Additional Information about the TV Cartoon The Man Who Returned

This TV series initially ran for 105 episodes.

Based on Ikki Kajiwara and Naoko Tsuji's 1968 manga in "Bokura" magazine.

Episodes were edited into several seasonal "movies." Episode 9 became the 47-minute "Tiger Mask" (1970); Episodes 23, 25 and 26 became the 53-minute "Tiger Mask: War Against the League of Masked Wrestlers" (1970); and Episode 56 became the 25-minute "Tiger Mask: The Black Demon" (1971).

A follow-up series ran for 33 episodes in 1981, this time on TV Asahi. Set after Naoto Date's death, it included characters Tatsuo and Outer Space Mask. Directors were Kozo Mirishita, Shigenori Yamauchi, Hideki Takayama, Tomoharu Katsumata, Masayuki Akehi, Kazuo Yamazaki and Osamu Sekita. Haruya Yamazaki was the writer; animation was by Tsukasa Abe.

Alternate Series Title: "タイガーマスク."

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