Eight Man 60th Anniversary Blu-ray

Eight Man, said to be the original super-robot hero of animation's early era, finally receives its long-awaited first Blu-ray release to celebrate sixty years since broadcasting began!

Hachiro Azuma, a skilled detective in the Metropolitan Police Department's First Investigation Division, falls into a trap set by the vicious gun gang Dendenmushi and is run over by a car. Mysterious scientist Dr. Tani takes him to his laboratory and gives him a new life as super-robot Eight Man. The First Investigation Division is organized into seven teams of seven officers. Belonging to none of them, Eight Man fights for justice as its eighth detective. Only Chief Tanaka knows his secret.

All fifty-six episodes are included. The voice cast features Sakae Takayama, Miyuki Ueda, Takayuki Hara, Shiro Amakusa, Kazue Tagami and Hajime Akashi, among others. Specifications may change.

Enclosed are a guide booklet, a reduced-size reproduction of the flexi-disc booklet and a reproduction Eight Man sticker. The flexi-disc itself is not included. This is part three of the joint sixtieth-broadcast-anniversary and Best Field twentieth-anniversary project, Anime Memories Library volume 134. The original series aired on the TBS network from November 7, 1963 to December 24, 1964.

The two region-free Blu-rays present the black-and-white, 4:3 series with original Japanese mono audio and no subtitles. The edition-specific technical listing gives approximately 1,345 minutes; the audio codec is not specified.