First Human Giatrus

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Template:Nihongo 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. The official English title is Gon, The Stone-Age Boy.^[1]

Media

Manga

It was first published from 1965 to 1975 in Jitsugyo no Nihon Sha's Weekly Manga Sunday,^[2]^[3] and spawned two spin-off manga: the first, entitled Template:Nihongo and illustrated by Hideo Shinoda,^[4] was published in Gakken's Gakushū Magazine in 1966;^[5] the second, entitled Template:Nihongo, was published by Shogakukan's Gakunen Magazine in 1974.^[5]

Shunji Sonoyama won the 1976 Bungeishunjū Manga Award for his work on the manga series.^[6]

Anime series

The third manga was adapted by Tokyo Movie into a homonymous anime television series consisting in 77 episodes, which was broadcast on ABC between October 5, 1974, and March 27, 1976.^[7]^[8]^[9] 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.^[10]

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 Ichijo
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 Tokyo Movie into an anime film, which was released by Toho on March 15, 1975.^[11]^[12]

TV drama

The manga was adapted into a live-action Japanese television drama entitled Template:Nihongo. It was produced by Koji Matsuoka and starred Ryoko Takizawa, Katsuhisa Namase and Toshiya Sakai.^[13]

Plot

Gon is a boy living with his parents and his friend, a gorilla. He goes out hunting for mammoths on the plains and always loves his girlfriend.

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