Koji Yada

Koji Yada

Born: April 15, 1933
Died: May 1, 2014
in Tokyo, Japan

Movies for Koji Yada...

Title: Another
Character: Ryohei (voice)
Released: January 10, 2012
Type: TV
When Kouichi arrives at his new school, he immediately senses something frightening in the atmosphere of his new class, something that no student wants to talk about and that seems to be related to a mysterious and silent girl.
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One Piece: Strong World Episode 0
Title: One Piece: Strong World Episode 0
Character: Zeff (voice)
Released: April 24, 2010
Type: Movie
The introductory chapter to the movie, Strong World, which depicts the events surrounding Gold Roger's execution.
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Title: Graveyard Kitaro
Character: Kinnosuke Ochiba (voice)
Released: January 10, 2008
Type: TV
Kitarō is a yōkai boy born in a cemetery, and aside from his mostly-decayed father, the last living member of the Ghost tribe. He is missing his left eye, but his hair usually covers the empty socket. He fights for peace between humans and yōkai, which generally involves protecting the former from the wiles of the latter.
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Title: Cackling Kitarou
Character: Ido-Sennin
Released: April 1, 2007
Type: TV
Kitarou, a ghost, spends his afterlife helping humans in need of his skills by thwarting the plans of evil spirits who live to torment humanity.
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Title: Looking Up at the Half-Moon
Character: Yoshizō Tada (voice)
Released: January 12, 2006
Type: TV
Even though Yuuichi Ezaki is in the hospital recovering from an illness, he's constantly sneaking out. One day he's caught by the head nurse, who makes a deal with him: she'll overlook his future excursions if he's willing to befriend a new patient, Rika Akiba. Due to a serious heart condition, Rika has spent most of her life in the hospital, and doesn't really have any friends. As Yuuichi and Rika spend time together and learn more about each other, their relationship soon blossoms into romance...
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Title: Monster
Character: Mustafa (voice)
Released: April 6, 2004
Type: TV
Kenzou Tenma, a Japanese brain surgeon in Germany, finds his life in utter turmoil after getting involved with a psychopath that was once a former patient.
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Title: Saint Seiya: The Hades Chapter
Character: Old Dohko (voice)
Released: November 9, 2002
Type: TV
The Bronze Saints enter the deepest realm of the Underworld, Elysion, where they face off against Hades's two most powerful servants, The Twin Gods, Hypnos and Thanatos, before they can reach Hades for the final battle.
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Title: One Piece
Character: Zeff (voice)
Released: October 20, 1999
Type: TV
Years ago, the fearsome Pirate King, Gol D. Roger was executed leaving a huge pile of treasure and the famous "One Piece" behind. Whoever claims the "One Piece" will be named the new King of the Pirates. Monkey D. Luffy, a boy who consumed a "Devil Fruit," decides to follow in the footsteps of his idol, the pirate Shanks, and find the One Piece. It helps, of course, that his body has the properties of rubber and that he's surrounded by a bevy of skilled fighters and thieves to help him along the way. Luffy will do anything to get the One Piece and become King of the Pirates!
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Gin Rei's Blue Eyes
Title: Gin Rei's Blue Eyes
Character: Chandana (voice)
Released: February 21, 1995
Type: Movie
A spin-off of Giant Robo: The Day the Earth Stood Still Ginrei and Tetsugyu take a wild west trip into the desert to find something that is at least semi-serious.
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Sangokushi: The Distant Land
Title: Sangokushi: The Distant Land
Character: Huang Zhong (voice)
Released: April 9, 1994
Type: Movie
Third movie of the Sangokushi animated film trilogy. The movie covers the longest time span of the three films, from Liu Bei's expedition to Shu in 211 CE to the death of Kongming in 234 CE.
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Title: GinRei
Released: February 20, 1994
Type: TV
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Fatal Fury 2: The New Battle
Title: Fatal Fury 2: The New Battle
Character: Tung Fu Rue
Released: June 30, 1993
Type: Movie
Terry is fighting abroad when a boy named Tony, who wants to be Terry's student, follows him despite his mother and Terry's wishes. When Terry Bogard is defeated by a foe more powerful than he's ever seen before, Terry falls into depression and turns to the bottle. While his friends go after this new foe, Tony must restore Terry's faith... and once he realizes that only he can defeat this ruthless fiend.
