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Tiger Mask
タイガーマスク
Genre Sports
Manga
Author Ikki Kajiwara (story)
Naoki Tsuji (art)
Publisher Flag of Japan Kodansha
Demographic Shōnen
Magazine Bokura Magazine
Weekly Shōnen Magazine
Original run 1968 – 1971
Volumes 14
TV anime
Director Takeshi Tamiya
Studio Toei Animation
Network Yomiuri TV
Original run October 2, 1969 – September 30, 1971
Episodes 105
Animated film
Director Takeshi Tamiya
Studio Toei Animation
Released 1970

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Contents

Story

In the manga and anime, Tiger Mask (whose real name was Naoto Date) was a feared heel wrestler in America who was extremely vicious in the ring. In Professional wrestling, a heel is a Villain character In non-wrestling jargon heels are the "bad guys" in pro wrestling storylines. However, he became a face after returning to Japan when a young boy said that he wanted to be a villain like Tiger Mask when he grew up. In Professional wrestling, a face or babyface is a character who is portrayed as Heroic relative to the heel wrestlers who are analogous to villains The boy resided in an orphanage, the same one that Tiger Mask grew up in during his childhood. Feeling that he did not want the boy to idolize a villain, Tiger was inspired to be a heroic wrestler.

The main antagonist in the manga and anime was Tiger's Cave, a mysterious organization that trained young people to be villainous heel wrestlers on the condition that they gave half of their earnings to the organization. An antagonist (from Greek ανταγωνιστής - antagonistes, "opponent competitor rival" is a character or Tiger Mask was once a member of Tiger's Cave under the name "Yellow Devil", but no longer wanted anything to do with them, instead donating his money to the orphanage. This infuriated the leader of the organization and he sent numerous assassins, including other professional wrestlers, to punish him.

Concept

The manga was originally created for the Bokura and Weekly Shōnen Magazine in 1968 by Ikki Kajiwara and Naoki Tsuji. also known as Shōnen Magazine, is a Shōnen Manga magazine published by Kodansha, first published on 17 March 1959. was an Author, Manga writer (not artist and film producer also known under the Pseudonym. The manga would be reprinted by Kodansha comics, and made available in Hong Kong. is the largest Japanese publisher headquartered in ( Bunkyo) Tokyo. Hong Kong ( officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, is a territory located on China 's south coast on the Pearl River Delta, and borders Further versions include Sankei Comics and the Kodansha KC Special. is a daily Newspaper in Japan published by the. It has the sixth highest circulation for a newspaper in Japan and is considered as one of the five "national" newspapers The anime would be televised nationally in Japan, while 2 movies would be constructed from reusing footages of the series. [1] Most of the environment and characters were fictional, but real-life pro wrestlers like Antonio Inoki, Giant Baba, Michiaki Yoshimura, Kintaro Ohki, Seiji Sakaguchi were included in the manga and anime as well. real name, born February 20, 1943) is a Professional wrestling promoter and retired Japanese Professional wrestler and mixed martial Shohei Baba ( Baba Shōhei, January 23 1938&ndashJanuary 31 1999 was a Professional wrestler and co-founder of All Japan Pro Wrestling. Kintarō Ōki ( Japanese: 大木金太郎 Korean: 김일 Hanja: 金一 born February 24, 1929 Jeollanam-do, is a retired Japanese professional wrestler who was a mainstay of All Japan Pro Wrestling and also competed for the World Wide Wrestling Federation and the National

Staff

Director: Takeshi Tamiya

Additional Directors: Kimio Yabuki, Tomoharu Katsumata, Fusahito Nagaki, Hiroshi Shidara, Yoshio Kuroda, Yasuo Yamaguchi

Screenwriter: Masaki Tsuji, Tadashi Kondo, Tomohiro Ando

Design: Naoki Tsuiji

Animator: Keijiro Kimura, Koichi Murata

Music: Shunsuke Kikuchi

Characters

Tiger Mask and His Comrades

Naoto Date (伊達直人, Date Naoto?)/Tiger Mask (タイガーマスク?)
Kentaro Takaoka (高岡拳太郎, Takaoka Kentarou?)/Yellow Devil (イエロー・デビル?)
Daigo Daimon (大門大吾, Daimon Daigo?)/Mister Fudo (ミスター不動?)
Toranosuke Arashi (嵐虎之介, Arashi Toranosuke?)
The Great Zebra (ザ・グレイト・ゼブラ?)

