Cyborg 009 is a 23-volume science fiction manga series by Japanese manga artist Shotaro Ishinomori that has been serialized since 1964. Also known as Re-Creation Man 009, Transformation Man 009. There are 3 TV anime and 3 movies.
9 artificial human warriors who guard world peace
Young racing driver Joe Shimamura undergoes a modification surgery to become cyborg warrior 009 after a racing accident. However, 009, like his companions who also became artificial people, fled because he did not want to be a pawn of the evil forces.
In this team, there are super-powered genius child 001 Ivan, Vesky, 002 Jetlinger with flying ability, 003 Francova, who has the vision and hearing comparable to high-performance radar and is also the only female member of the team, Ardanu, 004 Albert, Heinrich, 005 Solomon with weapons hidden all over his body, Sonia, 006 Zhanghu who can spew flames from his mouth to burn everything, Baldhead Superpower 007 Grete, Brynton, 008 Piman, who is not inferior to the fish diving ability, and the instructor Isaac, Dr. Gilmoya. With their special abilities, they have fought against the enemy who destroyed world peace to this day.
This game is an animated work of the science fiction manga of the same name, one of the representative works of Shotaro Ishimori (Ishi no Mori). First, two theatrical versions of the animation were produced, and then the production lineup of the theatrical version was basically retained, and the production of the TV version began.
The success of the theatrical version of the animation led to the emergence of the TV version
At that time, the theatrical version of the animation produced by Toei Animation (now Toei Animation) was mainly based on high-artistic long-form animation, and later Toei conducted internal discussions and decided to absorb the production methods of TV animation works, and the result of producing some more entertaining works was to produce two theatrical versions of "Artificial Man 009". Due to the critical acclaim of these two theatrical versions of the anime, it was later decided to produce a TV version of the anime. The original settings changed in the theatrical version were retained in the TV version, for example, 009's hair changed from the brown color of the original manga to a black uniform and from red to white, and the scarf changed from yellow to red. Compared with the original, the biggest change in setting is 007, which has changed from the oldest middle-aged person to a child. However, this seems to have been well received by the children in the audience, and 007 even ranked First in the popularity poll at the time. Affected by this, even in the original manga 007 became a child as in the anime.
The 9 main characters were quite a lot for the animation at that time, so in many stories in the animation, the Cyborg warriors were not fully assembled. The Japanese 009, 001, 003, 006, 007, and Dr. Gilmoya, who inhabit the main stage of the story, are the main characters, while the other cyborg warriors live in their hometowns as minor characters. As a result, the full appearance of the Cyborg Warriors only appeared 4 times in all 26 episodes.
The basic story framework of the anime comes from the original manga, but there are also original plots of the anime and stories based on other Ishinomori works. Due to the popularity of the original manga, two TV anime and two theatrical anime were produced.