Starzinger: The Movie Collection

Great space drama
This is a space drama about three cyborgs who unite to help a princess restore balance in the galaxy.

Fans of Ultraman will enjoy this from the similarities. Ultraman Cosmos fans will really enjoy.

The lead cyborg hero has the ability to grow and fight large alien monsters. Like Ultraman Cosmos, there job is not to kill but remove the evil essence that has caused peaceful creatures to mutate into evil monsters. There is one main evil source that is the cause and an evil being that lies there who is spreading the chaos.

This was known as Spaceketeers from the Force Five series.
Picture quality was very good to for a show from 1976.

The transfer was done very well Some of the dubbing can get a little cheesy, other than that, I strongly recommend.

I like how they spliced enough episodes together to create a story and an ending.

Not the Spaceketeers I remember
Like when Battle of the planets were re-dubbed as Gatchman I was very disappointed that my beloved childhood Spaceketeers were changed so much as Starzinger. it was obvious we have different English voice actors. The characters names and personalities also been change. I for one much prefer Porkos with his snorting over John Haka character. Even Jessie and his Astro Bat is now Jan Kugo and his astro bar. The original English dubbed version didn't make fun the sea cyborg's picture hand computer the way Starzinger has. Princess Aurora is the closet to how I remember the characters.

if your a die hard fan of this classic Japanese series you can find yourself able to over come the flawed changes (in my opinion) in the English dubbing over the original English dubbed.

Worth taking a look at!!!
I enjoyed this newly dubbed version of this anime, particularly with it holding its original title. I remember this as "Spaceketeers" in the early 80's. The anime is still top notch for its time and the dubbing is not too bad. I'm still waiting for the release of Grendizer, but will be picking up Danguard Ace when its available.

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