Ken Yokoyama | Hideo Yokoyama | Mitsuteru Ueshiba | Katsuya Yokoyama | Chisa Yokoyama |
The idea of a robot controlled by a young hero was first used in 1956 with Iron Man 28 or Tetsujin 28-go (dubbed and released in the US as Gigantor), by manga artist Mitsuteru Yokoyama, which featured a giant robot piloted by remote-control by a young boy named Shotaro Kaneda, who used it to fight against evil.