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Mega Man Star Force (TV series)

Mega Man Star Force, known as Ryūsei no Rockman (流星のロックマン, Ryūsei no Rokkuman; Shooting Star Rockman) is an anime and manga series based on the video game of the same name. The series follows the adventures of Geo Stelar and Omega-Xis, a duo capable of em wave change to become the hero "Mega Man". Together, they combat various EM wave beings that threaten to conquer or destroy the Earth.

The manga was serialized in CoroCoro Comic beginning in September 2006, three months before the game's Japanese release. The anime series premiered in Japan on October 7, 2006, shortly after the conclusion of MegaMan NT Warrior. The anime concluded on March 29, 2008, with a total of 76 episodes. The anime was licensed and adapted into English by Viz Media. The English version first premiered online on the streaming service Toonami Jetstream on July 23, 2007, before making its television debut on Cartoon Network on August 25, 2007. The series was later added to Viz Media's Neon Alley series on June 1, 2015.

Airing October 7, 2006 on TV Tokyo, the Ryūsei no Rockman anime filled the timeslot that had been held by Rockman EXE Beast+, the series' predecessor. Each of its episodes are approximately ten minutes in length as the program shared the thirty-minute segment Oha Coliseum with the Saru Getchu anime series.[citation needed]

On April 17, 2007, VIZ Media announced that they acquired the rights to the anime series, which would be released under the title Mega Man Star Force, as with the namesake video game. The press release mentioned that 13 episodes were to be released at lengths of 20 minutes each (each containing content from approximately two of the quarter-hour length Japanese episodes). During the E3 2007 video-game convention, IGN revealed in their hands-on impressions of the Star Force video game that the English version would premiere on Toonami Jetstream on July 23, 2007. The show made its television debut on Cartoon Network on August 25, 2007, edited as a two-hour presentation composed of scenes from the first nine Japanese episodes.[citation needed] Voice recording for the series was handed by Studiopolis.[citation needed]

According to the September 2007 issue of CoroCoro Comic, the anime would conclude in Japan on October 27, 2007, and be succeeded by a sequel series, titled Ryūsei no Rockman Tribe, premiering on November 3, 2007. The second anime is loosely based on the events of the second game in the series. According to an interview with Fuyuka Oura (Geo's voice actor in the Japanese version) at the 2007 Tokyo Game Show, Tribe has a deeper and "cooler" storyline than before, and the new character Solo is a prominent character in the plot.

Manga Entertainment released all thirteen episodes of the English version in a Region 2 box set in the UK on November 3, 2008.

Mega Man Star Force's animation is overseen by XEBEC, with musical arrangements by Naoki Maeda. Character designs (which have in some cases deviated from Capcom's original concepts) are handled by Mitsuru Ishihara and Shingo Adachi (who is also one of the series' art directors, some of the others being Masayuki Nomoto, Akira Takahashi, and Yasuo Shimizu). The art directors usually work independently of each other on any given episode. Shogakukan manages computer-generated imagery.

The original Japanese openings are "Heart Wave" (ハートウェーブ, Hāto Uebu) for the first series, and "Bond Wave" (絆 ウェーブ, Kizuna Uebu) for Tribe, both sung by Misato Fukuen as Sonia Sky.

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