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Light Speed Electric Albegas (光速電神アルベガス) is a 1983 anime produced by Toei Animation. Episodes aired from March 30, 1983 to February 8, 1984 every Wednesday, ending at 45 episodes.

At Aoba High School, three students, Daisaku Enjouji, Tetsuya Kami, and Hotaru Mizuki construct their own Super Robots for a competition. Around the same time, a fascist military organization, known as the Dellinger organization, plans an Alien Invasion on Earth and send an attack force. Though the three teenagers try to counter the attack, they're unsuccesful.

Luckily, Hotaru's father, Dr. Mizuki, happens to be a skilled scientist who had already been developing a plan to ward off the Dellingers. He modifies the three teenager's robots into the all-powerful Super Robot Albegas, who crushes their forces. Saisaku, Tetsuya and Hotaru, now aided by their friends and schoolmates, now helm the mighty robot and dedicated themselves to protecting the Earth. Only time can only tell who will emerge victorious.

Toei has the first two episodes uploaded for viewers on their YouTube channel.


Light Speed Electric Albegas has examples of:

  • Adjective Noun Fred: Light Speed Electric Albegas.
  • Affectionate Parody: Albegas is a parody of several mecha anime that preceded it:
    • The main heroes are three kids that are Famed In-Story for their heroic exploits, but their Sixth Ranger, Goro, who does a lot of the work, is always ignored (which is a reference to how anime fandoms favour certain characters over the others).
    • Goro is fat and unattractive note . He is parody of how otakus (in this case, mecha anime fans) are seen by non-otakus. To further accentuate the "otaku" angle, his robot is a parody of Boss Borot from Mazinger Z, and he also as a poster of Captain Harlock in it.
    • The popularity of the Super Robot Albegas results in dedicated fans creating the "Albegas encyclopedia". It is a bestseller and contains details such as the combining of Albegas, the strategy the Dellingers up to that point, and it's pilots. However, it doesn't mention the Gori-Robo, causing Goro to get angry and complain about the lack of respect he gets.
    • The main female lead is constantly kidnapped and used for gratuitous fanservice (despite the fact that of the main three, she's the most skilled with robots).
    • In the Grand Finale, the main character genocides the entire race of the alien that invaded their planet, massacring several innocents along the way. Keep in mind that throughout the show, some of the aliens of this race were amongst their friends and allies.
  • Airborne Aircraft Carrier: The Dellingers' spaceships consist of this, as they are Sufficiently Advanced Aliens that are skilled at constructing war machines.
  • Aliens Are Bastards: The Dellingers are grotesque, hideous, evil aliens that want to colonize the Earth. They constantly set up traps to and manipulate humans into doing their bidding. They're also responsible for the death of Hotaru's mother. Only a few are truly good at heart, like Julia and General Dally.
  • Aliens Speaking English: The Dellingers don't have any problem communicating to the humans and vice versa.
  • All Men Are Perverts:
    • Daisaku constantly thinks about Hotaru's breasts and likes looking at porn magazines in his spare time. During a treasure hunt, he eagerly crawls into a girl's bed.
    • The Vice Principal has a nymphomaniac obsession with Danko and grabs her breasts with both of his hands in the first episode.
    • Hotaru is mobbed by boys everywhere she goes for her good looks. She's nicknamed the "Madonna" of Aoba High School.
  • All Love Is Unrequited: Admittedly it's up to interpretation, but Hotaru shows signs of a crush on Tetsuya, who only has eyes for Julia. Meanwhile Goro likes Hotaru, but she barely knows he exists.
  • Alternative Foreign Theme Song: The full series was broadcasted uncut in Argentina, complete with this theme song.
  • All There in the Manual: Supplementary material states that Tetsuya's birthday is July 17th.
  • Amazing Technicolor Population: The Dellinger race all have purple skin, much like the Galrans.
  • Buxom Beauty Standard: Both Daisaku and the Vice Principal prefer busty girls. When Daisaku looks at a porn magazine, he laments that Hotaru's breasts aren't as big as the pornstar's. The anime also features breasts getting groped, a lot.
  • Cruel and Unusual Death: In the Grand Finale, this happens to the Dellingers as Albegas destroys the Delan star, which is interconnected to them as a race, causing all of them to simultaneously perish.
  • Combining Mecha: Albegas is made up of an α robot (piloted by Daisaku), a β robot (piloted by Tetsuya) and a γ robot (piloted by Hotaru). It's also aided by a Gori-Robot which Goro pilots.
  • Cool Big Sis: Ritsuko is this to Tetsuya. She's a Friend to All Children who feels protective of any kid that;s being bullied, because she sees her little brother in them.
