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Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
ese manga artist and a prolific author of science fiction, fantasy, horror and erotica.

He made his professional debut in 1967 with Meakashi Polikichi, but is best known for creating the seminal works Cutie Honey
Cutie Honey

is a Japanese media franchise created by Go Nagai. Cutie Honey first appears on volume 41 of the 1973 edition of Shonen Champion. According to Nagai, she is the first female to be the protagonist of a shonen manga series....
, Devilman
Devilman

is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Go Nagai which originally started as an anime adaptation of the concept of Nagai's previous manga series, Mao Dante....
, and Mazinger Z
Mazinger Z

, known as Tranzor Z in North America, is a Super Robot manga and anime series created by Go Nagai. The first manga version was serialized in Shueisha Shonen Jump from October 1972 to August 1973, and it later continued in Kodansha TV Magazine from October 1973 to September 1974....
in the 1970s.

agai was born in the year 20 of the Showa era

Showa period

The , or Showa era, is the period of Japanese history corresponding to the reign of Emperor Showa , from December 25, 1926 to January 7, 1989. In his coronation message which was read to the people and to the army, the newly enthroned emperor referenced this Japanese era name or nengo: "I have visited the battlefields of the Great War in...
, in the sixth day of the ninth month, son of Yoshio and Fujiko Nagai (????·?????), and the fourth of five male brothers , in the city of Wajima

Wajima, Ishikawa

is a cities of Japan located in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan.As of 2008, the city has an estimated population of 31,532 and the population density of 74 persons per km?....
, located in the Prefecture of Ishikawa

Ishikawa Prefecture

is a Prefectures of Japan of Japan located in the Chubu region on Honshu island. The capital is Kanazawa, Ishikawa....
, about a month after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima

Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were nuclear warfares near the end of World War II against the Empire of Japan by the United States at the executive order of President of the United States Harry S....
.

His family had just returned from Shangai.

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Early life

Go Nagai was born in the year 20 of the Showa era

Showa period

Wajima, Ishikawa

Ishikawa Prefecture

is a Prefectures of Japan of Japan located in the Chubu region on Honshu island. The capital is Kanazawa, Ishikawa....
, about a month after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima

Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Tokyo

, officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan of Japan and located on the eastern side of the main island Honshu. The twenty-three special wards of Tokyo, each governed as a city, cover the area that was once the Tokyo City in the eastern part of the prefecture, and total over 8 million people....
after the premature passing of his father.

While being a child, he was influenced by the work of Gustave Doré

Gustave Doré

Paul Gustave Dor? was a France artist, engraver, illustrator and sculpture. Dor? worked primarily with wood engraving and steel engraving....
(specifically, a Japanese edition of the Divine Comedy) and Osamu Tezuka (his brother Yasutaka gave him a copy of Lost World).

Graduated from the Metropolitan Itabashi

Itabashi, Tokyo

is one of the 23 special wards of Tokyo, Japan. In English, it calls itself Itabashi City. Itabashi has sister-city relations with Burlington, Ontario in Canada; Shijingshan District in Beijing, People's Republic of China; and Bologna in Italy....
High School

Secondary education in Japan

Secondary Education in Japan is split into middle schools which cover the seventh through ninth years, and high schools which mostly cover years ten through twelve....
of Tokyo, what triggered his entrance in the world of manga was a misconception. While passing his ronin year

Higher education in Japan

For a history of higher education in Japan see Education in Japan....
in a prep school in order to aim at the Waseda University

Waseda University

, often abbreviated to , is one of the top universities in Japan. Founded in 1882 as Tokyo Senmon Gakko , the institution was renamed "Waseda University" in 1902....
, he suffered a severe case of non-stopping diarrhea

Diarrhea

In medicine, diarrhea, also spelled diarrhoea , is characterized by frequent loose or liquid bowel movements. The spelling of "diarrhea" is an appropriation of the Greek "diarrhoia" meaning "a flowing through." ....
for 3 weeks. When he consulted his older brother, he commented "Oh, that certainly will be colon cancer

Colorectal cancer

Colorectal cancer, also called colon cancer or large bowel cancer, includes cancerous growths in the colon , rectum and Vermiform appendix....
". At that point, Nagai was convinced that he was going to die and would disappear from the world. So he thought that he could leave some evidence that he had lived. He came to the conclusion of doing something that he liked as a child: manga. He was determined to create one work of manga in what he thought were his last months.

Getting prepared for the task, he went to the hospital, where he was diagnosed with catarrh of the colon

Colitis

Colitis is a Chronic digestive diseases characterized by inflammation of the colon .Colitis is one of a group of conditions which are inflammatory and auto-immune, affecting the tissue that lines the gastrointestinal system ....
. After receiving medicine for one week, he was fully healed. But that didn't change his determination, and this was the turning point in his life. He was going to run swiftly the road of manga. He stopped attending at the prep school after three months and started living as a ronin

Ronin (student)

In Japan, a is a student who has graduated from middle school or high school but has failed to enter a school at the next level, and consequently is studying outside of the school system for entrance in a future year....
.

With the help of his brother Yasutaka, he created his first manga works. Though aiming to be a mangaka

Mangaka

is the Japanese language word for a comic book creator or cartoonist. Outside of Japan, manga usually refers to a Japanese comic book and mangaka refers to the author of the manga, who is usually Japanese person....
, publishers continually returned his works, mainly because of his mother, who was opposed to his manga career. It is said that, when the young Go submitted his tables to publishers, his mother secretly convinced the publishers to reject them.

However, his work was noticed by Shonen Sunday, which made contact with Shotaro Ishinomori

Shotaro Ishinomori

was an influential figure in manga, anime and tokusatsu who created several immensely popular long-running series such as Cyborg 009 and the Kamen Rider Series....
. Thanks to some kind of trial manga that he created with the help of his brother Yasutaka, he was finally accepted in the studio of Shotaro Ishinomori in 1965.

This manga was about a Sci-Fi Ninja

Ninja

In history of Japan, a is a warrior specially trained in a variety of unorthodox arts of war. These include assassination, espionage, and various martial arts....
, a prototype for what would later be a different story called Kuro no Shishi. Nagai was 19 years old when he originally made this work, starting with 15 or 16 pages and after a year, it ended up being 88 pages long. At that time it had no title.

Shotaro Ishinomori saw this work and praised Nagai for it, but commented that the design was too chunky and should improve it a little. Two or three days later, Nagai was invited to become an assistant with Shotaro Ishinomori and this work was forgotten until 2007, when it was published for the first time, in the magazine Comic Ran TWINS Sengoku Busho Retsuden (????? TWINS ??????) by LEED, under the name Satsujinsha (???(??????)).

His professional career began in 1967, despite the opposition of his mother.