Chibikko House

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Ruriko Wakatsuki (若月ルリ子, Wakatsuki Ruriko?)
Kenta (健太?)
Yoshibou (ヨシ坊?)
Chappy (チャッピー?)
Gaboten (ガボテン?)
Mikuro (ミクロ?)
Yoko Takaoka (高岡洋子, Taka?)

Tiger's Cave

Mister X (ミスターＸ?)
Boss (ボス?)
Big Tiger (ビッグ・タイガー?)
Black Tiger (ブラック・タイガー?)
King Tiger (キング・タイガー?)
Miracle 3 (ミラクル３?)
See Boss
Tiger The Great (タイガー・ザ・グレイト?)
See Boss

Japanese Pro Wrestling Promotion

Giant Baba
See The Great Zebra
Antonio Inoki
Kintaro Ohki/Kim Ill (キム・イル?)

Other

Jack Brisco (ジャック・ブリスコ?)
Mister Kamikaze (ミスター・カミカゼ?)
Black V (ブラックＶ?)
Announcer (アナウンサー?)

DVD

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Adaptations

The movies were titled as such in English when exported outside Japan. They are by no means actual translations.

Japanese Name English Name Release Date Type
タイガーマスク Tiger Mask: War against the League of Masked Wrestlers 1970 movie
タイガーマスク　ふく面リーグ戦 Tiger Mask: Black Demon July 19, 1970 movie

Video games

While the Tiger Mask character has shown up in quite a number of wrestling video games such as Fire Prowrestling D, Toukon Retsuden 3, and Virtual Pro Wrestling 64, the video games are not directly based on the story of the manga or anime. Events 711 - Muslim forces under Tariq ibn Ziyad defeat the Visigoths led by their king Roderic. Year 1970 ( MCMLXX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link shows full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Fire Pro Wrestling (ファイヤープロレスリング is a long-running Professional wrestling Video game series originated from Japan Virtual Pro Wrestling 64 is a Video game released in 1997 on the Nintendo 64 game console.

Sequels

A continuation of the series was followed by Tiger Mask II in 1981. is a Japanese Manga and adopted into an Anime series aired from 1981 to 1982 as a sequel to Tiger Mask.

Professional Wrestling

Main Tiger Mask character

The anime ended in 1971, but continued to be so popular that the bookers in the New Japan Pro Wrestling promotion licensed the character and created a real-life Tiger Mask in 1981, originally portrayed by Satoru Sayama. is a major Professional wrestling federation in Japan and is a member of the National Wrestling Alliance, founded by Antonio Inoki in 1972 (born November 24, 1957) is a Japanese Professional wrestler, best known as the original Tiger Mask. Sayama played the role until 1983, when he left New Japan due to his hatred for the backstage politics of pro wrestling in general, and eventually became one of the first mixed martial artists in the world. Mixed martial arts (MMA is a full contact Combat sport that allows a wide variety of fighting techniques from a mixture of Martial arts traditions and As Tiger Mask, Sayama feuded with Kuniaki Kobayashi, Canada's Bret Hart, and Englishmen Dynamite Kid, the original Black Tiger (see below), Chris Adams, and Steve Wright, as well as Mexico's Fishman. Kuniaki Kobayashi (小林邦昭 was a Japanese Junior Heavyweight professional wrestler. Bret Sergeant Hart (born July 2 1957 is a retired Canadian professional wrestler and Actor. Thomas Billington (born 5 December 1958 in Golborne Lancashire is a retired English Professional wrestler who competed in the World Wrestling Federation Mark Hussey is a retired English Professional wrestler who competed for All-Star Wrestling as Mark "Rollerball" Rocco and as the Chris Adams may refer to Chris Adams (cricketer, (born 1970 English cricketer who briefly represented his nation Chris Adams (General José Ángel Nájera Sánchez, best known under the Ring name of Fishman, was a Mexican Professional wrestler who became one of

