Shutendoji (manga)

Artist and writer Ryuichiro Shiba and his wife, Kyoko, are visiting a temple to make a promise of marriage to their ancestors. At that moment, however, two oni appear before them and fight to death; one of them carrying a baby on his mouth. After defeating his opponent, the oni gives Ryuichiro and Kyoko the baby and declares that he will return for him after 15 years. After said period of time, strange events start happening around the baby, now a teenager named Jiro Shutendo.

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;{{nihongo|Jiro Shutendo|手天童子郎|shutendou jirō}}

:{{Anime voices|Ryo Horikawa}}

The fifteen-year-old protagonist of the story, he is an oni.

;{{nihongo|Miyuki Shiratori|白鳥美雪|shiratori miyuki}}

:{{Anime voices|Sumi Shimamoto}}

Jiro's schoolmate and love interest.

;{{nihongo|Ryuichiro Shiba|柴竜一郎|shiba ryūichirō}}

:{{Anime voices|Michihiro Ikemizu}}

Jiro's adoptive human father.

;{{nihongo|Kyoko Shiba|柴京子|shiba kyōko}}

:{{Anime voices|Sanae Takagi}}

Jiro's adoptive human mother.

;{{nihongo|Goki|護鬼|goki}}

:{{Anime voices|Tessho Genda}}

One of the two oni created to protect Jiro. He looks relatively humanoid, unlike most oni, and acts as a mentor for Jiro.

;{{nihongo|Senki|戦鬼|senki}}

:{{Anime voices|Daisuke Gori}}

One of the two oni created to protect Jiro. He brought him as a baby to his parents.

;{{nihongo|Yusuke Shiratori|白鳥勇輔|shiratori yūsuke}}

Miyuki's older brother and Jiro's first and best friend.

;{{nihongo|Naojiro Oyama|大山 直次郎|oyama naojiro}}

A friend of Yusuke who is a descendant of ancient oni. He's the heir of a yakuza family trained through generations to protect Jiro.

;{{nihongo|Riki Muso|無双 力 |muso riki}}

A human descendant of ancient oni and another friend to Yusuke. She is a strong female oni who hides under the guise of a rowdy, masculine-looking girl with a love for professional wrestling. Her nickname is "Ricki".

;{{nihongo|Kosaku Kaji|梶 工作|kaji kosaku}}

Another descendant of an oni, a timid, bookish boy with psychic abilities.

;{{nihongo|Yashi Koya|小谷 椰子夫|koya yashi}}

Another descendant of an oni and the last member of Yusuke's gang. He is a plump boy with superhuman strength that practises sumo wrestling. He's nicknamed "Koyatashi".

;{{nihongo|Yonen Majari|魔邪利 妖念|majari yonen}}

The high priest of Ankoku Jashin Kyo ("School of the Evil God from Darkness"), an evil cult who worships demons. His goal is killing Jiro.

;{{nihongo|Kukai Jawanbo|邪腕坊 苦海|jawanbo kukai}}

Majari's lieutenant, a powerful priest who wields a double kusarigama.

;{{nihongo|Iron Kaiser|アイアンカイザー|aion kaisa}}

:{{Anime voices|Akio Ohtsuka}}

Kukai's son, who grew and became a military cyborg in order to avenge his father.

Before starting serialization, Nagai created a 57-page oneshot titled Shutendoji, published in the issue of {{start date|1975|02}} in the Shōjo magazine Princess, published by Akita Shoten.{{cite web

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}} While this manga has some similarities, it is a completely different story, as well as being a Shōjo manga instead of Shōnen. It would later be renamed as {{Nihongo|2=邪神戦記|3=Jashin Senki}} or Princess Han Shutendoji (プリンセス版手天童子).

Shutendoji started being published as a serialized series from {{start date|1976|09|05}}, to {{end date|1978|04|30}}, in the magazine Weekly Shōnen Magazine by Kodansha.{{cite web

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The manga was originally compiled in 9 volumes, and would later be re-published several times.

