First Human Giatrus

{{Infobox animanga/Header

| name = Giatrus

| image = First Human Giatrus.jpg

| image_size = 230px

| caption =

| ja_kanji = ギャートルズ

| ja_romaji = Gyātoruzu

| genre = Gag

}}

{{Infobox animanga/Print

| author = Shunji Sonoyama

| type = manga

| magazine = Weekly Manga Sunday

| publisher = Jitsugyo no Nihon Sha

| first = 1965

| last = 1975

}}

{{Infobox animanga/Print

| title = First Human Gon

| author = Shunji Sonoyama

| illustrator = Hideo Shinoda

| type = manga

| magazine = Gakushū Magazine

| publisher = Gakken

| published = 1966

}}

{{Infobox animanga/Print

| author = Shunji Sonoyama

| type = manga

| magazine = Gakunen Magazine

| publisher = Shogakukan

| published = 1974

}}

{{Infobox animanga/Video

| type = tv series

| director =Kenji Kodama

| producer =

| writer =

| music = Hiroshi Kamayatsu
Mamoru Fujisawa

| studio =A-Production
Tokyo Movie

| network = JNN (ABC, TBS) (until episode 26)
ANN (ABC, NET) (episode 27 and after)

| first = October 5, 1974

| last = March 27, 1976

| episodes = 77

}}

{{Infobox animanga/Video

| type = film

| director =

| music = Hiroshi Kamayatsu
Joe Hisaishi

| released = March 15, 1975

| studio = Tokyo Movie

| runtime = 14 minutes

}}

{{Infobox animanga/Video

| type = drama

| title = Back to the Giatrus Days

| director =

| producer =

| writer = Hiroshi Shimokawa

| music = Toshiyuki Watanabe

| studio =

| network = NHK BS-2

| released = April 18, 1993

| episodes = 1

}}

{{Infobox animanga/Video

| type = tv series

| title = First Human Gon

| director = Yutaka Kagawa

| producer = Yuji Nunokawa
Kyotaro Kimura
Ken Suekawa
Naoji Hōnokidani (Animation)

| writer = Yoshio Urasawa

| music = Yusuke Honma

| studio = Studio Pierrot

| network = NHK BS-2

| first = April 3, 1996

| last = January 22, 1997

| episodes = 39

}}

{{nihongo|Giatrus|ギャートルズ|Gyātoruzu|lead=yes}} is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Shunji Sonoyama. It spawned two other manga, two anime television series, a television drama, and an anime film. This TV series marked the debut of Joe Hisaishi, composer of My Neighbor Totoro and Spirited Away. The official English title is Gon, The Stone-Age Boy.{{Cite web|url=http://www.expo2005.or.jp/en/venue/gon.html|title = GON, THE STONE-AGE BOY (Hajime ningen Gon) : EXPO 2005 AICHI, JAPAN}}

Media

= Manga =

It was first published from 1965 to 1975 in Jitsugyo no Nihon Sha's Weekly Manga Sunday,{{cite web | url=http://natsukashi.skr.jp/top/toranomaki/genre/magazine/magazine.html | script-title=ja:戦後昭和史・虎の巻雑誌／漫画 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071021082917/http://natsukashi.skr.jp/top/toranomaki/genre/magazine/magazine.html | archive-date=October 21, 2007 | publisher=Natsukashi | access-date=June 10, 2013 | language=ja}}{{cite book|author=Eguchi, Kazuhiro|title=Poser Scene Master: 3Dでよみがえる、あの名場面|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8NV56lj10qIC&pg=PA157|page=157|publisher=BNN|year=2006|isbn=9784861004117}} and spawned two spin-off manga: the first, entitled {{nihongo|First Human Gon|はじめ人間ゴン|Hajime Ningen Gon}} and illustrated by Hideo Shinoda,{{cite book | script-title=ja:はじめ人間ゴン (単行本) | id={{ASIN|4052009282|country=jp}} | language=ja}} was published in Gakken's Gakushū Magazine in 1966;{{cite web|url=http://www.j-n.co.jp/company/trivia.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130522005825/http://www.j-n.co.jp/company/trivia.html |archive-date=May 22, 2013 |script-title=ja:トリビア |publisher=Jitsugyo no Nihon Sha |access-date=June 10, 2013 |language=ja |url-status=dead }} the second, entitled {{nihongo|First Human Giatrus|はじめ人間ギャートルズ|Hajime Ningen Gyatoruz}}, was published by Shogakukan's Gakunen Magazine in 1974.