First works

After working as assistant of Shotaro Ishinomori, his very first professional manga work was Meakashi Polikichi (?????? also ???????), a very short gag comedy oneshot, published in November 1967 in the magazine Bokura by Kodansha

Kodansha

is the largest Japanese publisher, headquartered in Bunkyo, Tokyo, Tokyo. Kodansha publishes manga magazines Nakayoshi, Afternoon , Weekly Shonen Magazine, as well as more literary magazines such as Gunzo, Weekly Gendai, and the Japanese dictionary Nihongo Daijiten....
. Almost at the same time, this was followed by the manga adaptation of Tomio Sagisu's TV anime Chibikko Kaiju Yadamon
Chibikko Kaiju Yadamon

is a Japanese anime created by Ushio Souji, an alias of Tomio Sagisu. Yadamon is also famous for its manga adaptation, which was the second professional work of mangaka Go Nagai....
(??????????, Little Monster Yadamon), also published in 1967 in the same magazine. A common misconception is that Kuro No Shishi (Black Lion) was his first manga work; while not entirely false, what Nagai really made two years earlier than Meakashi Polikichi, was only a draft for what would later be Kuro no Shishi, which would not be actually published until 1978.

His first works consisted entirely of short gag comedy manga. This would change with Harenchi Gakuen
Harenchi Gakuen

is a Japanese media franchise created by Go Nagai. Harenchi Gakuen was one of the manga serialized in the very first issue of Shueisha's manga magazine Shonen Jump....
.

First success and controversies

In less than a year after debuting, he met with a big success. After being an unknown mangaka, he became a protagonist of televised debates and journalistic investigations.

In 1968, while Shueisha

Shueisha

is a major publisher in Japan, headquartered in Tokyo. The company was founded in 1925 as the entertainment-related publishing division of Japanese publisher Shogakukan....
was getting prepared to launch its first manga publication, Shonen Jump, in order to compete with other magazines from rival companies (like Shonen Magazine from Kodansha

Kodansha

Shogakukan

is a Japanese publisher of Japanese dictionaries, literature, manga, non-fiction, DVDs, and other media in Japan.Shogakukan founded Shueisha which founded Hakusensha....
), Nagai was invited to be one of the first mangakas publishing in the new magazine. He contemplated this, since he had to design a long running series instead of the autoconclusive short stories that he had been developing until that point.. He accepted and the series became a big success, being the first for Nagai and making Shonen Jump sell more than one million copies. With Harenchi Gakuen, Nagai was the first to introduce eroticism in modern manga and became the creator of modern erotic manga,

opened the door to a new era in Manga and also became the symbol of an entire generation. This work has influenced Japanese society radically, completely changing the common perceptions of manga.

Until Harenchi Gakuen, Japanese manga had been relatively tame affairs, but things soon changed. The manga became so popular that several live-action films and TV series based on the manga were developed. Harenchi Gakuen is considered as probably the work that has had the most influence in the world of manga at the end of the 1960s, leading the newly born Shonen Jump magazine to sell millions of copies per week.

A scandalous manga in its time, it is a very innocent series by today's standards. But at the time of his original publication, it met with severe criticism by some parts of the Japanese society. Harenchi Gakuen was criticized as vulgar because it introduced overt eroticism to children. Male students and teachers were depicted as being preoccupied with catching glimpses of girls' panties or naked bodies. Many parents, women's associations, and PTAs

Parent-Teacher Association

In the United States parent-teacher associations and parent-teacher organizations exist as the outlet for parent participation at most public and private K-8 schools....
protested.

In particular, the PTA protests over Harenchi Gakuen were notorious. Nagai was bombarded with interview requests from newspapers, magazines and TV. Whenever he flew outside of Tokyo, TV cameras were waiting for him. He was branded a "nuisance" and even an "enemy of society". He, however, had a clear sense of what things he could or could not do with the manga.

At first, Nagai didn't think that the opposition was against him, since he always knew when to draw the line and was aware of the standards that applied with movies and similar things for an audience below 18 years old. At that time, he never drew sex scenes, avoided pictures of genitals and made nudes cute rather than sexy. His fans supported him throughout the PTA protests. They sent him letters where they expressed how they were aware that the adults cracking down on them were reading much raunchier stuff than what Nagai was producing.

The protests were not only against the manga, but also against the TV series. The PTA even managed to prevent the distribution of the magazine in some parts of Japan. As a result of the protests, when the series was about to be cancelled because of the PTA. Nagai changed the theme in Harenchi Gakuen into a more mature and serious matter. From nonsense gags with sexy touchs, to a full scale war where murder was depicted in the bloody way for which many know him. This lead to the famous ending of Harenchi Gakuen, symbol of freedom and of rejection of the hypocrisy, where all students & teachers, while defending their freedom of expression, are killed by the PTA and other parental forces. This was the ironic answer that Nagai gave to the PTA. It wasn't the true ending of Harenchi Gakuen, as it would return to be published for several years.

It was also around this time that he created Gakuen Taikutsu Otoko (???????), also known as Guerrilla High, another school-themed manga, but this time war between youths and adults was the main theme. A little before that, in 1969,Abashiri Ikka
The Abashiri Family

is a manga series by Go Nagai that ran in Shonen Champion. After the series' four-year run, some of its characters returned with different names as part of the shorter-lived Cutie Honey series and its successors....
was created. Both titles are a direct result of the PTA protests, being both a form of parody of what happened. Abashiri Ikka became a big success, and along with Harenchi Gakuen, the most popular series of Nagai's juvenile period.

Dynamic Productions

Thanks to the success of Harenchi Gakuen, Dynamic Productions (?????????????, also known as Dynamic Production or Dynamic Pro, ????????), was founded by Go Nagai with his brothers in April, 1969. Meant to be a group to help him with his works, as a consequence of what happened with Harenchi Gakuen, where he received almost no royalties derived from the TV series, films and gadgets related, Dynamic Productions became a company established to manage Nagai's relations and contractual rights of his work. Dynamic became one of the first companies to require publishers the edition of contracts (even today many manga are designed and published only on the basis of verbal agreements). It would start as a yugen kaisha

Yugen kaisha

A yugen gaisha or yugen kaisha is a form of business organization in Japan.Yugen gaisha are based on the Germany GmbH and were implemented in Japan in the Limited Company Act of 1940....
(limited company) and would change to a kabushiki kaisha

Kabushiki kaisha

are a type of business defined under Japanese law....
(stock company) in 1970.

