Anime : Tiger Mask

	Title	Tiger Mask
	Japanese Title	タイガーマスク
	Official Site	-
	Category	TV
	Total Episodes	105
	Genres	Action
	Year Published	1969
	Release Date	1969-10-02 ∼ 1971-09-30
	Broadcaster	-
	Studio	Toei Animation
	US Distribution	-
	User Rating	7.0/10.0 (1 review) (Statistic)
	Updated	Fri, 16 May 2008 06:42:03 -0400

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Description

The first Japanese heel wrestler appeared in Japanese professional wrestling. He was "Tiger Mask" who had been called "yellow devil" with fears in the United States. He was the first masked wrestler, and he fought cruelly breaking the rules. But he had a secret that he couldn't talk to anyone. Date Naoto, who was Tiger Mask, had been raised in a orphans' home, then he had been trained by the heel wrestler training organization, "Cave of Tigers". The wrestlers who had trained at "Cave of Tigers" had to pay a lot of money. However, he knew that the orphans' house was suffering from a lot of debts, and he took over the debts in order to help Ruriko who was his childhood friend and the manager of the orphans' house without revealing that he was Tiger mask. Thefore, he couldn't pay money to "Cave of Tigers". Furthermore, he quitted his villain acts for the children who yearned for him. Because of the betrayal, "Cave of Tigers" began to send heel wrestlers one after another to destroy his carrier as a wrestler.

Crew, Cast, and Characters

Role	Person
Design	Kimura Keiichiro (木村圭市郎)
Music	Kikuchi Shunsuke (富山敬)
Original Creator	Kajiwara Ikki (梶原一騎), Tuji Naoki (辻なおき)
Script	Ando Toyohiro (安藤豊広), Miyoshi Kaya (三芳加也), Tsuji Masaki (辻真先)