Underplayed Gems

Galaxy Boy Troop (1963)

Galaxy Boy Troop poster
Original title
銀河少年隊
Directed by
Mushi Production, Osamu Tezuka
Genre
science fiction television series
Country
Japan
Length
2 seasons, 92 episodes
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

This 1960s Japanese series mixes puppet characters with animated space scenes. A boy named Rob leads a team traveling the galaxy to find a fuel source for the dying Sun in the first season, and later fights off an alien invasion of Earth.

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What happens

Galaxy Boy Troop (銀河少年隊) was a children's TV series created by Osamu Tezuka that combined marionettes with traditional animation. It ran for two seasons from April 7, 1963, to April 1, 1965, for a total of 92 episodes. The series also aired in France as Le Commando De La Voie Lactée .("Commando of the Milky Way"). The characters were represented by marionettes from the Takeda Puppet Troupe, while scenes of rocket flight were represented with animation. Occasionally, the producers incorporated live-action film of characters' lips moving superimposed on the puppets, in an effect similar to the little-used American Syncro-Vox technique. In the first season, the eponymous Galaxy Boy Troop, headed by a boy named Rob, travels across the galaxy to find a material that can restart Earth's dying Sun. In the second season, the Troop fights off an alien invasion of Earth. Along the way, they meet and interact with the elegant Amia people of Venus, and the oafish Poipoi people of Mars. The series has been considered lost for many years due to a very few episodes surviving. One full episode was found in France. It's believed that the show's original reels were desmantled due to Tezuka not being happy with how the show went. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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