The same year of the foundation of Dynamic Pro, Ken Ishikawa joined the company. He would become Nagai's second assistant after Mitsuru Hiruta, who had been working with Nagai since the beginnings of Harenchi Gakuen.. He would become one of Nagai's regular partners and his best friend. Ken Ishikawa participated as assistant in Harenchi Gakuen, Abashiri Ikka and Gakuen Taikutsu Otoko, particularly in the last one. In parallel with those activities as assistant, he co-produces with Go Nagai what would be in fact his professional debut in manga, Gakuen Bangaichi (1969-09-08 ~ 1970-09-22), and also his second manga, Sasurai Gakuto (1970-01 ~ 1970-05). He temporary quit Dynamic Productions in 1970. This prompted Nagai to end Gakuen Taikutsu Otoko and the story of this series would be left inconclusive.

Change in genres

Even with the changes in Harenchi Gakuen and other series, Nagai remained writing mostly gag comedies, varying only in the thematic. With the success of Harenchi Gakuen and Abashiri Ikka, most editors expected this kind of story from Nagai. This would start to change in 1970, with the oneshot Oni -2889 Nen no Hanran-, which tells a sci-fi story set in the year 2889 about a war between the race of Onis (who in this story are treated as a lower class) and the human beings. After this, in 1971 came the horror oneshot Susumu-chan Dai Shock about a violent collapse of the parent-child relationships. A series of horror oneshots would follow, in the series called Gensou Kyofu e Hanashi, which comprehends Africa no Chi (an original story of Yasutaka Tsutsui

Yasutaka Tsutsui

Yasutaka Tsutsui is a Japanese people novelist, science fiction author, and actor born in Osaka. Along with Shinichi Hoshi and Sakyo Komatsu, he is one of the most famous science fiction writers in Japan....
), Schalken Gahaku (based in the famous story Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu) and Kuzureru. A little before that, Nagai would be given the chance to write a full serial

Serial (literature)

The term "serial" refers to the intrinsic property of a succession — namely, its sequence. In literature, the term is used as a noun to refer to a format by which a story is told in contiguous installments in sequential issues of a single periodical publication....
of a sci-fi horror story called Mao Dante, which would in turn mark the beginning of his most famous horror work, Devilman.

Style and works

In his series Harenchi Gakuen
Harenchi Gakuen

is a Japanese media franchise created by Go Nagai. Harenchi Gakuen was one of the manga serialized in the very first issue of Shueisha's manga magazine Shonen Jump....
(??????, Shameless School, 1968–1972, Shonen Jump
Shonen Jump

Shonen Jump or Shonen Jump may refer to:*Weekly Shonen Jump, a Japanese manga anthology magazine published by Shueisha since 1968*Monthly Shonen Jump, a sister publication of Weekly Shonen Jump, published since 1970...
magazine) Nagai used eroticism and extreme, graphic violence in kid's manga for the first time in Japan, thus breaking taboo

Taboo

A taboo is a strong social prohibition against words, objects, actions, or discussions that are considered undesirable or offensive by a group, culture, society, or community....
s and becoming quite controversial. His use of violence and gross humour was widely loathed in many corners of Japan's society and became a concern for many PTAs

Parent-Teacher Association

In the United States parent-teacher associations and parent-teacher organizations exist as the outlet for parent participation at most public and private K-8 schools....
at the time. The series temporary ended dramatically when all the characters died during a massacre. This type of content would be a trend in most of Nagai's later work and in those of other directors such as Yoshiyuki Tomino

Yoshiyuki Tomino

is a Japanese people anime creator, director, screenwriter and novelist. He was born in Odawara, Kanagawa Prefecture, and studied at Nihon University's College of Art....
. A Harenchi Gakuen live-action tv series followed in the early 1970s, as well as several other live-action movies and an OVA

Original video animation

, abbreviated , is a term originating from Japanese animation for animation films and series which are made specially to be released on home video formats....
version (Heisei Harenchi Gakuen, or "Modern-Day Shameless School") in the mid-1990s.

In 1970, Go Nagai started a company, Dynamic Productions, to fund his manga

Manga

, , are comics and print cartoons , in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 20th century. In their modern form, manga date from shortly after World War II, but they have a long, complex pre-history in earlier Japanese art....
and anime

Anime

is animation in Japan and considered to be "Japanese animation" in the rest of the world. Anime dates from about 1917.Anime, in addition to manga , is extremely popular in Japan and well known throughout the world....
ventures. Dynamic Productions' first titles were Getter Robo
Getter Robo

is a Super Robot manga series created by Go Nagai and Ken Ishikawa, as well as an anime series produced by Toei Animation. The series was broadcast on Fuji TV from April 4 1974 to May 8 1975, with a total of 51 episodes....
and Abashiri Ikka (??????, Abashiri Family).

After Harenchi Gakuen Nagai created the Mazinger Z
Mazinger Z

, known as Tranzor Z in North America, is a Super Robot manga and anime series created by Go Nagai. The first manga version was serialized in Shueisha Shonen Jump from October 1972 to August 1973, and it later continued in Kodansha TV Magazine from October 1973 to September 1974....
(?????Z) series, later expanded into Great Mazinger
Great Mazinger

is a manga comic book and anime television series by manga artist Go Nagai, made as a direct continuation of the successful Mazinger Z series. It was aired on Japan in 1974, immediately following the end of the first Mazinger series....
, Grendizer
Grendizer

, was a super robot show, created by manga artist Go Nagai, on Japanese television programs in 1975 that lasted for 74 episodes. The robot's first appearance in United States was as part of Jim Terry's Force Five series, under the title Grandizer....
, and - many years later - Mazinkaiser
Mazinkaiser

is an anime OVA series, inspired by Go Nagai's Mazinger series. The OVA follows Kouji Kabuto, Tetsuya Tsurugi and the rest of the "Mazinger Team" as they fight against Dr....
, where he developed the concept of giant mecha

Mecha

Mecha, also known as meka or mechs, are walking vehicles controlled by a pilot, often appearing in science fiction or other genres involving a fantastic or futuristic element....
. Mazinger was the first manga where a giant robot was piloted by the hero, thus creating one of the biggest staples of the industry. Mazinger is considered the first successful "Super Robot

Super Robot

is a term used in manga and anime to describe a giant robot or mecha, with an arsenal of fantastic super-powered weapons, are extremely resistant to damage unless the plot calls for it, sometimes transformable or combined from two or more robots and/or vehicles usually piloted by young, daring heroes, and often shrouded by mystical or legendary or...
" anime show, and has spanned numerous imitations.

