First Human Giatrus

	Giatrus
ギャートルズ; (Gyātoruzu)
Genre	Gag
	Manga
Written by	Shunji Sonoyama
Published by	Jitsugyo no Nihon Sha
Magazine	Weekly Manga Sunday
Original run	1965 – 1975
	Manga
First Human Gon
Written by	Shunji Sonoyama
Illustrated by	Hideo Shinoda
Published by	Gakken
Magazine	Gakushū Magazine
Published	1966
	Manga
Written by	Shunji Sonoyama
Published by	Shogakukan
Magazine	Gakunen Magazine
Published	1974
	Anime television series
Music by	Hiroshi Kamayatsu; Joe Hisaishi
Studio	TMS Entertainment
Network	TBS
Original run	October 5, 1974 – March 27, 1976
Episodes	77
	Anime film
Music by	Hiroshi Kamayatsu; Joe Hisaishi
Studio	TMS Entertainment
Released	March 15, 1975
Runtime	14 minutes
	Television drama
Back to the Giatrus Days
Written by	Hiroshi Shimokawa
Music by	Toshiyuki Watanabe
Network	NHK BS-2
Original run	April 18, 1993
Episodes	1
	Anime television series
First Human Gon
Directed by	Yutaka Kagawa
Music by	Yusuke Honman
Studio	Studio Pierrot
Network	NHK BS-2
Original run	April 3, 1996 – January 22, 1997
Episodes	39
	Anime and Manga portal

Giatrus (Japanese: ギャートルズ, Hepburn: Gyātoruzu^?) 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.

Media

Manga

It was first published from 1965 to 1975 in Jitsugyo no Nihon Sha's Weekly Manga Sunday,^[1]^[2] and spawned two spin-off manga: the first, entitled First Human Gon (はじめ人間ゴン, Hajime Ningen Gon^?) and illustrated by Hideo Shinoda,^[3] was published in Gakken's Gakushū Magazine in 1966;^[4] the second, entitled First Human Giatrus (はじめ人間ギャートルズ, Hajime Ningen Gyatoruz^?), was published by Shogakukan's Gakunen Magazine in 1974.^[4]

Shunji Sonoyama won the 1976 Bungeishunjū Manga Award for his work on the manga series.^[5]

Anime series

The third manga was adapted by TMS Entertainment into a homonymous anime television series consisting in 77 episodes, which was broadcast on TBS between October 5, 1974 and March 27, 1976.^[6]^[7]^[8] 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.^[9]

Cast

First Human Giatrus

Gon: Hiroko Maruyama
Father: Kaneta Kimotsuki
Mother: Keiko Hanagata
Dotechin: Kazuya Tatekabe
Piko-chan: Rihoko Yoshida

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First Human Gon

Gon: Ikue Ōtani
Father: Kenichi Ogata
Mather: Miyuki Ichijō
Dotechin: Chafurin
Piko-chan: Tomoko Kawakami
Mammoth / Saber-tooth tiger: Kazuhiro Ōguro
Shinigami: Kōji Ishii

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Film

First Human Giatrus was adapted by TMS Entertainment into an anime film, which was released by Toho in March 15, 1975.^[10]^[11]

TV drama

The manga was adapted into a live-action Japanese television drama entitled Back to the Giatrus Days (バック・トゥ・ザ・ギャートルズ・デイズ, Bakku tou za Gyātoruzu Deizu^?). It was produced by Koji Matsuoka and starred Ryoko Takizawa, Katsuhisa Namase and Toshiya Sakai.^[12]

References

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External links

Official website (Japanese)
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Hajime Ningen Gyatoruz (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
Hajime Ningen Gon (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia

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