Shimamura, Joe

島村ジョー

Joe, known as Jo Shimamura in the Japanese version and also as 009, is from Japan, though he is actually half-Japanese. A delinquent youth, he escaped from a juvenile detention facility before being captured by Black Ghost. In the 2001 anime, after his father disappeared and his mother died on the steps during his birth, he was an orphan taken in by a Catholic priest from Kanazawa along with their street friends (Mary Onodera (perhaps a tribute to Shotaro Ishinomori, whose birth name was Shotaro Onodera), Shin'ichi Ibaraki, and Masaru Oyamada). Then, when he turned 18, his mentor was killed by Black Ghost members after they used a group of children that he raised in the church as guinea pigs for the Cyborg project; Joe was wrongfully blamed, then captured by the priest's killers and made into a cyborg. In the 1960s film versions, Joe was a famous racer, nicknamed "Hurricane Joe", who gets into a crash and is recovered by Black Ghost (similar to 004's origin). Although Joe received several body enhancements during the process of being turned into a cyborg, his most prominent ability is the power to move at a speed so fast that everything else looks like a statue to him (because of an advanced version of 002's acceleration module); this is triggered by a switch embedded in his teeth. However, he cannot touch any normal creatures such as humans in this state; the high speeds would kill or otherwise cause serious injury to the creature through air friction. Joe's trademark aesthetic feature is his flowing, spiked hair, of which a single large lock always covers one of his eyes. During each of the series, he acts as the leader of 009 Cyborgs. He and his girlfriend in the group, 003 (Françoise Arnoul), who fell in love with him, later form a romantic relationship that is more explicit in the manga (where they were shown having sex, something quite uncommon in the '70s) and the earlier series, and only implied at in the 2001 series. Also, other girls have shown some degree of romantic interest in him, like Lady Tamara in the 1979 movie, Helen the Pu'Awak princess in the 2001 series, and Princess Ishuki in both manga and the 2001 series. Arguably, Artemis the Greek Goddess of the 2001 series may have had some feelings for him, though those also fit as non-romantic bonding because of their origins. He appears as a playable character in Street Fighter Online: Mouse Generation.

Details:

First name:: Joe
Last name:: Shimamura
Other names:: 009

Photo gallery

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Productions featuring this character

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Cyborg 009: Nemesis

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Cyborg 009: Call of Justice 3

Cyborg009 Call Of Justice 3

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Cyborg 009: Call of Justice 2

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Cyborg 009: Call of Justice 1

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Cyborg 009 VS Devilman

Cyborg 009 vs Devilman

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009 Re:Cyborg

009 Re:Cyborg

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Cyborg 009: The Reopening

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Cyborg 009: The Cyborg Soldier - Kami no Ubugoe

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Cyborg 009: The Cyborg Soldier

Cyborg 009

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Cyborg 009: Chou Ginga Densetsu

Cyborg 009: Legend of the Super Galaxy

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Cyborg 009 (1979)

Cyborg 009

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Cyborg 009 (TV)

Cyborg 009

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Cyborg 009: Kaijuu Sensou

Cyborg 009 and the Monster Wars

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Cyborg 009

Cyborg 009

Voice actors for this character

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Yuuki KajiVoices: Japanese

Keisuke KoumotoVoices: Japanese

Kyle McCarleyVoices: English

Lucas GamaVoices: Portuguese (BR)

Carlo VázquezVoices: Spanish

Timo KinzelVoices: German

Andrea OldaniVoices: Italian

Jordi NavarroVoices: Spanish

Alexandre CrépetVoices: French

Jun FukuyamaVoices: Japanese

Johnny Yong BoschVoices: English

Stefano CrescentiniVoices: Italian

Mamoru MiyanoVoices: Japanese

Jason GriffithVoices: English

Konrad BösherzVoices: German

Uraz HuertaVoices: Spanish

Takahiro SakuraiVoices: Japanese

Joshua SethVoices: English

Irwin DaayánVoices: Spanish

Yeong Seon KimVoices: Korean

Christiano TorreãoVoices: Portuguese (BR)

Christophe HespelVoices: French

Takako HondaVoices: Japanese

Derek Stephen PrinceVoices: English

Laura TorresVoices: Spanish

Sérgio CantúVoices: Portuguese (BR)

Kazuhiko InoueVoices: Japanese

Massimo RossiVoices: Italian

Norbert GescherVoices: German

Sylvie FeitVoices: French

Katsuji MoriVoices: Japanese

Orlando ViggianiVoices: Portuguese (BR)

Philippe OgouzVoices: French

Oota, HiroyukiVoices: Japanese

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