  • Cool Sword: Albegas' Sanbai Sword attack, which is often used to kill many a Dellinger machine. And it's rainbow.
  • Dub Name Change: Averted with the Latin American Spanish dub. The original Japanese names are left unchanged.
  • Everyone Went to School Together: Daisaku, Jin, Hotaru and Goro know each other through Aoba High School, and Hotaru's father Professor Mizuki is a teacher there.
  • Everyone Can See It:
    • Daisaku has an obvious crush on Hotaru, but he's too Tsundere to admit it.
    • Prof. Mizuki clearly has a thing for his assistant, Saiko, something even Hotaru can see. They eventually get engaged in episode 17.
  • Famed In-Story: Played for Laughs. The popularity of Albegas results in dedicated fans creating the "Albegas encyclopedia". It is a bestseller and contains details such as the combining of Albegas, the strategy the Dellingers up to that point, and it's pilots. However, it doesn't mention the Gori-Robo, causing Goro to get angry and complain about the lack of respect he gets.
  • Fanservice: Hotaru is quite busty, and we get a lot of gratuitous breast shots.
  • Flying Brick: Albegas is 40m tall, and weighs 2100 tons. It was originally a robot created for competitions created by three students, but after undergoing major modifications by Professor Mizuki, it was re-fashioned into a Super Robot. Aside from Gori-Robo, it is the only force on Earth that can compete with Dillinger, hence why destroying it is their top priority.
  • Galactic Conquerer: The Dellingers, though there's actually a sympathetic reason for this. Their old power source, the star Delan, is dying and if it lifespan fizzes out, they'll die too. In the Grand Finale, Albegas destroys it with it's Sanbai Sword - resulting in the Dellingers facing total extinction.
  • Heel–Face Turn: When Julia is killed in battle, her father, General Dally, is enraged and vows to get revenge on Albegas. However, he changes his mind once he is plagued by visions of her, deciding to save Hotaru because of her and also choosing to sacrifice his life by defying the Dellingers.
  • Inconsistent Coloring: Hotaru's hair is brown, but supplementary material suggests it's dirty blonde.
  • Interspecies Romance: Julia is a Dellinger who falls in love with Tetsuya. Sadly, she is killed in battle.
  • The Lost Lenore: Kiriko is this to Prof. Mizuki, and Julia is this to Tetsuya.
  • Love Triangle:
    • Daisaku clearly likes Hotaru, and it's implied Goro likes her too. However, Daisaku is quite the Chick Magnet himself. Hotaru has shown signs of attraction to both Daisaku and Tetsuya, but not Goro. However, the only person Tetsuya has ever loved was Julia.
    • Prof. Mizuki's wife is dead and he's implied to be attracted to Saiko, but when his deceased wife comes back (albeit, as a robot), Saiko struggles with her feelings and feels upset that he's being taken away from her. They end up in the end, though, as his wife goes back to Europe).
  • Male Gaze: Apart from Daisaku's non-stop fantasies of Hotaru's chest, there's also the principal groping a student and many Fanservice shots.
  • Planet Looters: The main reason the Dellingers are invading the Earth is because their power source, the great star Delan, is nearing the end of it's lifespan and running out of energy. Once the Dellingers learned Earth was rich in energy, they decided to invade it and use it as a new power source.
  • Robot Me: In one episode, Hotaru's Missing Mom suddenly returns...only to be in the body of a Reploid soldier.
  • Shout-Out:
    • Episode 3. In Goro's robot, a poster of Captain Harlock can be seen.
    • Gori-Robo is inspired by the mecha of Mazinger Z.
    • Prof. Mizuki has a strong resmblance to Stan Lee because of his glasses and hairstyle. See here.
  • Space Pirate: Gigil, who was nicknamed the "Cassiopeia Hurricane" for his exploits, is held in high regard by the Dellingers.
  • Super Robot Genre: It parodies this genre (with the "Albegas Encyclopedia", as well as references to other popular sci-fi anime such as Captain Harlock), but Albegas itself counts and is of the Combining Mecha variant.
  • Tragic Keepsake: Before her death, Kiriko entrusted Prof. Mizuki with her wedding ring to give to Hotaru in case she ever got married.
  • Names to Run Away from Really Fast: The villains are called the "Dellingers" (as in, the gun). Oddly, their names are quite bland, like "Dally", "Duston", "Azas", "Deran" and "Bios".
  • Noodle Incident: Goro apparently had a traumatic incident with whales, hence his dislike of them.
  • Wake Up, Go to School & Save the World: Prior to piloting Albegas/Gori-Robo, Daisaku, Tetsuya, Hotaru and Goro were ordinary high school students. With the threat of an Alien Invasion, their normal lives are upturned and they risk their lives on the daily to defend Earth, while also attending the same school where they were taught robotic invention.
  • Wartime Wedding: Averted. Professor Mizuki and Saiko wait until the war is over, and then get married.

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