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Kazumasa Hirai (author)

was a Japanese novelist and science fiction writer from Yokosuka, Kanagawa. He graduated from Yokosuka Industrial High School and the law department of Chuo University. Hirai is well known for his SF-manga work. He is the creator of 8 Man (aka 8th Man in the USA) and was well known as the story creator of the 1960s manga series "Genma Taisen" (Genma Wars) about a hero with psychokinetic powers and his battle against a space villain called Genma. Hirai wrote stories for the Wolf Guy comic series, and also published comics co-authored with cartoonist Shotaro Ishinomori that were later adapted into an animated film in 1983.

Works available in English translation

Novel
  • Wolfcrest 1, translated by Edward Lipsett. Tokyo: Kodansha English Library. 1985. . (The anterior half of Ookami no Monshō)
  • Wolfcrest 2, translated by Edward Lipsett. Tokyo: Kodansha English Library. 1985. . (The latter half of Ookami no Monshō)
Short story
  • "A Time for Revolution," translated by David Aylward. Speculative Japan: Outstanding Tales of Japanese Science Fiction and Fantasy, Tokyo: Kurodahan Press. 2007. (original title: Kakumei no Toki)

Works

Novels

  • Megalopolis no Tora (1968)
  • Android Oyuki (1969)
  • Wolf Guy Series [ウルフガイ・シリーズ]
*Adult Wolf Guy Series [11 volumes]
:# Ookamiotoko da yo (He's a Werewolf!, 1969)
:# Ookami yo, kokyou wo mi yo (1973)
:# Rio no Ookamiotoko (1973)
:# Jinrou Jigoku (Wolf Guy Inferno, 1974)
:# Jinrou Sensen (Wolf Guy Front, 1974)
:# Ookami wa nakazu (1974)
:# Jinrou Hakusho (Wolf Guy Report, 1976)
:# Jinrou Tenshi {3volumes} (Wolf Angel, 1978–1980)
:# Wakaki Ookami no Shouzou (Portrait of a Young Wolf, 1979)
*Wolf Guy Series [19 volumes]
:# Ookami no Monshō (Wolfcrest, 1971)
:# Ookami no Enka (1972)
:# Ookami no Requiem {2volumes} (1975)
:# Ougon no Shoujo {5volumes} (Golden Girl, 1985–1994)
:# Inugami Akira {10volumes} (1994–1995)
*Gekkou Majutsudan Series [30 volumes]
:# Gekkou Majutsudan {12volumes} (Moonlight Magic, 1996–1998)
:# Wolf Guy DNA {12volumes} (1999–2000)
:# Genma Taisen DNA {6volumes} (Genma Wars DNA, 2002)
*Wolf Guy Extra Volumes
:# Wolfrando ~ Ookami no Sekai (Wolfland ~ The World of the Wolf, 1976)
:# Megami Henshou (1988)
  • Cyborg Blues (1971)
  • Zombie Hunter [死霊狩り(ゾンビー・ハンター)]
*Zombie Hunter (1972)
*Zombie Hunter 2 (1976)
*Zombie Hunter 3 (1978)
  • Akuryō no Joō (1976)
  • Genma Wars Séries [幻魔大戦シリーズ]
*New Genma Wars (1978)
*Real Genma Wars (1980-1985)
*Genma Wars (1979-1983)
*Armageddon (1987)
*Armageddon Girl（The Girl in Harmagedon (closet screenplay) ハルマゲドンの少女） (1986)
*Genma Wars deep (2005)
*Genma Wars deep Toltec (2008)
  • Chikyuuju no Megami [地球樹の女神]
*Chikyuuju no Megami (1988-1992)
*Crystal Child (1997)
*Sono hi no gogo, Hôdaiyama de (2004)
  • Bohemian Glass Street {9volumes} (1995)
  • 21st Century 8 Man
*Infinity Blue (2002)
*Blue Series
:# Blue Highways (2002)
:# Blue Lady (2005)
  • Abduction Series
*Jikuu bôsô kimagure Bus (2001)
*Wayward Bus (2003)
*Stray Sheep (2003)
*Abduction (2003)
*Silence (2003)
*Shade (2003)
*Capricious (2003)

Manga

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