First Human Giatrus

• Name — Giatrus • Ja Kanji — ギャートルズ • Ja Romaji — Gyātoruzu • Genre — Gag

• Author — Shunji Sonoyama • Type — manga • Magazine — Weekly Manga Sunday • Publisher — Jitsugyo no Nihon Sha • First — 1965 • Last — 1975

• Title — First Human Gon • Author — Shunji Sonoyama • Illustrator — Hideo Shinoda • Type — manga • Magazine — Gakushū Magazine • Publisher — Gakken • Published — 1966

• Author — Shunji Sonoyama • Type — manga • Magazine — Gakunen Magazine • Publisher — Shogakukan • Published — 1974

• Type — tv series • Director — Kenji Kodama • 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

• Type — film • Music — Hiroshi Kamayatsu Joe Hisaishi • Released — March 15, 1975 • Studio — Tokyo Movie • Runtime — 14 minutes

• Type — drama • Title — Back to the Giatrus Days • Writer — Hiroshi Shimokawa • Music — Toshiyuki Watanabe • Network — NHK BS-2 • Released — April 18, 1993 • Episodes — 1

• 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 Giatrus 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.

It was first published from 1965 to 1975 in Jitsugyo no Nihon Sha's Weekly Manga Sunday, and spawned two spin-off manga: the first, entitled First Human Gon and illustrated by Hideo Shinoda, was published in Gakken's Gakushū Magazine in 1966; the second, entitled First Human Giatrus, was published by Shogakukan's Gakunen Magazine in 1974. Shunji Sonoyama won the 1976 Bungeishunjū Manga Award for his work on the manga 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. 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.

• 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:

The manga was adapted into a live-action Japanese television drama entitled Back to the Giatrus Days. It was produced by Koji Matsuoka and starred Ryoko Takizawa, Katsuhisa Namase and Toshiya Sakai.

During the stone age, Gon is a boy living with his parents and his friend, a gorilla named Dotechan. He goes out hunting for mammoths on the plains and always loves his girlfriend Piko. His father gets occasional seizures where he supposedly dies and three men come from heaven to pick him up, but Gon saves him everytime.