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Fatal Fury: Legend of the Hungry Wolf
Title: Fatal Fury: Legend of the Hungry Wolf
Character: Tung Fu Rue (voice)
Released: December 23, 1992
Type: Movie
Terry Bogard's father was murdered by a man named Geese Howard for the purpose of retrieving an ancient manual on martial arts. When Terry grows up he is driven by hatred to avenge his father's death, but must overcome this hatred if he is to complete his training on how to defeat Geese Howard.
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Dragon Ball Z: Super Android 13!
Title: Dragon Ball Z: Super Android 13!
Character: Dr. Gero (voice)
Released: July 11, 1992
Type: Movie
Dr. Gero's Androids #13, #14, and #15 are awakened by the laboratory computers and immediately head to the mall where Goku is shopping. After Goku, Trunks, and Vegeta defeat #14 and #15, #13 absorbs their inner computers and becomes a super being greater than the original three separately were. Now it is up to Goku to stop him.
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Inferious Interplanetary War Chronicle - Condition Green
Title: Inferious Interplanetary War Chronicle - Condition Green
Character: Kyus Rotar (voice)
Released: November 29, 1991
Type: Movie
Keith, George, Edward, Yang and Shaw are Platoon #801, the five-man team formed to protect their homeworld in the Inferious galaxy from alien invasion. Gazaria's evil emperor Vince conquers the neighbor worlds of Kal and Granad, and suddenly only Platoon #801, also known as Condition Green, stands between him and the conquest of Emerald Earth.
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Summer with Kuro
Title: Summer with Kuro
Character: Nobuko's Father (voice)
Released: June 4, 1990
Type: Movie
Hiroshima, summer of 1945. A young girl named Nobuko saves a starving kitten from crows. She wants to keep the kitten, but her parents dismiss the idea. Nobuko eventually convinces them to let her keep it. She and her brother Makoto name the cat Kuro. Kuro quickly brings joy and laughter to the family. As World War II takes its toll on Japan, it becomes harder for Nobuko and her family to care for Kuro. One August morning, Kuro begins acting strangely...
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Dragon Ball Z: The World's Strongest
Title: Dragon Ball Z: The World's Strongest
Character: Dr. Kochin (voice)
Released: March 10, 1990
Type: Movie
The evil Dr. Kochin uses the dragon balls to resurrect his mentor, Dr. Wheelo, in an effort to take over the world. Dr. Wheelo, his body having been destroyed by the avalanche that killed him fifty years before, desires the body of the strongest fighter in the world as his new vessel. Believing Roshi to be the world's strongest warrior, Dr. Kochin abducts Bulma and forces Roshi to surrender himself to save her. When Goku hears of their abduction, he goes to their rescue.
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Penguin's Memory: A Tale of Happiness
Title: Penguin's Memory: A Tale of Happiness
Character: The Jailer (voice)
Released: June 22, 1985
Type: Movie
Mike is a penguin soldier who returns home after being injured during combat. Estranged from his family and friends, he leaves his hometown and starts to roam adrift through the country.
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Kinnikuman: Great Riot! Justice Chojin
Title: Kinnikuman: Great Riot! Justice Chojin
Released: December 22, 1984
Type: Movie
When Bibimbap, the last daughter of the Horumon Clan falls in love with Kinnikuman during her mission to assassinate him, her father Horumon Yaki enlists the aide of Shishkeba Boo of the Barbecue Clan, promising him Bibimba's hand in marriage. Shishkeba Boo himself has joined forces with the "Dark Monarch" Black Emperor, who looks to destroy Kinnikuman.
