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ROCKMAN HOSHI NI NEGAI WO

OVA

  • STATUS

    COMPLETE

  • EPISODES

    3

  • RELEASE

    September 20, 2002

  • LENGTH

    30 min

DESCRIPTION

The anime (episode 2, to be exact), where Rockman travels from the Game-World to the real world to learn some cultural differences about Japan, was intended to be a special episode for the original Mega Man cartoon series by Ruby-Spears, which aired around 1995 in the United States. As it seems, the special was finished before Ruby-Spears decided to redo their whole show with a completely new design better suited for American audiences.


Not fitting the new style anymore, it never was included in the series. Still, two more episodes about the same story were produced a bit later, this time under the main title "Rockman" (unlike episode 2, where he's called "Mega Man" even in the Japanese dub).


It's unknown if these 3 episodes ever saw an official release, until 2002, when Capcom of Japan decided to finally release them on DVD for Rockman's 15th Anniversary, all featuring a Japanese and English dub, but no subtitles. It's unknown if there are any more secret animated works of the original Rockman game series.

CAST

  • Rockman

    Rockman

    Hekiru Shiina voiceover for Rockman

    Hekiru Shiina

  • Rush

    Rush

    Wataru Takagi voiceover for Rush

    Wataru Takagi

  • Albert Wily

    Albert Wily

    Kenichi Ogata voiceover for Albert Wily

    Kenichi Ogata

  • Thomas Light

    Thomas Light

    Hiroshi Naka voiceover for Thomas Light

    Hiroshi Naka

  • Roll

    Roll

    Satomi Koorogi voiceover for Roll

    Satomi Koorogi

EPISODES

Dubbed

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    RELATED TO ROCKMAN HOSHI NI NEGAI WO

    REVIEWS

    • MegaTheRealOne

      MegaTheRealOne

      50/100
      Dumb Voice Acting and Unneeded Educational Content

      (Originally Posted on Letterboxd)

      As you could probably tell by my name and my PFP, I consider Mega Man to be not just my favorite video game series, but my favorite THING ever made, so I usually have a bias towards most Mega Man products. However, there are plenty of points where I will gladly rip apart something from this franchise if I also find it to be bad. Case in point, ever since the franchise's creation, there have been several TV show spin-offs, none of which I have seen before, and I am afraid to, and there has been only one official movie for the series (or OVA technically, but whatever), known as Mega Man: Upon a Star.

      Now, just from glancing at footage from this movie, you would think that this wouldn't be too bad. All the important characters from Mega Man make an appearance here, the animation is pretty nice, and there are several action scenes present to make things exciting. However, then you realize that, for whatever reason, there are educational moments present throughout, and when considering that factor, as well as everything else, I can say that this movie is pretty damn ok. Sure, it looks pretty charming, but it is also pretty weird, keeping me from considering it to be a perfect Mega Man movie.

      The story is pretty weird, and only gets stranger as it goes, but not in too much of a good way, the characters are what you would expect from the games, along with a few new ones who aren't really too interesting, but they don't come off as annoying, the voice acting is pretty poor for the most part, with one instance being with the main voice actor for Mega Man himself, who also shares the same voice as another character, and he does nothing to differentiate his voice for both characters, the animation and art style is very appealing, and it works really well, and as you would expect, the educational content that appears throughout doesn't mesh well at all with the rest of the content, and comes off as weird and unneeded.

      It's weird because there are a lot of elements in the movie that could be considered pretty good, and at the time, it could be considered to be the best adaptation of Mega Man that was currently out. However, then they feel the need to stop the action at plenty of points to teach the audience about something about Japan, which would be fine if it was an educational program made in Japan involving original characters, but if I am watching a Mega Man movie, I want to watch a Mega Man movie, where kick-ass robot action takes precedence over everything else, and that isn't present here. Yes, all of the other elements are pretty good (to an extent), but if I wanted to learn about Japan, I would watch a documentary about Japan, not this.

      Overall, while having plenty of admirable qualities, Mega Man: Upon a Star doesn't get anywhere past being just simply ok, being held down by various aspects such as the voice acting and its need to shove in educational content when it isn't needed whatsoever. Let's just hope that whenever they make another Mega Man movie (which they may or may not be making, I don't know), they do it right, but let's be honest, they probably won't.

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    SCORE

    • (3/5)

    MORE INFO

    • Ended inSeptember 20, 2002

    • Main Studio Ashi Productions

    • Favorited by 12 Users