Ōgon Bat

Ōgon Bat
Ōgon Bat
黄金バット
(Ōgon Batto)
TV anime
Network Yomiuri TV, Nihon TV
English network Australia Nine Network
Original run April 1, 1967March 23, 1968
Episodes 52
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Ōgon Bat (黄金 バット Ōgon Batto?, lit. "Golden Bat"), also known as Phantaman or Phantoma, is a seminal Japanese superhero created by writer Ichiro Suzuki and illustrator Takeo Nagamatsu in 1930. Ōgon Bat is considered to be the first Japanese superhero.[1]

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Character history

The character made his debut in Kamishibai, a traveling show in which a sequence of pictures is narrated by a storyteller.[2] He was popular enough to survive the decline of Kamishibai following World War II, and was eventually translated into manga and anime form.

A live action movie, Ôgon bat: Matenrô no kaijin, was released in 1950[3], followed by another in 1966, simply titled Ôgon batto, and starring Sonny Chiba. A 52 episode anime series was produced the following year, followed by another film, Ôgon Batto ga yattekuru in 1972.

Character overview

Ōgon Bat is portrayed as golden, with a skeletal face and muscular body. He wears a high collared black and red cape, carries a pointed scepter that is able to conjure lightning and cause minor earthquakes. His appearance is heralded by a little golden bat flying in, followed by a reverberating laughter that seemed to come from everywhere.

Ōgon Bat is actually a protector from Ancient Atlantis, who is put into suspended animation in an Egyptian-like sarcophagus, to be awakened in the future to fight the forces of evil.

In modern times, Ōgon Bat is discovered by Prof. Yamatone's family and a little orphan girl called Marie in a tomb in modern Egypt. The tomb's inscription describes him as a “god of justice and protector of the weak”. When Yamatone's family is threatened by Mazo (マゾ), Dr. Nazō's main henchman, Marie starts to cry and beg for help. Her tears fall on Ōgon Bat's body and re-animate him. From then on, he appears whenever Marie asks for his help.

His main antagonist is Dr. Erich Nazō (ナゾー), the leader of a crime syndicate bent on world domination. Nazō wears a black mask with Batman-like ears and has four different colored cat eyes which can each fire a different deadly beam. He also has no lower body, and hovers around atop a mini-flying saucer. Nazō also has a metal pincer in place of his right hand and has a habit of booming the name “LOMBROSO”.

Ōgon Bat's other great nemesis is Kurayami Bat (暗闇バット Dark Bat), a somewhat darker version of himself who he was supposedly created to fight.

Ōgon Bat is known as Fantasmagórico in most of Latin America, Fantomas in Brazil, Fantaman in the Italian dub and Phantoma in Australia. Dr. Nazō is called "Dr. Zero", and Kurayami Bat is called "Dr. Death".

In Brazil, the series arrived without an intro and one was quickly spliced together by Cinecastro using scenes from an episode and the theme from another cartoon, Journey to the Center of the Earth. This was also the case for at least two other anime series: Shadow Boy and Paaman (Super Dinamo).

List of anime episodes

Source:[4]

  1. The Birth of Golden Bat
  2. Mammoth Killer
  3. Ge-Georg
  4. Crisis
  5. Man Eating Plants
  6. In Pursuit of the Melon Bombs
  7. Monster Sand Beronya
  8. Space Monster Alligon
  9. Worm Monster Gaigon
  10. The Battle of Uranium Island
  11. Mysterious Finkhamen
  12. Singer's Poison Mushrooms
  13. Mutant 5
  14. Atomic Black Cat
  15. Nero the Destructor
  16. Ghilton, The Man of Stone
  17. Galgar the Monster
  18. The Star of Polynesia
  19. Bat vs. Bat
  20. The Land of the Blue Flame
  21. The Queen of Heart Sigma
  22. The Mysterious Volcano Peron
  23. Black Mask the Thief
  24. The Devil's Ruby
  25. The Robot City
  26. Rayman Bolt
  27. The Eye of Tarangé
  28. Sword of the Axis
  29. Mystery of the Space Bat
  30. ESP Cyborgs
  31. The Ghost Tower
  32. The Devil's Statue
  33. The Invisible Monster Glassgon
  34. The Great World Flood
  35. Underground Monster Mogurā
  36. The Great Explosion
  37. Two-Headed Monster Gegera
  38. The Dinosaur Trap
  39. The Skeleton's Pilotage
  40. The Day of Darkness
  41. The Indian Princess
  42. The Witch Monster Hīdoro
  43. The Cyclops in the Mine
  44. Revenge of the Liger Man
  45. The Death-Bringing Woman
  46. The Bat Hag and The Monster Shelgon
  47. The Mysterious Gerontium 90
  48. Rock Monster Gildon
  49. Mysterious Vampire Men
  50. Circus Monster Gablar
  51. The Resurrection of Dark Bat
  52. The Crumbling of the Nazō Empire

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