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Title: Twin Hawks
Character: リヒター
Released: December 15, 1984
Type: TV
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Beaten by Black Rain
Title: Beaten by Black Rain
Character: Yoshio's Father (voice)
Released: August 12, 1984
Type: Movie
Many years after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the survivors (called hibakusha in Japanese) are still physically and emotionally devastated by the event. Kuroi Ame ni Utarete tells the interlocking stories of a group of survivors who frequent Stand Akauma, a bar: Takeshi, who lost his entire family; Tomoko, a prostitute horribly burned in the bombing; her younger brother Junji, who scrabbles on the fringes of society; Eiko, a pregnant young woman whom he loves; and Yuri, another prostitute who is determined to secure a brighter future for her blind son.
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Lensman
Title: Lensman
Character: Greedle (voice)
Released: June 7, 1984
Type: Movie
In this animated adaptation of E. E. Doc Smith's groundbreaking science fiction serial "Grey Lensman" from the 1930s-1950s, Kimball Kinnison, a young man from the agricultural planet Mquie and his Valerian companion, Buscirk find a dying man with a legendary crystal lens embedded in his hand. As the man was dying, he mysteriously passed on the Lens to Kim. With more companions to come by, Kim must find out the purpose of the Lens before the Boskone dynasty does.
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Kenya Boy
Title: Kenya Boy
Character: Moor A (voice)
Released: March 10, 1984
Type: Movie
This animated feature, based on a popular manga, centers on an 11-year-old boy who goes to Africa with his father in 1941. Because he is Japanese, the father is detained by the British. The boy joins up with a beautiful native girl, and the adventure begins, a sort of Young Indy Jones meets Tarzan. Written by Rob Richardson
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The Green Cat
Title: The Green Cat
Character: Heck Ben (voice)
Released: December 24, 1983
Type: Movie
Some time ago, Shunsaku Ban witnessed his friend’s murder during a random robbery attempt, and decided to become a guardian for the man’s infant son, Yuno. The child instantly bonded with a mysterious green cat that was carried by the gang, but Shunsaku was convinced that there’s something nefarious about the feline. Now, in the present, his long lost child surfaces in the news as a rich and powerful man who’s having the best luck at the casinos - and somehow, the green cat is still alive and at his side. Determined to save Yuno from the clutches of this evil creature, Shunsaku begins to investigate the truth of what’s really going on...
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I Am A Dog: Don Matsugorou's Life
Title: I Am A Dog: Don Matsugorou's Life
Released: February 9, 1983
Type: Movie
Mr. Matsuzawa is a novelist who lives in Chiba Prefecture. Only his daughter Kazuko knows that the family dog, Don Matsugorou, can talk. Don is wounded in a fight with the neighbors' dog, King, a nouveau-riche mongrel with ideas above his station. At the vet, however, he falls in love with a little patchwork puppy called Chotaro.
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Future War 198X
Title: Future War 198X
Character: Lloyd (voice)
Released: October 30, 1982
Type: Movie
An American scientist constructs a laser satellite with hopes of preventing any nuclear conflicts from occurring. However, after a fatal error from both the US and the USSR governments, war breaks out and humanity faces a new bloodshed.
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Andromeda Stories
Title: Andromeda Stories
Character: Chancellor (voice)
Released: August 21, 1982
Type: Movie
In the Andromeda galaxy there's a planet of a highly developed human civilisation. The gentle Prince Itaka and another kingdom's beautiful Princess Lilia are about to enter a love-marriage and take over the throne, when they discover a strange object on the nightsky. Later it lands on the planet, and an alien, mechanic civilization invades King Itaka's peaceful country making nearly everybody their slave. On a fateful night Queen Lilia gives birth to twins, and to avoid misfortune, the nanny Tarama takes one of the babies away, and entrusts it to the gladiator Balga. They still don't know, that the children were born with strong powers, and hold the key to the fight against the enemy that's searching to destroy every human civilisation on the planet... (from myanimelist)
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Space Pirate Captain Harlock: Arcadia of My Youth
Title: Space Pirate Captain Harlock: Arcadia of My Youth
Character: Illumidas Officer
Released: July 28, 1982
Type: Movie
After a drawn-out, viciously-fought war, the earth has been conquered by the alien Illumidus Empire. Harlock, a captain in earth's fleet, crashes his ship to prevent the Illumidus from using it, and flat-out refuses to join them. With the help of his allies, Tochiro and the space pirate Emereldas, and his lover Miya, he wages a private and bitter war against the Illumidus.
