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Mega Man is a Japanese-American animated television series is based on the game series of the same name. The TV series began on 11 September 1994 and ended on 10 December 1995 and was aired on many syndicated stations at the time.
Jim Byrnes - Dr. Light, Quick Man, Gravity Man, Top Man, Gyro Man (in disguise), Sigma, Mayor (ep. 18), Captain Lee, Secretary of Defense, Tina's father, Mr. Farage, Admiral Hayley, Mitchell Deacon, Governor (ep. 2), Tackle Bots 5 and 8 (ep. 14), Actor (ep. 16)
(*Note: there is some speculation as to which voice actress played Roll and it is not 100% confirmed which episodes -if any - which Robyn Ross voiced Roll. Some fans have noticed a slight change to Roll's voice over the course of the show.
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Promo
Mega Man Ruby-Spears Cartoon Sales Pitch VHS 1994
Before production began on the Mega Man cartoon, Capcom distributed a short five minute promotional VHS featuring animation and character designs similar to that of the games. The VHS was later sent out to several networks in an attempt to "sell the show." The promotional short can be seen on the right.[1]
Reportedly, Marvel Comics had picked up the rights to produce a monthly series based on the Mega Man shows. However, the deal fell through when the show was cancelled by Capcom. This was reported on the popular fan site Mega Man Home Page, but the reference to the cancelled series has since been removed. The truth is still not known for sure.
Ruby-Spears once planned on doing a Mega Man X spin-off cartoon, but this never came to be due to the main show cancellation.[2]
Music
The composers of the music heard on the Mega Man show and its main theme are from John Mitchell and Tom Keenlyside.
Episodes were released on VHS by Sony Wonder beginning in January 1995.[3]
The entire series was released on 2 DVD sets by ADV Films in 2003. Both sets are now out-of-print. In 2009, ADV Films re-released the 1st half of the series, but was shut down in 2009.
Discotek Media released the entire series on September 30, 2014.
Below is a rare television commercial, which contains some of the animated sequences from the original promo reel mentioned above. Also below is a video of Scott McNeil doing Proto Man, Dr. Wily, and Eddie's voices at a convention.
Mega Man cartoon commercial
Scott McNeil as Dr Wily and Protoman
Trivia
In the 1993 promotional video, the announcer mistakenly refers to Elec Man as Bright Man.
A majority of the voice actors from the series also did regular work on Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog. Some specific ones include:
The Emerald Spears group in Archie Comics' Mega Man series is an allusion to Ruby Spears, the creators of the cartoon.[4] The series also featured characters from this cartoon in its Short Circuits humor comics, notably having several of them appear in Mega Man #55.
One of the reasons for the show's cancellation is that Bandai had cut several toy lines because they were not meeting sales expectations and had supposedly been putting merchandising pressure on Capcom. There were more toys that were in production that were also scrapped as a result.[2]
Dr. Wily was originally going to have a British accent, and Proto Man was to have been voiced by Ian James Corlett, Mega Man's voice actor, after Kaj-Erik Erikson was fired. Wily's design was also more faithful to the games, as was Proto Man's, but Bass and a third season were a rumor and the show was complete at 27 episodes.[5]
See also
Characters (cartoon versions): The game characters that appear on the show and comparisons to their video game counterparts.
