cyborg 009

[davemerrill]

I have been working on this Cyborg 009 article for Let's Anime for a while... thought I could just throw in my old Anime Jump article but what I wound up doing is combining bits and pieces of that one with the one I did for the print Let's Anime and lots of new information into a wholly new piece that will amaze as it astounds. Learn about the cyborgs here including the James Dean connection, the part where Ishinomori rips off EC comics who was swiping from Ray Bradbury, and the true story behind the origins of the word "cyborg".



Glad this one's over with! Now I don't have to write about Cyborg 009 again for another five or six years.

Comments

[warpig1979.livejournal.com]

My favorite Cyborg 009 trivia: a bunch of the music for the animated versions was by Koichi Sugiyama, who about a decade or two later wound up set for life when he became the music dude on the Dragon Quest video game franchise. I had his OST for the movie on a neat-looking LP record, once, a long time ago...

Meanwhile that 007 gag is a hoot.

[davemerrill.livejournal.com]

I thought I dreamed it the first time I saw that 007 gag.

[tochiro998.livejournal.com]

For the record, I would have bought the everloving F**K out of an Ishinomori manga adaption of Dune. I would probably have married it and had many babies by now.

[frustratedpilot]

But they would have been manga sandworm babies, right?

[tochiro998.livejournal.com]

It'ssss possible. hard to foresee, but the spice must flow... :)