Simultaneously to Mazinger, he created one of his most popular manga, Debiruman (?????, Devilman
Devilman

is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Go Nagai which originally started as an anime adaptation of the concept of Nagai's previous manga series, Mao Dante....
), about a demonic hero fighting against hordes of demons. Nagai also turned Devilman into a series which was less violent and gritty than the manga. Years later Nagai revamped this popular series by introducing the main character as a female and altering the storyline. This series is called Devilman Lady (?????????, Devil Lady
Devil Lady

is an anime and manga about a woman named Jun Fudo. She lives in a city terrorized with beastlike humans and is secretly recruited to rid the city of them....
in the US

United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
). It was first released as a manga and then later as an anime. Nagai has suggested that he had originally planned Devil Lady to be the entire opposite of Devilman, in that the monsters are created by science instead of magic, the hero is a woman instead of a man, and the ending would be positive, as opposed to Devilman's negative ending. However, Devilman was not as well-received overseas as Mazinger, and he chose to create a depressive ending for Devilman Lady to express his frustration. Go Nagai considers the Devilman series, as well as the Mazinger series, as being his life's work due to their massive popularity all over the world. In 1972, Nagai managed to have 5 weekly manga publications at the same time, drawing and writing. This hasn't been achieved by other mangakas with the exception of Shinji Mizushima

Shinji Mizushima

is a Japanese people mangaka. He is best-known as an author of baseball manga, such as Yakyu-kyo no Uta, Dokaben, and Abu-san. He is a two-time recipient of the Shogakukan Manga Award....
and George Akiyama

George Akiyama

, is a Japanese people mangaka known for dealing with controversial and incendiary topics in many of his works....
.

Another long-running series, Violence Jack
Violence Jack

is a manga created by mangaka Go Nagai in the 1970s that was adapted into a three episode Original Video Animation series, produced between 1986 and 1990....
(??????? ????) spanned multiple volumes and dealt with a giant brute of a man fighting evil warlords in a post-apocalyptic

Apocalypse

Apocalypse is a term applied to the disclosure to certain privileged persons of something hidden from the majority of humankind. Today the term is often used to refer to the Doomsday event, which may be a shortening of the phrase apokalupsis eschaton which literally means "revelation at the end of the ?on, or age"....
setting where Japan has been devastated by a massive earthquake and isolated from the rest of the world.

One of Nagai's most popular works outside of his fanbase has been Cutey Honey, considered to be one of the first "magical girl

Magical girl

belong to a sub-genre of Japanese fantasy anime and manga. Magical girl stories feature young girls with superhuman abilities, forced to fight evil and protect the Earth....
" comics and a major influence on future series in the genre (in particular Sailor Moon
Sailor Moon

is the title of a Japanese media franchise created by Naoko Takeuchi. It is generally credited with popularizing the concept of a sentai of magical girls, as well as "revitalizing" the magical girl genre itself....
). Nagai had less success a few years later with Majokko Tickle
Majokko Tickle

, also known as Magical Girl Tickle or Magical Girl Chickle, is a 1970s magical girl manga and anime by Go Nagai. Unlike Nagai's earlier Cutie Honey, Majokko Tickle is closer to the more traditional mold of magical girl anime such as Mahoutsukai Sally, and is probably more suitable for young children than most of Nagai's other...
, a more traditional magical-girl series for younger children, although the accompanying anime was popular on TV in some Europe

Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
an countries.

In 1980, he received the 4th Kodansha Manga Award

Kodansha Manga Award

is an annual award for Serial manga published in the previous year, sponsored by the publisher Kodansha. It is currently awarded in four categories: Kodomo's, shonen, shojo, and general....
for shonen

Shonen

is a genre of manga with a demographic of young boys generally between the ages of about 10 and 18. Examples include Dragon Ball , Naruto, Bleach , Case Closed, One Piece, Rurouni Kenshin, InuYasha, Death Note, Yu Yu Hakusho, and Yu-Gi-Oh....
for Susano OH
Susano OH (manga)

also Romanization as Susanoo, Suna no Ou, Susa-no-O and several other variations, is a Japanese manga created by Go Nagai....
.

Nagai has worked with Shotaro Ishinomori and Ken Ishikawa

Ken Ishikawa

was a Japanese people mangaka. He is renowned as the co-creator, with Go Nagai, of the Getter Robo anime series, as well as four of their subsequent manga continuations....
. He is currently being more prolific in manga production than ever. Much of Nagai's work has been adapted into anime

Anime

Tokusatsu

is a Japanese language word that literally means "special effects." It is primarily used to refer to live-action Japanese film and Japanese television drama that generally feature superheroes and make considerable use of special effects....
. Nagai has made cameo appearances in some of his live-action adaptations of his work, including The Toxic Avenger Part II
The Toxic Avenger Part II

The Toxic Avenger Part II is a 1989 in film film released by Troma Entertainment. It was directed by Lloyd Kaufman and features The Toxic Avenger in an adventure to Japan to meet his father....
, the Cutie Honey
Cutie Honey (film)

is a 2004 tokusatsu film adaptation, produced by Gainax, of the 1970s manga and anime series Cutie Honey.The film stars popular Japanese model Eriko Sato as the hyperactive Honey....
2004 live action film, and in a special DVD-only episode of Cutie Honey The Live
Cutie Honey The Live

is a Japanese tokusatsu production of the popular Cutie Honey manga and anime series chief directed by Makoto Yokoyama. It began airing on TV Tokyo on October 2, 2007....
as Dr. Koshiro Kisaragi.

Anime titles created or based in the works of Go Nagai

Devilman
Devilman

is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Go Nagai which originally started as an anime adaptation of the concept of Nagai's previous manga series, Mao Dante....
(TV series, 1972-07)
Mazinger Z
Mazinger Z

, known as Tranzor Z in North America, is a Super Robot manga and anime series created by Go Nagai. The first manga version was serialized in Shueisha Shonen Jump from October 1972 to August 1973, and it later continued in Kodansha TV Magazine from October 1973 to September 1974....
(?????Z)(TV series, 1972-12) - aired on U.S. television in the 1980s under the title TranZor Z
Mazinger Z tai Devilman
Mazinger Z Vs. Devilman

?Mazinger Z vs. Devilman? was a 1973 animated movie that crossed over two then-popular Anime series, both of which were created by Manga artist Go Nagai....
(?????Z??????)(Movie, 1973-07)
Cutey Honey (?????????, Cutie Honey)(TV series, 1973-10)
Dororon Enma-kun
Dororon Enma-kun

