Albegas

Infobox animanga/Header
name = Lightspeed ElectroGod Albegas


ja_name = 光速電神アルベガス
ja_name_trans = Kōsoku Denjin Arubegasu
genre = MechaInfobox animanga/Anime
title = Lightspeed ElectroGod Albegas
director = Kozo Morishita
studio = Toei Animation
network = flagicon|Japan TV Tokyo
first = March 30 1983
last = Dec 29 1984
episodes = 45

nihongo|"Lightspeed ElectroGod Albegas"|光速電神アルベガス|Kōsoku Denjin Arubegasu was an anime series aired from 1983 to 1984 in Japan, Latin America, Spain and Italy. There were 45 episodes aired at 25 minutes each. Other loosely translated names are "Arbegas", "Arebegas", "Lightspeed Electron Arbegas" and "Dimensión Benjín: Arbegas El Rayo Custodio".

Original Story

Three talented students of a technical high school, Daisaku, Tetsuya and Hotaru create award-winning robots as part of a school competition. At this time, the evil Derinja race that plans control of all space extends its ambitions to Earth. To combat this threat, Hotaru's father, Professor Mizuki, takes the three robots and modifies them for battle. Albegas, a super robot, is born.

Concept

The three individual robots form by stacking on top of one another to form a super robot called Albegas. There are six stackable formations. Each one serves a special function. Individually, the name of the robots are derived from Greek alphabets (Alpha, Beta, and Gamma).

The plot of high school students defending the Earth, while sounding farfetched, actually signaled a critical point in super-robot anime when character developments began to matter. Fans were beginning to look for more than just a shell of a charismatic robot.

taff

* Director
Kozo Morishita

* Additional Directors
Masamitsu Sasaki
Masao Ito
Noriyasu Yamauchi
Keiji Hisaoka
Takao Yoshisawa
Masayuki Akehi

* Screen Writers
Akiyoshi Sakai

* Designers
Shigenori Kageyama
Koichi Ohata

* Animation
Hajie Kaneko
Toshio Mori

* Music
Michiaki Watanabe

Characters

{|class="wikitable"! Japanese Name! Japanese Full Name! English Name! Voices by
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Daisaku || Daisaku Enjoji || ||
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Tetsuya || Tetsuya Jin || |
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Hotaru || Hotaru Mizuki || |
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Derinja || || Derringer ||
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Prof. Mizuki || || Professor Mizuki |
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Goro || Goro Kumai || ||
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Ritsuko || || |
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Saeko || || |
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Bunta || || |
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Professoressa || || |
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President Bios || || |
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Generalissimo (Shogun) Duston || || |
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Commander Katastra || || |
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Commander Mira Zero || || |
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Robots

{|class="wikitable"! Configuration! Color! Pilot
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Alpha Robo || Black || Daisaku Enjoji
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Beta Robo || Blue || Tetsuya Jin
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Gamma Robo || Red || Hotaru Mizuki
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A friend of the three pilots, Goro, also piloted the comic relief Gori Robo (in the tradition of Boss Borot from Mazinger Z).

tackable configurations

{|class="wikitable"! width=20% | Albegas Mode ! width=40% | Stack (top to bottom)! width=40% | Albegas Colors
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Denjin Dimension (Electro God Dimension) || Alpha, Beta, Gamma || Black, Blue, Red
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Magma Dimension || Beta, Gamma, Alpha || Blue, Red, Black
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Space Dimension || Alpha, Gamma, Beta || Black, Red, Blue
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Marine Dimension || Gamma, Alpha, Beta || Red, Black, Blue
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Guard Dimension || Gamma, Beta, Alpha || Red, Blue, Black
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Sky Dimension || Beta, Alpha, Gamma || Blue, Black, Red
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When combined, the first listed robot forms the upper torso, head, arms, and thighs of Albegas, the second robot listed forms the midrif, upper backpack, and the backs of the lower legs, and the third robot forms the waist, the lower backpack, and the prominent portion of the lower legs.

uper Abega and New Super Abega

In the beginning of the series, each pilot also used a smaller aircraft, which was flown in through small hatches into the backs of the robots in order to pilot the robots. The three aircraft could also combine into a single jet called the Super Abega.

They were very quickly replaced by a different set of small aircraft that could transform into different bipedal droid forms, and similarly combined into the New Super Abega.

{|class="wikitable"! Original Jet! Transforming Jet/Robot! Pilot
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Jet Alpha || New Jet Alpha/Jetrobo Alpha || Daisaku Enjoji
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Jet Beta || New Jet Beta/Jetrobo Beta || Tetsuya Jin
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Jet Gamma || New Jet Gamma/Jetrobo Gamma || Mizuki Hotaru
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"Voltron" and "Albegas"

The original plan was to introduce "Albegas" into the "Voltron" universe as the third portion of the "Voltron: Defender of the Universe" series, but due to negative viewer reaction to the "Dairugger XV"-derived portion of the series, the plan was ultimately scrapped. [Voltron Universe. " [http://www.voltronuniverse.com/about_voltron.html Albegas Info] ." "Voltron Universe." Retrieved on 2006-11-05.] However, "Albegas" toys were still released as "Voltron II" ("a.k.a.", "Gladiator Voltron") in the Matchbox "Voltron" toy line, and Albegas made a brief appearance as Gladiator Voltron in the Voltron comic book series. Ultimately, "Albegas" did eventually appear in the U.S. in unaltered form as a laserdisc arcade game from Sega.

Trivia

* It was aired on Wednesday 5:55pm to 6:25pm.

References