ady123 I saw this about twice in the UK back in the 1960s, but it disappeared from our telly schedules for some reason, they must have been pilots which were dropped.I enjoyed it so much I never forgot about it, wondering for years what happened to "gigantor" So we in the UK never got to enjoy the series, and I searched for it, even asking my parents about it.My 10/10 is a five year olds vote.It looks awful to an adult, but was top stuff for a youngster, and here I am decades later wondering if I imagined it because no-one else I know who lives over here can remember it.

poe426 Although the series as aired in these United States didn't feature the all-important first episode (the episode in which we learn the how and why Gigantor came to be), GIGANTOR was one of those pivotal teleshows that influenced much of what has followed. There would be no GETTER ROBO or BIG O or TRANSFORMERS or any other such mecha, were it not for GIGANTOR. The idea of a kid ("Jimmy Sparks") controlling such power with what amounts to nothing more than a joy stick was one of the things that kids like myself responded to back when the show first aired. (And, of course, there was that catchy theme song...) Subsequent shows (and features, including the live-action version I've commented on here on the IMDb) delve a little more fully into the aforementioned how and why of the big guy, but few are as charming as the original. If the series has a flaw, per se, it's the fact that Gigantor is little more than a machine to be used as his controllers see fit. (And it was just that vital bit of Humanity that makes ASTRO BOY as enduring- and as superior- as it is... in my own, ever-humble opinion.) Still, being the First counts for something- and there's some (for the time) innovative animation worth seeing. All in all, not a bad way to spend an evening.

plotzcrw Actually the theme song for Gigantor had no rhymes in it at all. There was the chorus: "Gigantor" (2x)followed by: "Gigantor the space age robot, he's in your control, Gigantor the space age robot his power is in your hands"followed by the chorus again.I don't recall any other verses but what do you expect from such an early import. The transition from Japan to here of this cartoon was equal to other early imports like Kimba, though perhaps less refined than Speed Racer. As to plot I have no recollection only a warm hint of a memory. But this was not from SciFi airings but from the original run on television.

bdwilner Every time I come to IMDb, I want to crawl back into five-year-old-dom. I used to rush home from first grade to catch Gigantor at 3, followed by Kimba the White Lion at 3:30, hoping that the bus driver wouldn't be out of root beer lollipops that day. Now they show selected reruns of the original series (no, not the later, full-color "Tetsujin 28-Go" ["Iron Man No. 28"]: I can give you the kanji, too, but not with _this_ keyboard) on the Cartoon Network at 5:30AM, before reasonable people have awakened. I seem to remember that my favorite episode involved Gigantor fighting against an evil robot that could shoot lava bursts out of a slot above his forehead. Naturally, the robot was gigantic and could fly, etc. (They're everyday phenomena, no?) I always thought something was fishy about Jimmy Sparks's voice--only later to learn that it was a female--but, then again, Debi Derryberry does a fine, thoroughly convincing job as both Jimmy Neutron and Zatch Bell, so I can scarcely complain.