shigcon Tank and the Shigcon Jet, and a three-inch version of One-Seven, which was later released as "17" in Mattel's Shogun Warriors line.