The New Adventures of Gigantor

New Tetsujin-28
Cover for the second DVD box set in Japan
太陽の使者 鉄人28号
(Taiyō no Shisha Tetsujin Nijū-hachi-gō)
GenreMecha
Anime television series
Directed byTetsuo Imazawa
Produced by
  • Shigeru Akagawa
  • Toru Horikoshi
Written by
  • Hideo Takayashiki
  • Keisuke Fujikawa
  • Masaaki Sakurai
  • Noboru Shiroyama
  • Yoshihisa Araki
  • Yutaka Kaneko
Music byYasuaki Shimizu
StudioTokyo Movie Shinsha
Licensed by
Original networkNNS (NTV)
English network
Original run October 3, 1980 (1980-10-03) – September 25, 1981 (1981-09-25)[1]
Episodes51 (List of episodes)

New Tetsujin-28 (太陽の使者 鉄人28号, Taiyō no Shisha Tetsujin Nijūhachi-gō, lit. Solar Messenger Iron Man #28) is a 1980 Japanese mecha anime television series produced by Tokyo Movie Shinsha, and a modern style remake of Mitsuteru Yokoyama's manga Tetsujin 28-go.[2] It was directed by Tetsuo Imazawa and produced by both Shigeru Akagawa and Toru Horikoshi. It aired on Nippon Television from October 3, 1980, to September 25, 1981, with a total count of 51 episodes. Fred Ladd and TMS converted the series into The New Adventures of Gigantor, which was broadcast on the Sci-Fi Channel in the United States from September 9, 1993, to June 30, 1997.[3]

  1. ^ "鉄人28号 @ Tokyo Movie Shinsha". TMS (in Japanese). Archived from the original on March 17, 2013. Retrieved October 21, 2011.
  2. ^ "IRONMAN 28 @ TMS Entertainment". TMS. Archived from the original on September 27, 2011. Retrieved October 21, 2011.
  3. ^ Erickson, Hal (2005). Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 (2nd ed.). McFarland & Co. pp. 377–378. ISBN 978-1476665993.