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 Aired: 1978 - 1980
Show Type: Animated
Country of Origin: JAPAN
Anime series. Part of the force five series.
Science Fiction Saiyuki Starzinger (Japanese: S£ÆÎ÷ß[Ó¡¡¥¹¥¿©`¥¸¥ó¥¬©`) was an anime series aired in Japan from 1978 to 1979. It translates literally to "Science Fiction Journey to the West Starzinger". In the US it is referred to as Spaceketeers. In the UK, it is referred to as Sci-Bots.
The story revolves around the Princess of the Moon, Aurora and her three cyborg companions (Kugo, Djorgo, Haka) who must travel to the Great King planet and restore the Galaxy Energy. The universe is 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 is essentially a Sci-fi space opera retelling of the ancient 1590 Saiyuki/Journey to the West from the Ming Dynasty. The Sci-fi twists were designed by Leiji Matsumoto based on the Terebi Magazine manga.
Starzinger was aired in early 1980's in Latin America with the name of "El Gal¨¢ctico", as part of the four-series show "El Festival de los Robots" which translate to "Festival of Robots". The other shows were "Steel Jeeg", "Gaiking", and "Magne Robo Gakeen".
In North America, it was aired as "Spaceketeers" as part of the package show Force Five. 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 US version puts them on a mission to the Dekos Star System which contained evil powers changing peaceful creatures to evil mutants. It should be noted that the Force Five version not only just produce 26 episodes, but this English Version of the series never reached their conclusion.
24 episodes of the original 73, was also given out in Scandinavia (mainly in Sweden) under the original name Starzinger.
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