Tekkaman Blade Collection, Vol. 1

love the series and would recommend any one that love old school or this type anime

Excellent Anime! I already had vol 2 and wanted to complete the series. The first volume was actually cheaper than the second on amazon. I picked up the second vol at a second hand bookstore. so getting the first vol was essential.

Let me preface this review with a brief statement that I have been a fan of Tekkaman Blade since I first saw Teknoman (The US version) back in the 90s. As such, I'd been hoping for a release of it in pretty much any format.Tekkaman Blade: Collection 1 features the first 16 episodes of the series, introducing D-Boy (Blade or Slade in the English versions), and the team of Space Knights he allies himself with. In the midst of an alien invasion, D-Boy alone has the ability to fight the Radam (Venomoids in the English versions) by turning into Tekkaman Blade. But while Blade is not alone, he is the sole Tekkaman who fights for humanity--The Tekkamen are in service of the Radam. D-Boy himself is a man who claims no memory of his past, not even his name (D-Boy stands for Dangerous Boy, a name given to him by the distrustful Noal), but is the only one with knowledge of the Radam threat. He is considered a traitor to the Radam and a weapon by General Colbert. The Leader of the Space Knights, Heinrich von Freeman protects blade from the machinations of Colbert, while the other Space Knights reach out to them. D-Boy is cold, convinced none of them can help him in his mission against the Radam, but the Space Knights are persistant in their attempts to make him more than just a weapon--But a friend.I own a prior release of this series which contains both the International Dub and Japanese versions (There are two dubs; one is a US dub in which D-Boy is called "Slade," and the International version with a few different voice actors, and D-Boy is instead named "Blade."), but the picture quality is pretty awful. The sound is similarly bad, and the subtitles are actually so inaccurate as to make parts of the dialogue totally worthless, impossible to understand.Similarly, there was an official US release of Teknoman, which is also the International Dub. It sounds like it is exactly the same as the one released in Japan, which is of poor sound quality. Sadly, that may be the best we can get for Teknoman.As for Tekkaman Blade, this release is significantly better. The graphics are dated, but the transfer is as close to flawless as I can imagine, and the audio is crisp and clear. The subtitles, while there are a few places in which the word choice is dodgy, are quite accurate and make sense. There should be no question about the actual quality of this version.Collection One features bonus features, including: The intro and closing scenes without any text, a brief history of Tekkaman Blade (A featurette in Japanese which details some of the translation between the original series, Tekkaman the Space Knight and Tekkaman Blade), and one of three OVAs released between Tekkaman Blade and the Tekkaman Blade 2 OVA. This OVA, Twin Blood, features a different version of Blade's first encounter with Tekkaman Evil (Saber in the English versions). It has little to do with the actual series, as Blade and Evil are no longer strictly mecha, but biological mutants of some sort, but it's interesting to see, nontheless.I am not an Anime fan; Tekkaman Blade and Tekkaman Blade 2 comprise half of my anime collection. However, I recommend this to both anime fans and non-fans. There are some differences from the US version, if that's the one you were first exposed to (As I was), but the story is better, not worse for this.

Loved this as a kid wish I could get volume 3

I'm glad I finally got it. I'm glad I finally got it. I been looking for this series a very long time now and finally got it.

This is not the US version but the original so only subtitles but I'm still a fan of this anime

it got to me fast and i have not see this since i was a kid lol love it

Amazing dvdOnly downside is that is subtitled in English and not dubbed

リージョン1で再生出来る環境であれば、すごくコストパフォーマンスは高いと思いますオープニング、エンディング共に日本語表記で、英語字幕のON/OFFだけと言う良い意味で雑な作り方です、画質も恐らく国内版と変わらないと思いますが何故かCollection 3だけが、高額なプレミアが付いているので全部揃えると国内発売されているBlu-ray Collectionと価格的に変わらなくなります。