, also known as Satanikus!, is a Japanese horror-comedy anime and manga series created by Go Nagai. It's one of Nagai's most famous works in Japan, although not very well known in the rest of the world....
(?????????)(TV series, 1973-10)
Mazinger Z tai Dr. Hell (?????Z???????)(Movie, 1974-03)
Getter Robo
Getter Robo

is a Super Robot manga series created by Go Nagai and Ken Ishikawa, as well as an anime series produced by Toei Animation. The series was broadcast on Fuji TV from April 4 1974 to May 8 1975, with a total of 51 episodes....
(TV series, 1974-04)
Mazinger Z tai Ankoku Daishougun
Mazinger Z Vs. The Great General of Darkness

is a Japanese animated film from 1974 that served as an alternative link between the Mazinger Z series and the Great Mazinger series. It basically introduces Great Mazinger to the audience, as well as his enemies from the Mikene Empire, showing the defeat of Mazinger Z....
(?????Z??????)(Movie, 1974-07)
Great Mazinger
Great Mazinger

is a manga comic book and anime television series by manga artist Go Nagai, made as a direct continuation of the successful Mazinger Z series. It was aired on Japan in 1974, immediately following the end of the first Mazinger series....
(?????????)(TV series, 1974-09)
Great Mazinger tai Getter Robo (????????????????)(Movie, 1975-03)
Getter Robo G
Getter Robo

is a Super Robot manga series created by Go Nagai and Ken Ishikawa, as well as an anime series produced by Toei Animation. The series was broadcast on Fuji TV from April 4 1974 to May 8 1975, with a total of 51 episodes....
(?????? G)(TV series, 1975-05)
Great Mazinger tai Getter Robo G: The Great Space Encounter (????????????????G ?????)(Movie, 1975-07)
Uchuu Enban Dai-Sensou
Grendizer

, was a super robot show, created by manga artist Go Nagai, on Japanese television programs in 1975 that lasted for 74 episodes. The robot's first appearance in United States was as part of Jim Terry's Force Five series, under the title Grandizer....
(???????, The Great Battle of the Flying Saucers)(Movie, 1975-07)
Kotetsu Jeeg(TV series, 1975-10)
UFO Robo Grendizer tai Great Mazinger
Grendizer

, was a super robot show, created by manga artist Go Nagai, on Japanese television programs in 1975 that lasted for 74 episodes. The robot's first appearance in United States was as part of Jim Terry's Force Five series, under the title Grandizer....
(UFO?? ?????????????????)(Movie, 1976-03)
Daikyu Maryû Gaiking
Gaiking

was a Super Robot mecha anime series produced by Toei Animation, credited as an original idea by Akio Sugino. However, in reality the original idea was of Go Nagai....
(?????????)(TV series, 1976-04) Nagai had some problems with Toei and was left out of the credits. Eventually Nagai sued Toei and stopped further collaborations for some time. Nagai himself confirmed that he was the creator of the robot in the Comicon 2007 of Naples, Italy.
Grendizer, Getter Robo G, Great Mazinger: Kessen! Daikaijuu! (???????·??????G·????????? ??!???)(Movie, 1976-07)
Gloizer X
Gloizer X

is an anime series aired from 1976 to 1977. There were 36 episodes. It is also referred to as Gloyzer X and "'Groizer X....
(?????X, Groizer X)(TV series, 1976-07)
UFO Robo Grendizer: Akai Yuuhi no Taiketsu
Grendizer

, was a super robot show, created by manga artist Go Nagai, on Japanese television programs in 1975 that lasted for 74 episodes. The robot's first appearance in United States was as part of Jim Terry's Force Five series, under the title Grandizer....
(UFO?? ???????/???????, Grendizer: Confrontation in the Red Setting Sun)(Movie, 1976-12)
Majokko Chikkuru (????????, Magical Girl Chikkle)(TV series, 1978-03)
Psychoarmor Govarian (?????????????)(TV series, 1983-07)
God Mazinger
God Mazinger

, also known as Majin Densetsu , is an anime and manga series created by manga artist Go Nagai. It aired on Japanese TV in 1983 and lasted for 23 episodes....
(????????)(TV series, 1984-04)
Chounouryoku Shoujo Barabanba (??????????)(OVA, 1985-06)
Mujigen Hunter Fandora (??????? ?????, Dream Dimension Hunter Fandora)(OVA, 1985-09)
Violence Jack: Slum King
Violence Jack

is a manga created by mangaka Go Nagai in the 1970s that was adapted into a three episode Original Video Animation series, produced between 1986 and 1990....
(??????·????/?????????, Violence Jack: Harlem Bomber)(OVA, 1986-06)
Devilman: The Birth
Devilman

is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Go Nagai which originally started as an anime adaptation of the concept of Nagai's previous manga series, Mao Dante....
(OVA, 1987-11)
Violence Jack: Evil Town
Violence Jack

is a manga created by mangaka Go Nagai in the 1970s that was adapted into a three episode Original Video Animation series, produced between 1986 and 1990....
(??????????/????, Violence Jack: Jigoku Gai)(OVA, 1988-12)
Jushin Liger
Jushin Liger (anime)

is an anime superhero TV series created by mangaka Go Nagai. Produced by Dynamic Productions and Sunrise , the series was broadcast on Nagoya Broadcasting Network from March 11, 1989 to January 27, 1990, for a total of 43 episodes....
(??????, Beast-God Riger)(TV series, 1989-03)
Shutendoji
Shutendoji (manga)

, also written Shutendouji or Shuten Doji and also known as Legend of Shutendoji, is a Japanese manga series created by Go Nagai....
(????, Shuten Douji)(OVA, 1989-12)
Devilman: The Demon Bird
Devilman

is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Go Nagai which originally started as an anime adaptation of the concept of Nagai's previous manga series, Mao Dante....
(OVA, 1990-02)
Violence Jack: Hell`s Wind
Violence Jack

is a manga created by mangaka Go Nagai in the 1970s that was adapted into a three episode Original Video Animation series, produced between 1986 and 1990....
(??????????/????????, Violence Jack: Hell's Wind hen)(OVA, 1990-11)
CB Chara Nagai Go World (CB??????????)(OVA, 1991-02)
Getter Robo Go
Getter Robo

is a Super Robot manga series created by Go Nagai and Ken Ishikawa, as well as an anime series produced by Toei Animation. The series was broadcast on Fuji TV from April 4 1974 to May 8 1975, with a total of 51 episodes....
(???????)(TV series, 1991-02)
Abashiri Family (??????, Abashiri Ikka)(OVA, 1991-05)
Kekko Kamen
Kekko Kamen

is originally a shonen manga series from Japanese people creator Go Nagai, which spawned an OVA series and several live-action films. The manga series is about the misadventures of a student named Mayumi Takahashi who attends a boarding school called Toenail of Satan's Spartan Institute of Higher Education that is run by sexual...
(OVA, 1991-08)
Anime V Comic Rentaman(OVA, 1991)
Kyukioku no Sex Adventure Kamasutra
Kama Sutra (anime)

is originally a four Tankobon manga created by Go Nagai and Kunio Nagatani published by Tokuma Shoten in 1990-03-31, 1990-06-30, 1990-09-30 and 1990-11-30....
(???SEX??????? ???????)(1992-04)
Iron Virgin Jun
Iron Virgin Jun

