Ambassador Magma

Ambassador Magma
Cover of the second volume from the Osamu Tezuka Manga Complete Works edition
マグマ大使
(Maguma Taishi)
GenreMecha
Kyodai Hero
Manga
Written byOsamu Tezuka
Published byShōnen Gahosha
MagazineShōnen Gaho
DemographicShōnen
Original runMay 1965August 1967
Volumes3
Television drama
StudioP Productions
Terebi Doga
Licensed by
Original networkFNS (Fuji TV)
Original run July 4, 1966 June 26, 1967
Episodes52
Original video animation
Directed byHidehito Ueda
Written byKatsuhiko Koide
Music byToshiyuki Watanabe
StudioBandai Visual, PLEX, Tezuka Productions
Released1993
Episodes13
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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.

  1. ^ Woolery, George W. (1985). Children's Television: The First Thirty-Five Years, 1946-1981, Part II: Live, Film, and Tape Series. The Scarecrow Press. p. 473. ISBN 0-8108-1651-2.