Tottemo! Luckyman is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hiroshi Gamo. It ran in the shōnen anthology magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump. Running between August 1993 and July 1997, The series is focused on the adventures of a bizarre superhero and his fights against various aliens and other enemies threatening the planet Earth. A fifty-episode animetelevision series adaptation by Pierrot was broadcast on TV Tokyo between April 1994 and March 1995. Two video games Game Boy and Super Famicom consoles have been released and the titular character Luckyman is featured in Jump crossover video games Jump Ultimate Stars and J-Stars Victory VS.
Plot
Yōichi Tsuitenai was the unluckiest boy in his hometown. Until one day, his luck truly ran out when he was crushed by an alien spaceship, killing him. But, in this time of need, he was discovered by the great super hero of the cosmos, Lucky Man, who fused with him giving him the power to turn into the universe's luckiest superhero. But now Yōichi, as Luckyman, must defend the Earth from aliens invading to conquer it, with the help of his sidekick, Doryokuman, their friend Superstarman, and three others, Shoriman, Yujoman, and Tensaiman.
The Best 16 Super Heroes, is an elite team of 16 special heroes assembled by the chairman of the Hero Committee, an organization for super heroes, located on a hero-populated planet called the Hero Star. The team is formed up of the main team of six heroes selected by the Chairman as elites to fight aliens on earth, and 10 contestants from the 1053rd Hero Tournament that all won. "Nai-nai" is an onomatopoeia for the sound created when the 16 heroes all fire their beams at something. ;Luckyman/Yōichi Tsuitenai ;Doryokuman/Doryoku Sugita ;Superstarman/Tagaru Medachi ;Shōriman/Shōri Isono ;Yūjōman/Yūjō Atsui ;Tensaiman/Tensai Umaretsuki ;Hero Committee Chairman ;Ippiki Okamiman ;Otoko no Roman ;Pashiri No.1 ;Sei Raman ;Shūseiman ;Niceman ;Topman ;Spademan ;Kyūseishuman ;Yonaoshiman/Yotchan
Otete Sentai Yubi Ranger are the five villains in Yotchan's team also fight in cylindrical metal suits, each of a different color, and act as fingers for a giant hand. "Yubi" means "finger". Eventually, these characters all die, except for Tensaiman, Speedman, and Yotchan. ;Koyubi Green ;Kusuri Yubi Yellow ;Hitosashi Yubi Blue ;Naka Yubi Red ;Oya Yubi Gunjō
Media
Manga
Tottemo! Luckyman is written and illustrated by Hiroshi Gamo. A pilot chapter was published in the 1993 17th issue of Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump published on April 12, 1993. The regular serialization started in the 35th issue of the magazine on August 16, 1993, and it finished in the 30th issue of July 7, 1997. Shueisha compiled the individual chapters into sixteen tankōbon volumes published between February 9, 1994 and October 8, 1997. On June 29, 2012, Shueisha published eight volumes of the series in a digital format.
Anime
A fifty-episode anime television series adaptation produced by Pierrot was broadcast on TV Tokyo. The series aired from April 6, 1994 to March 23, 1995.
Video games
A video game entitled Tottemo! Luckyman: Everyone Loves Lucky Cookie!! for Game Boy was developed by Bandai and released on September 22, 1994. Another video game entitled Tottemo! Luckyman: Lucky Cookie Roulette Assault!! for Super Famicom was also developed by Bandai and released on June 30, 1995. Luckyman is a playable character in two Jump crossover fighting games, Jump Ultimate Stars for Nintendo DS, released on November 23, 2006, and J-Stars Victory VS for the PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita, released March 19, 2014 in Japan, June 26, 2015 in Europe and June 30, 2015 in North America. This marks the first release of Tottemo! Luckyman material outside Japan. The English title of the manga is officially given in the game as Such a Luckyman!.