Iron Virgin Jun, also is a Japanese manga and OVA series created by Go Nagai. The OVA series was also released in the US. While the manga has many erotic situations and it's fairly close to a Hentai manga, the anime drops most of them to become more accessible for a broader audience....
(????JUN, Tetsu no Shojo JUN)(OVA, 1992-07)
Oira Sukeban
Oira Sukeban

, sometimes called Sukeban Boy, is a Japanese manga created by Go Nagai in 1974. It is a comedy with several erotic touches, where the protagonist Banji Suke has to disguise himself as a girl in order to be able to attend an all-female school....
(?????(????), Sukeban Boy, Delinquent in Drag)(OVA, 1992-08)
Hanappe Bazooka
Hanappe Bazooka

is a Japanese manga series created by Kazuo Koike and Go Nagai. It was originally published in Shueisha's Weekly Young Jump from 1979-06-07 to the issue of 1982-01-07/14....
(OVA, 1992-09)
Black Lion (????, Kuro no Shishi)(OVA, 1992-11)
New Cutey Honey
New Cutie Honey

is a 1994 Japanese anime series in the Cutie Honey media franchise created by Go Nagai. Set one hundred years after the original 1973 Cutie Honey anime, New Cutie Honey follows the protagonist Honey Kisaragi, along with her friends from the Hayami family, as she fights criminals in the fictional Cosplay City....
(?·?????????, Shin Cutey Honey)(OVA, 1994-04)
Heisei Harenchi Gakuen (????????)(OVA, 1996-03)
Harenchi Koumon Manyuuki (??????????)(OVA, 1996-05)
Cutey Honey F
Cutie Honey Flash

is a 1997 shojo anime television series in the Cutie Honey franchise. In its native Japan, the series assumed the timeslot of Sailor Stars, the final story arc of the long-running Sailor Moon anime....
(?????????F(?????))(TV series, 1997-02)
Cutey Honey F
Cutie Honey Flash

is a 1997 shojo anime television series in the Cutie Honey franchise. In its native Japan, the series assumed the timeslot of Sailor Stars, the final story arc of the long-running Sailor Moon anime....
(?????????F(?????))(Movie, 1997-07)
Shin Getter Robo: Sekai Saigo no Hi
Getter Robo

is a Super Robot manga series created by Go Nagai and Ken Ishikawa, as well as an anime series produced by Toei Animation. The series was broadcast on Fuji TV from April 4 1974 to May 8 1975, with a total of 51 episodes....
(???????????????, Getter Robo: Armageddon))(OVA, 1998-08)
Devilman Lady
Devil Lady

is an anime and manga about a woman named Jun Fudo. She lives in a city terrorized with beastlike humans and is secretly recruited to rid the city of them....
(?????????)(TV series, 1998-10)
Amon: The Apocalypse of Devilman (????????)(OVA, 2000-05)
Shin Getter Robo Tai Neo Getter Robo (????????????????)(OVA, 2000-12)
Mazinkaiser
Mazinkaiser

is an anime OVA series, inspired by Go Nagai's Mazinger series. The OVA follows Kouji Kabuto, Tetsuya Tsurugi and the rest of the "Mazinger Team" as they fight against Dr....
(???????)(OVA, 2001-09)
Demon Lord Dante
Demon Lord Dante

is the title of several Horror fiction-themed manga series written by Go Nagai as well as an anime series.During 1971, Go Nagai wrote the original Demon Lord Dante manga, which was published in Kodansha's Bokura Magazine....
(?????, Mao Dante)(TV series, 2002-08)
Mazinkaiser: Death! The Great General of Darkness
Mazinkaiser

is an anime OVA series, inspired by Go Nagai's Mazinger series. The OVA follows Kouji Kabuto, Tetsuya Tsurugi and the rest of the "Mazinger Team" as they fight against Dr....
(??????? ??!?????, Mazinkaiser: Shitou! Ankoku Daishogun)(OVA, 2003-07)
New Getter Robo
New Getter Robo

is an anime original video animation co-produced by Dynamic Planning and Bandai Visual. The series is a re-imagining of the 1970s manga Getter Robo, created by Go Nagai and Ken Ishikawa, that incorporates aspects of Japanese mythology like the Oni and Abe no Seimei....
(???????, Shin Getter Robo)(OVA, 2004-04)
Panda-Z - The Robonimation (??????? THE ROBONIMATION)(TV series, 2004-04)
Re: Cutie Honey
Re: Cutie Honey

Re: Cutie Honey is a three-episode Original video animation series based on the 2004 tokusatsu film Cutie Honey . The series was co-produced with Gainax and Toei Animation, Film director by Hideaki Anno, and shown on the Animax Satellite television in 2004....
(Re:?????????)(OVA, 2004-07)
Gaiking: Legend of Daiku Maryu
Gaiking

was a Super Robot mecha anime series produced by Toei Animation, credited as an original idea by Akio Sugino. However, in reality the original idea was of Go Nagai....
(TV series, 2005-11)
Demon Prince Enma
Demon Prince Enma

is a Japanese horror anime and manga series created by Go Nagai. It's a sequel/remake of Dororon Enma-kun. The manga version of Kikoushi Enma would get a sequel called Satanikus ENMA Kerberos by Eiji Karasuyama in 2007....
(?????, Kikoushi Enma)(OVA, 2006-08)
Kotetsushin Jeeg
Kotetsushin Jeeg

is a Japanese anime television series and sequel to the 1975 Super Robot series Steel Jeeg, created by Go Nagai. It is directed by Jun Kawagoe . The show began airing on the satellite network WOWOW on April 5, 2007 at 11:30 p.m....
(??????, Steel God Jeeg)(TV series, 2007-04)

Tokusatsu
Tokusatsu

is a Japanese language word that literally means "special effects." It is primarily used to refer to live-action Japanese film and Japanese television drama that generally feature superheroes and make considerable use of special effects....
/Live action
Live action

In film, theatre and video, live-action refers to works that are acted out by human actors, as opposed to by animation. As it is the norm, the term is usually superfluous, but it makes an important distinction in situations in which one might normally expect animation, as in a Pixar film, a video game or when the work is adapted from an anim...
created or based in the works of Go Nagai

