I've grown used to the original Japanese version, TEKKAMAN BLADE, but THIS version is the one I love the most. The american soundtrack was amazing. I used to watch this when it aired every sunday, when I was a teenager. Classic.
Sunday morning cartoons were always different since most of the time they kept changing and I did not necessarily have time to watch them since Sundays were about going out with the family, church, swapmeets, groceries, etc. but on those few occasions i did stay home this was one of those shows and man does it take me back.
For the longest time I just I just couldn't remember the name of this show, just that I watched when I was 5 and it was awesome. The only thing that I could remember that might lead me to it was the guy transforming into a mech type thing with a crystal. It's taken 16 years but I finally found this again =)
Tails802 dude i named my dog after that guy slade lol my family had no idea where it came from i used to get up at 430 am just to watch this show this was one of my faves too
+Tails802 it was good for the time. it still holds up somewhat but the japanese version is better because it just sounds very dramatic in that japanese way. you know what i mean with japanese voiceovers. the characters just sound dramatic
Took me 31 years to find this and I have dug and dug forever. Thank Teknoman I found this. In Houston this came on channel 39 and DBZ right before school.
The opening theme of this anime gave me goosebumps as a kid. Actually still does, it's got such an epic vibe. Wish there was a piano tutorial for this, or just sheet music.
After all these years, how do we still not have a version with the correct intro/outro as we had back then on DVD? This show was huge here thanks to Cheez TV. Although this isn't exactly what we got here, this is the US redub where they changed Blade to Slade and changed some voice actors, we got the original English dub.
I am 29 years old and it is been 20 years since I have watched it on Fox Kids! Good old times. I will never forget one of my all time favorite anime for sure. Fox Kids for life. Teknoman is blessing. 😎
When you were a kid and all you had was Luny Tunes... UPN9 presented you with a story of a man who defended Earth against his FAMILY, with the power of the ENEMY that he could only use for half hour at a time, less he turn on ALL his friends... Saban was right about this one.. just decades ahead of its time... Thank you Saban! You changed my life
I live in PGH,P.A. and first saw this show on wptt22. I loved it since, sad ending tho😞. Was around 10yrs old, and still can't get, and don't want to, that song outta my head🤓
So many times I would over sleep on Saturday morning just to wait up in time for the credits. 😢. Oh man some of the most heart breaking moments of my child hood.
@@CirianAlani Yeah, being poor back in those days wasn’t fun. We had an old vcr. It definitely couldn’t be programmed to record 🤣. And if it could my parents definitely didn’t understand how. My parents didn’t even have indoor plumbing until they moved to the city. (Back woods of Georgia is where they grew up 🤣)
so did I. in the mornings. Cheez TV had other Japanese Animations dubbed in English such as Pokemon Bayblade Sailor moon etc. I also remember they showed Xmen
This was the first series that I began to understand the plot a bit and I watched every ep of it when it first airred, its a awesome show that needs more attention, a guy in a metal suit having what could be considered a weapon of mass destruction built into each shoulder and a compling storyline to boot, back then I didn't know of anime yet it was a show worth watching. Action, mystery as well as adventure and some good charaters, thou Lance was the most under developed of the villians, he just came cannon slaughter to show off Blade Evo in the end.
I remember watching this on either Cartoon Network or Toonami, I'm not sure which as it was a very long time ago. I never missed this show and I loved the story and the cool mechs.
@@AndyTaken best era for anime for the British audience. I still watch Dragonball Super to this date. Techno man was my first taste of animation and loved it
This super cool anime was originally called, Tekkaman Blade. There was an even earlier version of it back in the 1970's (without the Blade part in it's name.)
The main character of Teknoman slade had a evil brother on the show except his brother was more stronger, they need to remake Teknoman and bring it back out, what a amazing anime 😎
This is the first anime I've ever watched. Honestly, I had no idea at all what was going on in the plot back when I watched it. Just thought it was awesome.
The series is called Tekkaman Blade, so yeah, Blade is his name. They changed it to Teknoman and him to Slade when they brought it to the U.S. from Japan.
I like the purely techno instrumental music in the intro. I know the Japanese intro has a song but the U.S. intro is better to me anyway. But I already know it was given the treatment of edited violence just like voltron and many other import cartoons.
