Eat-Man is a manga series created by Akihito Yoshitomi in 1996 which was serialized by Media Works in the magazine Monthly Comic Dengeki GAO!. In 1997 Studio DEEN adapted the manga into a 12 episode anime television series which was broadcast in Japan from January 1 to March 27, 1997 on TV Tokyo. A sequel, Eat-Man `98, was also animated by Studio DEEN and ran from October 8 to December 23, 1998.
Both anime series are licensed in North America by Bandai Entertainment and the manga series is licensed by Viz Communications.
Story
Eat-Man is a series of short, one-shot stories about an explorer named Bolt Crank, who has the ability to eat virtually anything, and can then produce from his arm any object he has consumed at will.
