It was directed by Yugo Serikawa and written by Tatsuo Tamura. The story revolves around the Princess of the Moon, Aurora and her three cyborg companions Kugo, Djorgo, and Hakka who must travel to the Great King planet and restore the Galaxy Energy in the year The universe was becoming more and more unbalanced as the Queen of the Great Planet grows older. Their adventure includes battling the starmen who are transformed from the unbalanced minerals and planets.
Starzinger was essentially a sci-fi space opera retelling of the 16th-century shenmo fantasy novel Journey to the West , a Chinese literary classic written by the Ming dynasty novelist Wu Cheng'en. The series was produced by Toei Animation. Production staff include:. In March , a film was aired reusing footage from the first segment of the series.
The film was more or less a summary. It was never intended to be anything more than re-marketing of the last few episodes, since it was aired immediately after the first sixty-four episodes were shown in June The 65th episode began instantly in the following month with all the galactic energy restored in the storyline.
Only 47 episodes of the original 73 were dubbed and aired. This version of the series never reached their conclusion. This set includes 24 episodes of "El Galactico" with the original Spanish dubbing. As the Journey to the West story is not well known in the region, the characters were renamed to reference the Three Musketeers. To also fit into the Force Five time slot, the show had to be edit-squeezed into 26 episodes.
The U. The Force Five version not only just produced 26 episodes, but this English-language version of the series never reached their conclusion. A listing of what episodes were cut out can be found at: Warfists Starzinger site in the episode section. The Swedish-language version of the series reached their conclusion. Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk. Read Edit View history. Tools Tools. Download as PDF Printable version. In other projects.