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Drifting Clouds
Title: Drifting Clouds
Character: Tome (voice)
Released: April 24, 1982
Type: Movie
Retired samurai Kumosuke lives quietly, not to say idly, in Edo (old Tokyo) with his wife and two children, a young boy named Shinnosuke and an infant girl, Ohana. While he nominally runs a courier business to earn a living, he seems to spend most of his time smoking his pipe, drinking sake, and chasing women. The arrival of a Shinsengumi squad led by a young swordswman, Ichimonji Hyougo, disrupts this peaceful routine, forcing Kumosuke to defend himself.
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Title: Armored Fleet Dairugger XV
Character: Dick ASIMOV (voice)
Released: March 3, 1982
Type: TV
Armored Fleet Dairugger XV was an anime series aired in Japan from 1982 to 1983. It is also referred to as Dairugger 15, Dairugger XV, Armored Armada Dairugger XV, Armored Squadron Dairugger XV, or Machine Platoon Dairugger. In the United States, it was heavily edited to become part of the Voltron series. The Dairugger footage was the primary source for the "Vehicle Voltron" episodes, though various footage was also inserted into the more commonly known "Lion Voltron" episodes.
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Bokura Mangaka: Tokiwa-sou Monogatari
Title: Bokura Mangaka: Tokiwa-sou Monogatari
Character: 園山俊二
Released: October 3, 1981
Type: Movie
Tokiwa was the apartment complex where a group of stellar artists lived in 1953. Hiro Terada, Motoo Abiko and Hiroshi Fujimoto, Shotaro Ishinomori and Fujio Akatsuka shared the trials and tribulations of being struggling young artists and writers with no money and no luck with editors or girls, with a spirit of insane youthful enthusiasm that enabled them to survive the lean years and emerge as stars of the manga firmament.
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Title: Fuusen no Doratarou
Character: 頑固先生
Released: April 11, 1981
Type: TV
After many years of wandering, Tarou returns to Cat Island to meet his sister, Sakura, who has stayed with their adoptive parents. Though his family is pleased to see him, they all come to realise that the long separation has seen them grow into different people.
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Title: Mechakko Dotakon
Character: 戸部源太
Released: April 4, 1981
Type: TV
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The Door Into Summer
Title: The Door Into Summer
Character: Professor (voice)
Released: March 20, 1981
Type: Movie
A club of young men who live by logic find themselves in love, and their lives fall apart as they try to cope with the emotions their romance strikes on them.
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The Fantastic Adventures of Unico
Title: The Fantastic Adventures of Unico
Character: God 4 (voice)
Released: March 14, 1981
Type: Movie
When Unico, a young unicorn, is banished from his family by a pantheon of manipulative gods, his powers of joy and happiness are tested as he explores the lands with his friends Beezle and Katy.
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The Legend of Marine Snow
Title: The Legend of Marine Snow
Released: August 12, 1980
Type: Movie
This little-known and poorly documented Leiji Matsumoto TV movie, tells the story of the revolution of the people of the ocean which are being invaded by the humans from the surface.
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Galaxy Express 999: Eternal Traveller Emeraldas
Title: Galaxy Express 999: Eternal Traveller Emeraldas
Character: Captain (voice)
Released: April 3, 1980
Type: Movie
A remake of episode 22 of the TV version.
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Title: Maeterlinck's Blue Bird: Tyltyl and Mytyl's Adventurous Journey
Character: Spirit of the Time
Released: January 9, 1980
Type: TV
Set in a German-speaking country in the seventies, brother and sister Tyltyl and Mytyl live with their parents, a dog and a cat. When their mother becomes seriously ill on Christmas Day, Tyltyl and Mytyl receive the visit of Berylune fairy. It entrusts them with the task of finding the “blue bird”, the bearer of happiness, making them able to heal the mother. With their dog Tyrol, cat Shanet, and a range of spirits, they set out on a journey to find the “blue bird” and maybe learn happiness along the way.
