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Name: Shotaro Ishinomori  
   
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Date of Birth: 25th January 1938
   
Place of Birth: Miyagi Prefecture, Japan
   
Profession: Writer
 
 
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Shotaro Ishinomori (石ノ森章太郎 Ishinomori Shôtarô), (January 25, 1938- January 28, 1998) was an influential figure in manga, anime and tokusatsu who created several long-running series such as Cyborg 009 and Kamen Rider (Japan's answer to Spider-Man). His real name was Shotaro Onodera (小野寺章太郎 Onodera Shôtarô), and he was also known as Shotaro Ishimori (石森章太郎 Ishimori Shôtarô) before 1986, when he changed his last name to Ishinomori.

Cyborg 009, created in 1963, became the first superpowered hero team created in Japan. That same year, Kazumasa Hirai and Jiro Kuwata created Japan's first cyborg superhero, 8 Man (which predated Kamen Rider by eight years).

The success of the tokusatsu superhero TV series Kamen Rider, produced by Toei Company Ltd. in 1971, led to the birth of the "henshin" (transforming) superhero (human-sized superheroes who transform by doing a pose, and use martial arts to fight henchmen and the weekly monster), and resulted in many sequel shows to this day. Ishinomori then created many similar superhero dramas, including Android Kikaider (considered the best of the bunch by fans), Henshin Ninja Arashi, Inazuman, Robot Detective, Secret Task Force Goranger (the first Sentai Series), Kaiketsu Zubat, and countless others. He even created popular children's shows such as Good Luck, Robocon!.

Ishinomori's art is quite reminiscent of that of his mentor, Osamu Tezuka.

At the end of 1997, Kazuhiko Shimamoto, a young and up and coming manga-ka was contacted by an increasingly ill Shotaro Ishinomori and asked if he would do a continuation (more like a remake) of his 100-page, one-shot manga from 1970, Skull Man (the manga that became the basis for Kamen Rider). Ishinomori - who had been one of Shimamoto's boyhood heroes - faxed the younger man copies of the proposed story and his plot notes. Shimamoto was astounded that he had been chosen to work upon his idol's final, great work.

Shimamoto had already been involved in the revival of one of Ishinomori's other earlier works (including Kamen Rider) but little did he dream that, as only one of many who Ishonomori had inspired, he would be chosen for final collaboration and resurrection of The Skull Man.

Ishinomori died of a heart failure on January 28, 1998. His final work was the tokusatsu superhero TV series, Voislugger, televised months later.

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