| Combat Mecha Xabungle(TV-Y) | |
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![]() Cover of the first DVD box set for Xabungle. |
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| 戦闘メカ ザブングル (Sentō Meka Zabunguru) |
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| Genre | Space Western, Military Science Fiction, Real Robot, Mecha, Drama, Comedy |
| TV anime | |
| Director | Yoshiyuki Tomino |
| Studio | Sunrise |
| Network | Nagoya TV, TV Asahi, Animax |
| Original run | February 6, 1982 – January 29, 1983 |
| Episodes | 50 |
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| Xabungle Graffiti | |
| Director | Yoshiyuki Tomino |
| Studio | Sunrise |
| Released | 1983-07-09 (Japan) |
| Runtime | 84 minutes |
Combat Mecha Xabungle (戦闘メカ ザブングル Sentō Meka Zabunguru), also known as Blue Gale Xabungle, is a mecha anime television series by Sunrise, and directed by Yoshiyuki Tomino. It was broadcast on the Nagoya TV and TV Asahi networks at 5:30 PM each Saturday from February 6, 1982 through January 29, 1983. Promotional toys were produced by Clover.[1] It also had a compilation movie called Xabungle Graffiti.
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Planet Zora is inhabited by a number of different sentient races. The "Innocents", with their highly developed science and technology; and the resilient and adaptable "Civilians" who rely on the Innocents for foodstuff and various means of production.
Prominent among the abovementioned means of production are Walker Machines; ubiquitous vehicles with vaguely humanoid silhouettes, which Civilians use for such various purposes as mining, transport of persons and goods, construction, and combat.
While many, if not all Walker Machines are armed to a degree, purely combat-oriented Walker Machines are a rarity, and it was one such rare variety of Walker Machine that a young Civilian named Jiron Amos decides to liberate for his own use.
Using the stolen combat machine, revealed to be a Xabungle type Walker Machine, Jiron soon gets himself and his allies into (and out of) all sorts of trouble, which make for an entertaining romp across the desolate planet Zora, where things are not as simple and innocent as they first appear to be.
Note: Maria Maria was voiced by Ayako Kawasumi in the Xabungle game.
Soji Yoshikawa, Tsunehisa Ito, Yoshihisa Araki.
Kazuhito Kikuchi, Masakazu Yasumaru, Mitsuko Kase, Osamu Sekida, Toshifumi Takizawa, Yasuhiro Imakawa, Yoshiyuki Tomino, Yuki Suzuki.
Mitsuko Kase, Osamu Sekida, Ryoji Fujiwara, Yasuhiro Imagawa, Yuki Suzuki.
Hajime Yatate, Yoshiyuki Tomino.
Akihiro Kaneyama, Masanori Yamada, Saburo Sakamoto.
Opening: Gale Xabungle (疾風ザブングル Shippū Zabunguru)
Ending: The Dry Land (乾いた大地 Kawaita Daichi)
While it's not clear if it was legally obtained, a non-vocal version of the opening plays in the movie Majestic Thunderbolt from Godfrey Ho.
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