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THE ANIME ENCYCLOPEDIA
A Century of Japanese Animation
3rd Revised Edition

Jetter Mars Entry

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JETTER MARS

1977. aka: Jet Mars. TV series.

Dir: Rintaro, Sumiko Chiba (pseud. for Toshio Hirata), Noboru Ishiguro, Wataru Mizusawa, Masami Hata, Katsuyoshi Sasaki, Yugo Serikawa.

Scr: Masao Maruyama, Masaki Tsuji, Shunichi Yukimuro, Ryohei Suzuki, Hiroshi Yamamoto.

Des: Akio Sugino. ani: Akio Suzuki, Kazuo Mori, Akira Daikuhara, Wataru Mibu.

Mus: Nobuyoshi Koshibe.

Pro: Madhouse, Tezuka Pro, Fuji TV. 25 mins. x 27 eps.

In 2015, Dr. Yamanoue, chief researcher at the Ministry of Science, creates the boy-robot Jetter Mars and prepares to teach him how to fight as a supersoldier. However, he is opposed by the cybernetic specialist Dr. Kawashimo, who is responsible for Jetter’s brain. When a storm threatens his island home, Jetter saves the day by cooperating with Kawashimo’s robot daughter, Miri. Soon, he becomes a superhero saving the world from harm, though his two mentors war constantly about his true purpose.

A lackluster copy of Astro Boy (if Astro was 10-12 years old, Jetter is 6-8) bluntly commissioned by Toei from creator Osamu Tezuka as just that, though the studio’s interference would lead him to lose all interest in the project and claim that they had chipped away everything that made it anything other than a poor imitation. Early episodes involved a will-he-won 't-he crisis, as Jetter decided whether to do the altruistic thing as advised by Kawashimo or to follow Yamanoue’s more mercenary advice. However, Yamanoue was soon edged out, and the show became an almost carbon-copy of the relationship between Astro and Ochanomizu in AB. To compound the resemblance, JM featured AB voice actors Mari Shimizu and Hisashi Katsuta, and even lifted AB scripts whole-sale, pausing only to change the names.

THE ANIME ENCYCLOPEDIA
A Century of Japanese Animation

Jetter Mars Entry

TRANSCRIPT

JETTER MARS

1977. aka: Jet Mars. TV series.

Dir: Rintaro, Sumiko Chiba (pseud. for Toshio Hirata), Noboru Ishiguro, Wataru Mizusawa, Masami Hata, Katsuyoshi Sasaki, Yugo Serikawa.

Scr: Masao Maruyama, Masaki Tsuji, Shunichi Yukimuro, Ryohei Suzuki, Hiroshi Yamamoto.

Des: Akio Sugino. ani: Akio Suzuki, Kazuo Mori, Akira Daikuhara, Wataru Mibu.

Mus: Nobuyoshi Koshibe.

Pro: Madhouse, Tezuka Pro, Fuji TV. 25 mins. x 27 eps.

In 2015, Dr. Yamanoue, chief researcher at the Ministry of Science, creates the boy-robot Jetter Mars and prepares to teach him how to fight as a supersoldier. However, he is opposed by the cybernetic specialist Dr. Kawashimo, who is responsible for Jetter’s brain. When a storm threatens his island home, Jetter saves the day by cooperating with Kawashimo’s robot daughter, Miri. Soon, he becomes a superhero saving the world from harm, though his two mentors war constantly about his true purpose.

A lackluster copy of Astro Boy (if Astro was 10-12 years old, Jetter is 6-8) bluntly commissioned by Toei from creator Osamu Tezuka as just that, though the studio’s interference would lead him to lose all interest in the project and claim that they had chipped away everything that made it anything other than a poor imitation. Early episodes involved a will-he-won 't-he crisis, as Jetter decided whether to do the altruistic thing as advised by Kawashimo or to follow Yamanoue’s more mercenary advice. However, Yamanoue was soon edged out, and the show became an almost carbon-copy of the relationship between Astro and Ochanomizu in AB. To compound the resemblance, JM featured AB voice actors Mari Shimizu and Hisashi Katsuta, and even lifted AB scripts whole-sale, pausing only to change the names.

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