Ambassador Magma | |
マグマ大使 (Maguma Taishi) | |
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Genre | Mecha Kyodai Hero |
Manga | |
Written by | Osamu Tezuka |
Published by | Shōnen Gahosha |
Magazine | Shōnen Gaho |
Demographic | Shōnen |
Original run | May 1965 – August 1967 |
Volumes | 3 |
Television drama | |
Studio | P Productions Terebi Doga |
Licensed by | |
Original network | FNS (Fuji TV) |
Original run | July 4, 1966 – June 26, 1967 |
Episodes | 52 |
Original video animation | |
Directed by | Hidehito Ueda |
Written by | Katsuhiko Koide |
Music by | Toshiyuki Watanabe |
Studio | Bandai Visual, PLEX, Tezuka Productions |
Released | 1993 |
Episodes | 13 |
Ambassador Magma (マグマ大使, Maguma Taishi) is the title and protagonist of a manga and tokusatsu TV series created by Osamu Tezuka. The TV series, produced by P Productions, aired on Fuji TV from July 4, 1966, to June 26, 1967, lasting a total of 52 episodes. It is the first color tokusatsu TV series in Japan, beating Tsuburaya Productions' Ultraman to the air by six days. The show later aired in the US, dubbed in English by Krantz Films, as The Space Giants.[1] Digital Manga crowdfunded the manga, and it is currently available for digital purchase on their Emanga site.