This theme song was originally going to be for the english version of Metalder starring Jason David Frank and be called Cybertron but Saban decided to cast him as the Green Ranger for Power Rangers instead. Cybertron was eventually turned into VR Troopers and this theme was used for this show originally called Tekkaman Blade in Japan.
"ChEeEeZ TV!" I remember well. I used to watch it while eating cheese toasties for breakfast before school. The only tune I can say has been in my head for 30 years as if I just heard it this morning. It has never dimmed. TEKNOMAN.
Yeah! back in the day when Anime was Badass! before the Pokemon invasion and before the genre started focusing on moé cuteness or sexualized fanservice. I remember watching this on UPN in the mid to late 1990s.
I remember taping this show my younger brother on our VCR back when it premiered on TV. I think it was a night premiere too which made it unusual. By the way, I didn't know Bryan Cranston was in Techno Man! I mean, I knew he did voice overs back in the day (a lot in anime) but I didn't know he was on this show.
The last episode I remember before they stopped airing all their cartoon lineup, was a character named Ballsack, not sure of the spelling but it was legit "Balls sack" in the pronunciation. Anybody else remember this?
Watching this now as an adult, you realize this series and all others like he-man, she-ra, thundercats, etc., all have ridiculous and overdramatic voices (like the friggin AWESOME narrator) and cheesy, purposeful coincidences (teknoman=techno music... Love it lol!).... But damn this series was the shit as a tween
Currently watching Tekkaman Blade and I had to check this out for nostalgic reasons😂 the changes between this and Tekkaman Blade are so weird Slade? Really?
Saban adapted Tekkaman Blade into Teknoman. when will the UPN english version of Teknoman be released on DVD? the first DVD release was from Media Blasters and had the international version of the Teknoman English dub before the UPN's airing.
@@joeyd6272 On one of the last disc, if you watch all the episodes and then let it play out naturally until it returns to the menu, the main menu then plays the Teknoman theme. I know that sounds like a "my uncle works at Nintendo" story, but this I swear to God this is true. Nearly shit myself when I binged the DVDs in college, lol.
![Teknoman Theme [ 10min loop - 320kpbs ] Tekkaman Blade](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/x-Ic0vWtXbA/mqdefault.jpg)
![Teknoman Theme [ 10min loop - 320kpbs ] Tekkaman Blade](/img/tr.png)
I still hum this tune even at age 34.
Me too
Same, 38
Same here. 35
Me too!
same XD
This show was WAY AHEAD of its time.....
@ludicrous503 - l agree 100%
buddy, thats all of japanese pop culture. All of it, including anime.
Because it was an anime lol.
yes the style, drawings, special effects was incredible
One of the best cartoons ever
I've grown used to the original Japanese version, TEKKAMAN BLADE, but THIS version is the one I love the most. The american soundtrack was amazing. I used to watch this when it aired every sunday, when I was a teenager. Classic.
I used to get hyped every time this show came on and danced to the theme song when I was a kid
SAME!
Everyone loved the music to this show back in the day. It was bad ass.
Same!
The opening was too good
Now THAT, was anime. Killer sountrack, too, with real oldskool techno music.
HowlingMoonCinemas sadly cant find any of thr music used in the eps :/
Yup you are right!
@Jaeger19Ultima I remember that exact episode, dubbed it to a cassette tape and listened to it alot back in the day :)
@Jaeger19Ultima
I gotta find that episode!
@@PianoBlack62
I gotta find that episode!
Sunday morning cartoons were always different since most of the time they kept changing and I did not necessarily have time to watch them since Sundays were about going out with the family, church, swapmeets, groceries, etc. but on those few occasions i did stay home this was one of those shows and man does it take me back.
For the longest time I just I just couldn't remember the name of this show, just that I watched when I was 5 and it was awesome. The only thing that I could remember that might lead me to it was the guy transforming into a mech type thing with a crystal. It's taken 16 years but I finally found this again =)
same exact story.
rgowlikar1 same here and it took 20 years to find it funny thing he was under my nose all this time in tesunko vs capcom
Tails802 dude i named my dog after that guy slade lol my family had no idea where it came from i used to get up at 430 am just to watch this show this was one of my faves too
I didn't realise there were two dubs. What's the American dub like?
