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{{Short description|Japanese writer}}
{{Other people|Kazumasa Hirai|Kazumasa Hirai (disambiguation){{!}}Kazumasa Hirai}}
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{{Infobox writer
| name        = Kazumasa Hirai
| image       = 
| birth_date  = {{birth date|1938|05|13}}
| death_date  = {{death date and age|2015|01|17|1938|05|13}}
| nationality = [[Japanese people|Japanese]]
| genre       = [[Science fiction]]
| notableworks= ''[[8 Man]]'', ''[[Genma Wars]]'', ''[[Wolf Guy]]''
| website     = {{url|wolfguy.com}}
}}

{{nihongo|'''Kazumasa Hirai'''|平井 和正|Hirai Kazumasa|May 13, 1938 – January 17, 2015}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20150119p2g00m0dm032000c.html |title=Sci-fi writer Kazumasa Hirai dies at 76 |date=January 19, 2015 |work=[[Mainichi Shimbun]] |accessdate=January 19, 2015 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150119212216/http://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20150119p2g00m0dm032000c.html |archivedate=January 19, 2015 }}</ref> was a Japanese [[novelist]] and science fiction writer from [[Yokosuka, Kanagawa]]. He graduated from [[Yokosuka Industrial High School]] and the law department of [[Chuo University]]. Hirai is well known for his [[Japanese science fiction|SF-manga]] work. He is the creator of [[8 Man]] (aka ''[[8th Man]]'' in the USA) and was well known as the story creator of the 1960s manga series "Genma Taisen" (''Genma Wars'') about a hero with psychokinetic powers and his battle against a space villain called Genma. 
Hirai wrote stories for the ''Wolf Guy'' comic series, and also published comics co-authored with cartoonist Shotaro Ishinomori that were later adapted into an animated film in 1983.<ref name="Thompson">{{cite web|url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/house-of-1000-manga/2010-08-19|title=Episode XV: Spider-Man: The Manga|last=Thompson|first=Jason|date=19 August 2010|publisher=[[Anime News Network]]|accessdate=7 January 2011}}</ref><ref>"Sci-fi writer Kazumasa Hirai dies at 76". Mainichi Shimbun. January 19, 2015. Archived from the original on January 19, 2015. Retrieved January 19, 2015.</ref>

==Works available in English translation==
;Novel
* ''Wolfcrest 1,'' translated by Edward Lipsett. Tokyo: [[Kodansha]] English Library. 1985. {{ISBN|4061860135}}. (The anterior half of ''Ookami no Monshō'')
* ''Wolfcrest 2,'' translated by Edward Lipsett. Tokyo: Kodansha English Library. 1985. {{ISBN|4061860143}}. (The latter half of ''Ookami no Monshō'')
;Short story
* "A Time for Revolution," translated by David Aylward. ''Speculative Japan: Outstanding Tales of Japanese Science Fiction and Fantasy,'' Tokyo: Kurodahan Press. 2007. {{ISBN|4902075261}} (original title: Kakumei no Toki)

== Works ==
===Novels===
* Megalopolis no Tora (1968)
* Android Oyuki (1969)
* Wolf Guy Series [ウルフガイ・シリーズ]
:*''Adult Wolf Guy Series'' [11 volumes]
::# Ookamiotoko da yo (He's a Werewolf!, 1969)
::# Ookami yo, kokyou wo mi yo (1973)
::# Rio no Ookamiotoko (1973)
::# Jinrou Jigoku (Wolf Guy Inferno, 1974)
::# Jinrou Sensen (Wolf Guy Front, 1974)
::# Ookami wa nakazu (1974)
::# Jinrou Hakusho (Wolf Guy Report, 1976)
::# Jinrou Tenshi {3volumes} (Wolf Angel, 1978–1980)
::# Wakaki Ookami no Shouzou (Portrait of a Young Wolf, 1979)
:*''Wolf Guy Series'' [19 volumes]
::# Ookami no Monshō (Wolfcrest, 1971)
::# Ookami no Enka (1972)
::# Ookami no Requiem {2volumes} (1975)
::# Ougon no Shoujo {5volumes} (Golden Girl, 1985–1994)
::# Inugami Akira {10volumes} (1994–1995)
:*''Gekkou Majutsudan Series'' [30 volumes]
::# Gekkou Majutsudan {12volumes} (Moonlight Magic, 1996–1998)
::# Wolf Guy DNA {12volumes} (1999–2000)
::# Genma Taisen DNA {6volumes} (Genma Wars DNA, 2002)
:*''Wolf Guy Extra Volumes''
::# Wolfrando ~ Ookami no Sekai (Wolfland ~ The World of the Wolf, 1976)
::# Megami Henshou (1988)
* Cyborg Blues (1971)
* ''[[Zombie Hunter]]'' [死霊狩り(ゾンビー・ハンター)]
:*Zombie Hunter (1972)
:*Zombie Hunter 2 (1976)
:*Zombie Hunter 3 (1978)
* Akuryō no Joō (1976)
* ''Genma Wars Séries'' [幻魔大戦シリーズ]
:*New Genma Wars (1978)
:*Real Genma Wars (1980-1985)
:*Genma Wars (1979-1983)
:*Armageddon (1987)
:*Armageddon Girl（[[The Girl in Harmagedon (closet screenplay)]] ハルマゲドンの少女） (1986)
:*Genma Wars deep (2005)
:*Genma Wars deep Toltec (2008)
* Chikyuuju no Megami [地球樹の女神]
:*Chikyuuju no Megami (1988-1992)
:*Crystal Child (1997)
:*Sono hi no gogo, Hôdaiyama de (2004)
* Bohemian Glass Street {9volumes} (1995)
* 21st Century 8 Man
:*Infinity Blue (2002)
:*Blue Series
::# Blue Highways (2002)
::# Blue Lady (2005)
* Abduction Series
:*Jikuu bôsô kimagure Bus (2001)
:*Wayward Bus (2003)
:*Stray Sheep (2003)
:*Abduction (2003)
:*Silence (2003)
:*Shade (2003)
:*Capricious (2003)

===Manga===
* ''[[8 Man]]'' (artist: [[Jiro Kuwata]])
* ''Elite'' (artist: Jiro Kuwata)
* ''Chou ken Leap'' (artist: Jiro Kuwata)
* ''[[Genma Taisen]]'' (artist: [[Shotaro Ishinomori]])
* ''Death Hunter'' (artist: Jiro Kuwata)
* ''[[Wolf Guy]]'' (artist: [[Hisashi Sakaguchi]])
* ''[[Spider-Man: The Manga]]'' (artist: [[Ryoichi Ikegami]])
* ''Shin Genma Taisen'' (artist: [[Shotaro Ishinomori]])
* ''Crystal Child'' (artist: Ayumi Izumitani)
* ''Bachigami'' (artist: Yuuki Yogo)
* ''8 Man Infinity'' ([[8 Man]] sequel: Kyôichi Nanatsuki, artist: Takayuki Takashi)
* ''Genma Taisen Rebirth'' (Kyôichi Nanatsuki, artist: Masato Hayase, [[Ishimori Productions]])
* ''8 Man vs Cyborg 009'' (Kyôichi Nanatsuki, artist: Masato Hayase, Ishimori Productions)

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [https://mediaarts-db.bunka.go.jp/id/C47441 Kazumasa Hirai] manga works at Media Arts Database {{in lang|ja}}

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