Microid S

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Microid S
ミクロイドZ / ミクロイドS (Microid Z / Microid S)
Manga
Written by	Osamu Tezuka
Published by	Akita Shoten
Magazine	Weekly Shōnen Champion
Demographic	Shōnen
Original run	March 26, 1973 – September 3, 1973
Anime television series
Directed by	Masayuki Akehi
Written by	Masaki Tsuji
Music by	Goh Misawa
Studio	Toei Animation
Original network	TV Asahi
Original run	7 April 1973 – 6 October 1973
Episodes	26

Microid S (ミクロイドS, Mikuroido Esu) is a manga series written and illustrated by Osamu Tezuka, published in Akita Shoten's Weekly Shōnen Champion from March 1973 to September 1973. It was later adapted into an anime series by Toei.

The anime adaption of Tezuka's manga Microid Z (ミクロイドZ, Mikuroido Zetto), replaced the letter "Z" with an "S" as to match the initial letter of the show’s sponsor, Seiko.^[1] It consisted of 26 episodes and was originally broadcast on TV Asahi.^[1][2]

The series is known as Microsuperman in Italy.^[3]

Cast[edit]

• Makio Inoue as Yanma the Dragonfly Man,^[4] leader of the miniature Microids who are humans shrunk to insect size by the evil Gidoron but escaped wearing winged super-suits they use to protect humanity^[5]
• Hiroko Suzuki as Ageha the Butterfly Girl^[4]
• Machiko Soga as Mamezo the Beetle Boy^[4]
• Yasuaki Suzuki as Dr. Midoro, Nobel Prize-winning scientist who befriends the tiny heroes^[5]
• Ichirô Nagai as Gidoron, ruthless ruler of a highly advanced insect empire beneath the Arizona desert who sends his army of ant-like Gidrons and other mutant bug monsters to conquer the world and purge it of pollution-causing humans^[5]
• Jouji Yanami as Teacher Noracura
• Kaneta Kimotsuki as Kankuro
• Masako Nozawa as Manabu, Dr. Midoro's son
• Kei Tomiyama as Ruriboshi

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Microid S (manga) at Tezuka official website
• Microid S (anime) at Tezuka official website
• Microid S (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
• 1973年4月7日～「ミクロイドS 」OP、MICROID S(English subtitles)