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, or Red Photon Zillion, is an anime series that ran from April 12 1987 to December 13 1987 on Nippon Television in Japan and was produced by Tatsunoko Productions and Sega. The series was dubbed partially, five of the 31 episodes, into English and released on VHS in the United States by Streamline Pictures. Streamline also released an OVA entitled "Burning Night" on VHS that featured the White Knights forming a band after the fall of Baron Ricks.
Plot The story takes place on the planet Maris in the year 2387. Around this time, the Nozas started to genocidally kill all humans in order to lay eggs and reproduce on the planet. Three mysterious guns dubbed the "Zillion Weapon System" appear and three teens (JJ, Champ, and Apple) are chosen to wield them as the White Knights in order to fight back against the Nozas. Characters J.J. Apple Champ Amy List of episodes Music Opening Closing Trivia The Light Phasers wielded by the characters look very similar to the Sega Master System's Light gun. Two games were made based on the series, both for the Sega Master System: Zillion, an action game similar in play style to Metroid and Impossible Mission. A Sequel, Zillion II: The Triformation, was a faster paced game involving a powered armor mecha which transformed into a motorcycle. Opa-opa, one of the minor characters of the anime, also was given its own line of games, the Fantasy Zone series. This is mainly due to the sponsorship of Sega in the beginning of the series. However, later in the series, Sega stopped sponsoring and the Light Phasors (though self-contradictory with the earlier plot which says the Guns cannot be modified or changed) were changed to newer versions that do not look like Sega's gun. | ||||||||
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