Mega Man: Upon a Star
| Mega Man: Upon a Star | |
ADV Films | |
| Released | September 20, 2002[1] |
|---|---|
| Runtime | 30 minutes |
| Episodes | 3 |
Mega Man: Upon a Star, known in Japan as Rockman: Hoshi ni Negai o (ロックマン 星に願いを, lit. "Rockman: Wishing Upon a Star"), is a Japanese
ADV Films on January 4, 2005, although the order of episodes 1 and 2 from the Japanese release was switched for this release.[3]
It loosely adapts the events of Mega Man 5 along with original story elements.
Plot
In the early 1990s, Yuuta Kobayashi is a Japanese boy who plays the game Proto Man and Beat to help Mega Man. While Proto Man and Beat take care of the lava robots, Mega Man breaks into Wily's lab to beat all eight of Wily's Robot Masters. Wily makes his escape in a rocket, but Proto Man diverts his rocket to go back into Yuuta's video game. After celebrating Wily's defeat, the game characters return to the game world.
Mega Man and Roll get pulled out of the game world by Yuuta and Akane and are taken to the
Sports Day
.
Episode list
| # | Title | Released | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Appearance in Japan" Transliteration: "Nihon jōriku" (Japanese: 日本上陸) | September 20, 2002[1] | |
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Yuuta Kobayashi has a fight with his family because he was playing Mega Man 5 until late at night. Because he had kept the game paused for the night, Mega Man and Dr. Wily are unable to settle their score in the game. Eventually, Wily jumps out of Yuuta's TV and leads a large number of robots to attack the real world while fighting Mega Man, who had followed them. | |||
| 2 | "Wishing Upon a Star" Transliteration: "Hoshi ni negai o" (Japanese: 星に願いを) | September 20, 2002[1] | |
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In the game, Mega Man and Wily are fighting as usual, but Mega Man comes out of the game as Yuuta and Akane fought over the controller. Meanwhile, Wily, who had calmed down because Mega Man had disappeared, warps to Dr. Light's laboratory, where he finds a freshly built time machine. | |||
| 3 | "Future Beware" Transliteration: "Mirai ga abunai" (Japanese: 未来が危ない) | September 20, 2002[1] | |
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Wily has developed a new type of mecha, the Skull Car, which surpasses Dr. Light's time machine. In the meantime, Mega Man and his friends use the time machine that Dr. Light has restored to travel back in time one year to the real world where Yuuta and Akane live, only to find that all of Japan has been turned into ruins by Wily. | |||
Voice Cast
| Character | Japanese | English |
|---|---|---|
| Mega Man | Hekiru Shiina | Gregory Smith (Ep. 1) Christopher Gray (Eps. 2-3) |
Dr. Wily
|
Kenichi Ogata | Scott McNeil |
| Yuuta Kobayashi (小林 優太, Kobayashi Yūta) | Rie Iwatsubo Akiko Yajima (Ep. 1) |
Brandon O'Bray (Ep. 1) Sean Amsing (Eps. 2-3) |
| Akane Kobayashi (小林 茜, Kobayashi Akane) | Yuri Shiratori | Kelly Sheridan |
| Mrs. Kobayashi | Sayuri Ikemoto | Kathleen Barr (Ep. 1) Cathy Weseluck (Eps. 2-3) |
| Mr. Kobayashi | Kenichi Ono | Campbell Lane |
| Dr. Light | Hiroshi Naka | Jim Byrnes |
Roll
|
Satomi Kōrogi | Andrea Libman |
Proto Man
|
Urara Takano | Kaj-Erik Eriksen |
| Rush | Wataru Takagi | Terry Klassen |
| Eddie | Katsumi Suzuki | Paul Dobson |
| Beat | Scott McNeil | |
Additional voices were performed in English by Brent Chapman and David Kaye.
References
- ^ a b c d e f "ロックマンアニメーションDVD ロックマン星に願いを". e-capcom. Archived from the original on 2003-03-23. Retrieved 2013-03-25.
- ^ a b "カプコン、幻のアニメDVD「ロックマン 星に願いを」をゲームショウにて限定販売". GAME Watch. 27 August 2002. Retrieved 21 July 2020.
- ^ "Megaman OVA: Upon a Star". ADV Films.com. Archived from the original on 2007-06-22. Retrieved 2013-03-25.
External links
- Information at the Mega Man Home Page
- Mega Man: Upon a Star in The Mechanical Maniacs
- Megaman: Upon a Star (OAV) (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
