Ambassador Magma

Ambassador Magma
Cover of the second volume from the Osamu Tezuka Manga Complete Works edition
マグマ大使 (Maguma Taishi)
Genre	Mecha Kyodai Hero
Manga
Written by	Osamu Tezuka
Published by	Shōnen Gahosha
Magazine	Shōnen Gaho
Demographic	Shōnen
Original run	May 1965 – August 1967
Volumes	3
Television drama
Studio	P Productions Terebi Doga
Licensed by	US: Krantz Films
Original network	FNS (Fuji TV)
Original run	July 4, 1966 – June 26, 1967
Episodes	52
Original video animation
Directed by	Hidehito Ueda
Written by	Katsuhiko Koide
Music by	Toshiyuki Watanabe
Studio	Bandai Visual, PLEX, Tezuka Productions
Released	1993
Episodes	13
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Ambassador Magma (マグマ大使, Maguma Taishi) is the title and protagonist of a manga and tokusatsu TV series created by Osamu Tezuka. The TV series, produced by P Productions, aired on Fuji TV from July 4, 1966, to June 26, 1967, lasting a total of 52 episodes. It is the first color tokusatsu TV series in Japan, beating Tsuburaya Productions' Ultraman to the air by six days. The show later aired in the US, dubbed in English by Krantz Films, as The Space Giants.^[1] Digital Manga crowdfunded the manga, and it is currently available for digital purchase on their Emanga site.