Sasuraiger

Infobox animanga/Header
name = Galactic Whirlwind Sasuraiger


caption =
ja_name = 銀河疾風サスライガー
ja_name_trans = Ginga Shippū Sasuraigā
genre = MechaInfobox animanga/Anime
title =
director = Takao Yotsuji
studio = Kokusai Eiga-sha
network = flagicon|Japan TV Tokyo
first = April 5 1983
last = January 1 1984
episodes = 43

nihongo|"Galactic Whirlwind Sasuraiger"|銀河疾風サスライガー|Ginga Shippū Sasuraigā was an anime series aired from 1983 to 1984 in Japan. There were 43 episodes aired. Other loosely translated names include "Sasuraiger", "Galactic Gale Sasuraiger", "Galaxy Whirlwind Sasuraiger", "Wonder Six"." It is the sequel to "Baxinger" and is the final member of the J9 Series.

Original Story

The year is 2911 and the solar system consists of 50 planets. I.C Blues, a casino gambler, makes a bet with the boss of a criminal syndicate known as Bloody God that it is possible to navigate to all 50 planets within the space of one year. Taking up the challenge of I.C Blues is the JJ9 team, made up of Rocky, Beat and Birdy, who have purchased a super robot capable of transforming into a train from the space merchant, D.D Richman. This robot is Sasuraiger. As Blues and the JJ9 team starts the challenge, it soon becomes evident that the Bloody Syndicate will do anything to ensure the JJ9 team loses the bet. Sasuraiger will become the JJ9 team's best defense as they adventure across the stars.

Concept

The main robot Sasuraiger transform into a train to travel the galaxy. The original concept was adopted from the novel "Around the World in Eighty Days". The names have a noticeable western influence. Though the space adventure and adaptation of the story was written by manga artist Monkey Punch.

taff

* Directors
Takao Yotsuji

* Additional Directors
Teppei Matsuura
Hideki Takayama

* Design
Kazuo Komatsubara

Characters

{|class="wikitable"! Name! Nickname! Voiced by! Description
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Blues Carl Bernstein || IC Blues || Kazuyuki Sogabe || Blues Carl Bernstein was the leader of the team of JJ9 team controlling Sasuraiger.
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Rock Anlock || Makiuchu Rock || Kaneto Shiozawa || Rock was a marksman who was recruited by Blues to control Sasuraiger weapons.
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Beat MacKenzie || Otobake Beat || Katsuji Mori || Beat was a lover of racing. He was assigned as the pilot and occasionally double as as mechanics.
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Birdy Shaw || Moody Birdy || Yōko Asagami || Birdy was the daughter of the famous novelist Vincent Shaw.
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Jimmy Kenjo || || Yoku Shioya || Jimmy was the technician.
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Suzy Chang || || Masako Miura || Suzy helped in the kitchen affair. Though she and Jimmy are a teenage pair who joined Sasuraiger to look for a planet that permitted under-aged marriage.
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D. D. Richman || || Jōji Yanami || The original owner Sasuraiger, he hoped Blues and his friends will make money for him.
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Inspector Organ || || Kan Tokumaru || He was the police that relentlessly pursued the team suspecting them as bank robbers.
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Robots

* TV-83X Sasuraiger (J9-III go)
* Cosmo Shanker
* PRETTY-1 (Spiral Gyro)
* PRETTY-2
* PRETTY-3
* VI-C5 Birdrun

equels

This is part 3 of the J-9 Trilogy Galaxy series.

{|class="wikitable"! Part ! J9 Team! Japanese Translated Name! English Translated Name
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Part 1 || J9 || Ginga Senpuu Braiger || Galactic Whirlwind Braiger
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Part 2 || J9-II || Ginga Reppuu Baxinger || Galactic Gale Baxinger
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Part 3 || JJ9 || Ginga Shippu Sasuraiger || Galactic Hurricane Sasuraiger
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Merchandise

The toy was originally called Batrain when released by Takatoku. Interestingly, the Batrain stickers on the model could be removed to reveal Sasuraiger stickers underneath.

Video Games

The robot have been featured in video games such as Super Robot Wars, Super Robot Wars GC.

Trivia

* The anime was available in Indonesia in the form of VHS and Betamax with the title "Wonder Six". It was called this because there were 6 characters on the adventure.
* Because of typos done by animator Japan, the Rock character name was occasionally written as "Lock".

External links

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* [http://www.imagica.com/shop/j9/sasuraiger.html official site]
* [http://www.collectiondx.com/node/633 CollectionDX]