646f9e108c Nine super-powered cyborg soldiers join forces to combat Black Ghost, the terrorist organization which they were originally created to serve. Eighteen-year-old Joe Shimamura, a rebellious, spiky-haired half-Japanese youth, wakes up one afternoon to find himself lying on an operating-room table with a strange suit and superhuman abilities suchthe ability to move faster than the human eye. After escaping from the laboratory, he soon discovers that he is the ninth in a series of cyborg weapons - ordinary humans from all over the world, captured and augmented against their wills to become devastating warriors. Some of these include a genius baby from Russia, an impoverished cook from China, and a freedom fighter from Africa. The culprit behind this act is Black Ghost, a terrorist group that aims for money and power by selling illegal weaponry to warring nations worldwide. Based on the classic but unfinished Japanese comic book by the late manga godfather Shoutarou Ishinomori, Cyborg 009 follows the story of the nine cyborg rebelsthey seek to halt the sinister intentions of Black Ghost while also attempting to deal with the alienation caused by their new identities. This is an engaging story that involves some good-hearted rebel cyborgs versus the big corporate machine…in every sense of the robotic and figurative word. It&#39;s an adventure that includes a social message, even though it wasn&#39;t written for the US audience.<br/><br/>Poor 008, though. His English voice actor must be learning the business. Maybe his reading will get smoothermore episodes are revealed.<br/><br/>The closing theme, &quot;Genesis of Next&quot; by globe is one of my J-pop/trance/dance favorites. IMHO, it&#39;s worth tracking down the single or globe&#39;s &quot;Global Trance&quot; CD. It was a really neat surprise to hear it on my telly! Cyborg 009 was created by Shorato Ishimori (before changing his name to Ishinomori in 1986) and ran on weekly comic magazine &quot;Shonen King&quot; in the &#39;60s. Ishimori had a very international flair for his comic characters,many character he drew had &quot;unknown&quot; nationality or existed outside normal framework of country (like Mutant Sabu was Japanese, but he really didn&#39;t belong to Japanese race because he was a mutant). Cyborg 009 I think is a first fully integrated super hero team in history of comic and animation. All came from different country which included native American, and native African. In fact I think it&#39;s the first integrated team in drama history period. Early Cyborg 009 showed some influences from different sci-fi comic of the time suchEight Man (by Jiro Kuwata, Kazumasa Hirai) being able to accelerate to enormous speed by depressing the accelerator switch hidden in his mouth, and Submarine 707 (by Satoru Ozawa) where subs Black Ghost uses looks exactly like Submarine 707. But asides from this, Cyborg 009 is considered to be Ishinomori&#39;s signature masterpiece although there are other better known works of his (suchGo Rangers, Kamen Rider, and Kikaida) because all his subsequent super hero stories shows influences of Cyborg 009. The story is somewhat dark for the comic of its time,the main character was an ex delinquent orphan who escaped juvenile prison (never was main protagonist in Japanese boys comic an ex-con before 009) and was picked up and converted into a cyborg by Black Ghost. No one actually knows about their existence, and they battle the world conquest schemes of Black Ghost in secrecy, and although they have super powers, they can never reveal themselves to the public. So all of them in a way are perpetual orphans. In a way, this was a story ahead of its time from a human perspective. The plot of this series stays fairly true to the original comic with beautiful art work. Kadokawa publishing in Japan recently released the complete works of Ishinomori for a whopping $5000 which encompass 770 titles of his works. It might be interesting to read Cyborg 009 in its original form from this collection.
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