Perman ( Japanese : パーマン , Hepburn : Pāman ) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by the manga artist duo Fujiko Fujio about a clumsy boy, Mitsuo Suwa, who is chosen to apprentice to a powerful superhero to save the world along with other superheroes. The manga series was serialized in Weekly Shōnen Sunday in 1967. The first anime series was first produced in black-and-white in 1967. The second anime series was made in color in 1983 with short films releasing in 1983, 2003 and 2004.
18-446: The original manga which started serialization in 1966 was a joint work. Perman 2 (Booby), Kabao, Sabu, and Birdman (Superman) were drawn by Abiko. The continuation of the series serialized in 1983, was solely written by Fujimoto. Ninja Hattori-kun + Perman was serialized in 1984 and was written by Abiko alone. Two short films for the series were made in 1984 and 1985. Mitsuo Suwa, a lazy young boy, meets an alien named Birdman, who
36-515: A live-action film . A remake of the 1981 anime series was produced by Shin-Ei and the Indian animation firms Reliance MediaWorks and later Green Gold Animations which aired on TV Asahi and Animax. 11-year-old Kenichi Mitsuba is an average kid who goes to elementary school and struggles with his studies. He is very stubborn and lazy, therefore always ending up frustrating his parents and teachers. He loves to find an easy way out of everything much to
54-527: A remake of the anime series under production by Indian production company Reliance MediaWorks and Shin-Ei Animation . The announcement was part of a move to produce several remakes of popular anime television series to be broadcast across television stations in the Asian market to counteract Japan's stagnating domestic anime marketplace due to its declining birthrate. Shin-Ei Animation is currently collaborating with Green Gold Animation to produce new episodes of
72-757: A total of 694 episodes and 11 special episodes, in total 705 episodes. Amazon Prime Video India began streaming the series in English, Tamil, Telugu and Hindi in December 2016. Netflix began streaming the "fifth season" (53 episodes) of the Indian English dub in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and India on December 22, 2018. Since May 15, 2020, Netflix no longer streams them. In Korea, from December 19, 2005, until
90-460: Is Perman. During his duty as Perman, Mitsuo meets other Permans; Booby, Perko and Peryan, (and Perbo in the original work), and they soon become best friends. Perman's story later revolves around the bonding between the Permans and their adventures of averting crime and disasters. Eventually, Birdman picks one of them to go to Bird Planet in order to train to be his successor, the one who was chosen
108-436: Is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Motoo Abiko (initially credited as Fujiko Fujio and later as Fujiko Fujio A ) which was serialized between 1964 and 1988. It was later adapted into a television drama that aired on TV Asahi (then known as NET) from 1966 to 1968; an anime series by Shin-Ei Animation , airing on TV Asahi from 1981 to 1987; a video game by Hudson Soft ; four anime films by Shin-Ei and
126-560: Is a Japanese publishing company. It publishes literature , manga novels, and women's magazines . Kobunsha was established on October 1, 1945, and belongs to the Kodansha group. The company has published Japanese authors such as Tetsuya Honda , Keigo Higashino , Jiro Akagawa , Miyuki Miyabe and Arimasa Osawa and foreign authors such as Arthur C. Clarke , Jean Genet , Malcolm Gladwell , Jon Ronson , JD Vance , Hanya Yanagihara and Zhao Ziyang . In 1975, Kobunsha published
144-511: Is a recurring storyline present throughout many episodes. Although Hattori is a good friend, Kenichi sometimes fights with him due to misunderstandings created by Kemumaki. Sometimes Jippou, Togejirou and Tsubame help him. There are five main locations in the series: Tokyo City, Shinto Temple, Iga Province, Iga Mountains, and Kōga Valley. The first manga series was published in Kobunsha 's Shōnen in 1964 and ended in 1968. A second manga series
162-434: Is part of a group that maintains peace in the galaxy. Birdman recruits Mitsuo to become a Perman. Mitsuo is given three items. Birdman instructs Mitsuo that if a Perman's identity becomes known to others, he would be turned into animal (in the original work, his brain cells would be destroyed). To help keep Mitsuo's secret identity, Birdman gave Mitsuo a doppelgänger robot called a copy-robot, who takes Mitsuo's place when he
