The anime art is exactly identical to the one seen back in the 60's. All the 00 cyborgs from the manga return and the action is non-stop, superbly written stories and wonderful anime art. The story of the manga is retold in awesome color, fantastic art and animation, and superb music and storylines. It's the same characters from the original, in a new anime. Now, enter Cyborg 009, the new 2001 anime. I remember the original episodes were reaired where I live some years ago, so I could watch some of them. Reid (Norfolk, December 19, 1944) is an American actor, television producer, director and screenwriter.Cyborg 009 is a classic anime from 1966, the translation to TV of Ishinomori Shoutarou's manga.

After a few years, Katsumata was hired by Tokyo's Toei Animation (Toei Animation), debuting as a director for some of the first Toei series such as Ken the Wolf Boy (1963) and the first Cyborg 009 (1968).Īmong the other series directed by Katsumata for Toei we can mention Danguard (1977) as well as the films Mazinga Z against Devilman (1973) and La Sirenetta, the most beautiful story of Andersen (1975). One of the main directors of Toei Animation during the sixties, seventies and eighties, Katsumata has directed many TV series of Toei, adaptations of Gō Nagai manga, including Devilman (1972), Mazinga Z (1972), Cutey Honey (1973), Great Mazinga (1974), UFO Robot Goldrake (1975) and Gaiking (1976).Ī graduate of the Nippon University film school in 1960, he began working in the same year for the Kyoto division of Toei Company, as assistant director of Masahiro Makino and Eiichi Kudo in his drama about the samurai. Tomoharu Katsumata (Shizuoka Prefecture, 1938) is a Japanese director, known primarily for his work in anime.

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