Teknoman

Tekkaman Blade (宇宙の騎士テッカマンブレード Uchū no Kishi Tekkaman Burēdo), titled Teknoman in the English dub, is a 1992 Japanese anime television series produced by Tatsunoko Production and Sotsu Agency. The series was directed by Hiroshi Negishi and written by Mayori Sekijima and Satoru Akahori.

Dubbing History
The series was aired, dubbed in English, in the United States and Australia under the name Teknoman by Saban Entertainment. Two versions of the dub were made; one referred to as the International Dub was done first and aired overseas, the other is known as the UPN dub, which aired in America, and featured various changes and more content edits. The UPN edit featured various other changes, including referring to Blade as "Slade" and changing Blade and Ringo's voice actors. The International version was the one released on Media Blasters' 2006 DVD release. Both English versions were heavily cut compared to the original Japanese version and shortened from 49 episodes to 43.

The character names were altered for the English-dub: Blade's "D-Boy" nickname was dropped in favor of "Blade" and his full name "Takaya Aiba" became "Nick Carter". Similarly, "Commander Heinrich von Freeman" became "Commander Jamison", "Noal" became "Ringo Richards", "Aki" became "Star Summers", "Milly" became "Tina Corman", "Levin" (an effeminate male in the original Japanese version) became the female "Maggie Matheson" and "Honda" became "Mack". The "Radam" were now called "Venemoids" and their leader "Omega" became "Darkon". As typical of all Saban dubs, a new music score by Haim Saban and Shuki Levy replaced the original score.

International Version
Additional Voices
 * Arlene Banas
 * Scott Brandon
 * Bill Capizzi
 * Eddie Frierson
 * Jacqui Gonneau
 * Melora Harte
 * Milton James
 * Stephen Lee
 * Mona Marshall
 * Joshua Seth
 * Melodee Spevack
 * Christopher Steele
 * Ellyn Stern
 * Kirk Thornton

UPN TV Edit

 * Bob Bergen - Teknoman Slade
 * Michael McConnohie - Ringo Richards