+Tails802 it was good for the time. it still holds up somewhat but the japanese version is better because it just sounds very dramatic in that japanese way. you know what i mean with japanese voiceovers. the characters just sound dramatic
Thank god for you, I've had this song stuck in my head since 1992 and couldn't remember the name of the show. I can finally move on with my life.
Haha same here
Man, as a kid I wanted to be Teknoman so bad. Those days are over, but I can still enjoy the awesome transformation, including the music.
You wanted to be him? His childhood was good but his current life is full of pain....
@@Haassan1 Ohh...
Every Sunday morning...1997...this was my first anime, and is still one of my favorites!
A moment of silence to those who still don't remember the name of these series.
Took me 31 years to find this and I have dug and dug forever. Thank Teknoman I found this. In Houston this came on channel 39 and DBZ right before school.
Teknoman empezó en USA en 1997, Warner Channel en fines de 2001, Cartoon Network en 2005 y Playhouse Disney en 2008
Anime America was right: this theme is catchy. I can't stop humming along with it since I first heard this theme.
"When I descend upon the earth,darkness will unveil its banner across yet another region of the cosmos."
0:09 “Unfurl.” Not unveil.
This music... gets my blood pumping...
The opening theme of this anime gave me goosebumps as a kid. Actually still does, it's got such an epic vibe. Wish there was a piano tutorial for this, or just sheet music.
After all these years, how do we still not have a version with the correct intro/outro as we had back then on DVD? This show was huge here thanks to Cheez TV. Although this isn't exactly what we got here, this is the US redub where they changed Blade to Slade and changed some voice actors, we got the original English dub.
wont lie this intro and ending music is awesome glad i watch it in the 90s
Someone needs to replicate this theme on modern equipment, so we have a HQ version.
Same here it used to come on UPN 57 in Philadelphia Pennsylvania.
That intro was ahead of its time
I am 29 years old and it is been 20 years since I have watched it on Fox Kids! Good old times. I will never forget one of my all time favorite anime for sure. Fox Kids for life. Teknoman is blessing. 😎
UPN's UPN Kids 1995-1996 Sunday Morning lineup - from San Antonio, Texas Ch. 35 (KRRT) [Central]:
September 10, 1995-September 1, 1996
9:30am Space Strikers
10:00am Tenkoman
UPN's UPN Kids 1995-1996 Sunday Morning lineup - from Charleston, South Carolina Ch. 24 (WTAT) (Fox/UPN) [Eastern]:
7:00am Space Strikers
7:30am Tenkoman
It's was the same in NYC👍🏿 UPN Ch.9
This should be a great movie to make now
OMG....TEKNOMAN, I FOUND YOU. MY FAVORITE ALL TIME CARTOON EVERY SATURDAY BACK IN 1995....OMG OMG OMG
i was nine back then and this is still the greatest anmie and Cheez TV was a great kids show
That beat is raw af
Maaaaan I used to watch this on Sunday mornings back in the mid 90s. Never forgot the name and the intro music.
All saban tv series were the best
When you were a kid and all you had was Luny Tunes... UPN9 presented you with a story of a man who defended Earth against his FAMILY, with the power of the ENEMY that he could only use for half hour at a time, less he turn on ALL his friends... Saban was right about this one.. just decades ahead of its time... Thank you Saban! You changed my life
I live in PGH,P.A. and first saw this show on wptt22. I loved it since, sad ending tho😞. Was around 10yrs old, and still can't get, and don't want to, that song outta my head🤓
God blessing for teknoman
I remember watching this at 6am b4 heading for school as a kid. Awesome show.
So many times I would over sleep on Saturday morning just to wait up in time for the credits. 😢. Oh man some of the most heart breaking moments of my child hood.
One of the many things I loved about setting timers on my old VCR: I got to sleep in on Sundays *and* watch Teknoman.
@@CirianAlani
Yeah, being poor back in those days wasn’t fun. We had an old vcr. It definitely couldn’t be programmed to record 🤣.
