X-Bomber (1980)

Original title

Ｘボンバー

Genre

science fiction television series

Country

Japan

Length

1 season, 25 episodes

Rating

7.9 of 10 from 9 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A team of young pilots operate the giant transforming spaceship X-Bomber to defend Earth from an alien empire. They fly missions and battle monster robots in each episode.

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What happens

X Bomber (Ｘボンバー, Ekkusu Bonbā) (released as Star Fleet in the UK) is a Japanese marionette tokusatsu TV series created by manga artist Go Nagai, and produced by Cosmo Productions and Jin Productions. The show aired on Fuji TV from October 4, 1980 (1980-10-04) to March 28, 1981 (1981-03-28), with a total of 25 episodes (including the pre-series pilot episode), and was billed in Japan as being filmed in "Sūpāmariorama" (スーパーマリオラマ), a puppeteering process similar to Gerry Anderson's Supermarionation works. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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