Mega Man: Upon a Star (1993)

About

In the early 1990s, Yuuta Kobayashi is a Japanese boy who plays the game Mega Man 5 on his console. Yuuta forgot to turn off his console. Mega Man along with his friends and foes manage to exit the video "game world' to Japan in the "real world". Yuuta's father takes Mega Man to Tokyo to search for Dr. Wily. Dr. Wily quickly attempts to conquer the real world. Mega Man teams up with the Kobayashi family to search for Dr. Wily. Yuuta's father takes Mega Man to Tokyo to search for Dr. Wily and find him in an amusement park. Dr. Wily orders all the robots in a giant machine called Samurai Man. Mega Man is able to defeat it by Charge Kicking a football, but Dr. Wily escapes. Yuuta summons Eddie to replenish the energy of Mega Man. Rush flies with Mega Man and Yuuta across Japan to search for Dr. Wily. Meanwhile they learn about Japanese culture and customs such as Japanese New Years, Setsubun, Hinamatsuri, and Children's Day. Eventually, they discover that Dr. Wily built a secret base inside Mount Fuji and uses the volcanic energy to create Lava Man. Yuuta's sister Akane summons Proto Man and Beat to help Mega Man. While Proto Man and Beat take care of the lava robots, Mega Man breaks into Wily's lab to beat all eight of Wily's Robot Masters. Wily makes his escape in a rocket, but Proto Man diverts his rocket to go back into Yuuta's video game. After celebrating Wily's defeat, the game characters return to the game world.

Mega Man and Roll get pulled out of the game world by Yuuta and Akane and are taken to the Obon matsuri. Mega Man and Yuuta carry the mikoshi in a parade, Roll learns about yukatas and makes a promise with Akane that she will wear a kimono on Shichi-Go-San, Mega Man learns about cotton candy, Roll plays Whac-A-Mole, and the kids watch the fireworks. During the time everyone is gone, Dr. Wily escapes the game world with his updated Skulker and kidnaps Proto Man. Dr. Light repairs the time machine and Mega Man and Roll use it to jump ahead one year in time only to discover that Wily has conquered Japan and raised the entire city of Tokyo high above the surface. Mega Man and Roll jump back to the past and discover that a typhoon is responsible for this. But, this is not an ordinary typhoon... this is the work of Dr. Wily and his new Typhoon Robot! Can Mega Man save Proto Man, and save the city from certain doom? Along the way, Mega Man learns about Tsukimi (and its yummy dango!) and Sports Day.

#TitleOriginal Airdate

1"Appearance in Japan" Transcription: "Nihon jōriku" (Japanese: 日本上陸)1993

Yuuta Kobayashi has a fight with his family because he was playing Mega Man 5 until late at night. Because he had kept the game paused for the night, Mega Man and Dr. Wily are unable to settle their score in the game. Eventually, Wily jumps out of Yuuta's TV and leads a large number of robots to attack the real world while fighting Mega Man, who had followed them.

2"Wishing Upon a Star" Transcription: "Hoshi ni negai o" (Japanese: 星に願いを)1994

In the game, Mega Man and Wily are fighting as usual, but Mega Man comes out of the game as Yuuta and Akane fought over the controller. Meanwhile, Wily, who had calmed down because Mega Man had disappeared, warps to Dr. Light's laboratory, where he finds a freshly built time machine.

3"Future Beware" Transcription: "Mirai ga abunai" (Japanese: 未来が危ない)1994

Wily has developed a new type of mecha, the Skull Car, which surpasses Dr. Light's time machine. In the meantime, Mega Man and his friends use the time machine that Dr. Light has restored to travel back in time one year to the real world where Yuuta and Akane live, only to find that all of Japan has been turned into ruins by Wily.

Archive

Internet Archive, in Anime

Licence or status

CC0 1.0, as the Internet Archive states it.

Credit

Ashi Productions and ADV Films

Language

Japanese

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