And if it could my parents definitely didn’t understand how. My parents didn’t even have indoor plumbing until they moved to the city. (Back woods of Georgia is where they grew up 🤣)
This has been on my playlist for years.
Great anime from the mid 90s by the way TEKNOMAN 😎 I enjoyed it when I was a kid at 9 years old back then.
Saber's Voice actor Paul Schrier is also famous for portraying Bulk in MMPR Season 1-Lost Galaxy, Wild Force, and again in Samurai/Super Samurai.
Haim Saban had Rights to Power Rangers from Day 1 in the US is why
Yes!..Watched this show on Cheez TV!
so did I. in the mornings. Cheez TV had other Japanese Animations dubbed in English such as Pokemon Bayblade Sailor moon etc. I also remember they showed Xmen
Same here
This was my show back in the 90's....hell it's still my show now!
Fun fact,, Bryan Cranston had a bit part in this show.
RXdash78 really as what?
think he did the voice for the main character of macross plus
@turntableterrorist was that the guy who gave the name Tagus to Teknobot?
Eddie Frierson. Its in the credits at the end of this video, so hardly a massive fact really.
Good times. Upn kids, I feel old.
I remember UPN playing marathon of these on a Saturday afternoon in the mid 1990's. No one else seems to remember it.
After all of these years, this music and show sound and look so good.
This was the first series that I began to understand the plot a bit and I watched every ep of it when it first airred, its a awesome show that needs more attention, a guy in a metal suit having what could be considered a weapon of mass destruction built into each shoulder and a compling storyline to boot, back then I didn't know of anime yet it was a show worth watching. Action, mystery as well as adventure and some good charaters, thou Lance was the most under developed of the villians, he just came cannon slaughter to show off Blade Evo in the end.
This is Anime at it's best. Mature plot lines full of emotion that don't talk down to kids, slick animation and a cool theme music.
Chills in 2018, I used to literally run home from school to catch this & G-force
OMG I had this theme song in my head for YEARS and I had forgotten about this 😭 this used to be my shit
One of the best dub intros.
I remember watching this on either Cartoon Network or Toonami, I'm not sure which as it was a very long time ago. I never missed this show and I loved the story and the cool mechs.
it was Fox Kids and Toonami back then toonami + Fox did all the anime shows like dragonball z, samurai jack, teknoman, yugio etc.
UPN Kids
@@AndyTaken I loved the intro, so awesome and memorable
@@AndyTaken best era for anime for the British audience. I still watch Dragonball Super to this date. Techno man was my first taste of animation and loved it
This super cool anime was originally called, Tekkaman Blade. There was an even earlier version of it back in the 1970's (without the Blade part in it's name.)
Yup look up Tatsunoko and you will see all the anime they own. You can thank Haim Saban Entertainment for localizing these anime.
I was ten when I first saw this. I'm 33 now. Memories
They need to bring this back, either in new animation, 3D, live action, or even a full blown movie.
TEKNOMAN serie de anime excelente 👍
The main character of Teknoman slade had a evil brother on the show except his brother was more stronger, they need to remake Teknoman and bring it back out, what a amazing anime 😎
This is the first anime I've ever watched. Honestly, I had no idea at all what was going on in the plot back when I watched it. Just thought it was awesome.
Loved this as a kid
Old school bringing back memories 😃
Damn. That Darkkon voice is freaking awesome.
The series is called Tekkaman Blade, so yeah, Blade is his name. They changed it to Teknoman and him to Slade when they brought it to the U.S. from Japan.
I might not agree with the politics, but RUclips is the closest thing we have to a time machine.
This show was awesome! I have the theme song as my ringer on my phone.
Man I Remember Watching It On WSTR TV A.K.A. Star 64 In The '90's!
😊I'm 44, and still loves this.. even though the ending was very sad😢
This is the show that made me fall in love with "Japanimation!"
I like the purely techno instrumental music in the intro. I know the Japanese intro has a song but the U.S. intro is better to me anyway. But I already know it was given the treatment of edited violence just like voltron and many other import cartoons.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks that way.
