Starzinger

|| Arimos ||Giorgio|| ||Kei Tomiyama || Wield Laser-trident with freeze abilities|| Starcopper/Sea Wasp ||A cyborg. The most intelligent of the three. When in doubt he asks his portable computer. Based on the water-demon, Sha Wujing.
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|| || || ||Takashi Tanaka || || ||Based on Bull Demon King.
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Queen Lacets|| || || ||Yumi Nakatani, Nana Yamaguchi || || ||Based on Bull Demon King's wife.
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Adaptations

The movie was aired in March 1979 by reusing footages from the first segment of the series. It was more or less a summary.

The last 9 episode of the actual series was rebranded as "SF Saiyuki Starzinger II", though when shown outside Japan it is treated as one continuous series. It was never intended to be anything more than remarketing the last few episodes, since it was aired immediately after the first 64 episodes were shown in June 1979. The 65th episode began instantly in July 1979 with all the galactic energy restored in the storyline.

Internationalization

Starzinger was aired in early 1980s in Latin America with the name of "El Galáctico", as part of the four-series show "El Festival de los Robots" which translate to "Festival of Robots". The other shows were "Steel Jeeg", "Gaiking", and "Magne Robo Gakeen".

In North America, it was aired as "Spaceketeers" as part of the package show Force Five. As the "Journey to the West story" is not well known in the region, the characters were renamed to reference the Three Musketeers. To also fit into the Force Five time slot, the show had to be edit-squeezed into 26 episodes. The US version puts them on a mission to the Dekos Star System which contained evil powers changing peaceful creatures to evil mutants. It should be noted that the Force Five version not only just produced 26 episodes, but this English Version of the series never reached their conclusion.

24 episodes of the original 73 also aired in Scandinavia (mainly in Sweden) under the original name Starzinger.
List of what episodes were cut out can be found at: [http://warfist.com/starzinger/index_uk.php Warfists Starzinger site in the episode section]

Screenshots

Trivia

* It was aired every week Sunday 7:00pm to 7:30pm.

References

External links

* [http://www.toei-anim.co.jp/lineup/tv/starginger/ Official Page of Starzinger I]
* [http://www.warfist.com/starzinger/ Starzinger fansite]
* [http://home.swipnet.se/~w-28895/ Starzinger Fanclub]
* [http://www.anime-games.co.uk/VHS/anime/sci-bots7.php Review of Sci-bots] UK version of Spaceketeers
* [http://www.lighthill.org/nohohon/sutazin-top0.html SF Saiyuki Starzinger Fan Club] Starzinger Japanese fan club site (Written in Japanese)
* [http://sf.7rose.net/ Thought on Starzinger] A Japanese fan site with episode guides (Written in Japanese)