# Kazumasa Hirai (author)

Kazumasa Hirai (平井 和正, Hirai Kazumasa, May 13, 1938 – January 17, 2015) 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)

## Works
### 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)