Machine Robo Rescue (cartoon)

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Machine Robo Rescue (出撃!マシンロボレスキュー Shutsugeki! Machine Robo Rescue), sometimes called Sortie! Machine Robo Rescue was a 2003-2004 cartoon produced by Sunrise on behalf of Bandai, the third - and most recent - to be based on the Machine Robo brand.

Overview[edit | edit source]

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Production[edit | edit source]

Considering the 15-year hiatus Machine Robo Rescue ignored the previous Ashi Productions series in favour of a new premise. The show was instead created by Bandai's in-house Sunrise company, blending cel animation (for human characters) with CGI (for robots). Set in an undefined future, the series was set largely on Earth, covering the efforts of the Machine Robo Rescue organisation. The technology in this future had advanced to the stage that age was no longer considered a factor in selecting roles - hence the 12 Robo Masters who piloted the various Machine Robo were all children, with adults serving in supervisory roles in the MRR hierarchy. MRR were a response and rescue organisation created to respond to disasters, and split into three specialised units - aerial rescue and fire experts Red Wings, policing control experts Blue Sirens; and heavy-lifting experts Yellow Gears. Each unit was made up of four Robo Masters with two Leader Robo, each with four Support Robo, a transporter Robo and an adult instructor. Initially the crises they responded to were natural in nature, though as the series went along the evil Disasters emerged as antagonists.

As can be deduced the series was aimed at a considerably younger audience than the previous offerings. None of the previous characters from the 1980s series were carried over, though several shared names with their predecessors and the new versions of Jet Robo and Drill Robo were overt visual homages to Jet Robo/Blue Jet and Drill Robo/Rod Drill.

Behind the scenes Hideki Sonoda returned as head writer but otherwise the crew were fresh to the Machine Robo franchise. Mamoru Kanbe was installed as series director. The voice cast was also largely new, in part due to so many of the characters being children and requiring relatively young actors. However, Show Hayami - narrator of the Ashi series and actor for various characters - returned to voice a couple of recurring characters.

Broadcast[edit | edit source]

Machine Robo Rescue began broadcast on January 8, 2003 - once again on the TV Tokyo network - with a new episode each Wednesday until concluding on January 10, 2004 after 53 episodes.

It is not known precisely how successful Machine Robo Rescue was - it appears to have ended after a natural length as Bandai switched the franchise to Machine Robo Mugenbine. However, as that series was not promoted by a cartoon it is hard to tell what sort of impact the show made.

Episodes[edit | edit source]

  1. "Commence the Rescue Combination!!"
  2. "Blazing Fire Fighter!"
  3. "Straight Ahead to the Police Spirit!"
  4. "It's Party Time! Drill Robo"
  5. "The Thunderous Stealth Robo"
  6. "Aim to be a Robo Master!"
  7. "Clash! Jet vs. Stealth"
  8. "Look Out! Combination EX"
  9. "Industrial Complex Panic!"
  10. "Whirlwind! Gyro Robo"
  11. "Laughter Can Save the World!"
  12. "Finished! Triple Tornado"
  13. "And Taiyoh is Fine!"
  14. "The Invincible Hyper Stealth Robo!"
  15. "Ken's Rescue Spirit!"
  16. "Arise! Siren Galley Robo"
  17. "Call Out! Gear Dump Robo"
  18. "I am Submarine Robo"
  19. "Do You Like Hangars?"
  20. "Fear of the Fire Storm"
  21. "Debut, 30000 Metres!"
  22. "Good Luck Taiyoh"
  23. "Taiyoh Ohzora, Into Space!"
  24. "Save the Space Station!"
  25. "Lunar Rescue, Begin!"
  26. "MRR 24 Hours"
  27. "Enter! BL Machine Robo"
  28. "Colonel Hazard's Trap!"
  29. "Combine! Machine Commander Robo"
  30. "Summer Holiday! Fear Vacation"
  31. "Airship SOS!"
  32. "Stealth Robo's Fierce End"
  33. "I am the Mother of Daichi"
  34. "The Story of Makoto's First Love"
  35. "Proud Fire Brigade!"
  36. "Survival of the Fittest!"
  37. "The Mysterious Superhero Captain Miracle"
  38. "Be Reborn, Jay!"
  39. "Jay, Join the MRR!"
  40. "Birth! V Stealth Robo"
  41. "Daichi's Resolution"
  42. "The Strongest Combination! Machine Commander Robo V"
  43. "Salute to the Gura Gorro"
  44. "Machine Robo Out of Action!"
  45. "The Greatest Errand of All Time"
  46. "The Secret of the Disasters"
  47. "Activate, Kaiser-G!"
  48. "A Looming Catastrophe!"
  49. "All Hands on Deck, Save the Planet!"
  50. "Fly, MRR!"
  51. "Sortie!"
  52. "Machine Robo Rescue Special - New Year's Day!"

Cast[edit | edit source]

Machine Robo Rescue Disasters Others

Cadets

Staff

Leader Robo

Supporter Robo

Transports

‡ = voice actor unknown † = character has no dialogue

Music[edit | edit source]

Background music for the show was composed by Naoki Satō.

Opening Theme[edit | edit source]

Ending Theme[edit | edit source]

Overseas[edit | edit source]

Machine Robo Rescue was shown in several Asian markets, including being dubbed into English for broadcast in Singapore and the Philippines around 2005.

The franchise does not seem to have seriously been considered for export outside of Asia, but that didn't stop Hasbro - then hawking the largely abysmal Transformers: Armada - from shitting their pants and trademarking "Machine Robot Rescue" for a couple of Transformers Universe figures in order to head off any American import. Whether Bandai, Sunrise or anyone else beyond Transformers fans even noticed this happened is unclear.

Home Media[edit | edit source]

DVD[edit | edit source]

Main article: Sunrise

Sunrise released the entire series on DVD.


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