Space Warrior Baldios

Space Warrior Baldios

Screenshot of Baldios
宇宙戦士 バルディオス
(Uchū Senshi Baldios)
Genre Adventure, mecha
Anime television series
Directed by Kazuyuki Hirokawa
Written by Akiyoshi Sakai
Takeshi Shudo
Tomomi Tsutsui
Music by Kentarō Haneda
Studio Production Reed
Kokusai Eigasha
Network TV Tokyo
Original run June 30, 1980 – January 25, 1981
Episodes 34 (31 aired)
Anime film
Music by Kentarō Haneda
Studio Production Reed
Released December 29, 1981
Runtime 117 minutes

Space Warrior Baldios (宇宙戦士 バルディオス Uchū Senshi Barudiosu) is a 1980 Japanese super robot mecha anime series. A film with the same title was released on December 19, 1981.

Production

The anime TV series was produced by Production Reed with a feature film (with a strong environmental theme) and distributed by the Toei Company in 1981. The name of the Baldios mecha was unchanged, although it played a small part in the film. In Italy, the series and film were shown as Baldios, Il Guerriero dello Spazio. In Cuba, another feature-film version of Baldios was released in theaters (including violence removed from the American version) as Yaltus.

Story

The TV series begins on S-1, a futuristic world whose wartime pollution has forced its occupants to live underground. Its emperor is assassinated by military fanatic Zeo Gattler and his followers, who frame the team of scientists who recently found a solution to their planet's environmental decay. Gattler's followers invade the head scientist's laboratory, killing the environmentalists and destroying their work. He loads the civilian population aboard a fortress, the Algol, and flies off to conquer a new planet. Angered by Gattler's devious actions, the lead scientist's son (protagonist Marin Raygun) tries to escape. Before he can, he is caught in the Algol's warp drive and finds himself near Earth in the year 2100. When he sees a Martian colony destroyed by Gattler's Aldebaren Army, Marin joins the military organization Blue Fixer. His ship becomes part of Blue Fixer's mecha, the space warrior Baldios. Marin and the Blue Fixer team (Jamie Hoshino, combat pilots Jack Oliver and Raita Hokuto, researcher Ella Quinstein and commander Takeshi Tsukikage) defend Earth against Gattler and the S-1 force. The conflict ends when Gattler triggers a massive tsunami by melting Earth's polar ice caps with artificial suns, flooding the planet and killing millions. Blue Fixer is helpless to stop it, and Marin watches the waves in horror. They remove the radioactive core of the World Union submarine base, which threatened to contaminate Earth, transporting it to the Aldebaren fleet where it kills Gattler, his troops and Commander Tsukikage.

The Baldios film contains a final confrontation between Marin and Gattler. In the series and the film, S-1 and Earth are the same planet. Gattler and his troops' time travel caused the same pollution which forced them to leave S-1, closing the time loop.

References

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