• Kodansha (KC Magazine, 1977–1978)

• Kodansha (KC Special, 1985)

• Kodansha (Goka Aizoban, 1988–1989)

• Fusosha (Fusosha Bunko, 1996–1997)

• Fusosha (Legend of Shutendoji, 1998)

• Kodansha (Kodansha Manga Bunko, 2001)

Besides the printed volumes, the manga has also been published in 10 ebook format volumes by ebookjapan.{{cite web

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}} The series has also been published in some compilations of other Nagai's manga.

d/visual published the full series in Italy from 2004 to 2005.

Two series of novels based on the manga were released during the 1980s. The first one was written by Yasutaka Nagai and was released in 6 volumes from 1986 to 1989 by Kadokawa Shoten.{{cite web

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• Kadokawa Shoten (Kadokawa Novels)

The second one was written by Fusamichi Kitamura and published in two volumes published in 1987 by JICC under the label Adventure Novels.{{cite web

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• JICC (Adventure Novels)

The manga was adapted into 4 OVAs released from 1989 to 1991.{{cite web

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}} The OVAs were originally released on VHS and later on laserdisc, both times by Nippon Columbia.

They were re-released in DVD format also by Columbia in 2001.{{cite web

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The OVAs were released in the US by ADV Films{{cite web |title=Catalog |url=//www.advfilms.com/catalog.html |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20010331095827/http://www.advfilms.com/catalog.html |archivedate=March 31, 2001 |publisher=ADV Films |location=USA |accessdate=2009-10-30 |url-status=dead}} in VHS (4 tapes) and later on DVD (2 discs).

They were also released in Italy by Dynamic on VHS and in Latin America on TV by Locomotion.

• Distributor: Nippon Columbia
• Original work / organization: Go Nagai
• Planning work: Dynamic Planning
• Director: Junji Nishimura (1, 2), Jun Kawagoe (3), Masatomo Sudo (4)
• Scenario: Masashi Sogo
• Work supervision: Hideyuki Motohashi (1, 2)
• Animation supervisor: Satoshi Hirayama (3, 4), Masatomo Sudo (4)
• Character design: Satoshi Hirayama (3, 4)
• Mecha design: Masahiko Okura (3, 4)
• Art director: Masazumi Matsumiya (1, 2), Masuo Nakayama (3, 4)
• Director of photography: Tadashi Hosono (1, 2, 3), Akihiko Takahashi (4)
• Sound director: Akira Yamazaki
• Music: Fumitaka Anzai
• Animation work: Studio Signal
• Production: Nippon Animation
• Cast: Ryo Horikawa (Jiro Shutendo), Sumi Shimamoto (Miyuki Shiratori), Michihiro Ikemizu (Ryuichiro Shiba), Sanae Takagi (Kyoko Shiba), Rei Sakuma (Tanemura), Hiroya Ishimaru (Kitani), Tessho Genda (Goki), Daisuke Gori (Senki), Osamu Kobayashi (Yonen Majari), Shigeru Sakahara (Yusuke), Yoko Matsuoka (Rickey), Kiyoyuki Yanada (Naojiro), Kiyoshi Kawakubo (Oyama), Akio Otsuka (Iron Kaiser), Rihoko Yoshida (Captain Persis), Ryusei Nakao (Major Gill), Sakiko Tamagawa (Sonia), Chikao Otsuka (Oniryu), Koji Yada (Ishi)

Source(s)

{{cite web

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| title = Shutendoji (OVAs)

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Along with the OVAs, a Role-playing game for the NEC PC-9801 was released by the Japanese company Enix in {{start date|1990|10}}.{{cite web

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| title = Shuten Doji

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| publisher = Anime Video Games

| location = United Kingdom

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| title = Shuten Doji Release Information for NEC PC98

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| publisher = Legendra

| location = France

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{{nihongo|Gomaden Shutendoji|降魔伝 手天童子|Gōmaden Shutendōji}} is a manga created by Go Nagai and Masato Natsumoto, which was originally published from {{start date|2002|08|19}} (cover date {{start date|2002|10}},){{cite web

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}} in Akita Shoten's shōnen manga magazine Champion Red. While it has a similar setting, the story is different from the original series.

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• [http://www.mazingerz.com/DOUJI/DOUJI.html Shutendouji] {{in lang|ja}} at The World of Go Nagai webpage.
• {{ann|anime|732|Shuten Doji-The Star Hand Kid}}

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