There are people who do not have time to be born, which immediately found the forefront of comic books, anime, merchandisig and more.
Then there are the heroes of paper as Orion. Heroes from the difficult and troubled life, with little recognition and very little visibility. Raise your hand if you remember the animated series dedicated to our hero. It was a fleeting and quick passage in the summer of 1986 when the country began some private stations to broadcast episodes of "Knight Techno Orion" or simply "Orion", adapted for the small screen of a much-loved manga at home (although a few), but virtually unknown in the West. The form in which they were sent to the wave episodes of the series, was in itself unusual: of the 39 episodes which made up, they were sent here by us only 8 in one step! You read right: the series was never broadcast. What is even more strange when you consider that the broadcasters were all private and local, so without any hesitation when it comes to rights.
Our champion is not born but on the small screen, but on the pages of the manga "Ningen Shinzu Orion" created by Tatsuo Yoshimura in 1970, which was never published in Italy, even now that several publishers have decided to fill in some gaps more or less sensational (they have also translated the manga ... Fantaman). But then, as those who can not bring himself to blame to publish a niche product, when a miss is the same niche? Why
its Orion is important, since there are several other similar cases? Because beyond the value of this series as a meteor in the television landscape, it remains important to the role it has played as a precursor of the whole genre of so-called "Japanese Superheroes" or the various Tekkaman, Kyashan, Gatchman etc. Superheroes that were inspired by "yes" to the Americans, but with very marked characteristics, which often insisted on the human dimension of the characters. The tax must be mentioned that the series in Orion is enormous, even without him probably would not have had a viable alternative to the sagas robotics. But why, then this sort of fugitive from justice? The
doubt that a veto on our hero weights more than an oversight is strong. The material is scarce dedicated to him in a suspicious manner outside of Japan. I mean you try to insert "Orion" in any search engine, the results will always be multiples of zero. To get your news from the network have to go digging through specialized sites Nipponese! Some images like the one accompanying this article, and then little information (in Japanese). Yoshimura supervised even after the animated series, is dedicated to charachter design for a well-known toy and leaves the world of comics ... stuff watergate. But this
is another story. We told of a forgotten hero, who as a meteor hurtled down the listings without a trace. If you remember the deeds of the knight in armor fighting his enemies with cries of "Distortion DIMENSIONAL !!!", or" Cosmic Vibration !!!", means that instead of going to play football in the warm summer of 1986 have oziato in front of the tube to resist the call of the road but, like me, you have witnessed a unique event.
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