The year is 2087, and humanity is about to lose its position as the dominant life form on planet Earth. An endless swarm of biomechanical beings known as the Venomoids descend from space. Earth's Space Knights are no match for the Venemoid champions, the Teknomen. When the young pilots Ringo Richards and Star Summers find a wounded stranger named Blade, humanity gains one last hope. Blade is able to transform into a Teknoman, but he has no memories and fights to protect Earth. His opponents are not only the endless alien menace, but also the other Teknomen -- who were once human, and his family and friends.
C**L
Hopefully....
Hopefully this is a dubbed version of the Japanese series and not the censored version of the series that we got here in the states. It would be terrible if we got the edited series after all this time of waiting.
L**N
Teknoman 1
Teknoman is great and this is not the UPN dub but the international dub!
S**E
DO NOT GET DISCOURAGED!
This set may be the Edited Version that was aired in the UK/Austrailia, but I say to Purchase this set anyway! if you are a fan of the series in any form, then buy it to show Media Blasters there is a demand for the original Japanese version and a demand for this series to be released! if sales dont do well with theses sets, it is less likely they will release the original Tekkaman Blade in its entirety. 14 episodes for $25 is not a bad deal! I have many versions of this series and I am proud to have this version as well! if they do release a full collection of the Original Uncut version of this series months after these 3 collections I will buy them too!Don get Discouraged! show your support for such a fantastic series and buy this set!
S**I
Teknoman - Collection One (Vol. 1)
As for the show, I didn't grow up with this, but it's pretty cool - especially if you like the 80's giant robot sci-fi stuff.This is the American release of Teknoman - not the Japanese Tekkaman Blade version. That means it's like Robotech and Voltron - all English dubbed and, (I believe), no subtitles and no original Japanese dialog. I would be interested in the original Tekkaman Blade series as well.I purchased this because I had originally purchased the complete series at the store. I didn't get to watching the whole show until after I could return it - and I found errors. Two discs in the entire set wouldn't read. I looked it up online and found that the complete series release is notorious for having these problems. So, I bought this individual volume to replace what I was missing, and that did the trick. Apparently, the individual volumes are from a different batch.I would recommend purchasing the individual volumes, whatever the cost, instead of the Complete Series set.
C**U
Teknoman, not as badly cut as some think
This is the superior International English Dub of Tekkaman Blade, not the radically cut US English Dub.Of the first 16 Japanese episodes, only one is missing, and it's a recap episode anyway. The majority of extreme content has been left unchanged, including character deaths.The only point where this dub suffers is in the final four episodes, which have been merged into two, and one other episode towards the end that has been completely removed detailing Blade's past with his brother.Other than that, the new voice cast and musical score are brilliant and much easier for English speakers to understand than Japanese.
O**I
A lazy collection, could have been so much more.
In the fall of 1995, a new show named Teknoman was released and dubbed for television. Darker, more serious and intense then past dubbed fare like sailor moon, it immediately captured a cult audience.Now eleven years later, that show is put onto DVD. Unfortunately, it is no longer 1995. Anime no longer has a small but devoted cult following, but has a major fanbase. A fanbase that tends to frown upon rewrites to a storyline, edited or even, gasp, episodes that are not at all included. A fanbase that prefers to see the actual show as it aired in Japan, with subtitles, the original name, intro's and outro's, and storyline. Sadly, this DVD is a throwback to a more primitive time when anime was often converted into something more American. A time back when Space Fortress Yamato was re-named into Starblazers, because heaven forbid Americas children witness something like a WWII japanese warship being upgraded into a space fortress to save humanity.In the past ten years, anime has become a much more widespread and respected medium. Respected enough to win academy awards and be given prime time slots on television. Teknoman was very much the Robotech of the nineties in that for what it was, a dubbed, edited, rewritten, and re-scored version of a very cool Japanese anime, it was actually very engrossing. Sadly, over the past ten years I've managed to actually view Spaceknight: Tekkaman Blade, the Japanese show Teknoman was taken from, in it's entirety. And I'm sad to say that this show does not measure up in any form.The list of failings this series has are numerous. Entire episodes are cut, Teknoman is 43 episodes to Tekkaman Blades 49. This would not be so bad if they had not have cut out two of the series most important episodes. Brothers of Light and Darkness, and The house where time stood still. Not only that, but Teknoman also edited the final two episodes down and condensed them into one final episode. Lessening what was a great ending story arc. other minor episodes were cut, but that is not so much a loss as the cuts mentioned above.The intro's were redone, using edited footage from certain episodes and generic synth pop musc. This is incredibly tacky in comparison to the catchy j-pop intro's and interesting animation that comprised Tekkman Blades intro's and outtro's.The episodes that stayed behind were rewritten in several ways. Lessening the original series mature mood with generic and rather silly dialogue and story developments. And perhaps worst of all was the renaming of some of the characters. Tekkaman Blade was a dark, serious, engrossing show with likeable characters and some very heavy subject matter. Somehow it's rather hard to take such subject matter as having to murder your beloved family and friends due to their being genetically controlled by aliens when they rename characters such as Noal and Aki into Ringo and Starr, and the main character Shinya, into Nick Carter.DVD features are even skimpier, there are none. No subtitles or japanese language track, just a admittedly decent dub. No audio options, your stuck with mono, no stereo. I know this show was dubbed in 1995, but it doesn't mean they have to treat the DVD release as such.I enjoyed Teknoman eleven years ago, it is doubtful I would have become such a ardent fan of anime without it's influence. But sadly, after having seen Spaceknight: Tekkaman Blade, Teknoman just does not measure up in any way to it's heritage. Teknoman is an entirely different show from Tekkaman Blade, in the same way Robotech was an entirely different show from Super Dimensional Fortress Macross. Though it took twenty years for them to do so, ADV finally managed to distribute the actual Macross storyline on DVD to the public. I just hope it doesn't take another ten years for Spaceknight: Tekkaman Blade to get the same respect.
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