First Human Giatrus Explained

Giatrus
Ja Kanji:ギャートルズ
Ja Romaji:Gyātoruzu
Genre:Gag
Author:Shunji Sonoyama
Type:manga
Magazine:Weekly Manga Sunday
Publisher:Jitsugyo no Nihon Sha
First:1965
Last:1975
First Human Gon
Author:Shunji Sonoyama
Illustrator:Hideo Shinoda
Type:manga
Magazine:Gakushū Magazine
Publisher:Gakken
Published:1966
Author:Shunji Sonoyama
Type:manga
Magazine:Gakunen Magazine
Publisher:Shogakukan
Published:1974
Type:tv series
Music:Hiroshi Kamayatsu
Mamoru Fujisawa
Studio:Tokyo Movie
Network:TBS (until episode 26)
NET (episode 27 and after)
First:October 5, 1974
Last:March 27, 1976
Episodes:77
Type:film
Music:Hiroshi Kamayatsu
Joe Hisaishi
Released:March 15, 1975
Studio:Tokyo Movie
Runtime:14 minutes
Type:drama
Back to the Giatrus Days
Music:Toshiyuki Watanabe
Network:NHK BS-2
Released:April 18, 1993
Episodes:1
Type:tv series
First Human Gon
Director:Yutaka Kagawa
Producer:Yuji Nunokawa
Kyotaro Kimura
Ken Suekawa
Naoji Hōnokidani (Animation)
Music:Yusuke Honma
Studio:Studio Pierrot
Network:NHK BS-2
First:April 3, 1996
Last:January 22, 1997
Episodes:39

is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Shunji Sonoyama. It spawned two other manga, two anime television series, a television drama, and an anime film. The first TV series mark the debut of Joe Hisaishi, composer of My Neighbor Totoro and Spirited Away. The official English title is Gon, The Stone-Age Boy.[1]

Media

Manga

It was first published from 1965 to 1975 in Jitsugyo no Nihon Sha's Weekly Manga Sunday,[2] [3] and spawned two spin-off manga: the first, entitled and illustrated by Hideo Shinoda,[4] was published in Gakken's Gakushū Magazine in 1966;[5] the second, entitled, was published by Shogakukan's Gakunen Magazine in 1974.[5]

Shunji Sonoyama won the 1976 Bungeishunjū Manga Award for his work on the manga series.[6]

Anime series

The third manga was adapted by Tokyo Movie into a homonymous anime television series consisting in 77 episodes, which was broadcast on ABC between October 5, 1974, and March 27, 1976.[7] [8] [9] Another anime was produced; this time Studio Pierrot adapted the second manga into a series directed by Yutaka Kagawa that originally ran from April 3, 1996, to January 22, 1997, in NHK-BS2.[10]

Cast

First Human Giatrus

Source:[9]

First Human Gon

Kōji IshiiSource:[10]

Film

First Human Giatrus was adapted by Tokyo Movie into an anime film, which was released by Toho on March 15, 1975.[11] [12]

TV drama

The manga was adapted into a live-action Japanese television drama entitled . It was produced by Koji Matsuoka and starred Ryoko Takizawa, Katsuhisa Namase and Toshiya Sakai.[13]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: GON, THE STONE-AGE BOY (Hajime ningen Gon) : EXPO 2005 AICHI, JAPAN.
  2. Web site: http://natsukashi.skr.jp/top/toranomaki/genre/magazine/magazine.html . ja:戦後昭和史・虎の巻 雑誌/漫画 . https://web.archive.org/web/20071021082917/http://natsukashi.skr.jp/top/toranomaki/genre/magazine/magazine.html . October 21, 2007 . Natsukashi . June 10, 2013 . ja.
  3. Book: Eguchi, Kazuhiro. Poser Scene Master: 3Dでよみがえる、あの名場面. 157. BNN. 2006. 9784861004117.
  4. Book: ja:はじめ人間ゴン (単行本) . . ja.
  5. Web site: http://www.j-n.co.jp/company/trivia.html . https://web.archive.org/web/20130522005825/http://www.j-n.co.jp/company/trivia.html . May 22, 2013 . ja:トリビア . . June 10, 2013 . ja . dead .
  6. Web site: 文藝春秋漫画賞 . Comic Lab . April 2, 2015 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090618173353/http://www.ztv.ne.jp/keiko/comic_lab/prize/bungei_shunju_mangasho.html . June 18, 2009 .
  7. Book: Jonathan Clements, Helen McCarthy. The Anime Encyclopedia. 2006. Stone Bridge Press, 2006. 1933330104.
  8. Book: Daniel Valentin Simion. Il Dizionario dei Cartoni Animati. 2009. Anton, 2009. 9788890390227.
  9. Web site: http://www.moviesquare.jp/channel/catalog?c=gatrs . ja:はじめ人間ギャートルズ . . June 10, 2013 . ja.
  10. Web site: http://pierrot.jp/archives/tv_list_1995/tv_032.html . ja:はじめ人間ゴン . . June 10, 2013 . ja . June 3, 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130603210159/http://pierrot.jp/archives/tv_list_1995/tv_032.html . dead .
  11. Web site: http://www.allcinema.net/prog/show_c.php?num_c=144996 . ja:映画 アニメ はじめ人間ギャートルズ . AllCinema Movie & DVD Database . June 10, 2013 . ja.
  12. Web site: http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1975/cy000640.htm . ja:はじめ人間ギャートルズ . . June 10, 2013 . ja.
  13. Web site: http://www.nhk.or.jp/drama/archives-catalogue/pglist/pglist_1990-94.html . ja:ドラマ番組放送記録+カテゴリー小史 1990~1994 . . June 10, 2013 . ja . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130906051006/http://www.nhk.or.jp/drama/archives-catalogue/pglist/pglist_1990-94.html . September 6, 2013 .