NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan brought out the 1985/1986 series Ninja Senshi Tobikage on Blu-ray back in 2014 and Discotek Media recently acquired the show. The distributor has now scheduled the 43-episode series to be in its original Japanese with English subtitles but some episodes will be dubbed using the one created in the 2000s for its Cartoon Network run in Southeast Asia.
The set is now dated with a January 25th, 2022 release date where it’ll be priced at $79.95. Extras include the clean opening and closing sequences and an art gallery with a 1,032 minute run time for the full set.
The show originally ran for 43 episodes and was animated by Studio Pierrot. The series is getting a December 3rd, 2014 release in box set form for 36,000 yen. It’s an eight-disc release to help celebrate the 30th anniversary of the series going into 2015. No extras are detailed for the release but it will come with a new booklet and contain all 43 episodes.
Plot concept: I’m Joe Maya and this Blu-ray is all about my adventures with the Ninja Robots! What, expected normal box copy? Sorry, that’s just not how I do things, man! This is a show about robots that also happen to be ninjas, and, well, if that doesn’t seem cool to you you’re probably pretty boring. Some of the robots are orange and blue, one’s a dragon, and then there’s another one that’s the coolest one that’s also a big, gigantic ninja! That one’s mine, it’s the best one. I know, it’s a little confusing, but all you really need to know is the robots beat each other up and we say cool things while doing it.
Together with my dorky bro Mike, my blue-haired buddy Jenny, and the coolest dude Damien, we use the Ninja Robots to protect Romina, the alien princess, from the forces of evil or whatever. There’s Icelander, some jerk who’s got an inferiority complex because I’m so cool; Hazzard, this dumb military guy with a toadface; and then some emperor guy who looks like Mr. Clean but talks like Dracula… No idea what that’s about, honestly. There’s a bunch of other characters, too, but they don’t really matter. What does matter is this set contains all 43 action packed episodes of Ninja Warrior Tobikage – Japanese with subtitle style, of course – as well as the long-lost English dub, Ninja Robots. What are you waiting for? Let’s do this, like, now!
And here’s the original series opening:
