Anime Profile: Tiger Mask
Fields | USA Info | Japanese Info | Image |
|---|---|---|---|
Title | Tiger Mask | Tiger Mask (γΏγ€γ¬γΌγγΉγ―) |  |
Released | 105 (Part 1), 33 (Part 2) | 105 (Part 1), 33 (Part 2) | |
Dates | 1969β1971 (Part 1), 1981β1982 (Part 2) | ||
Company | Currently Unlicensed | Toei Animation | |
Creator | Ikki Kajiwara | ||
Director | Takeshi Tamiya | ||
Genre | Action, Sports | Action, Sports | |
Characters | Antonio Inoki β | Antonio Inoki β | |
· · · | Big Tiger β | Big Tiger β | |
· · · | Black Tiger β | Black Tiger β | |
· · · | Boss/Tiger the Great β | Boss/Tiger the Great β | |
· · · | Daigo Daimon/Mr. Fudo β | Daigo Daimon/Mr. Fudo β | |
· · · | Kentarou Takaoka/Yellow Devil β | Kentarou Takaoka/Yellow Devil β | |
· · · | -- more listed below -- | -- more listed below -- |
Last I checked, this anime was available on DVD at Amazon.
Characters: Tiger Mask
English Name |
Japanese Name |
English Name |
Japanese Name |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antonio Inoki β | Antonio Inoki β | Kentarou Takaoka/Yellow Devil β | Kentarou Takaoka/Yellow Devil β | |
| Big Tiger β | Big Tiger β | King Tiger β | King Tiger β | |
| Black Tiger β | Black Tiger β | Naoto Date/Tiger Mask β | Naoto Date/Tiger Mask β | |
| Boss/Tiger the Great β | Boss/Tiger the Great β | Tatsuo Aku/Tiger Mask II β | Tatsuo Aku/Tiger Mask II β | |
| Daigo Daimon/Mr. Fudo β | Daigo Daimon/Mr. Fudo β | The Great Zebra β | The Great Zebra β |
Description: Tiger Mask
Naoto Dante (AKA Tiger Mask) was a vicious heel wrestler in America. But after hearing a boy from the Chibikko House, a orphanage he grew up in, that he wanted to become a villain like Tiger Mask, he does a Heel Face Turn because he feared that he would idolize a villain. Naoto was once a member of the villainous Tiger's Cave as the Yellow Devil, a evil organization who trained young wrestlers to be heels in exchange for half of their earnings. Naoto left because he donated that money they wanted to the Chibikko House instead of them. This infuriated their leader Boss, a former wrestler who went by Tiger the Great, enough to send assassins, sometimes other wrestlers to kill Tiger Mask in each episode of the anime. The series had a look that felt like a DC or Marvel comic book.
In Tiger Mask II, Naoto dies while saving a child, a big fan of Tiger Mask who takes up the identity of Tiger Mask.
The series inspired King from the Tekken games as well as several real Japanese wrestlers who used the Tiger Mask gimmick starting in the 1980s.