In 1984, the rights to the Tiger Mask gimmick were bought by All Japan Pro Wrestling and given to Mitsuharu Misawa. ( AJPW) is a Japanese professional wrestling promotion established in 1972 is a Japanese professional wrestler. He became famous working for All Japan Pro Wrestling. Misawa also feuded with Dynamite Kid and Kuniaki Kobayashi, as well as Chavo Guerrero, Sr. and Atsushi Onita; he then moved up to the heavyweight division (the only Tiger Mask to do so while using the persona) to feud, albeit unsuccessfully, with Jumbo Tsuruta and Genichiro Tenryu. Chavo Guerrero Sr (born Salvador Guerrero Llanes On June 15 2004, he was fired by WWE for no-showing a SmackDown! house Atsushi Onita (大仁田 厚 Ōnita Atsushi) (Born October 25, 1957) is a Japanese former Politician and retired Professional Tomomi Tsuruta (March 25 1951 &ndash May 13 2000 better known by his Ring name Jumbo Tsuruta, was a Professional wrestler who wrestled for Genichiro Tenryu (天龍源一郎 Tenryū Gen'ichirō) real name Genichiro Shimada (嶋田源一郎 Shimada Gen'ichirō, born February 2 In 1990, after Tenryu left All Japan, Misawa gave up the mask in the middle of a match to wrestle as himself.

New Japan's Koji Kanemoto became the third Tiger Mask in the early 1990s, but was unsuccessful due to the dominance of Jushin Liger. is a Japanese professional wrestler of Zainichi Korean descent better known as and later is a Japanese professional wrestler who invented the Shooting Star Press. Kanemoto was never able to win a title as Tiger Mask, and eventually lost the mask in a mask-vs-mask match against Liger in 1994.

Since 1995, the name Tiger Mask has been held by Yoshihiro Yamazaki, who was trained directly (and is officially endorsed) by Sayama. Yoshihiro Yamazaki (born October 20, 1970) best known by his ring name Tiger Mask (IV (タイガーマスク is a Japanese Tiger Mask IV, originally based at Michinoku Pro Wrestling, entered New Japan Pro Wrestling in 2001; since then, he has been one of the top candidates (alongside Minoru Tanaka) to replace the now-aging Liger as the top star of New Japan's junior heavyweight division, though Kanemoto is now considered to have surpassed all three to take the Jr. Michinoku Pro Wrestling (also known as North Eastern Wrestling) is a Japanese Professional wrestling promotion founded by The Great Sasuke Heavyweight Ace role. Yamazaki's role as Tiger Mask is the most notable, as his style is very similar to Sayama's Tiger Mask days.

Some pundits credit All Japan Pro Wrestling mid-carder Samson Kutsuwada (who died in 2004) as the first true Tiger Mask, as he used the gimmick in South Korea in the mid-1970s, but since he was a heel and never used the persona in Japan, Sayama always gets the "Original" billing. ( AJPW) is a Japanese professional wrestling promotion established in 1972 Samson Kutsuwada ( Japanese:サムソン・クツワダborn May 1, 1947, died October 12, 2004) was a Professional wrestler South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea and often referred to as Korea ( Korean: 대한민국 tɛː

Generation Name
Tiger Mask I Satoru Sayama
Tiger Mask II Mitsuharu Misawa
Tiger Mask III Koji Kanemoto
Tiger Mask IV Yoshihiro Yamazaki

