Go Nagai

Writing

Go Nagai

Born

1945-09-06 (81)

Place of birth

Wajima, Ishikawa, Japan

Known for

Writing

Credits

41 titles

Known for

Devilman Crybaby poster
7.7

With demons reawakened and humanity in turmoil, a sensitive demon-boy is led into a brutal, degenerate war against evil by his mysterious friend, Ryo.

Devilman Crybaby

2018

ANIME MANGA EXPLOSION poster
NR

The size of the Japanese animation market was 2,426 billion yen by 2020. More than half of that amount came from overseas sales. The manga market is also expanding, reaching 675.9 billion yen in 2021. Those unique visuals and stories from Japan have struck a chord with fans around the world and are growing into a huge industry. ANIME MANGA EXPLOSION will actively feature major works that are highly recognized by overseas fans and reveal the secrets of Japanese anime and manga creation through the series.

ANIME MANGA EXPLOSION

2023

Cutie Honey: The Live poster
5.2

The Panther Claw organization is driven by a relentless pursuit of wealth, using any means necessary to achieve their goals. However, their plans start to unravel thanks to the unexpected interference of a seemingly ordinary girl. This girl, who initially encounters Panther Claw by chance, turns out to be Kisaragi Honey, the ‘daughter’ of the brilliant cyberneticist Dr. Kisaragi Koshirou. Recognizing her value, Panther Claw’s four members race to capture Cutie Honey. Kisaragi Honey, also known as Cutie Honey, is not alone in her fight. She is joined by two allies, Saotome Miki (Sister Miki) and Kenmochi Yuki (Sister Yuki). Together, they work to thwart Panther Claw’s schemes and protect Honey from being exploited.

Cutie Honey: The Live

2007

Metropolis poster
7.2

In the midst of societal conflict in the futuristic city of Metropolis, Kenichi and his uncle Shunsaku Ban set out to uncover the mystery behind the first human-like robot, Tima.

Metropolis

2001

Dragon Girls! poster
6.8

Yves Montmayeur takes Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon as the starting point for his study of the new female warrior in Asian pop culture. From Beijing to Tokyo and Taiwan, he went to meet with the most iconic muses of this new trend, including Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi, Shu Qi and Asami.

Dragon Girls!

2016

The Toxic Avenger Part II poster
5.4

Melvin Junko was a nerdy weakling until he fell into a vat of toxic waste, turning him into the first ever superhuman creature from New Jersey. This time, he takes on Tokyo.

The Toxic Avenger Part II

1989

Film credits

2000s · 5 titles

Metropolis poster
7.2

In the midst of societal conflict in the futuristic city of Metropolis, Kenichi and his uncle Shunsaku Ban set out to uncover the mystery behind the first human-like robot, Tima.

Metropolis

2001

Devilman poster
6.1

A scientific exploration in search of a new energy source unleashes a group of powerful demons who begin possessing human bodies and destroying civilization. Close friends Akira and Ryo wind up on different sides of this epic struggle. Akira’s inner strength allows him to maintain his identity and fight for good, but the weaker Ryo is completely overtaken by Satan himself.

Devilman

2004

Cutie Honey poster
6.4

When Honey's uncle gets kidnapped by the evil criminal gang known as "Panther Claw," she must use her magical powers of transformation to save him. Meanwhile the same crime group has been responsible for a number of other crime sprees across Tokyo. In the process, Honey teams up with the seemingly cold police woman Natsuko Aki and hot shot journalist Seiji Hayami as well as battle the four "claws" of the Panther Claw gang to save her uncle and the rest of the city.

Cutie Honey

2004

Nagai Go World: Maboroshi Panty VS Henchin Pokoider poster
2.0

Nagai Go World: Maboroshi Panty VS Henchin Pokoider is a Japanese tokusatsu erotic-comedy film based in some works of Go Nagai. Directed by Minoru Kawasaki, it was produced and distributed by Total Media Corporation, and released in 2004.

Nagai Go World: Maboroshi Panty VS Henchin Pokoider

2004

Kekko Kamen New poster
4.8

A school that teaches young boys and girls how to become famous anchorpeople in the media. But there is something strange going in this school. The facility takes a sick pride in handing our S & M style punishments to students for the most trivial things. But there is one among them, a hero that hides her face but bares everything else in the name of justice. Her name is Kekko Kamen, all know the legend of how Kekko Kamen defeated the evil Mangriffin in a local high school, but now she's back and out to stop the evil twisted fiends once again.

