Amazon.com: Late baby boomers and early Gen-Xers grew up singing the Gigantor theme song: "Bigger than big / Taller than tall / Quicker than quick / Stronger than strong." Based on a 1956 manga by Mitsuteru Yokoyama, Gigantor was animated for Japanese TV in 1963 as Tetsujin 28-go (Ironman #28). This reedited and dubbed version, which begins with episode 27 of the original series, ran in syndication in the U.S. from 1966 through 1974. Near the end of World War II, a group of Japanese scientists experimented with giant robot-weapons. In 2000 A.D. the son of one of those scientists owns the final prototype. Jimmy Sparks uses a remote control with a primitive joystick to command Gigantor. With scientist Dr. Bob Brilliant, dashing Dick Strong, and comic police officer Inspector Blooper, Jimmy embarks on a series of standard adventures. He battles smugglers, evil scientists, megalomaniacs, and assorted other bad guys, most of whom want to gain control of Gigantor.
Unlike the fantastic mecha in later anime series, Gigantor looks like he was modeled after the Tin Woodman in The Wizard of Oz: pointy nose, hinged jaw, tubular limbs. The animation is extremely limited, with repeated footage, dialogue over still artwork, and static shots in which only the characters' mouths move. These early black-and-white cartoons have campy retro-nerd appeal, especially for adults who watched the series as kids. (Unrated; suitable for ages 7 and older: minor violence, tobacco use, ethnic stereotypes) --Charles Solomon
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Born In USA Now Living In Australia For The Past 18 Years I cannot believe that my all-time favorite cartoon Gigantor can now be brought online and then sent to me over in australia.Sometime i get home sick even after all these years here and i love things that remind me of home and boy this sure will.Speed Racer 2 box set just arrived today another favorite of mine,and to top that today i find Gigantor's is also on amazon and ordered it right away.So i guess Speed Racer can help past the time until Gigantor arrives thanks amazon for giving me a big part of my childhood.
STRONGER THAN STRONG! This was a favorite of mine as a kid! The episodes look great and if you are a fan of this show......Buy it! You can find this much cheaper if you look around.
Happy Bigger-than-Big Memories I was thrilled to find that the Gigantor show had been released on DVD. I was always furtively looking in the Anime sections of DVD stores for years, hoping to find something of it, or 8th Man or the Amazing Three,which were the other early anime shows I remembered. Rhino has done a fine job of packaging and presenting the episodes (1-26 is what I have)--the only drawback is that the discs are hard to pop out of the holders! Gigantor was my absolute favorite show when I was a kid, and I must have seen the original seasons around 1966 as I was born in 1960. My brother and sister want to have the set now, too, even though they weren't hooked on the big robot like I was. Very interesting interview with American producer Fred Ladd in the bonus features. And it's been a therapy item to realize to what extent I identifed with the 12-year old boy who because of his brains rather than brawn was able to command great power... I appreciated reading the other reviews, one of which gave the opinion that the first set of episodes is the best in terms of story line. I particularly remembered the episodes with the Smoke Robots and the one where G. helps to collect wild animals for the zoo. There are anachronisms--the technology in the show in terms of cars, telephones and computers looks much more like 1965 than "the Year 2000", and a modern show wouldn't have the film noir smoking and some ethnic stereotypes. But I am very glad to see these episodes again. I can also recommend very highly the first 5 episodes of Tetsujin 28, the Japanese show of which Gigantor is the American version. The 10-year-old boy detective Shotaro is different from the completely confident Jimmy Sparks, and the robot has a mixed and rather sinister history and feel. The setting of postwar Tokyo provides a backdrop for a truly engaging human drama. I got it (from Amazon.com, of course) as a novelty source item, but I have enjoyed the Japanese shows with their English dubbing just as much as I have "Gigantor".
Rock'em Sock'em Robots? Who wouldn't want a remote control towering machine that's as big as a skyscraper, flies, fights and can do anything you want? I recall his cartoon being played on Sci-fi weekday mornings after Robotech. It was originally a black & white comic called Tetsujin 28 or Iron Man 28 turned to cartoon series "Tetsujin 28-Go," the animation similar to Astroboy. Eventually it became "Gigantor" a few years later. The plot consist of a young boy, Jimmy Sparks controlling the huge robot Gigantor Dr. Brillant created the robot, and acts as a mentor for Jimmy.
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