a look at Gigantor's new adventures




The New Adventures of Gigantor! Sure, this 1980 remake of
the popular 1963 boy-and-robot anime series (based on the Mitsuteru Yokoyama manga) didn’t make it to American TV until
thirteen years after its Japanese premiere, and even then it ran in a weird
time slot on a niche cable station best known for Twilight Zone marathons and
later, a series of deliberately inane made-for-TV monster epics.

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