Wing-Man is the story of Kenta Hirono, a fan of superheroes and sentai television shows to the point where he dreams of becoming such a hero himself. To that end, he creates a superhero of his own called "Wingman," and, much to the chagrin of his teachers, acts out his fantasies of being Wingman at school. When Kenta meets Aoi Yume, the beautiful blue-haired princess of an alternate universe called Podreams, he gets his chance to make his fantasy come true, as Aoi carries a book called a Dream Note which can make any dream come true, and Kenta draws a picture of Wingman in the book, allowing him to become Wingman for real. Kenta, Aoi and Kenta's classmate and love interest, Miku Ogawa, team up to save Podreams from the evil dictator Rimel, who wants to use the Dream Note to take over Podreams, while Kenta deals with his conflicting feelings for both of his female compatriots.

Kenta Hirono (広野健太, Hirono Kenta)

Voiced by: Ryō Horikawa

Aoi Yume (夢あおい, Yume Aoi)

Voiced by: Yōko Kawanami

Miku Ogawa (小川美紅, Ogawa Miku)

Voiced by: Naoko Watanabe

Momoko Morimoto (森本桃子, Morimoto Momoko)

Voiced by: Yuriko Yamamoto

Kumiko Fuzawa (布沢久美子, Fuzawa Kumiko)

Voiced by: Seiko Nakano

Kurumi Mimori (美森くるみ, Mimori Kurumi)

Voiced by: Mitsuko Horie

Riro Ousei (桜瀬りろ, Ousei Riro)

Voiced by: Mika Ishizawa

Kenta's Father

Voiced by: Kōji Yada

Kenta's Mother

Voiced by: Mariko Mukai

Masakazu Tonari (戸鳴正和, Tonari Masakazu)

Voiced by: Akie Yasuda

Keiko Matsuoka (松岡ケイ子, Matsuoka Keiko)

Voiced by: Sumi Shimamoto

Principal

Voiced by: Takeshi Aono

Vice Principal

Voiced by: Jōji Yanami

Fukumoto (福本)

Voiced by: Michitaka Kobayashi

Doctor Lark (ドクターラーク)

Voiced by: Sanji Hase

Rimel (リメル)

Voiced by: Hideyuki Tanaka

Kitakura (キータクラー)

Voiced by: Kei Tomiyama

Kitamura-sensei (北村先生)

Voiced by: Hideyuki Tanaka

Shaft (シャフト)

Voiced by: Kaneto Shiozawa (Kōzō Shioya in episode 7)

Doctor Unbalance (ドクターアンバランス)

Voiced by: Hiroshi Ōtake

The Shiva (ザ・シーバ)

Voiced by: Mari Yokō

Nass (ナァス)

Voiced by: Bin Shimada

Ghost Rimel (ゴーストリメル)

Voiced by: Eiji Kanie

Anime edit

The manga was adapted into an anime television series titled Dream Soldier Wing-Man^{[Jp. 2]} in 1984, produced by Toei Animation and airing on TV Asahi. It also had a 1984 visual novel adventure game adaptation of the same name, developed by TamTam and published by Enix for the NEC PC-8801 and other Japanese personal computers.^[2] It featured a point-and-click interface, where a cursor is used to interact with on-screen objects,^[3] similar to Planet Mephius (1983)^[3] and the Famicom version of The Portopia Serial Murder Case (1985).^[4]

The anime, featuring character designs by Yoshinori Kanemori and intended by Toei Animation to be a strong shōnen title following the female-targeted Ai Shite Knight, marked the first anime adaptation of one of Katsura's works (Katsura himself would later appear as Wingman in a live-action adaptation of Video Girl Ai) and the debut role of Ryo Horikawa as Kenta. The anime's ending is different from that of the manga, the manga ending was never animated but was dramatized with the anime's voice actors on a drama LP.

• Wing-Man at Toei Animation
• Wing-Man (manga) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia