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Fri, 24 Nov 2000 20:29:00 -0800
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gundam@1u.aeug.org [mailto:owner-gundam@1u.aeug.org]On
> Behalf Of Miles Reid
> Sent: Friday, November 24, 2000 02:12
> To: gundam@aeug.org
> Subject: Re: [gundam] G Gundam ... ready, GO!
>
> >When was Giant Robo originally released? I thought it was fairly recent, but
> >it has that great old campy retro feel of the first and second Tetsujin 28
> >series (or Gigantor/The New Adventures of... , in the US).
>
> The Giant Robo OAV Series was released in the 90's. The Original Manga was
> created by the same person who created Gigantor. The Manga was more like
> Gigantor and didn't have as much angst and death as the OAV Series. Also a
> lot of the Charecters came from other works of this author whose name I
> can't remember.
Giant Robo is a bit confusing because it originally appeared in the 1960s as a
26-episode live-action, not animated, TV series called Johnny Sokko and his
Giant Robot. A dubbed version aired on Channel 52 in Los Angeles and a
compilation movie was also released by American International Pictures, circa
1964. The premise was pretty much the same as Tetsujin-28/Gigantor, with Johnny
Sokko, who wa otherwise an ordinary schoolboy, becoming bonded to an alien
robot, so that thereafter only he could operate it. In the American version,
the good guy secret agents were called Unicorn and the bad guy secret society
was called Gargoyle.
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