![]() Video sold two 96-minute movie compilations. Congress Video sold half-hour episodes, whereas L.D. to major retail stores by Congress Video Group (the largest video distributor at the time), and later by L.D. Over forty-thousand original Tekkaman the Space Knight VHS video cassettes were successfully sold throughout the U.S. However, the dub was cancelled in mid-story with only 13 of the show’s 26 episodes produced. The reasons for the show's cancellation currently remain unknown.Īn English-language version was created by a small independent company called William Winckler Productions. The show was intended to run for 52 episodes, but was cancelled after 26 episodes. The character designs were done by Yoshitaka Amano (of Final Fantasy fame). The opening theme, “Tekkaman no Uta,” is sung by Ichirou Mizuki, written by Tatsunoko’s Planning Department (lyrics) and Asei Kobayashi (music) and arranged by Bob Sakuma, who composed all the music for the series. Test pilots George Minami and Hiromi Amachi, along with Andro Umeda and Mutan, two alien beings from the planet Sanno, rid the dying Earth from the threat of the “Waldaster” and continue to research the “Leap Flight Engine” to reach a new home for humanity. Amachi manages to create “Pegas” and the “Teksetter” system, designed to combat the aliens by augmenting a human with a certain wavelength into a Tekkaman, giving them enhanced strength abilities. The “Green Earth” project has been abandoned and scientists look to the stars to find a “Second Earth.” The Space Angel, on its mission to find this “Second Earth,” is attacked by a group of aliens named the “Waldarians.” The Space Angel is destroyed and with it the hope of mankind. The Earth has entered the 21st century and it is in peril.
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