Trivia / Gigantor

• Creator Backlash: Imagawa disliked the 2007 movie due to the movie being rushed and seemingly messed up.
• He Also Did: Hayao Miyazaki was involved in the 1980's version, though only in the 8th episode of it (the episode being handled by TMS Entertainment's sister studio Telecom Animation Film).
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: The New Adventures of Gigantor version of 80's Tetsujin hasn't been officially released on home video and can only be accessed via online uploads.
• The Other Darrin:
  • In Super Robot Wars Z3: Jigoku-hen & Tengoku-hen, Kenji Utsumi recorded lines for Hades before his passing, but not Uchuu Maoh, thus Yusaku Yara provides his voice for the latter.
  • This was the same case in Super Robot Wars Z2: Saisei-hen wherein Ikuya Sawaki replaced Osamu Kobayashi as Branch's seiyuu due to Kobayashi's death a year ago before the game was released.
  • Similarly in Super Robot Wars Z3, Mitsuki Saiga took over Keiko Toda's voice role as Gura.
• Late Export for You: Tetsujin 28 FX has finally been licensed by Discotek Media ^note  who also rescued the 80's and 2004 versions and will be released in 2023, 31 years after the show's debut on Nippon TV.
• No Export for You: The original manga, the original Non-Amercanized subtitled version of the 1963 anime ^note  though episodes 1, 2, 84-86 have been fansubbed and 2013's Tetsujin 28-go Gao! haven't received an English release.
• Playing Against Type: The protagonist of FX, Masato Kaneda, is voiced by Yusuke Numata, who usually voices villains or supporting roles, but never voices the main character. This is the only time he did, and it kinda shows in his performance.
• Referenced by...:
  • AKIRA outright named protagonist Shotaro Kaneda after the protagonist of the original manga. Ironically, and likely due to the latter's Dub Name Change to "Jimmy Sparks", more people are familiar with the name from AKIRA rather than Gigantor.
  • Appears in Super Robot Wars Z2 Saisei-hen, based on the 1980's TV Series followed by Super Robot Wars Z3: Jigoku-hen and Tengoku-hen.
  • One of the Bonus scenario of Z3, featured this '80s incarnation tie-in with Godmars.
  • The anime version of His and Her Circumstances used the ending theme to both the 1963 and 2004 versions as the series' recap theme
• What Could Have Been:
  • For the 1980's series, it was originally intended to be a sequel of the 1963 version of Tetsujin-28 however, it ended up being a complete remake of it. ^note  Though Fred Ladd, who was in charge of the Gigantor dubs, was able to take it by connecting it with the 1963 version. Additionally, FX was treated as a sequel of the original.
  • The English dub version of the 1980's series was slated to be released in home video via LIVE Entertainment^note a predecessor to Lionsgate (as reported by Fred Ladd in the late '90s) but due to the death of Mitsuteru Yokoyama, chances of this became impossible.
  • In 2009, IMAGI Animation Studios released a teaser trailer for a CGI adaptation titled, T-28. However, due to the box office failure of the studio's adaptation of Astro Boy and IMAGI shutting down, the film was ultimately canceled.

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