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Galaxy Express 999: Can You Live Like a Warrior!!
Title: Galaxy Express 999: Can You Live Like a Warrior!!
Character: Officer (voice)
Released: October 11, 1979
Type: Movie
Recap of TV episodes 12 & 13
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Undersea Super Train: Marine Express
Title: Undersea Super Train: Marine Express
Character: Skunk Kusai (voice)
Released: August 26, 1979
Type: Movie
The plot of Marine Express can be described in two parts. The first part focuses on the people boarding the train and the problems they encounter on it. The second part takes place after the train has stopped at its half-way point, an island that used to be home to an ancient civilization millennia ago and has its fair share of secrets.
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Captain Future: The Great Race in the Solar System
Title: Captain Future: The Great Race in the Solar System
Released: December 31, 1978
Type: Movie
Captain Future and friends compete in a galactic race and end up defending themselves against aggressive competitors and evil villains out to destroy them.
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Title: Arrow Emblem: Grand Prix no taka
Character: Masaru Obinata (voice)
Released: September 22, 1977
Type: TV
Arrow Emblem: Hawk of the Grand Prix is an anime series aired from 1977 to 1978 in Japan. There are 44 episodes aired at 25 minutes each. It is also known as "Arrow Emblem Grand Prix no Taka". In the United States, it was re-edited to a short movie called "Super Grand Prix".
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Title: Cat-Eyed Boy
Character: Nadare-Maneki (voice)
Released: April 1, 1976
Type: TV
The story is told by the cat-eyed boy, hated by humans and demons, who engages in tales of terror, including monsters and children.
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Akumaizer 3: The Movie
Title: Akumaizer 3: The Movie
Character: Gabura (voice)
Released: December 20, 1975
Type: Movie
A trio of renegade demons fight their evil brothers in a theatrical release of the first episode of the TV series.
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Title: Akumaizer 3
Character: Evil (voice)
Released: October 7, 1975
Type: TV
Akumaizer 3 is a Japanese science fiction tokusatsu television series, created by Shotaro Ishinomori and produced by Toei Company. The series premiered on Tuesday October 7, 1975 at 7:30, and ran for 38 episodes in that timeslot on NET, now known as TV Asahi. The series remains obscure outside of Japan, but was popular and renowned in its home country. The series was followed by a sequel called Chojin Bibyun which used rejected designs from the Kamen Rider series as its hero designs.
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Title: Sindbad the Sailor
Character: Baruba (voice)
Released: October 1, 1975
Type: TV
More than 1200 years ago, the impish Sindbad, a mischievous boy full of curiosity, sneaks into the royal palace to watch the acrobatic performances and learns that a wide world awaits beyond Baghdad. Hearing of the travels of his uncle Captain Ali, Sindbad decides to become a sailor and travel around the world. Leaving behind a note to his father, young Sindbad boards Captain Ali’s ship and-accompanied by a myna called Sheila-sets out for the greatest adventure of his life.
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Title: The Little Judge from Hell
Character: Tatami-Kaeshi (voice)
Released: October 4, 1973
Type: TV
Dororon Enma-kun, also known as Satanikus!, is a Japanese horror-comedy anime and manga series created by Go Nagai. It's one of Nagai's most famous works in Japan, although not very well known in the rest of the world. In 2006, it would get a sequel/remake in Demon Prince Enma, which drops the comedy and becomes a full-fledged suspense-horror series. After the OVA was released, another manga version was released called Satanikus ENMA Kerberos by Eiji Toriyama. A remake entitled Dororon Enma-kun MeeraMera began airing in Japan in April 2011.
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Title: The Little Judge from Hell
Character: Jigoku-Okuri (voice)
Released: October 4, 1973
Type: TV
Dororon Enma-kun, also known as Satanikus!, is a Japanese horror-comedy anime and manga series created by Go Nagai. It's one of Nagai's most famous works in Japan, although not very well known in the rest of the world. In 2006, it would get a sequel/remake in Demon Prince Enma, which drops the comedy and becomes a full-fledged suspense-horror series. After the OVA was released, another manga version was released called Satanikus ENMA Kerberos by Eiji Toriyama. A remake entitled Dororon Enma-kun MeeraMera began airing in Japan in April 2011.
