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Yatterman Villain Doronjo Gets 1st Live-Action Show
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
WOWOW announced on Saturday that it is producing the first live-action television project centered on the Yatterman villain Doronjo. The project will celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Tatsunoko Production studio, and is titled Tatsunoko Pro Sōritsu 60-shūnen Kinen WOWOW Original Drama Doronjo (Tatsunoko Production 60th Anniversary WOWOW Original Drama Doronjo).
The series will depict the past and the life of Doronjo, and it also celebrates the 45th anniversary of Yatterman.
Tatsunoko Production celebrated the franchise's 40th anniversary in 2015 with the Yatterman Night (Yoru no Yatterman) television anime. That series centered on a descendant of Doronjo. Funimation streamed the anime as it aired in Japan.
The original Yatterman television series premiered in 1977, and it spawned the first Yatterman anime film that same year. A new Yatterman televison series aired in Japan in 2008 for 60 episodes, and was followed by an animated film in 2009. A live-action film also premiered in the same year.
Source: Comic Natalie
