Mega Man (TV series)
Mega Man is an American animated television series based on the video game series Mega Man Japanese software company Capcom. The series was produced by Ruby - Spears Productions and Ashi Productions and was canceled after only two seasons produced.
Action
Dr. Light and Dr. Wily were once brilliant scientist in the field of robot development, which had always followed the common goal to facilitate the life of humanity with the help of robots. One day succeed both the breakthrough and is able to complete a prototype of the new generation of robots. When it is activated, the robot immediately starts to destroy the laboratory of the two scientists. Dr. Light believes that the problem is rooted in computer control reasoning system, had developed which Dr. Wily, and demands that Dr. Wily destroyed the plans for future robot prototypes. From anger Wily steals the plans and disappears without a trace.
Years later presented Dr. Light along with his androids rock and roll on a robot exhibition its new generation of robots with the models Guts Man, to which help out on construction sites, Cut Man, to be used for gardening and Ice Man, which in tropical areas for cooling should provide. The fair will be attacked by Dr. Wily and his robot Proto Man, Dr. Wily wants because reprogram all the robots of Dr. Light, so that they help him to take over the world at what, ultimately, succeed.
To counter the threat posed by Dr. Wily to Rock by Dr. Light allows Mega Man to rebuild and begins to clean the world from Dr. Wily and his Robot Masters.
Production and publication
Although Capcom already made in the early 1990s, three pilot episodes produced for the series, which is titled Rockman until 2002: Hoshi ni Negai where (ロックマン 星 に 願い を; engl title: " Mega Man / Megaman: Upon a Star " ) were published, they decided against the anime style and produced a series in the 1980s retro style. The target group of the series were originally only boys, but after it was noticed that many girls the series just because of rolling turn-on there who had been there during the second season more in the limelight of the series. At the end of the second season also characters from the spin-off games, the MegaMan series like Mega Man X, Vile, Spark mandril or Sigma were introduced, (written in the series as Cigma ), as was planned, the figures play a greater role in the to flex the third season and if successful also has its own "Mega Man X " animated series.
Plans for a third season and the offshoot but were dropped because Capcom had problems with the merch partner Bandai and was not willing to continue to fund the series.
Previously, there was no German DVD release, however there were in the 1990s, four department - VHS tapes with two episodes of the series. In the U.S., the complete series has been released on DVD.
Episode List
Synchronization
The series was edited in Munich at Plaza synchronous. The dialog book was written by Matthias von Stegmann, which also led Dubbing studio.