Lightspeed Electroid Albegas

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Lightspeed ElectroGod Albegas (光速電神アルベガス, Kōsoku Denjin Arubegasu) was an anime series aired from 1983 to 1984 in Japan, Latin America, Spain and Italy. There were 45 episodes aired at 25 minutes each. Other loosely translated names are "Arbegas", "Arebegas", "Lightspeed Electron Arbegas" and "Dimensión Benjín: Arbegas El Rayo Custodio".

Original Story

Three talented students of a technical high school, Daisaku, Tetsuya and Hotaru create award-winning robots as part of a school competition. At this time, the evil Derinja race that plans control of all space extends its ambitions to Earth. To combat this threat, Hotaru's father, Professor Mizuki, takes the three robots and modifies them for battle. Albegas, a super robot, is born.

Concept

The three individual robots form by stacking on top of one another to form a super robot called Albegas. There are six stackable formations. Each one serves a special function. Individually, the name of the robots are derived from Greek alphabets (Alpha, Beta, and Gamma).

The plot of high school students defending the Earth, while sounding farfetched, actually signaled a critical point in super-robot anime when character developments began to matter. Fans were beginning to look for more than just a shell of a charismatic robot.

Staff

• Director
  Kozo Morishita

• Additional Directors
  Masamitsu Sasaki
  Masao Ito
  Noriyasu Yamauchi
  Keiji Hisaoka
  Takao Yoshisawa
  Masayuki Akehi

• Screen Writers
  Akiyoshi Sakai

• Designers
  Shigenori Kageyama
  Koichi Ohata

• Animation
  Hajie Kaneko
  Toshio Mori

• Music
  Michiaki Watanabe

Characters

Japanese Name	Japanese Full Name	English Name	Voices by
Daisaku	Daisaku Enjoji
Tetsuya	Tetsuya Jin
Hotaru	Hotaru Mizuki
Derinja		Derringer
Prof. Mizuki		Professor Mizuki
Goro	Goro Kumai
Ritsuko
Saeko
Bunta
Professoressa
President Bios
Generalissimo (Shogun) Duston
Commander Katastra
Commander Mira Zero

Robots

Configuration	Color	Pilot
Alpha Robo	Black	Daisaku Enjoji
Beta Robo	Blue	Tetsuya Jin
Gamma Robo	Red	Hotaru Mizuki

A friend of the three pilots, Goro, also piloted the comic relief Gori Robo (in the tradition of Boss Borot from Mazinger Z).

Stackable configurations

Albegas Mode	Stack (top to bottom)	Albegas Colors
Denjin Dimension (Electro God Dimension)	Alpha, Beta, Gamma	Black, Blue, Red
Magma Dimension	Beta, Gamma, Alpha	Blue, Red, Black
Space Dimension	Alpha, Gamma, Beta	Black, Red, Blue
Marine Dimension	Gamma, Alpha, Beta	Red, Black, Blue
Guard Dimension	Gamma, Beta, Alpha	Red, Blue, Black
Sky Dimension	Beta, Alpha, Gamma	Blue, Black, Red

When combined, the first listed robot forms the upper torso, head, arms, and thighs of Albegas, the second robot listed forms the midrif, upper backpack, and the backs of the lower legs, and the third robot forms the waist, the lower backpack, and the prominent portion of the lower legs.

Super Abega and New Super Abega

In the beginning of the series, each pilot also used a smaller aircraft, which was flown in through small hatches into the backs of the robots in order to pilot the robots. The three aircraft could also combine into a single jet called the Super Abega.

They were very quickly replaced by a different set of small aircraft that could transform into different bipedal droid forms, and similarly combined into the New Super Abega.

Original Jet	Transforming Jet/Robot	Pilot
Jet Alpha	New Jet Alpha/Jetrobo Alpha	Daisaku Enjoji
Jet Beta	New Jet Beta/Jetrobo Beta	Tetsuya Jin
Jet Gamma	New Jet Gamma/Jetrobo Gamma	Mizuki Hotaru

Voltron and Albegas

The original plan was to introduce Albegas into the Voltron universe as the third portion of the Voltron: Defender of the Universe series, but due to negative viewer reaction to the Dairugger XV-derived portion of the series, the plan was ultimately scrapped. However, Albegas toys were still released as "Voltron II" (a.k.a., "Gladiator Voltron") in the Matchbox Voltron toy line. Ultimately, Albegas did eventually appear in the U.S. in unaltered form as a laserdisc arcade game from Sega.

Trivia

• It was aired on Wednesday 5:55pm to 6:25pm.

References

ar:الشجعان الثلاثة es:Arbegas it:Arbegas ja:光速電神アルベガス