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Mazinger Z vs. Devilman
Title: Mazinger Z vs. Devilman
Character: Dr. Nossori/Iron Mask
Released: July 18, 1973
Type: Movie
Mazinger Z vs. Devilman is a 1973 animated movie that crossed over two then-popular Anime series, both of which were created by Manga artist Go Nagai. While fighting with some of his enemies Mazinger Z inadvertently knocks them into a volcano, where they crash into the prison of the Satan race and release Phoenix Jenny! Dr. Hell, learning of this, frees the rest of the Satan race and teams up with them to defeat Mazinger Z, and their ability to fly proves to be too much for our hero. Meanwhile, Devilman is also individually fighting the members of the Satan race, but their combined power is too much for him as well; can Mazinger and Devilman put aside their differences and team up to defeat Dr. Hell and the Satan race?
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Title: Jungle Kurobee
Character: パパ
Released: March 2, 1973
Type: TV
Urobe was a son of the great chief of Pyrimi, Africa. One day he hung on an airplane and came to Japan. Because of the cold and hunger, he fell on to the yard of Shishio’s house, and Shishio nursed him. Kurobe was very thankful for him and began to repay for his kindness. Kurobe dug a big hole in the yard.Every time he returns the favor, he threw a stone into the hole until stones would fill the hole.
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Title: Babel II
Character: コンピューター
Released: January 1, 1973
Type: TV
Koichi is the Japanese middle-school descendant of a race of extraterrestrials who crash-landed on the Earth 5000 years ago. He has psychokinetic powers which uses to fight the evil Yomi who wants to gain dominance over the world.
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Title: Mazinger Z
Character: Dr. Morimori / Piguman
Released: December 3, 1972
Type: TV
Mazinger Z, known briefly as Tranzor Z in the United States, is a Japanese super robot manga series written and illustrated by Go Nagai. The first manga version was serialized in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump from October 1972 to August 1973, and it later continued in Kodansha TV Magazine from October 1973 to September 1974. It was adapted into an anime television series which aired on Fuji TV from December 1972 to September 1974. A second manga series was released alongside the TV show, this one drawn by Gosaku Ota, which started and ended almost at the same time of the TV show. Mazinger Z has spawned several sequels and spinoff series, among them UFO Robot Grendizer and Mazinkaiser. It was a very popular cartoon in Mexico during the 1980s, where it was dubbed into Spanish directly from the Japanese version, keeping the Japanese character names and broadcasting all 92 episodes, unlike the version aired in the U.S.
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Title: Little Witch Chappy
Character: Papa (voice)
Released: April 3, 1972
Type: TV
Mahou Tsukai Chappy or Little Witch Chappy is an anime series that debuted in Asahi Broadcasting Corporation in 1972. It is the fifth magical girl anime in history, and the fifth produced by the Toei Animation studio. While the show was fairly popular, it was not as popular as Toei's earlier magical-girl series, and is relatively obscure compared to its predecessors. In addition to its success in Japan, Chappy has been dubbed into Italian, French, and Spanish and broadcast on TV in Italy and in various Latin American nations such as Mexico, Peru, or Chile. A manga adaptation of the story was drawn by Hideo Azuma, who later became more famous for his manga-turned-anime works, Little Pollon and Nanako SOS. Chappy, along with other Toei magical girls such as Akko-chan, Sally, Cutie Honey, Megu-chan, Lunlun, and Lalabel, is a playable character in the Sony PlayStation game Majokko Daisakusen: Little Witching Mischiefs. The series was released on DVD in Japan in a box set in December 2005.
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Title: Triton of the Sea
Character: Marcus
Released: April 1, 1972
Type: TV
5000 years ago, the Triton Family was living peacefully in Atlantis until the Poseidon Family destroyed them all. Triton, of the Triton Family line, embarks on an adventurous life in the sea fighting the Poseidon Family.
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Title: Decision
Released: April 3, 1971
Type: TV