Go! Go! Ackman

Go! Go! Ackman
	Go! Go! Ackman manga chapter 1 title page
ゴー！ゴー!アックマン; Gō! Gō! Akkuman
ゴー！ゴー!アックマン; Gō! Gō! Akkuman
Original Creator(s)	Akira Toriyama
Original Work
Title	Go! Go! Ackman
Format	Manga
Author(s)	Akira Toriyama
Years	1993-1994
Additional Works
Direct Sequels	Go! Go! Ackman (Cel Comic); Go! Go! Ackman 2; Go! Go! Ackman 3
Animated Adaptations	Go! Go! Ackman
Games	Go! Go! Ackman; Go! Go! Ackman 2; Go! Go! Ackman 3; Go! Go! Ackman
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Go! Go! Ackman is a multimedia franchise dating back to an 11-chapter manga series written and illustrated by Akira Toriyama, which ran in Shueisha's V-Jump magazine from 1993 to 1994. The original manga spawned various sequels, a short animated adaptation for V-Jump Festival 1994, and several video games.

Plot

TBD

Name

Ackman's name is technically one of several reused names across Akira Toriyama's various works...

History

Shueisha launched V-Jump as a special extra publication of Weekly Shonen Jump in 1991 with a three-issue trial run. Akira Toriyama provided three chapters (one per issue) of the original Savings Warrior Cashman for this run. Shueisha rebooted the magazine at a different print size in 1992, this time running for four issues; Toriyama once again contributed an original manga, this time the four-chapter series Dub & Peter-1.

The magazine was rebooted once again in May 1993, this time launching as an independent monthly magazine (a schedule it maintains to this day). Toriyama returned yet again, this time with Go! Go! Ackman, which ran for 11 chapters over the span of its debut issue (the July 1993 issue that May) through to the October 1994 issue (released that August), taking a five-issue break after chapter 7 before returning for chapter 8 in the July 1994 issue.

During its original serialization, a short animated adaptation of some of Go! Go! Ackman's early chapters was produced for the first V-Jump Festival in 1994...

Immediately following the completion of Toriyama's original manga, a Go! Go! Ackman "Cel Comic" began in the November 1994 issue of V-Jump (released 21 September 1994), running for six chapters, written by Takao Koyama and illustrated by Satoru Iriyoshi. While not actually produced by Akira Toriyama himself, he retained the "Original Work" credit (原作 gensaku) as well as the "Editorial Supervisor" (監修 kanshū) credit^{[note 1]}. The series serves as a sequel to and continuation from the original Go! Go! Ackman manga series, and was serialized in conjunction with and to promote the first Go! Go! Ackman video game released on the Nintendo Super Famicom in December 1994.

At the end of its sixth chapter in the April 1995 issue, a small splash states that there would be no chapter in the following May 1995 issue. After a one-month break, the series was followed by a Go! Go! Ackman 2 cel comic starting in the June 1995 issue, and after another one-month break in the October 1995 issue, finally a Go! Go! Ackman 3 cel comic starting in the November 1995 issue -- this final comic is notable for switching up the credits with the dropping of Takao Koyama, and therefore Satoru Iriyoshi being the only non-Toriyama credit (who retains his gensaku and kanshū credits). Each of these were likewise serialized in conjunction with and to promote subsequent Super Famicom games.

A Game Boy game was also released in August 1995...

Media

Debut Chapter Page	Title	Media	Publication/Platform	Creator	Timeframe	Chapters
	ゴー！ゴー!アックマン Gō! Gō! Akkuman Go! Go! Ackman	Manga	V-Jump	Akira Toriyama	1992-1993	11
	ゴー！ゴー!アックマン Gō! Gō! Akkuman Go! Go! Ackman	Manga (Cel Comic)	V-Jump	Writer: Takao Koyama Illustrator: Satoru Iriyoshi	1994-1995	TBD
	ゴー！ゴー!アックマン Gō! Gō! Akkuman Go! Go! Ackman	Video Game	Nintendo Super Famicom	Banpresto	1994	n/a
File:Tbd.png	ゴー！ゴー!アックマン2 Gō! Gō! Akkuman Tsū Go! Go! Ackman 2	Manga (Cel Comic)	V-Jump	Writer: Takao Koyama Illustrator: Satoru Iriyoshi	1995	4
	ゴー！ゴー!アックマン2 Gō! Gō! Akkuman Tsū Go! Go! Ackman 2	Video Game	Nintendo Super Famicom	Banpresto	1995	n/a
	ゴー！ゴー!アックマン Gō! Gō! Akkuman Go! Go! Ackman	Video Game	Nintendo Game Boy	Banpresto	1994	n/a
File:Tbd.png	ゴー！ゴー!アックマン2 Gō! Gō! Akkuman Surii Go! Go! Ackman 3	Manga (Cel Comic)	V-Jump	Illustrator: Satoru Iriyoshi	1995	4
	ゴー！ゴー!アックマン3 Gō! Gō! Akkuman Surii Go! Go! Ackman 3	Video Game	Nintendo Super Famicom	Banpresto	1995	n/a

References

Notes

↑ This "Editorial Supervisor" (監修 kanshū) credit is generally dished out to a product Akira Toriyama either has some sort of general oversight over or occasionally even directly contributes to, but not necessarily both or even either; in many ways, it is a secondary "honorary" type credit that does not necessitate involvement. The Brief Return of Dr. Slump, a sequel manga series written by Takao Koyama and illustrated by Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru, gives Toriyama this same credit. Meanwhile, Naho Ooishi's three-chapter Episode of Bardock manga gives Toriyama this same credit, and we know that he did actually in fact provide several character designs for that work, including that of the main antagonist, Chilled.

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[1] This "Editorial Supervisor" (監修 kanshū) credit is generally dished out to a product Akira Toriyama either has some sort of general oversight over or occasionally even directly contributes to, but not necessarily both or even either; in many ways, it is a secondary "honorary" type credit that does not necessitate involvement. The Brief Return of Dr. Slump, a sequel manga series written by Takao Koyama and illustrated by Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru, gives Toriyama this same credit. Meanwhile, Naho Ooishi's three-chapter Episode of Bardock manga gives Toriyama this same credit, and we know that he did actually in fact provide several character designs for that work, including that of the main antagonist, Chilled.

[note 1]