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| Tekkaman Blade | |
 DVD cover of Teknoman collection one | |
| 宇宙の騎士テッカマンブレード (Uchū no Kishi Tekkaman Burēdo) | |
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| Genre | Adventure, Mecha, science fiction, superhero, science fantasy |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Hiroshi Negishi |
| Written by | Mayori Sekijima Satoru Akahori |
| Music by | Kaoru Wada |
| Studio | Tatsunoko Production |
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| Original network | TXN (TV Tokyo) |
| English network | |
| Original run | February 18, 1992 – February 2, 1993 |
| Episodes | 50 (Uncut version) 43 (Saban version) |
| Original video animation | |
| Directed by | Hideki Tonokatsu |
| Written by | Akihiko Ureshino (Twin Blood) Hideki Tonokatsu (Burning Clock, Missing Link) |
| Music by | Kaoru Wada |
| Studio | Tatsunoko Productions |
| Released | 1998 |
| Episodes | 3 |
| Video game | |
| Uchū no Kishi: Tekkaman Blade | |
| Developer | BEC |
| Publisher | Bandai Yutaka (Game Boy) |
| Genre | Scrolling shooter/fighting (SNES) Platform (Game Boy) |
| Platform | Game Boy, Super Famicom, NEC PC-9801 |
| Released | July 30, 1993 |
| Original video animation | |
| Tekkaman Blade II | |
| Directed by | Hideki Tonokatsu |
| Produced by | Kyouko Okazaki Shuuji Uchiyama |
| Written by | Hiroyuki Kawasaki |
| Music by | Takashi Kudoh |
| Studio | Tatsunoko Production |
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| Released | July 21, 1994 – April 21, 1995 |
| Runtime | 30 minutes |
| Episodes | 6 |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Noritaka Suzuki |
| Published by | MediaWorks |
| Imprint | Media Comics |
| Magazine | Comic Comp |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Published | 1994 |
| Manga | |
| Tekkaman Blade II | |
| Written by | Rei Nakahara |
| Published by | MediaWorks |
| Imprint | Media Comics |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Published | 1995 |
Tekkaman Blade (Japanese: 宇宙の騎士テッカマンブレード, Hepburn: Uchū no Kishi Tekkaman Burēdo) is a 1992 Japanese anime television series produced by Tatsunoko Production and Sotsu Agency. The series was directed by Hiroshi Negishi and written by Mayori Sekijima and Satoru Akahori. The story follows an organization called the Space Knights and their war against aliens known as the Radam. The Space Knights are assisted by Takaya Aiba, who has the ability to transform into an armored warrior known as Tekkaman Blade.
The first series, of 50 episodes (including episode 0), aired in Japan from February 18, 1992, to February 2, 1993, on TV Tokyo. This was followed by two specials. A sequel series called Tekkaman Blade II, which is set ten years after the first series and follows the events of the second Radam invasion, was a series of six Japanese original video animation (OVA) releases from July 21, 1994, to April 21, 1995. A video game based on the series, titled Uchū no Kishi: Tekkaman Blade, was released in Japan on July 30, 1993. The original series was released internationally, including North America, and was dubbed in English as Teknoman.[1] In the English-dubbed versions, the series was heavily cut compared to the original Japanese version and shortened from 50 to 43 episodes.
- ^ Hyatt, Wesley (1997). The Encyclopedia of Daytime Television. Watson-Guptill Publications. p. 425. ISBN 978-0823083152. Retrieved 22 March 2020.