Shunji Sonoyama won the 1976 Bungeishunjū Manga Award for his work on the manga series.{{cite web | url=http://www.ztv.ne.jp/keiko/comic_lab/prize/bungei_shunju_mangasho.html | title=文藝春秋漫画賞 | publisher=Comic Lab | access-date=April 2, 2015 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090618173353/http://www.ztv.ne.jp/keiko/comic_lab/prize/bungei_shunju_mangasho.html | archive-date=June 18, 2009 }}

=Anime series=

The third manga was adapted by Tokyo Movie into a homonymous anime television series consisting in 77 episodes, which was broadcast on ABC between October 5, 1974, and March 27, 1976.{{cite book|last=Jonathan Clements, Helen McCarthy|title=The Anime Encyclopedia|year=2006|publisher=Stone Bridge Press, 2006|isbn=1933330104}}{{cite book|last=Daniel Valentin Simion|title=Il Dizionario dei Cartoni Animati|year=2009|publisher=Anton, 2009|isbn=9788890390227}}{{cite web | url=http://www.moviesquare.jp/channel/catalog?c=gatrs | script-title=ja:はじめ人間ギャートルズ | publisher=TMS Entertainment | access-date=June 10, 2013 | language=ja}} Another anime was produced; this time Studio Pierrot adapted the second manga into a series directed by Yutaka Kagawa that originally ran from April 3, 1996, to January 22, 1997, in NHK-BS2.{{cite web | url=http://pierrot.jp/archives/tv_list_1995/tv_032.html | script-title=ja:はじめ人間ゴン | publisher=Studio Pierrot | access-date=June 10, 2013 | language=ja | archive-date=June 3, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130603210159/http://pierrot.jp/archives/tv_list_1995/tv_032.html | url-status=dead }}

==Cast==

;First Human Giatrus

Gon: Hiroko Maruyama
Father: Kaneta Kimotsuki
Mother: Keiko Hanagata
Dotechin: Kazuya Tatekabe
Piko-chan: Rihoko Yoshida

Source:

;First Human Gon

Gon: Ikue Ōtani
Father: Kenichi Ogata
Mather: Miyuki Ichijo
Dotechin: Chafurin
Piko-chan: Tomoko Kawakami
Mammoth / Saber-tooth tiger: Kazuhiro Ōguro
Shinigami: Kōji Ishii

Source:

= Film =

First Human Giatrus was adapted by Tokyo Movie into an anime film, which was released by Toho on March 15, 1975.{{cite web | url=http://www.allcinema.net/prog/show_c.php?num_c=144996 | script-title=ja:映画アニメはじめ人間ギャートルズ | publisher=AllCinema Movie & DVD Database | access-date=June 10, 2013 | language=ja}}{{cite web | url=http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1975/cy000640.htm | script-title=ja:はじめ人間ギャートルズ | publisher=Japanese Movie Database | access-date=June 10, 2013 | language=ja}}

= TV drama =

The manga was adapted into a live-action Japanese television drama entitled {{nihongo|Back to the Giatrus Days|バック・トゥ・ザ・ギャートルズ・デイズ|Bakku tou za Gyātoruzu Deizu}}. It was produced by Koji Matsuoka and starred Ryoko Takizawa, Katsuhisa Namase and Toshiya Sakai.{{cite web | url=http://www.nhk.or.jp/drama/archives-catalogue/pglist/pglist_1990-94.html | script-title=ja:ドラマ番組放送記録＋カテゴリー小史 1990～1994 | publisher=NHK | access-date=June 10, 2013 | language=ja | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130906051006/http://www.nhk.or.jp/drama/archives-catalogue/pglist/pglist_1990-94.html | archive-date=September 6, 2013 }}