Shutendoji

• Name — Legend of Shutendoji • Ja Kanji — 手天童子 • Ja Romaji — Shutendōji

• Type — manga • Author — Go Nagai • Publisher — Kodansha • Magazine — Weekly Shōnen Magazine • First — September 5, 1976 • Last — April 30, 1978 • Volumes — 9

• Type — novel series • Author — Yasutaka Nagai • Illustrator — Go Nagai • Publisher — Kadokawa Shoten • Imprint — Kadokawa Novels • First — July 1986 • Last — June 1989 • Volumes — 6

• Type — novel series • Author — Shigekazu Kitamura • Publisher — JICC • Imprint — Adventure Novels • First — October 1987 • Last — December 1987 • Volumes — 2

• Type — ova • Director — Junji Nishimura (1-2) Jun Kawagoe (3) Masatomo Sudo (4) • Writer — Masashi Sogo • Music — Fumitaka Anzai • Studio — Studio Signal • First — December 21, 1989 • Last — December 21, 1991 • Runtime — 50 minutes (each) • Episodes — 4

• Publisher — Enix • Genre — RPG • Platforms — NEC PC-9801 • Released — October 1990

• Type — manga • Title — The Legendary Demon Slayer Shutendoji • Author — Go Nagai • Illustrator — Masato Natsumoto • Publisher — Akita Shoten • Magazine — Champion Red • First — October 2002 • Last — December 2005 • Volumes — 7 Shutendoji, also known as Legend of Shutendoji, is a Japanese manga series created by Go Nagai which combines elements from Japanese folklore with science fiction. An OVA series was released beginning in 1989 and ending in 1991, for a total of 4 episodes. In 2002, a remake/sequel titled The Legendary Demon Slayer Shutendoji started being published in the magazine Champion Red, being one of the series that were released in the first issue of the magazine.

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.

• shutendou jirō • Ryo Horikawa The fifteen-year-old protagonist of the story, he is an oni. • Miyuki Shiratori • Sumi Shimamoto Jiro's schoolmate and love interest. She becomes infatuated with him after he rescues her and a schoolmate from some bullies. In terms of characterisation, she fits both the ingenue and damsel in distress archetypes, given that, throughout the narrative, she often ends up naked and captured at the hands of the manga's antagonists. • Ryuichiro Shiba • Michihiro Ikemizu Jiro's adoptive human father. • Kyoko Shiba • Sanae Takagi Jiro's adoptive human mother. • Goki • 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. • Senki • Daisuke Gori One of the two oni created to protect Jiro. He brought him as a baby to his parents.

• Yusuke Shiratori Miyuki's older brother and Jiro's first and best friend. • Naojiro Oyama 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. • Riki Muso 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". • Kosaku Kaji Another descendant of an oni, a timid, bookish boy with psychic abilities. • Yashi Koya 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".

• Yonen Majari 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. • Kukai Jawanbo Majari's lieutenant, a powerful priest who wields a double kusarigama. • Iron Kaiser • 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 1975 02 in the Shōjo magazine Princess, published by Akita Shoten. 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 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 1976 09 05, to 1978 04 30, in the magazine Weekly Shōnen Magazine by Kodansha. The manga was originally compiled in 9 volumes, and would later be re-published several times. • Kodansha (KC Magazine, 1977–1978) • Japanese release date — Vol. • 1977 04 05 — 1 • 1977 05 10 — 2 • 1977 07 20 — 3 • 1977 08 20 — 4 • 1978 03 25 — 5 • 1978 06 25 — 6 • 1978 07 25 — 7 • 1978 09 20 — 8 • 1978 11 25 — 9 • Kodansha (KC Special, 1985) • Japanese release date — Vol. — ISBN • 1985 08 06 — 1 • 1985 08 06 — 2 • 1985 09 06 — 3 • 1985 10 05 — 4 • 1985 11 06 — 5 • Kodansha (Goka Aizoban, 1988–1989) • Japanese release date — Vol. — ISBN • 1988 09 17 — 1 • 1988 09 17 — 2 • 1988 10 17 — 3 • 1988 11 17 — 4 • 1988 12 17 — 5 • 1989 01 17 — 6 • Fusosha (Fusosha Bunko, 1996–1997) • Japanese release date — Vol. — ISBN • 1996 08 30 — 1 • 1996 09 30 — 2 • 1996 10 30 — 3 • 1996 11 30 — 4 • 1996 12 30 — 5 • 1997 01 30 — 6 • Fusosha (Legend of Shutendoji, 1998) • Japanese release date — Vol. — ISBN • 1998 04 01 — 1 • 1998 04 01 — 2 • 1998 05 10 — 3 • 1998 06 10 — 4 • 1998 07 10 — 5 • 1998 08 10 — 6 • Kodansha (Kodansha Manga Bunko, 2001) • Japanese release date — Vol. — ISBN • 2001 10 12 — 1 • 2001 10 12 — 2 • 2001 11 12 — 3 • 2001 11 12 — 4 Besides the printed volumes, the manga has also been published in 10 ebook format volumes by ebookjapan. The series has also been published in some compilations of other Nagai's manga.

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. • Kadokawa Shoten (Kadokawa Novels) • Release date — Vol. — Subtitle — Pages — ISBN • 1986 07 — 1 — Oni no Kechimyaku — 218 • 1988 03 — 2 — Oni Tenshi — 204 • 1988 06 — 3 — Jakyo no Wana — 188 • 1988 10 — 4 — Ankoku tera no Shito — 194 • 1989 02 — 5 — Samayo Eru Oni Tachi — 198 • 1989 06 — 6 — Saraba Itoshiki Oni Tachi — 201 The second one was written by Fusamichi Kitamura and published in two volumes published in 1987 by JICC under the label Adventure Novels. • JICC (Adventure Novels) • Release date — Vol. — Pages — ISBN • 1987 10 — 1 — 282 • 1987 12 — 2 — 250

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

• 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)

Along with the OVAs, a Role-playing game for the NEC PC-9801 was released by the Japanese company Enix in 1990 10.

The Legendary Demon Slayer Shutendoji is a manga created by Go Nagai and Masato Natsumoto, which was originally published from 2002 08 19 (cover date 2002 10) to 2005 10 19 (cover date 2005 12), in Akita Shoten's shōnen manga magazine Champion Red. While it has a similar setting, the story is different from the original series.