Transformers: Armada
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| German title | Transformers: Armada |
| Original title | 超 ロ ボ ッ ト 生命 体 ト ラ ン ス フ ォ ー マ ー マ イ ク ロ ン 伝 説 |
 | |
| Country of production | Japan |
| original language | Japanese |
| year | 2002 |
| length | 22 minutes |
| Episodes | 52 |
| genre | Action , comedy , science fiction |
| First broadcast | August 23, 2002 to December 12, 2003 on Cartoon Network |
| German-language first broadcast |
December 1, 2003 - January 16, 2004 on RTL II |
Transformers: Armada ( Japanese 超 ロ ボ ッ ト 生命 体 ト ラ ン ス フ ォ ー マ ー マ イ ク ロ ン 伝 説 , Chō Robot Seimeitai Transformers: Micron Densetsu ) is an anime series from 2002 based on the Transformers franchise and originally conceived as an advertising medium for it. The series later continued as Transformers: Energon and Transformers: Cybertron .
action
War is raging on the planet Cybertron. Autobots and Decepticons have been at war with each other for thousands of years. In doing so, they developed a subclass of their species, the mini-cons. Originally, these robots were intended to entertain the Transformers' home planet during the war. But it was soon discovered that a Mini-Con connected to a normal transformer can amplify it a hundred times. Now Autobots and Decepticons are fighting for the power of the mini-cons.
When Megatron and his Decepticons seem to be gaining supremacy, Optimus Prime and the Autobots help the Mini-Cons escape from Cybertron. However, their ship is attacked by the Decepticons during the escape and is badly damaged. So they have to flee through a space bridge into the unknown and land on a small blue planet far away from Cybertron. Many mini-cons are thrown from the ship during the landing. There they fall into a deep sleep and remain in this state for millions of years.
Finally, two boys discover the spacecraft of the Mini-Cons and unintentionally send an emergency signal to Cybertron, which in no time leads several Decepticons and Autobots to Earth. The war for the mini-cons is now starting all over again on earth.
Production and broadcast in Germany
As a continuation of the series Transformers: Robots in Disquise , the series was produced by the Japanese animation studio Actas Inc. for US television. Armada put a fresh start for the Transformers. A completely new story was developed, which takes place in a kind of alternate universe to the first Transformers series .
The first broadcast took place from August 23, 2002 to December 12, 2003 in the USA.
The German broadcaster RTL II broadcast the series once from December 1, 2003 to January 16, 2004, but only 20 episodes, the first 7 and the last 13, were broadcast. In 2008 and 2009, the German DVD label KSMFilm released all 52 episodes of the series in two DVD boxes. In the boxes there are 19 additionally synchronized episodes and 13 episodes in the US version with German subtitles, which were never broadcast on German television. A DVD box with all 52 episodes was released on March 14, 2011.
Episode list
| episode | German title | First broadcast (DE) | Original title | First broadcast (USA) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | The green armada | December 1, 2003 | First encounter | August 23, 2002 |
| 02 | Transformation! | December 2, 2003 | Metamorphosis | August 23, 2002 |
| 03 | The secret of the mini-cons | December 3, 2003 | base | August 23, 2002 |
| 04 | Comrades | December 4, 2003 | Comrade | September 21, 2002 |
| 05 | Red Alert | December 5, 2003 | Soldier | September 27, 2002 |
| 06 | Fire in the jungle | December 8, 2003 | Jungle | October 4, 2002 |
| 07 | carnival | December 9, 2003 | Carneval | October 11, 2002 |
| 08 | no German version | - | Palace | October 18, 2002 |
| 09 | Help from space | - | Confrontation | October 25, 2002 |
| 10 | The Mini-Con in the subway | - | Underground | November 1, 2002 |
| 11 | The girl from the bottom of the sea | - | ruin | November 15, 2002 |
| 12 | The volcanic island | - | Prehistoric | November 22, 2002 |
