Saber Rider and the star sheriffs

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Television series
German title Saber Rider and the star sheriffs
Original title Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs
Country of production Japan
USA
original language English
Year (s) 1987-1988
length 22 minutes
Episodes 52 + 5
genre Science fiction , space western
music Dale Schacker
First broadcast September 14, 1987
German-language
first broadcast		 1988 on Tele 5
synchronization

Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs is a Space Western - Anime television series, the US film company World Events Productions . WEP resorted to the Japanese series Sei Jūshi Bismarck and adapted it.

action

In the distant future, mankind will dominate interstellar space travel , which it will use to get the consequences of the population explosion under control, for whose supply the earthly capacities are no longer sufficient. For this purpose people colonize distant planets and combine them in a federation . But there are always attacks by extradimensional, human-like beings on the colonists, especially in the outskirts of the Federation. These beings are outriders from the Phantom Zone. The Federation's Cavalry High Command, headquartered on the planet Yuma, reacts to the pronounced technological and numerical superiority of the attackers with the creation of the Ramrod , a giant combat robot in the form of a cowboy. In addition, a group of fighters for the protection of humanity is formed, the star sheriffs .

characters

Surname description
The star sheriffs
Saber Rider Saber Rider namesake of the series and leader of the star sheriffs. He has a robot horse named Steed as his vehicle
Fireball A former racing driver who is recruited by the star sheriffs. Often on the road with the Red Fury Turbo Racer in his racing car .
Colt Was recruited by the star sheriffs similar to Fireball and was previously a bounty hunter. He flies the spacecraft Bronco Buster .
April She is the daughter of the commander in chief and helped develop the Ramrod spaceship. Similar to Saber Rider, she has a robot horse named Nova .
Commander Eagle The Starfleet Commander and April's father
Ramrod The battle spaceship of the star sheriffs, which can be transformed into a combat robot in cowboy design. In episode 48 ( The Peace Treaty ), Ramrod is dismantled as a result of a peace. With episode 49 ( The Blue Cobalt Blaster ) Ramrod 2 is introduced. Ramrod 3 followed later in the radio play series.
The Outriders
Jesse Blue Jesse is the strategist and adversary of the star sheriffs. He's a human and was a recruit to the star sheriffs and runs over to the Outriders after Saber Rider got in his way while trying to save April .
Nemesis Nemesis is the chief commander of the Outriders.
Gattler He leads a squadron in the fight against the people.
Vanquo One of the first Nemesis commanders.

production

Origins

The production origins of Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs go back to 1984 and are based on the Japanese series Sei Jūshi Bismarck . In 1987, the US film company World Events Productions bought the series and reworked it for a new market, renaming it Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs . During this process, 46 of the original 51 episodes were adapted and six completely new episodes were produced.

music

The music for the series was written by the American composer Dale Schacker . He had been responsible for Voltron's music a few years earlier . The intro and the credits from Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs contain vocals in English, which were not translated for the German release.

synchronization

The German dubbing was done by FFS Film- & Fernseh-Synchron GmbH . Ekkehardt Belle took over the dialogue direction and wrote the dialogue book together with Timo R. Schouren.

role US spokesman German speaker
Saber Rider Townsend Coleman Ekkehardt Belle
Fireball Pat Fraley Florian Halm
Colt Townsend Coleman Christian Tramitz
April Eagle Pat Musick Katrin Fröhlich
Commander Eagle Peter Cullen Norbert Gastell
Jesse Blue Rob Paulsen Arne Elsholtz (original speaker)
Philipp Moog (DVD dubbing)
Nemesis Peter Cullen Hartmut Neugebauer
Gattler Banjou ginga Willi Roebke (original speaker )
Volker Wolf (DVD dubbing)
Buck Neil Ross Martin Halm
Ramrod Peter Cullen Manfred Erdmann
teller Peter Cullen

Publications

The series was distributed in America and Europe, including broadcasts in France ( TF1 ), Italy ( Italia 7 ), Portugal (SBT) and Latin America. In 1988 it was broadcast in Germany by the television station Tele 5 . Later reruns ran on RTL II . From 2003 there were various releases of the series, some as a collector's edition. In addition to the previous episodes, five so-called Lost Episodes were also published. A complete edition on Blu-ray followed in 2017 .

