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[absolutedestiny]

In Germany in the 80s there was an anime show called Saber Rider. It's listed on the org as an anime but I'm sure there must be a western title for it.

Any clues anyone?

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[smoovygee.livejournal.com]

You mean Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs?

[absolutedestiny.livejournal.com]

I've no idea... I've only got the words "Saber Rider" to go on.

[earthcurrent.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs.

[absolutedestiny.livejournal.com]

The next question is... is it anime?

[doki.livejournal.com]

Anipike page for Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs:
http://www.anipike.com/index.php?sid=208121106&t=sub_pages&cat=1188
One of those links may have production information. [shrug]

Japanese title seems to be Sei Jyushi Bismark. (one of several romanisations)

[smoovygee.livejournal.com]

According to Richard Llewellyn's List of Anime Television Series website (http://www.public.iastate.edu/~rllew/anitv.html), it is.

http://www.public.iastate.edu/~rllew/bismark.html

[smoovygee.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, according to IMDB (http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0129712/), it was also known as "Bismarck the Star Musketeers"...That seems german to me. =P

Here's a shrine page (http://members.tripod.com/~Star_Sheriffs/) to it though if you need something to compare the footage to.

[exedore.livejournal.com]

Oboy, this is one of my new favourite shows so I get to prattle on about it here.

The original Japanese title is Seijushi Bismark. It was a total flop, and when I asked the head of Pierrot to sign my DVD of it he just started laughing as if to wonder WHY anyone would want to see this crapfest. The literal english translation (or at least the one everyone's agreed upon) is Space Musketeer Bismark. This sort of makes sense, as they're in space, the robot has a 6 shooter (admittedly not a musket), and the giant spaceship/robot is called Bismark.

It got licensed in the US, hacked to shreds (think CardCaptors level hacking), and renamed Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs. It then got sublicensed and released in other Western countries as Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs, and all future translations (such as the German ones on my bookshelf) were done off of the original hacked scripts...with even MORE edits, as the already out-of-order US version had its episode order changed again for European release. I don't know if anything more was cut out of it, though...oh, and in all non-Japanese versions all names were changed, including the robot (after all, if its name is in German then it must be a FILTHY NAZI FROM HELL).

[lord-darkseid.livejournal.com]

Saber Rider & The Star Sheriffs is the U.S. title for an anime called Star Musketeer Bismarck, or something along those lines. Bismarck was re-edited and rearranged (IE episodes removed or recut to make new ones, the lead character being rewritten into a supporting character) by World Events Productions, the same people who brought Voltron to the U.S. It's definitely an anime.