| 13 | The sword of the mini-cons | - | Swoop | November 29, 2002 |
| 14th | no German version | - | Overmatch | December 13, 2002 |
| 15th | no German version | - | Gael | December 20, 2002 |
| 16 | no German version | - | Credilous | December 27, 2002 |
| 17th | no German version | - | Conspiracy | January 10, 2003 |
| 18th | no German version | - | Trust | January 17, 2003 |
| 19th | no German version | - | Vacation | January 22, 2003 |
| 20th | no German version | - | Reinforcement | January 23, 2003 |
| 21st | no German version | - | Decisive battle | January 24, 2003 |
| 22nd | no German version | - | Vow | January 27, 2003 |
| 23 | no German version | - | rebellion | January 28, 2003 |
| 24 | no German version | - | Chase | January 29, 2003 |
| 25th | no German version | - | Tactican | January 30, 2003 |
| 26th | The Powerlink | - | Link Up | January 31, 2003 |
| 27 | Wrong game | - | Detection | March 1, 2003 |
| 28 | The giant robot | - | Awakening | March 8, 2003 |
| 29 | All good things come in threes | - | Desperate | March 15, 2003 |
| 30th | The escape of the mini-cons | - | Runaway | March 22, 2003 |
| 31 | The Defector, Part 1 | - | Past | March 29, 2003 |
| 32 | The Defector, Part 2 | - | Past II | April 5, 2003 |
| 33 | Smokescreens end | - | Sacrifice | April 12, 2003 |
| 34 | A new beginning | - | regeneration | April 19, 2003 |
| 35 | The Liberation of Mini-Cons | - | Rescue | April 26, 2003 |
| 36 | Starscream's feud | - | Mars | May 3, 2003 |
| 37 | Wrong suspicion | - | Crack | May 10, 2003 |
| 38 | The threat | - | Threaten | October 3, 2003 |
| 39 | The hydra cannon | - | Crisis | October 10, 2003 |
| 40 | Remorse | December 10, 2003 | Remorse | October 17, 2003 |
| 41 | Off to Cybertron! | December 11, 2003 | Depart | October 24, 2003 |
| 42 | A wonder | December 12, 2003 | Miracle | October 31, 2003 |
| 43 | Nemesis Prime | December 15, 2003 | Puppet | November 7, 2003 |
| 44 | The riot | December 16, 2003 | Uprising | November 14, 2003 |
| 45 | Revelations | December 17, 2003 | Dash | November 21, 2003 |
| 46 | Back to the past | December 18, 2003 | drift | November 28, 2003 |
| 47 | A sign | December 19, 2003 | Portent | December 5, 2003 |
| 48 | The peace offer | January 12, 2004 | Cramp | December 8, 2003 |
| 49 | With united forces | January 13, 2004 | Alliance | December 9, 2003 |
| 50 | At the last second | January 14, 2004 | union | December 10, 2003 |
| 51 | Peace at last? | January 15, 2004 | Origin | December 11, 2003 |
| 52 | Unicron's end | January 16, 2004 | Mortal Kombat | December 12, 2003 |
synchronization
The synchronization of the series took place in Munich at PPA Film GmbH. Martin Halm was in charge of the dialogue and dubbing.
| role | Japanese speaker ( seiyū ) | German speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Optimus Prime (Convoy) | Tōru Ōkawa | Pierre Peters-Arnolds |
| Megatron | Kiyoyuki Yanada | Willi Roebke |
| Alexa | Akira Tomisaka | Anke Kortemeier |
| Billy | Tarusuke Shingaki | Pascal Breuer |
| Blurr (Silverbolt) | Isshin Chiba | Claus-Peter Damitz |
| Carlos | Yukie Maeda | Jan Makino |
| Cyclonus (Sandstorm) | Isshin Chiba | Tobias Lelle |
| Demolisher (Ironhide) | Kōji Yusa | Christoph Jablonka |
| teller | Michael Brennicke | |
| Fred (jim) | Nobuyuki Kobushi | Philipp Brammer |
| Hot shot (hot rod) | Kosuke Okano | Martin Halm |
| Jetfire | Susumu Chiba | Niko Macoulis |
| Nemesis Prime (Scourge) | Tōru Ōkawa | Pierre Peters-Arnolds |
| Wheel white | Masataka Nakai | Stefan Günther |
| Red Alert (Ratchet) | Ikuya Sawaki | Claus Brockmeyer |
| Scavenger (devastator) | Keiji Fujiwara | Ole Pfennig |
| Sideways (double face) | Takahiro Yamada Takahiro Sakurai |
Ekkehardt Belle |
| Unicron | Katsumi Cho | |
| Smokescreen (Grap) | Katsuhisa Hōki | Gerhard Acktun |
| Side swipe (stepper) | Nobuyuki Kobushi | Andreas Borcherding |
| Starscream | Jin Yamanoi | Gerd Meyer |
| Thrust | Kōji Yusa | Kai Taschner |
| Wheeljack (rampage) | Susumu Chiba | Gerhard Jilka |
Web links
- Transformers: Armada in the Internet Movie Database (English)