180-511: The 5th season was aired on Talent TV (JEI Talent Broadcasting at the time of the first airing in 2005). became Currently, Nickelodeon is broadcasting New Ninja Hattori. The main character, the ninja Hattori Ganjo Hanzo (Tori), has a distinctive dialect accent and a 'nin nin nin nin nin' tone. In Vietnam, the series was re-released by POPS Kids on digital platforms and YouTube with a Vietnamese dub version by Purpose Media from 2018 and 2022. In January 2012, Nikkei announced on its website that
198-455: The Indian English dub of the first two seasons in early 2019, began streaming them in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and India on December 22, 2018. Since May 15, 2020, Netflix no longer streams them. The 1981 anime series was released on two, nine-disc DVD box sets by Columbia Music Entertainment in Japan. The first box set was released on August 31, 2005, while
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#1732787735267216-676: The annoyance of Hattori. Meanwhile, a young ninja named Kanzo Hattori becomes best friends with Kenichi. Hattori becomes a part of the Mitsuba family along with his brother, Shinzo and his ninja dog, Shishimaru. Hattori helps Kenichi with his problems, constantly keeping an eye on him as a good friend. Yumeko is portrayed as Kenichi's love interest. The main antagonists are Kemumaki, a Koga Ninja , and his ninja-cat, Kagechiyo. Kemaki always causes trouble for Kenichi and Hattori, sometimes inventing new devices to fight against Hattori but always ending up in mishap. Kenichi asking Hattori to take revenge
234-403: The manga were produced. The first television series, consisting of 54 two-part episodes, was produced by Tokyo Movie with music composed by Hiroshi Tsutsui. It was broadcast on TBS from April 2, 1967, to April 14, 1968. Certain episodes are lost and some episodes have lost their audio. This version was dubbed into Brazilian Portuguese and Mexican Spanish . The second anime television series
252-489: The second was released on November 2 that same year. The Japanese dub of the 2012 series was released on a five-disc DVD box set, under the title Ninja Hattori-kun Returns (忍者ハットリくんリターンズ), by TC Entertainment, Inc. on July 11, 2014 in Japan. A live-action film entitled Nin x Nin: Ninja Hattori-kun, the Movie was released in 2004. Footnotes Citations Kobunsha Kobunsha ( Japanese : 光文社 Kōbunsha )
270-461: The series. Yūichi Nagata, producer at Shin-Ei Animation, stated that the current collaboration will be between Shin-Ei's "creative content" and Green Gold Animation's "quality of skills in animation making and diligence". The new series began airing in India and Indonesia on May of the same year, as well as China. It premiered on Animax in Japan on May 13, 2013. Netflix , initially set to stream
288-553: Was Mitsuo and he bids farewell to his family and friends (in secret) and all of the other Permans promising to one day return as the best Perman, with his copy robot taking his place on Earth. The manga was written by Fujiko Fujio and published from 1966-1968 and 1983-1986. It was published by the Japanese company, Shogakukan , and serialized in Weekly Shōnen Sunday . It has 7 tankōbon . Two anime television series based on
306-459: Was produced by Shin-Ei Animation under the direction Hiroshi Sasagawa and Sadayoshi Tominaga with Akihiko Takashima composing the music. The series was first broadcast every Monday through Saturday on TV Asahi from April 4, 1983, to March 30, 1985, for a total of 526 episodes. Starting on April 2, 1985, the series was rebroadcast and concluded on July 2, 1987. Ninja Hattori-kun Ninja Hattori-kun ( 忍者ハットリくん , Ninja Hattori-kun )
324-594: Was published by Shogakukan in various kids magazines like CoroCoro Comic , Televi-Kun and others from 1981 to 1988. It was made into a live-action TV drama . Aired from 1966 - 1968. This was a work of special effects sitcom. This drama was aired on NET and was divided into 2 seasons, first season aired from 7 April to 28 September 1966, second season aired from August 3, 1967 to January 25, 1968. Each season consists of 26 episodes, in total 52 episodes from 2 seasons. The first anime series aired on TV Asahi in Japan from September 28, 1981 to December 25, 1987 for
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