Kazumasa Hirai (author)

Kazumasa Hirai (平井 和正) 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. ISBN 4061860135. (The anterior half of Ookami no Monshō)
 * Wolfcrest 2, translated by Edward Lipsett. Tokyo: Kodansha English Library. 1985. ISBN 4061860143. (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. ISBN 4902075261 (original title: Kakumei no Toki)

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

 * 8 Man (artist: Jiro Kuwata)
 * Elite (artist: Jiro Kuwata)
 * Chou ken Leap (artist: Jiro Kuwata)
 * Genma Taisen (artist: Shotaro Ishinomori)
 * Death Hunter (artist: Jiro Kuwata)
 * Wolf Guy (artist: Hisashi Sakaguchi)
 * Spider-Man: The Manga (artist: Ryoichi Ikegami)
 * Shin Genma Taisen (artist: Shotaro Ishinomori)
 * Crystal Child (artist: Ayumi Izumitani)
 * Bachigami (artist: Yuuki Yogo)
 * 8 Man Infinity (8 Man sequel: Kyôichi Nanatsuki, artist: Takayuki Takashi)
 * Genma Taisen Rebirth (Kyôichi Nanatsuki, artist: Masato Hayase, Ishimori Productions)
 * 8 Man vs Cyborg 009 (Kyôichi Nanatsuki, artist: Masato Hayase, Ishimori Productions)