Be Jūshi Bismarck

Logo of Sei Jūshi Bismarck

Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs draws on large parts of the Japanese series Sei Jūshi Bismarck ( Japanese 星 銃 士 ビ ス マ ル ク , German for "Star Musketeer Bismarck"), but sometimes differs considerably. The original series was in 1984 by the Japanese Studio Pierrot by Masami Anno produced. The character design was created by Shigeru Kato , while Yasuhiro Moriki was responsible for the mecha design . In Sei Jūshi Bismarck the group is led by Fireball, who comes from Japan and goes by the name of Shinji Hikari. The other members come from Great Britain, France and the USA. You can see the corresponding national flags on their combat suits.

Be Jūshi Bismarck Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs comment
Shinji Hikari Fireball from Japan and the leader of the team
Richard Lancelot Saber Rider from the UK
Bill Wilcox Colt from the USA
Marian Louvre April from France
Charles Louvre Commander Eagle from France
Bismarck Ramrod
Deathculas Outrider
Perios Jesse Blue in Sei Jūshi Bismarck is not a person, but an outrider
Hyuza Nemesis

Sei Jūshi Bismarck contains more violence and shows the use of drugs. In addition, the bonds from the Western genre were not so strongly imprinted. Sei Jūshi Bismarck has several references to Japanese and German warship traditions, such as the " Yamato " and the eponymous " Bismarck ". Furthermore, after defeat, the Deathculas actually die and do not return to a Phantom Zone. Furthermore, they act more intelligently and the series offers less slapstick. Musically, Sei Jūshi Bismarck also differs from the later adaptation. The opening title is Fushigi Call Me (不 思議 CALL ME) by MIO. Yume Ginga (夢 銀河) by the same artist was used for the credits .

The series first aired on October 7, 1984 on Nippon Television . Sei Jūshi Bismarck comprises 51 episodes. The Japanese version was translated and broadcast in parts of Europe in 1984. A planned vote on the part of Anime House regarding a publication of Sei Jūshi Bismarck in German-speaking countries has remained without consequences since 2004.

Further evaluations

Saber Rider as an interactive show

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The French broadcaster TF1 showed an interactive version of the series called Sab Rider - Le Jeu Interaktif in the 1990s . The interactivity consisted of shooting a special toy at the television and hitting the Outriders' spaceships in the process. The course of the game corresponds to that of the episode. The game required an old CRT TV and the SECAM format. The toy gun needed the CRT signals to see if a hit had been landed.

In addition to the live TV broadcast, there was a VHS cassette with two 15-minute cuts of the episodes The Resentful King , Emergency Call from New Dallas and The Royal Monarch , almost exclusively with action scenes.

radio play

In 2013 Anime House published a five-part radio play series in Germany, which continues the story of Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs . The plot begins five years after the last cartoon episode. The same speakers from back then were used for the series. The character of Jesse Blue was voiced by Philipp Moog , who already gave Jesse the voice in the DVD evaluation.

  • The Return (2013)
  • Attack on Yuma (2013)
  • The Traitor (2013)
  • Hunt for Jesse Blue (2014)
  • On the Edge (2014)

Video game

Unlike many other TV series, there have been no video game adaptations to Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs . A game announced in 2010 called Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs - The Game by Firehazard Studios has not yet appeared. A Kickstarter campaign launched in 2015 has not yet published a finished game.

literature

  • Martin Böhnert: Three Guys and a Girl in Space. Gender construction in the sci-fi animes Captain Future, Saber Rider and Cowboy Bebop. In: Urania Milevski, Paul Reszke, Felix Woitkowski (eds.): Gender and Genre. Popular seriality between critical reception and gender-theoretical reflection . Königshausen & Neumann , Würzburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8260-6057-1 , pp. 317-335 ( online ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Trish Ledoux and Doug Ranney: The Complete Anime Guide , p. 32 f. Tiger Mountain Press, Issaquah (Washington), 1995
  2. ↑ a b Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on June 28, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Anime-House.de: Anime-House Germany - radio plays , accessed on June 28, 2019
  4. ↑ What happened to Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs? March 22, 2014, accessed March 26, 2014 .
  5. ↑ Jens Bischoff: Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs: The Video Game: Kickstarter financing successfully ended - 4Players.de. In: 4players.de. October 5, 2015, accessed October 15, 2015 .