Kekko Kamen New

2003

1990s · 6 titles

Future Memories: Last Christmas poster
7.3

Yuko dreams of being a best selling children's author, but as an adult she has made little progress. In her depression, she bonds with Ginko, a roadside fortune teller who has had a tragic love life. Both die the next day but appear 10 years before with their memories intact. Will they choose more wisely or be sunk by new unfulfilling choices between career and romance?

Future Memories: Last Christmas

1992

Hanappe Bazooka poster
6.1

When trickster demons give him the power to seduce any woman he wants, a high school pervert accidentally puts his family, the girl of his dreams, and his very soul on the line.

Hanappe Bazooka

1992

Kekko Kamen 2: We'll be back... poster
7.6

Mayumi and the other students are suspected of cheating and put in the torture room, where a device is waiting on them. However, this is all a ruse to make Kekko Kamen appear!

Kekko Kamen 2: We'll be back...

1992

Humanoid Puppet poster
5.0

A student girl, derided and continually persecuted by her classmates, is preparing a mannequin with a suit of her own creation for a fashion contest; her classmates are envious because the girl is really good and so they decides to damage both suit and mannequin.

Humanoid Puppet

1992

Nanpa Rumba I want to Fuck poster
7.0

1990 Original Video Omnibus of three RomCom Vignettes

Nanpa Rumba I want to Fuck

1990

I Am Sukeban poster
NR

A comedy with several erotic touches, where the protagonist Banji Suke (or Sukeban) has to disguise himself as a girl in order to be able to attend an all-female school to try and clear his name after being left the blame for the chaos all over town, while unaware that his assassins are watching his every move. Based on the manga of the same name.

I Am Sukeban

1992

1980s · 3 titles

Series credits

Behind the camera

Black Lion poster
5.7

The year is 1580 and Nobunaga Oda is working to consolidate his power over Japan. In his army are weapons of great destructive power: rapid fire machine guns, lasers, missiles and, most frightening of all, the reputedly immortal ninja Ginnai Doma. Like a sentence of divine wrath he hunts down and destroys dissident monks, ninjas and others, wherever they may be. With the clans on the brink of destruction, a single ninja accepts the impossible task: kill the immortal Ginnai.

Black Lion

1992

Devilman - Volume 2: Demon Bird poster
7.0

Akira Fudo, adjusting to his new powers as Devilman, is in for a heap of trouble as his newest enemy sent from the demon world is Sirene, the demon bird, who has more than a few tricks up her feathery sleeves to keep him and humanity at the brink of extinction.

Devilman - Volume 2: Demon Bird

1990

Devilman - Volume 1: The Birth poster
7.1

Akira Fudo is just a normal kid in Tokyo, until an old friend of his, Ryo, shows up and turns his world upside down. An upcoming war of demons on humanity is waiting in the wings, however, the only way for a human to fight a demon is with their power. To save the world, Akira and Ryo risk a dangerous ceremony in an attempt to create humanity's only hope: the powerful Devilman.

Devilman - Volume 1: The Birth

1987

Mazinkaizer SKL poster
6.5

Mazinkaizer SKL (マジンカイザースカル Majinkaizā Sukaru?) is a Japanese OVA spinoff of Go Nagai's Mazinkaiser, which was in itself a spinoff of Mazinger Z. The first episode was released on November 27, 2010 and was first screened on November 27, 2010. It also has a novel adaptation serialized in ASCII Media Works' Dengeki Hobby Magazine and a manga adaptation published in the mobile phone magazine Shu 2 Comic Gekkin. Like Shin Mazinger Shougeki! Z Hen, characters and references to other works of Go Nagai appear in this series.

Mazinkaizer SKL

2010

Delinquent in Drag poster
5.6

Does being the only guy in an all-girl school sound like paradise? It might be, if the girls knew you were a guy, but to stay in school, teenage brawler Banji can't let can't let anyone find out he isn't just another pretty female face. Not only is he at the bottom of the social pecking order, he must also conceal his masculinity from classmate Otoko, who's stolen his heart, while avoiding the many delinquent gangs of girls who threaten to expose his less-than-feminine charms. Oh, and it's actually co-ed, so...

Delinquent in Drag

1992

UFO Robot Grendizer Theatrical Version poster
7.0

Special episode in cinemascope format for Japanese cinemas.

UFO Robot Grendizer Theatrical Version

1975

Modern-Era Shameless School poster
6.0

Heisei Harenchi Gakuen

Modern-Era Shameless School

1996

Nagai Go no Horror Gekijo: Kirikagami poster
NR

A Japanese direct-to-video horror film based in an original story by Go Nagai. It is the sequel to Nagai Go no Horror Gekijo: Mannequin, also produced by Taki Corporation and released in 1992.

