Space Boy Soran
| Space Boy Soran | |
| 宇宙少年ソラン (Uchū Shōnen Soran) | |
|---|---|
| Genre | sci-fi |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Haruyuki Kawajima |
| Written by | Masaki Tsuji |
| Music by | Taku Izumi |
| Studio | TCJ |
| Original run | May 4th, 1965 – March 28th, 1967 |
| Episodes | 96[1] |
| Anime television film | |
| Released | July 24th, 1965[2] |
| Runtime | 25 minutes |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Kazuya Fukumoto |
| Illustrated by | Yoshikatsu Miyakoshi |
| Published by | Kodansha |
| Magazine | Weekly Shōnen Magazine |
| Original run | 1965 – 1966 |
Space Boy Soran (宇宙少年ソラン Uchū Shōnen Soran) is a Japanese monochrome anime series created by Kazuya Fukumoto and Yoshikatsu Miyakoshi. In Brazil, the series was dubbed as Zoran, O Garoto do Espaço.[3] The series was released on DVD in 2015.
Plot
Dr. Tachibana once designed the highly dangerous antiproton bomb and planned to escape Earth with his wife and children for fear of prosecution. On their way in space, their space ship is almost destroyed and only Dr. Tachibana's children, his son and his daughter, escape. The son is rescued by aliens called the Soran who live on a planet with 15 times the gravity of Earth. They name him Soran after their planet and is turned into a cyborg to save his life. He returns to Earth to search for his sister who escaped, but is yet to be found. He then lives with the archaeologist Dr. Kotsuki and his daughter Mika. and teams up with his pet squirrel, Chappy.