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Giant Robo (ジャイアントロボ, Jaianto Robo), also known as Johnny Sokko and His Flying Robot in the United States, [1] is a manga and tokusatsu series created by Mitsuteru Yokoyama. It is similar to Yokoyama's Tetsujin 28-go (known as Gigantor in the U.S.), but Giant Robo has more elements of fantasy.
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 ...
Force Five is an American adaptation of five different anime television series. In the United States, this series was primarily shown only in New England, Pennsylvania, and Virginia, though it did make brief appearances in other markets, such as Texas, and Northern California on KICU-TV 36.
The 1999 animated movie The Iron Giant is about a boy (Eli Marienthal) in the late 1950s who befriends a big robot—an iron giant, if you will. The film follows him as he attempts to keep his ...
But for a genre anime, Giant Robo does not feature many giant robot battles; [23] instead, it is the human characters who do the fighting. Most of the "Experts" featured in The Day the Earth Stood Still come from Yokoyama's manga adaptations of Outlaws of the Marsh and Romance of the Three Kingdoms , [ 24 ] both wuxia novels and half of the ...
Megas XLR is an American animated television series created by Jody Schaeffer and George Krstic for Cartoon Network. [1] The series revolves around two slackers: mechanic Coop and his best friend Jamie, who find a mecha robot from the future called MEGAS (Mechanized Earth Guard Attack System) in a Jersey City, New Jersey junkyard. [2]
When Oscar-winning animation director Mark Andrews (“Brave”) called his old Pixar pal Alex Mandel about his latest gig, “Super Giant Robot Brothers,” Mandel was 6,700 miles away in New ...
It was described by the TV Week as an "animated science fiction series about the world's mightiest robot, and 12-year-old Jimmy Sparks who controls the jet-propelled giant". The series aired in other markets around Australia, including Sydney on TEN-10 , and in Adelaide, South Australia on SAS-10 , (its debut on Monday October 28, 1968, at 5.55 ...