8 Man (8マン) or Eightman (エイトマン Eitoman) is a manga and anime superhero created in 1963 by science fiction writer Kazumasa Hirai and manga artist Jiro Kuwata. He is considered Japan's earliest cyborg superhero, predating even Kamen Rider (the same year, Shotaro Ishinomori created Cyborg 009), and was supposedly the inspiration for RoboCop.
The manga was published in Weekly Shōnen Magazine and ran from 1963 to 1966. The anime series, produced by Eiken with the TCJ Animation Center, was broadcast on Tokyo Broadcasting System, and ran from November 17, 1963 to December 31, 1964, with a total of 56 episodes (plus the "farewell" special episode, "Goodbye, Eightman").
Murdered by criminals, Detective Yokoda's body is retrieved by Professor Tani and taken to his laboratory. There, Tani performs an experiment that has failed seven times; Yokoda is the latest subject to have his life force transferred into an android body. For the first time, the experiment succeeds. Yokoda is reborn as the armor-skinned android 8 Man, able to dash at impossible speeds, as well as shape-shift into other people. He shifts himself into Yokoda, this time christening himself as "Hachiro Azuma". He keeps this identity a secret, known only to Tani and his police boss Chief Tanaka. Even his girlfriend Sachiko and friend Ichiro do not know he is an android. As 8-Man, Hachiro fights crime (even bringing his own murderers to justice). He smokes "energy" cigarettes, to rejuvenate his powers, that he carries in a cigarette case on his belt.
Actors: Mickey Curtis (actor), Tadao Nakamaru (actor), Osamu Ohtomo (actor), Daisuke Shima (actor), Jô Shishido (actor), Kai Shishido (actor), Etsushi Takahashi (actor), Toshihide Wakamatsu (actor), Toshihide Wakamatsu (actor), Sachiko Ayase (actress), Carl Macek (producer), Kazumasa Hirai (writer), Jirô Kuwata (writer), Yasuhiro Horiuchi (director),
Plot: After Tokyo police officer Yokoda is killed in the line of duty, his chief decides give Yokoda's body to Dr. Tani for use in a secret scientific experiment: Yokoda's brain will be transplanted into a super-powered robot body, making him into an unstoppable policeman of the future. The supercop develops problems, however, when he begins to remember his human past. Then there is the matter of Dr. Tani's other cyborg, who has become a super-powered homicidal maniac.
Keywords: based-on-cartoon, police-officer-killed, revengeActors: Shirô Amakusa (actor), Takayuki Hara (actor), Sakae Takayama (actor), Sakae Takayama (actor), Kazue Tanaka (actress), Miyuki Ueda (actress), Kazumasa Hirai (writer), Kazumasa Hirai (writer), Jirô Kuwata (writer), Masaki Tsuji (writer), Hiroaki Hagiwara (composer), Hiroyuki Kawashima (director),
Genres: Action, Adventure, Animation, Sci-Fi,Cuenta el abuelo que
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