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8 Man (8マン) or Eightman (エイトマン, Eitoman) or 8th Man (8人目, 8 Hitome, in the US) is a manga and superhero anime created in 1963 by science fiction writer Kazumasa Hirai and manga artist Jiro Kuwata. [2] 8 Man is considered Japan's earliest cyborg superhero, pre-dating Kamen Rider. [3]
Now called 8 Man ("Eighth Man", in English, because according to the dub he was the eighth cyborg attempt — and the first one to work!), he has the usual array of powers: Super-Strength, Super-Speed, plus Voluntary Shapeshifting and the unusual ability to detach and remotely control his limbs.
I also dug deeper and found out that 8 Man's original anime was the main inspiration behind Robocop and if you read about 8 Man's plot you will realize this in no time. 8 Man himself was a cop that was brutally murdered by the Yakuzas and was later revived as a cyborg name 8 Man, no different than how Alex Murphy himself became Robocop. hell ...
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Murdered by criminals, Detective Yokoda's body is retrieved by Professor Tani and taken to his laboratory. There, Tani performs an experiment that has failed seven times; Yokoda is the latest subject to have his life force transferred into an android body. For the first time, the experiment succeeds. Yokoda is reborn as the armor-skinned android 8 ...
- Novella Stories - 怪人ゲーレン - Mystery Man Gehlen サタンの兄弟 - Satan's Brothers 怪力ロボット007 - Super-Powered Robot 007 光線兵器レーザー - The Laser Beam Gun 超人サイバー - The Cyber Superbeing 人間ミサイル - The Human Missile 殺人ロボット005 - Killer Robot 005 魔女エスパー - The Witch Esper 超人類ミュータント - Superhuman Mutant 魔人コズマ - The Demon Kozuma-Jiro Kuwata was imprisoned for possession of...
1.エイトマン登場 - Introducing Eightman 2.殺し屋ゲーレン - The Hitman Gehlen 3.サタンの兄弟 - Satan's Brother 4.死刑台B3 - The B3 Gallows 5.暗黒カプセル - The Capsule of Darkness 6.黄金ギャング - The Gold Gang 7.消音ジェット機 - The Stealth Jetplane 8.超小型ミサイル - The Micro Missile 9.光線銃レーザー - The Lazer Ray Gun 10.ロボット007 - Robot 007 11.まぼろしの暗殺者 - The Phantom Assassin 12.海底のウラン - Undersea Ura...
The 8 Man franchise was revived in the early 1990s by a live action film, video game and new animated series.
8 Man at the Internet Movie Database(1963)8th Man at the Internet Movie Database(1965)8 Man - Subete no sabishii yoru no tame ni at the Internet Movie Database(1992)8 Man After at the Internet Movie Database(1993)If you can’t get into the old black and white original anime, then maybe give “8th man after” a try. This was made in the 90s and is in the style of contemporary anime that we all know and love today, and is much more violent.
8 Man is Japanese superhero from the manga and anime series 8 Man. Detective Yokoda was a policeman nearly killed by criminals but had his memories put into a powerful cyborg body which he used to fight crime as 8 Man.
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Based the manga series 8 Man by Jiro Kuwata and Kazumasa Hirai, this 1963 anime tells the story of a private investigator named Hachiro Azuma (Brady in the US), ambushed by criminals and run over by a car. As he lies dying, a mysterious scientist rescues him and gives him a new cyborg body.
