Triton of the Sea

Triton of the Sea
The cover for Triton of the Sea volume 1 from the Osamu Tezuka Manga Complete Works edition.
海のトリトン
(Umi no Toriton)
GenreAdventure
Manga
Written byOsamu Tezuka
Published byKodansha
MagazineSankei Shimbun
Original runSeptember 1, 1969December 31, 1971
Volumes4[1]
Anime television series
Directed byYoshiyuki Tomino
Written byYoshiyuki Tomino
StudioAnimation Staff Room
Original networkABC
Original run April 1, 1972 September 30, 1972
Episodes27
Anime film
Directed byKazunori Tanahashi
Produced byYoshinobu Nishizaki
StudioOffice Academy
ReleasedJuly 14, 1979
Runtime74 minutes

Triton of the Sea (海のトリトン, Umi no Toriton) is a 1969 Japanese manga series created by Osamu Tezuka for Kodansha. The manga was adapted by the Asahi Broadcasting Corporation into a 27-episode anime television series from April 1 to September 30, 1972, directed by Yoshiyuki Tomino (in his directorial debut). Digital Manga successfully crowd-funded the U.S. release of the manga on Kickstarter in 2012.[2]

  1. ^ Triton of the Sea manga at TezukaOsamu@World Archived 2007-07-15 at the Wayback Machine. Accessed on 2007-06-12.
  2. ^ "Translate Osamu Tezuka's Unico, Atomcat & Triton of the Sea!". Kickstarter. Retrieved 23 April 2018.