The New Adventures of Gigantor (1980)
- Original title
- 鉄人28号
- Directed by
- Tetsuo Imazawa
- Genre
- mecha, adventure anime and manga
- Country
- Japan
- Length
- 1 season, 51 episodes
- Rating
- 7.2 of 10 from 5 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A boy controls a giant remote-controlled robot to fight monsters and criminals. The series follows their adventures in a world of science fiction and crime fighting.
action-packednostalgiclightheartedepisodicfast-pacedwhimsicalclassicretro
What happens
New Tetsujin-28 (太陽の使者 鉄人28号, Taiyō no Shisha Tetsujin Nijūhachi-gō; lit. Solar Messenger Iron Man #28) is a 1980 Japanese mecha anime television series produced by Tokyo Movie Shinsha, and a modern style remake of Mitsuteru Yokoyama's manga Tetsujin 28-go. It was directed by Tetsuo Imazawa and produced by both Shigeru Akagawa and Toru Horikoshi. It aired on Nippon Television from October 3, 1980, to September 25, 1981, with a total count of 51 episodes. Fred Ladd and TMS converted the series into The New Adventures of Gigantor, which was broadcast on the Sci-Fi Channel in the United States from September 9, 1993, to June 30, 1997. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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