Nagai Go no Horror Gekijo: Kirikagami

1992

Legend of the Shadowy Ninja: The Ninja Dragon poster
6.5

The secretive realm of the world's deadliest ninja warriors is thrown into chaos as one by one, ninja clan leaders are brutally assassinated! What fiendish foe has the power to kill the most dangerous men in the world? To avenge their dead leader, three ninjas must face this hidden enemy. They'll need all their stealth and ninja trickery to survive!

Legend of the Shadowy Ninja: The Ninja Dragon

1990

Legend of the Shadowy Ninja: The Ninja Dragon poster
6.5

The secretive realm of the world's deadliest ninja warriors is thrown into chaos as one by one, ninja clan leaders are brutally assassinated! What fiendish foe has the power to kill the most dangerous men in the world? To avenge their dead leader, three ninjas must face this hidden enemy. They'll need all their stealth and ninja trickery to survive!

Legend of the Shadowy Ninja: The Ninja Dragon

1990

Go Nagai's Scary Zone: The Mysterious Demon poster
6.0

Japanese direct-to-video horror film

Go Nagai's Scary Zone: The Mysterious Demon

1989

Humanoid Puppet poster
5.0

A student girl, derided and continually persecuted by her classmates, is preparing a mannequin with a suit of her own creation for a fashion contest; her classmates are envious because the girl is really good and so they decides to damage both suit and mannequin.

Humanoid Puppet

1992

Go Nagai's Scary Zone 2: Senki poster
5.0

Nagai Go no Kowai Zone 2: Senki is a Japanese direct-to-video horror film released in 1990 by the Bandai Media Division. It's the sequel of the film Nagai Go no Kowai Zone: Kaiki and just like the first film, it was also directed Go Nagai and Hikari Hayakawa. It contains two stories, "Vampire Hunting" and "Concrete Avenger".

Go Nagai's Scary Zone 2: Senki

1990

Go Nagai's Scary Zone 2: Senki poster
5.0

Nagai Go no Kowai Zone 2: Senki is a Japanese direct-to-video horror film released in 1990 by the Bandai Media Division. It's the sequel of the film Nagai Go no Kowai Zone: Kaiki and just like the first film, it was also directed Go Nagai and Hikari Hayakawa. It contains two stories, "Vampire Hunting" and "Concrete Avenger".

Go Nagai's Scary Zone 2: Senki

1990

Go Nagai Super Robot Movie Collection Volume 2 poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Go Nagai Super Robot Movie Collection Volume 2

1974

Abashiri Family The Movie poster
2.8

"The Abashiri Family" are one of the most notorious mafia family members in the world. Even though their family consists of only five members, just the words "Abashiri Family" strikes fear in other gang members. The head of the mafia clan then decides to send to his cherished only daughter Kikunosuke to a boarding school. What the father doesn't know is that the boarding school are run by enemies of the Abashiri Family and they have no intentions of graduating their students

Abashiri Family The Movie

2009

Starvengers: The Movie poster
4.8

Soon after the events of the first Getta Robo series, Earth finds itself under attack by the Hyakki (Pandemonium) Empire and its fleet of horned battle robots. In response to the threat, the Getta labs re-fit their chief weapon: three advanced jets, capable of merging into three distinct robots. These are Getta Dragun (Star Dragon) the most powerful and oft-used formation; Getta Rygar (Star Arrow) designed for speed and aerial combat; and Getta Poseidon (Star Poseidon) built for strength and aquatic battle.

Starvengers: The Movie

1976

Devilman Memorial poster
NR

Summary of the 1972 Devilman series. Originally released on VHS and Laser Disc in 1999 and has never been released on DVD. It was also included in the Devilman blu-ray box set.

Devilman Memorial

1999

Go Nagai Super Robot Movie Collection Volume 1 poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Go Nagai Super Robot Movie Collection Volume 1

1973

Super-Powered Girl Barabanba poster
4.0

Fleeing from a hyperspace crime syndicate leader charmingly named D'Rool, space pirate Baraba and her robot Mia cross the dimensional barrier into our world and change form - Baraba becomes a beautiful human girl and Mia a cute fluffy animal. A young man named Hiro Banba steps in to save Baraba from the unwanted attentions of some thugs, and three lesbian sisters offer the trio shelter. Meanwhile, D'Rool has also crossed the dimensional barrier and mutated into a hideous form. Baraba will have to deal with him, but she's starting to like her new shape and is starting to fall Hiro. Can love conquer the criminal leader? And will Hiro and Baraba be able to stay in the same dimension?

Super-Powered Girl Barabanba

1985