This theme song was originally going to be for the english version of Metalder starring Jason David Frank and be called Cybertron but Saban decided to cast him as the Green Ranger for Power Rangers instead. Cybertron was eventually turned into VR Troopers and this theme was used for this show originally called Tekkaman Blade in Japan.
this was my first anime to watch on Cheez TV *sighs*
"ChEeEeZ TV!" I remember well. I used to watch it while eating cheese toasties for breakfast before school. The only tune I can say has been in my head for 30 years as if I just heard it this morning. It has never dimmed. TEKNOMAN.
This music-nostalgia to the max
damn i loved this show im glad i got every episode on dvd.
I still hum at age 35 😎 TEKNOMAN!!!!!
if there an anime that deserves a revamp it's this one, such a hidden gem
Used to watch this on kcop channel 13 everyday at 6am before school show was awesome
Fucking goostbumbs
Yeah! back in the day when Anime was Badass! before the Pokemon invasion and before the genre started focusing on moé cuteness or sexualized fanservice. I remember watching this on UPN in the mid to late 1990s.
Esta serie era de los mejor que ha sacado el anime !
And...... that's all I got!
woahhh...thanks for uploading. I love Teknoman.
I remember taping this show my younger brother on our VCR back when it premiered on TV. I think it was a night premiere too which made it unusual.
By the way, I didn't know Bryan Cranston was in Techno Man! I mean, I knew he did voice overs back in the day (a lot in anime) but I didn't know he was on this show.
The only reason I woke up at 430am just to watch this show on Saturdays
Kick ass theme song!!!!!!!
so many memories
The last episode I remember before they stopped airing all their cartoon lineup, was a character named Ballsack, not sure of the spelling but it was legit "Balls sack" in the pronunciation. Anybody else remember this?
"When I descend upon the Earth darkness will unfurl its banner Across yet another region of the cosmos"
Darkon Venomoid Warlord
this is the best quality upload of this on youtube
Slade evil brother 2:16 on the outro
Please Netflix remake this show like you did with Voltron.
No, it will be better if they remake it with Tekkadan or opm style
Fuck no !!!
Oh, God no!
But if they do Technoman will spend the entire series engaging the venomoids in gay butt sex.
@@angryman1206 wait, what???
this is one of the most depressive animes ive ever seen
Would love to see netflix revive this
They didnt have to go so hard with thr intro.....
But arent we glad that they did.
Tekno power
Watching this now as an adult, you realize this series and all others like he-man, she-ra, thundercats, etc., all have ridiculous and overdramatic voices (like the friggin AWESOME narrator) and cheesy, purposeful coincidences (teknoman=techno music... Love it lol!).... But damn this series was the shit as a tween
remember that Walter White was a vocie actor for Saban Entertainment before opening a Meth Lab
I rem watching this and was woah, this is way darker than my normal SAT AM cartoons on YTV or FOX.
memories!
I like this intro way better than the original Japanese version; it has a more energetic feel, esp. with Darkon's line!
This intro went from 0 to balls to the wall 100
sundays on CCN TV6 in Trinidad!
sundays on upn13 here in california
Currently watching Tekkaman Blade and I had to check this out for nostalgic reasons😂 the changes between this and Tekkaman Blade are so weird Slade? Really?
Back when upn kids was the underdog
Saban adapted Tekkaman Blade into Teknoman. when will the UPN english version of Teknoman be released on DVD? the first DVD release was from Media Blasters and had the international version of the Teknoman English dub before the UPN's airing.
actually it was released quite a few years ago
Man one of the main reasons I bought that DVD set was to hear the theme song.... sucks that it wasn't included
I have them. Some are still shrink-wrapped. I think I got bootlegs though. Don't care, still have them.
@@joeyd6272 On one of the last disc, if you watch all the episodes and then let it play out naturally until it returns to the menu, the main menu then plays the Teknoman theme. I know that sounds like a "my uncle works at Nintendo" story, but this I swear to God this is true. Nearly shit myself when I binged the DVDs in college, lol.
@@JOEmega64 WHHHAAATTTT!!!! MAN I'M HYPE! TRYING IT TODAY!!! THANKS!
En resumen mi infancia y mi amor por eeuu
Oh shit, 14 years ago :'(
Super Human Samurai mixed with Gundem 😆.
Not as good as the Japanese opening, but still good. Whereas Reason gives me F-Zero X vibes. This gives me Metroid vibes