Cyborg 009 is a manga created by Shotaro Ishinomori. It was serialized in many different magazines, including Monthly Shonen King, Weekly Shonen Magazine, Shonen Big Comic, COM, Shojo Comic, Weekly Shonen Sunday, Monthly Shonen Jump and Monthly Comic Nora in Japan. The first arc of the manga was published in English by Tokyopop with all the sound effects left out untranslated; as of 2006 it is out of print.
STORY:
Nine regular humans are kidnapped by the evil Black Ghost organization to undergo human experiments which resulted in nine cyborgs with each one having super human powers. The nine cyborgs band together to fight for their freedom and to stop Black Ghost. The evil organization's goal is to start the next world war, by supplying any rich buyers with their choice of countless weapons of war and mass destruction.
After the destruction of Black Ghost,the nine cyborgs also fought a variety of threats, from mad scientists to supernatural beings and ancient civilisations.
MAIN CHARACTERS:
- Joe Shimamura / Cyborg 009, and the main character/leader: Joe is originally from Japan, although he is actually half-Japanese. A delinquent youth, he escaped from a juvenile detention facility before being captured by Black Ghost. Although Joe received several body enhancements during the process of being turned into a cyborg, his most prominent ability is his acceleration mode, enabling him to move at a speed so fast that everything else looks like a statue to him; this mode is triggered by a switch embedded in his teeth. However, he cannot touch any normal creatures such as humans in this state; the high speeds would kill or otherwise cause serious injury to the creature through air friction.
- Ivan Whisky: Ivan is a baby originally from Russia, born with a severe illness. His father Gamo (a famous brain surgeon who went mad after searching for a cure), performed numerous brain enhancement processes on Ivan that allowed his mental capacity to far exceed that of a normal human adult, against the wishes of Ivan's mother Erika (whom he even kills in the manga).
- Jet Link: Jet Link, with his elongated nose and wild, windblown hair, was originally 001, but replaced by Ivan. Jet comes from The Bronx, New York in the United States and was the leader of the Jets gang in New York's West Side.
- Françoise Arnoul: Françoise was originally a ballerina from Paris, France. Her brother Jean-Paul, a member of the French Air Force, returned to Paris on a one-week leave, and Françoise was to meet him at the train station. However, she was kidnapped by Black Ghost despite numerous attempts by her brother to save her along the way. In the third anime series Black Ghost offers a fake professional dancing career so they can kidnap her.
GAME:
Breakout is a game, where a layer of bricks lines the top third of the screen. A ball travels across the screen, bouncing off the top and side walls of the screen. When a brick is hit, the ball bounces away and the brick is destroyed.
Simple Characters 2000 Series vol.15 - The Block Kuzushi is a breakout game featuring characters of the manga series, an unlockable picture gallery and 2 game modes:
- Story mode: Advance through the story passing the game stages.
- Survival mode: Only one live to complete the stages.
The gameplay is the classic in a breakout game, the player has to keep the ball moving to destroy all the blocks in each stage, there are a special power gauge that get filled destroying the blocks, and there are also some undestructible bricks.
Manufacturer's description:
Shotaro Ishinomori ultra classic "Cyborg 009" active character of their "breakout" game-based.
Features:
- Third person perspective.
- 2D graphics
- Cartoon graphics
- SCI-FI, Futuristic & Anime themes.
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