Tetsujin 28-Go is a 1956 manga written and illustrated by Mitsuteru Yokoyama, who also created Giant Robo. The series centred on the adventures of a young boy named Shotaro Kaneda, who controlled a giant robot named Tetsujin 28, built by his late father.
The manga was later adapted into four anime TV series, a Japanese television drama and two films, one live action and one animated. Released in 1963, the first series was among the first Japanese anime series to feature a giant robot. It was later released in America as Gigantor. A live action movie with heavy use of CGI was produced in Japan in 2005.
CHARACTERS:
- Shotaro Kaneda: The ten-year-old son of Dr. Kaneda. He is Tetsujin's assigned controller, with a deep emotional attachment to the robot. Shotaro is a boy detective famous throughout Tokyo, and in the manga, 1963 series, and 2004 series, can be seen frequently driving a car.
- Professor Shikishima: Dr. Kaneda's assistant, later Shotaro's mentor and guardian. He is caring and very dedicated to his work, but usually looks serious and deadpan. He is married, and has a son named Tetsuo.
- Inspector Ootsuka: The Chief of Tokyo Police. He is warm in personality and very enthusiastic, which isn't to say he doesn't take his job seriously. He is very close to Shikishima and also takes care of Shotaro, even acting as a surrogate father in the 2004 series.
- Kenji Murasame: A former intelligence officer who begins to help Otsuka and Shotaro's work. His appearances in the 1960s and 2004 series are startkly different; he is immediately Shotaro's ally in the 1960s, but in the 2004 series, his brothers Ryuusaku and Tatsu are killed during Tetsujin's revival, causing him to seek revenge for several episodes. In the original manga, he and Ryuusaku are the leaders of a criminal organization.
- Professor Shutain Franken: A reclusive mad scientist who created the robot Black Ox. He is calm and very knowledgeable, but unfortunately uses his talents to create dangerous robots. In the original version of the 1960s series, his name is Dr. Black Dog.
- Superhuman Kelly: An American man who volunteered himself to be turned into an android as part of a wartime experiment. As a result, his body is entirely robotic with the exception of his brain, and is often covered in bandages. In the 2004 series, he steals his brother Johnson's identity in order to kill the doctor that made him this way.
VIDEO GAME:
Tetsujin 28 Go: A game based on the gigantic robot series (also known as Gigantor in the US), the PS2 version of Tetsujin #28 is developed by the team behind Robot Alchemical Drive, and features similar robot-battling gameplay against 28 different enemies. Robots are able to attack with chops, kick, jump, fly, pick up pieces of the environment (such as buildings) and hurl them at their enemies, as well, as use oversized weapons to cause more damage.
Players take on the role of boy wonder Shotaro Kaneda who wields a 3-button twin stick which commands the mighty Tetsujin through remote control. Like a dynamic duo of sorts, Shotaro and Tetsujin take on the criminal element, rogue versions of Tetsujin (#26 and 27) created by Professor Haneda, and the alien Magmans who battle with their own big robots named Magma X and Gold Wolf.
Tetsujin 28go is gifted with incredible strength as well as rocket-powered flight but has no autonomy. Tetsujin is but a vessel which is controlled entirely by whomever wields the control box. The control scheme is fairly easy to learn and players will soon be running along as Shotaro and controlling Tetsujin on the fly with ease.
Players control the gigantic machines via an old-fashioned remote control, displayed at the bottom of the screen. Stars many characters from the series, including #27, #28, Black Ox, Monster, Baccus, and Saturn. The game also features a challenge mode with two-player cooperative gameplay. The story progresses by going to destroy one after the other a robot sent into the X-team aiming for world domination. Voice of the characters is the same as the anime cast.
MANUFACTURER'S DESCRIPTION:
Exhilarating action to punish the evil by operating the "Tetsujin 28"! And grab everything that 1955's are present in the reconstructed 3D space, a system that can you can throw, you can experience the high degree of freedom exciting and exhilarating robot action. Based on the elements of the story that was extracted from the original anime, I'm depicting the Battle of the original enemy · X Orchestra.
FEATURES:
- Third person perspective.
- 3D graphics
- Cartoon graphics
- SCIFI, Fantasy & Anime themes.
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