Related characters

The evil twin character Black Tiger (using a black costume with yellow stripes) was created by NJPW to oppose the man who portrayed Tiger Mask at the time, although he did not have to have the existing Tiger Mask as his exclusive antagonist. (born November 24, 1957) is a Japanese Professional wrestler, best known as the original Tiger Mask. is a Japanese professional wrestler. He became famous working for All Japan Pro Wrestling. is a Japanese professional wrestler of Zainichi Korean descent Yoshihiro Yamazaki (born October 20, 1970) best known by his ring name Tiger Mask (IV (タイガーマスク is a Japanese Evil twins are antagonists found in many different Fictional Genres They are physical copies of Protagonists but with radically inverted Black Tiger has been the persona used by four different professional wrestlers in New Japan Pro Wrestling as opponents of the four incarnations of Black is the Color of objects that do not emit or Reflect Light in any part of the Visible spectrum; they absorb all such frequencies of Yellow is the Color evoked by light that stimulates both the L and M (long and medium wavelength Cone cells of the Retina about equally Black Tiger has always been portrayed by foreign wrestlers: Mark Rocco (British), Eddie Guerrero (Mexican-American), Silver King (Mexican) and Rocky Romero (Cuban-American). Mark Hussey is a retired English Professional wrestler who competed for All-Star Wrestling as Mark "Rollerball" Rocco and as the The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located Eduardo "Eddie" Gory Guerrero Llanes Along with Barr Konnan, Chicano Power and Madonna’s Boyfriend, Guerrero formed Los Gringos Locos See also History of Mexican-Americans Mexican Americans are Americans of Mexican ancestry César Cuauhtémoc González Barrón is a Mexican Professional wrestler, and Actor known best as Silver King or Black Tiger III The United Mexican States ( or commonly Mexico (ˈmɛksɪkoʊ () is a federal constitutional Republic in North America. John R Rivera born on October 28 1982 is a Cuban American Professional wrestler better known by his Ring name Rocky Romero and A Cuban American ( Cubanoamericano) is a United States citizen who traces his or her "national origin" to Cuba. As Black Tiger, Rocco also feuded with The Cobra (George Takano), and Guerrero also feuded with Jushin Liger and Wild Pegasus. George Takano (高野攘治 (born in 1958 is a professional wrestler who hailed from Uganda under the alias The Cobra, a masked wrestler better known as and later is a Japanese professional wrestler who invented the Shooting Star Press. Christopher Michael Benoit (bə'nwɑ (May 21 1967—June 24 2007 was a Canadian professional wrestler who in 2007 received extensive media coverage as a

When Tiger Mask IV was in the Japanese independents, he was briefly opposed by The Masked Tiger, a character portrayed by Battlarts wrestler Takeshi Ono. Yoshihiro Yamazaki (born October 20, 1970) best known by his ring name Tiger Mask (IV (タイガーマスク is a Japanese Battlarts (格闘探偵団バトラーツ Kakutō Tentei-dan Batoratsu, Fighting Investigation Team Battlarts is a Professional wrestling promotion based in

Recently Último Dragon, as a temporary break between gigs in the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), adopted the name and character Second Tiger, modeled after the original, Satoru Sayama, who was his childhood idol. World Wrestling Entertainment Inc ( WWE) is a publicly traded privately controlled integrated media (focusing in Television, Internet,

Sayama himself used the Super Tiger (in the original UWF) and uses the Tiger King and Original Tiger Mask characters in special appearances since 1996, as a means to differentiate himself as being the original. The original Japanese based Universal Wrestling Federation (UWF was a Japanese professional wrestling promotion from 1984 to 1986, formed by

Sayama also gave brief authorization for a female version of the character, called Tiger Dream, to be played by female wrestler Candy Okutsu in the mid-1990s. Tomoko "Candy" Okutsu (born January 16, 1975 in Japan) was a female Professional wrestler. He and Tiger Mask IV also provided her with training. However, Okutsu being injury-prone and having to take several sabbaticals from the ring, the character was easily forgotten by the fans and eventually abandoned.

Osaka Pro has a wrestler named Tigers Mask who wears a mask similar to Tiger Mask and is portrayed as a fan of the Hanshin Tigers baseball team. Osaka Pro Wrestling is a Japanese Professional wrestling promotion, founded in 1998 by Super Delfin. The are a Nippon Professional Baseball team based in Koshien Nishinomiya, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, and are in the Central League.

Pop culture

Although the manga and anime ended in the early 1970s, Tiger Mask remains a popular character in Japan. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics.

Championships and Accomplishments

References

  1. ^ Clements, Jonathan. McCarthy Helen. [2006] (2006). The Anime Encyclopedia: Revised & Expanded Edition. Berkeley, CA: Stone Bridge Press. ISBN 978-1-933330-10-5

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