Locke the Superman

Japanese manga series

Locke the Superman (超人ロック) is a Japanese manga series created by Yuki Hijiri, which was later adapted into a movie and three OVA releases. The movie was given an obscure video release in the United States by Celebrity Home Entertainment as Locke the Superpower, which was rather heavily edited to 92 minutes, removing violence, nudity and any adult bits. Both it and the OVAs were later licensed and released by Central Park Media under the original name. Ten volumes were published in Poland under the title Locke Superczłowiek. In Australia and the UK the movie and the Lord Leon OVAs were licensed by Manga Entertainment for release in 1997, but both were quietly dropped from the release schedule due to financial issues facing the UK branch. As of 2012, Discotek has licensed the original Locke the Superman film from 1984 and it was released on November 6. This is the first ever DVD release in the U. S. It was from the uncut, remastered, anamorphic telecine print used for the Japanese DVD release. Discotek provided both the Japanese audio with English subtitles and the original English dub from the 80s, which was previously released on VHS. In November 2020, the original Locke the Superman film from 1984 was released on Blu ray by Sentai Filmworks.

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Yuki Hijiri published this manga series in a dojinshi published by Sakuga Group for the first time in 1967. He went to the commercial magazine, Monthly OUT by Minori Shobō, in 1978. It then appeared in Weekly Shōnen Gahōsha's Shōnen King from 1979 to 1988, when the magazine ceased publication. Thereafter the manga changed magazines many times. Most chapters are equivalent to one or two volumes of the comics. The era of each chapter varies and the events do not occur in chronological order. The series "Detective Hunt and Assistant Locke" was originally a part of the series' main continuity. However, it became gradually inconsistent in a number of places, eventually resulting in being retconned as taking place in a parallel universe.

The original manga series was released from 1967 to 1971. The Polish manga company Waneko licensed and published the manga series from 1999 2001 by under the title Locke Superczłowiek. Parts 1 8 were published as single volumes, while the last two volumes were published as double volumes. It was one of the first Japanese comics published in Poland.

A novel, Witch Era (魔女の世紀), written by Tomoko Konparu and illustrated by Yuki Hijiri, was released on March 15, 1984 by Shōnen Gahōsha through their SF Romantic Novel imprint. It is a novelization of the film of the same name. New World Command was criticized for being "far less appealing to the average eye than the movie".