| Giatrus | |
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| ギャートルズ (Gyātoruzu) | |
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| Genre | Gag |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Shunji Sonoyama |
| Published by | Jitsugyo no Nihon Sha |
| Magazine | Weekly Manga Sunday |
| Original run | 1965 – 1975 |
| Manga | |
| First Human Gon | |
| Written by | Shunji Sonoyama |
| Illustrated by | Hideo Shinoda |
| Published by | Gakken |
| Magazine | Gakushū Magazine |
| Published | 1966 |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Shunji Sonoyama |
| Published by | Shogakukan |
| Magazine | Gakunen Magazine |
| Published | 1974 |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Kenji Kodama |
| Music by | Hiroshi Kamayatsu Mamoru Fujisawa |
| Studio | A-Production Tokyo Movie |
| Original network | JNN (ABC, TBS) (until episode 26) ANN (ABC, NET) (episode 27 and after) |
| Original run | October 5, 1974 – March 27, 1976 |
| Episodes | 77 |
| Anime film | |
| Music by | Hiroshi Kamayatsu Joe Hisaishi |
| Studio | Tokyo Movie |
| Released | March 15, 1975 |
| Runtime | 14 minutes |
| Television drama | |
| Back to the Giatrus Days | |
| Written by | Hiroshi Shimokawa |
| Music by | Toshiyuki Watanabe |
| Original network | NHK BS-2 |
| Original run | April 18, 1993 |
| Episodes | 1 |
| Anime television series | |
| First Human Gon | |
| Directed by | Yutaka Kagawa |
| Produced by | Yuji Nunokawa Kyotaro Kimura Ken Suekawa Naoji Hōnokidani (Animation) |
| Written by | Yoshio Urasawa |
| Music by | Yusuke Honma |
| Studio | Studio Pierrot |
| Original network | NHK BS-2 |
| Original run | April 3, 1996 – January 22, 1997 |
| Episodes | 39 |
Giatrus (Japanese: ギャートルズ, Hepburn: Gyātoruzu) is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Shunji Sonoyama. It spawned two other manga, two anime television series, a television drama, and an anime film. The first TV series mark the debut of Joe Hisaishi, composer of My Neighbor Totoro and Spirited Away. The official English title is Gon, The Stone-Age Boy.[1]