Tetsujin 28-go

Tetsujin 28
鉄人28号
(Tetsujin Nijūhachi-gō)
GenreMecha, dieselpunk
Manga
Written byMitsuteru Yokoyama
Published byKobunsha
MagazineShōnen
DemographicShōnen
Original runJuly 1956May 1966
Volumes24
Television drama
Directed bySantaro Marune
StudioMatsuzaki Production
Original networkNTV
Original run February 1, 1960 April 25, 1960
Episodes13
Anime television series
Tetsujin 28 FX
Directed byTetsuo Imazawa
Produced byJin Totani
Mikihiro Iwata
Toru Horikoshi
Yuko Sagawa
Written byFumihiko Shimo
Hideki Sonoda
Hiroshi Minamino
Isao Shizuya
Nobuaki Kishima
Ryoe Tsukimura
Satoru Nishizono
Toshimichi Okawa
Music byHiroaki Kondo
StudioTokyo Movie Shinsha
Licensed by
Original networkNNS (NTV)
Original run April 5, 1992 March 30, 1993
Episodes47
Anime television series
Tetsujin 28 Gao!
Directed byTatsuji Yamazaki
Produced byShotaro Muroji
Daisuke Hara
Written byMitsutaka Hirota
Tatsuji Yamazaki
Music byFutoshi Sato
StudioEiken
Original networkFNS (Fuji TV)
Original run April 6, 2013 March 26, 2016
Episodes139
Manga
Written byAtsushi Oba
Published byShueisha
MagazineSaikyō Jump
DemographicShōnen
Original runJune 2013August 2014
Anime television series
Live-action film

Tetsujin 28-gō (Japanese: 鉄人28号, Hepburn: Tetsujin Nijūhachi-gō, lit. "Iron Man No. 28"), known as simply Tetsujin 28 in international releases, is a 1956 manga written and illustrated by Mitsuteru Yokoyama, who also created Giant Robo. The series centers on the adventures of a young boy named Shotaro Kaneda, who controls a giant robot named Tetsujin 28, built by his late father.

The manga was later adapted into four anime television series, a Japanese television drama and two films, one live action and one animated. Released in 1963, the series was among the first Japanese anime series to feature a giant robot. It was later released in the United States as Gigantor.[1] A live-action movie with heavy use of CGI was produced in Japan in 2005.

The series is credited with featuring the first humanoid giant robot controlled externally via remote control by an operator.

  1. ^ "Fire kills Japanese manga artist". BBC. 16 April 2004. Retrieved 2011-10-23.