Kazumasa Hirai (author)
Kazumasa Hirai 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 and was well known as the story creator of the 1960s manga series "Genma Taisen" 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..
- Wolfcrest 2, translated by Edward Lipsett. Tokyo: Kodansha English Library. 1985..
;Short story
Novels
- Megalopolis no Tora
- Android Oyuki
- Wolf Guy Series
- Cyborg Blues
- Zombie Hunter
- Akuryō no Joō
- Genma Wars Séries
- Chikyuuju no Megami
- Bohemian Glass Street
- 21st Century 8 Man
- Abduction Series
Manga
- 8 Man
- Elite
- Chou ken Leap
- Genma Taisen
- Death Hunter
- Wolf Guy
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- Shin Genma Taisen
- Crystal Child
- Bachigami
- 8 Man Infinity
