Perman (Japanese: パーマン, Hepburn: Pāman) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by the manga artist duo Fujiko Fujio about a clumsy boy, Mitsuo Suwa, who is chosen to apprentice to a powerful superhero to save the world along with other superheroes.

Mitsuo Suwa, a lazy young boy, meets an alien named Birdman, who is part of a group that maintains peace in the galaxy.

Birdman instructs Mitsuo that if a Perman's identity becomes known to others, he would be turned into animal (in the original work, his brain cells would be destroyed).

Eventually, Birdman picks one of them to go to Bird Planet in order to train to be his successor, the one who was chosen was Mitsuo and he bids farewell to his family and friends (in secret) and all of the other Permans promising to one day return as the best Perman, with his copy robot taking his place on Earth.

The first television series, consisting of 54 two-part episodes, was produced by Tokyo Movie with music composed by Hiroshi Tsutsui.