Harenchi Gakuen
Harenchi Gakuen

is a Japanese media franchise created by Go Nagai. Harenchi Gakuen was one of the manga serialized in the very first issue of Shueisha's manga magazine Shonen Jump....
(Movie, 1970-05-02)
Harenchi Gakuen: Shintai Kensa no Maki
Harenchi Gakuen

is a Japanese media franchise created by Go Nagai. Harenchi Gakuen was one of the manga serialized in the very first issue of Shueisha's manga magazine Shonen Jump....
(?????? ??????)(Movie, 1970-08-01)
Harenchi Gakuen: Tackle Kiss no Maki
Harenchi Gakuen

is a Japanese media franchise created by Go Nagai. Harenchi Gakuen was one of the manga serialized in the very first issue of Shueisha's manga magazine Shonen Jump....
(?????? ????·?????)(Movie, 1970-09-12)
Harenchi Gakuen
Harenchi Gakuen

is a Japanese media franchise created by Go Nagai. Harenchi Gakuen was one of the manga serialized in the very first issue of Shueisha's manga magazine Shonen Jump....
(TV series, 1970-10-01)
Shin Harenchi Gakuen
Harenchi Gakuen

is a Japanese media franchise created by Go Nagai. Harenchi Gakuen was one of the manga serialized in the very first issue of Shueisha's manga magazine Shonen Jump....
(???????)(Movie, 1971-01-03)
Battle Hawk
Battle Hawk

is a Japanese tokusatsu television series created by Go Nagai and Ken Ishikawa. It was originally aired on Mondays, from 19:30 to 20:00 in TV Tokyo. A manga series was also created, featuring a different story and serialized in the magazine Boken Oh ....
(TV series, 1976-10-04)
Pro-Wres no Hoshi Aztecaser
Pro-Wres no Hoshi Aztecaser

is a Japanese pro-wrestling-themed tokusatsu/anime superhero television series produced by Tsuburaya Productions, and created by Go Nagai and Ken Ishikawa....
(?????? ???????)(TV series, 1976-10-07)
X Bomber
X Bomber

is a marionette tokusatsu TV series. Created by manga master Go Nagai, the show, produced by Cosmo Productions and Jin Productions, aired on Fuji TV from October 4 1980 to March 28, 1981, with a total of 26 episodes, including the pre-series pilot episode....
(X????, ???????????????, Super Space Machine X Bomber, Star Fleet)[TV series, 1980-10-04)
Nagai Go no Kowai Zone: Kaiki
Nagai Go no Kowai Zone: Kaiki

is a Cinema of Japan direct-to-video Horror film released in 1989 in film by the Bandai Media Division . It was the first film co-directed by mangaka Go Nagai along with Hikari Hayakawa....
(?????????? ??)(Movie, 1989-08-25)
Nagai Go no Kowai Zone 2: Senki
Nagai Go no Kowai Zone 2: Senki

is a Cinema of Japan direct-to-video Horror film released in 1990 in film by the Bandai Media Division . It's the sequel of the film Nagai Go no Kowai Zone: Kaiki and just like the first film, it was also directed Go Nagai and Hikari Hayakawa....
(??????????2 ??)(Movie, 1990-08-24)
The Ninja Dragon
The Ninja Dragon

, better known for its international title as The Ninja Dragon , is a Cinema of Japan direct-to-video action film released in 1990 in film by the Tohokushinsha Film Corporation....
(??????? ???????, Kuso Kagaku Ninkyoden: Gokudo Ninja Dosuryu)(Movie, 1990-10-25)
Kekko Kamen
Kekko Kamen

is originally a shonen manga series from Japanese people creator Go Nagai, which spawned an OVA series and several live-action films. The manga series is about the misadventures of a student named Mayumi Takahashi who attends a boarding school called Toenail of Satan's Spartan Institute of Higher Education that is run by sexual...
(Movie, 1991-03-22)
Bishojo Tantei Maboroshi Panty
Maboroshi Panty

is a Japanese manga created by Hiroshi Koenji and Go Nagai. The manga was originally serialized in the magazine Monthly Shonen Jump by Shueisha. It is a parody of Maboroshi Tantei, just like Kekko Kamen is a parody of Gekko Kamen....
(????? ????????)(Movie, 1991-11-25)
Kekko Kamen 2: We'll be back...
Kekko Kamen

is originally a shonen manga series from Japanese people creator Go Nagai, which spawned an OVA series and several live-action films. The manga series is about the misadventures of a student named Mayumi Takahashi who attends a boarding school called Toenail of Satan's Spartan Institute of Higher Education that is run by sexual...
(??????2, ??????2 We’ll be back···)(Movie, 1992-03-27)
Nagai Go no Horror Gekijo: Mannequin
Nagai Go no Horror Gekijo: Mannequin

is a Cinema of Japan direct-to-video Horror film released in 1992 in film by the Taki Corporation, based in an original story by Go Nagai. Nagai appears as part of the regular cast, alongside AV idol Sakurako Akino and Anna Takamisawa, nude model Ai Komori and Gravure idol Aki Kajiwara...
(????????? ????)(Movie, 1992-04-24)
Oira Sukeban: Kessen! Pansuto
Oira Sukeban

, sometimes called Sukeban Boy, is a Japanese manga created by Go Nagai in 1974. It is a comedy with several erotic touches, where the protagonist Banji Suke has to disguise himself as a girl in order to be able to attend an all-female school....
(????? ??!????)(Movie, 1992-07-24)
Nagai Go no Horror Gekijo: Kirikagami
Nagai Go no Horror Gekijo: Kirikagami

is a Cinema of Japan direct-to-video Horror film based in an original story by Go Nagai. It is the sequel to Nagai Go no Horror Gekijo: Mannequin, also produced by the Taki Corporation and released in 1992 in film....
(????????? ???)(Movie, 1992-08-28)
Kekko Kamen 3
Kekko Kamen

is originally a shonen manga series from Japanese people creator Go Nagai, which spawned an OVA series and several live-action films. The manga series is about the misadventures of a student named Mayumi Takahashi who attends a boarding school called Toenail of Satan's Spartan Institute of Higher Education that is run by sexual...
(??????3)(Movie, 1993-04-23)
Jushin Thunder Liger: Fist of Thunder
Jushin Thunder Liger: Fist of Thunder

is a 1995 V-Cinema tokusatsu wrestling/superhero/horror film movie. Produced by Bandai, this film is a showcase for the popular wrestler Jushin Liger, who was based upon the anime series Jushin Liger created by Go Nagai, who supervised this film's production....
(?????????? ????? FIST OF THUNDER)(Movie, 1995-02-21)
Heisei Harenchi Gakuen
Harenchi Gakuen

is a Japanese media franchise created by Go Nagai. Harenchi Gakuen was one of the manga serialized in the very first issue of Shueisha's manga magazine Shonen Jump....
(????????)(Movie, 1996-02-02)
Kyuketsu Onsen e Yokoso
Kyuketsu Onsen e Yokoso

alternatively known as is a Cinema of Japan direct-to-video Horror film-erotic film released in 1997 in film by the Japanese studio known as Museum....
(?????????)(Movie, 1997-04-21)
Lovely Angel: Homon Soap Degozaimasu
Lovely Angel

is an erotic seinen manga series created by mangaka Go Nagai in 1996. The manga originally ran from 1996-01-04 to 1997-04-10 in the magazine Weekly Hoseki, published by Kobunsha....
(????·????? ???????????)(Movie, 1997-09-26)
Lovely Angel 2: Taiketsu! Homon Soap Jo vs Shuccho SM Jo!!
Lovely Angel

is an erotic seinen manga series created by mangaka Go Nagai in 1996. The manga originally ran from 1996-01-04 to 1997-04-10 in the magazine Weekly Hoseki, published by Kobunsha....
(????·?????2 ??!??????vs??SM?!!)(Movie, 1997-11-28)
Kekko Kamen
Kekko Kamen

is originally a shonen manga series from Japanese people creator Go Nagai, which spawned an OVA series and several live-action films. The manga series is about the misadventures of a student named Mayumi Takahashi who attends a boarding school called Toenail of Satan's Spartan Institute of Higher Education that is run by sexual...
(??????, Mask of Kekkou)(Movie, 2004-02-06)
Nagai Go World: Maboroshi Panty VS Henchin Pokoider
Nagai Go World: Maboroshi Panty VS Henchin Pokoider

is a Cinema of Japan tokusatsu erotic-comedy film based in some works of mangaka Go Nagai. Directed by Minoru Kawasaki, it was produced and distributed by Total Media Corporation , and released in 2004....
(??????? ????????VS?????????)(Movie, 2004-05-10)
Cutie Honey
Cutie Honey (film)

is a 2004 tokusatsu film adaptation, produced by Gainax, of the 1970s manga and anime series Cutie Honey.The film stars popular Japanese model Eriko Sato as the hyperactive Honey....
(?????????)(Movie, 2004-05-29)
Kekko Kamen: Mangriffon no Gyakushu
Kekko Kamen

is originally a shonen manga series from Japanese people creator Go Nagai, which spawned an OVA series and several live-action films. The manga series is about the misadventures of a student named Mayumi Takahashi who attends a boarding school called Toenail of Satan's Spartan Institute of Higher Education that is run by sexual...
(?????? ??????????, Kekko Kamen: The MGF Strikes Back!)(Movie, 2004-07-23)
Devilman
Devilman

is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Go Nagai which originally started as an anime adaptation of the concept of Nagai's previous manga series, Mao Dante....
(Movie, 2004-10-09)
Kekko Kamen Returns
Kekko Kamen

is originally a shonen manga series from Japanese people creator Go Nagai, which spawned an OVA series and several live-action films. The manga series is about the misadventures of a student named Mayumi Takahashi who attends a boarding school called Toenail of Satan's Spartan Institute of Higher Education that is run by sexual...
(?????? RETURNS)(Movie, 2004-10-31)
Kekko Kamen Surprise!!
Kekko Kamen

is originally a shonen manga series from Japanese people creator Go Nagai, which spawned an OVA series and several live-action films. The manga series is about the misadventures of a student named Mayumi Takahashi who attends a boarding school called Toenail of Satan's Spartan Institute of Higher Education that is run by sexual...
(?????? SURPRISE)(Movie, 2004-10-31)
Kabuto-O Beetle
Kabuto-O Beetle

Kabuto-O Beetle translated as Beetle, the Horn King is a 2005 Japanese film directed by Minoru Kawasaki. It is based in an original story by mangaka Go Nagai....
(Movie, 2005-07-16)
Oira Sukeban
Oira Sukeban

, sometimes called Sukeban Boy, is a Japanese manga created by Go Nagai in 1974. It is a comedy with several erotic touches, where the protagonist Banji Suke has to disguise himself as a girl in order to be able to attend an all-female school....
(Movie, 2006-02-04)
Kekko Kamen Royale
Kekko Kamen

is originally a shonen manga series from Japanese people creator Go Nagai, which spawned an OVA series and several live-action films. The manga series is about the misadventures of a student named Mayumi Takahashi who attends a boarding school called Toenail of Satan's Spartan Institute of Higher Education that is run by sexual...
(?????? ?????)(Movie, 2007-05-25)
Kekko Kamen Premium
Kekko Kamen

is originally a shonen manga series from Japanese people creator Go Nagai, which spawned an OVA series and several live-action films. The manga series is about the misadventures of a student named Mayumi Takahashi who attends a boarding school called Toenail of Satan's Spartan Institute of Higher Education that is run by sexual...
(?????? ?????)(Movie, 2007-06-22)
Kekko Kamen Forever
Kekko Kamen

is originally a shonen manga series from Japanese people creator Go Nagai, which spawned an OVA series and several live-action films. The manga series is about the misadventures of a student named Mayumi Takahashi who attends a boarding school called Toenail of Satan's Spartan Institute of Higher Education that is run by sexual...
(?????? ??????)(Movie, 2007-07-27)
Cutie Honey The Live
Cutie Honey The Live

is a Japanese tokusatsu production of the popular Cutie Honey manga and anime series chief directed by Makoto Yokoyama. It began airing on TV Tokyo on October 2, 2007....
(????????? THE LIVE)(TV series, 2007-10-02)

Additionally, Nagai appears as an actor in the following productions:

The Toxic Avenger Part II
The Toxic Avenger Part II

The Toxic Avenger Part II is a 1989 in film film released by Troma Entertainment. It was directed by Lloyd Kaufman and features The Toxic Avenger in an adventure to Japan to meet his father....
(1989)
Nijisseiki Shonen Dokuhon (1989)
Kekko Kamen 2: We'll be back... (1992)
Nagai Go no Horror Gekijo: Mannequin (1992)
Oira Sukeban: Kessen! Pansuto (1992)
Mirai no Omoide: Last Christmas (1992)
Metropolis (anime)
Metropolis (anime)

is an anime movie released in Japan in 2001 and loosely based on the Metropolis manga created by the late Osamu Tezuka. The movie had an all star production team including renowned anime director Rintaro, Akira creator Katsuhiro Otomo as script writer, and animation by Madhouse with conceptual support from Tezuka Productions....
(2001) Guest voice
Kekko Kamen (2004)
Nagai Go World: Maboroshi Panty VS Henchin Pokoider (2004)
Cutie Honey (2004)
Devilman (2004)
Cutie Honey The Live (2007) episode 26 (DVD-only episode)

External links

(Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of Japan)

(??SF?????) — a Japanese version of the page.

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, with lists and pictures of various Nagai and Nagai-related works, and many notes on them.
, a website with a biography of Go Nagai and a list of almost all of his manga and anime work from 1967 to 2004, as well as other works based on his original ideas.
, the official biography of Go Nagai by D/visual
D/visual

d/visual incorporated It was established in October 2002 by Federico Colpi and Kazuhiko Murata.In 1994 Go Nagai's Dynamic Planning established an Internation Division, and Federico Colpi was the first Director of the division....
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, detalied production information