Inspiration for the Work: Tadao Nagahama cited the Gag Series "The Ladybug's Song" by Noboro Kawasaki as an inspiration for this series, which is about 7 siblings banding together to survive after their parents die in a plane crash. Except in Daltanious, it's 7 orphans gathering to survive after an Alien Invasion ravages the Earth.
Keep Circulating the Tapes: The planned US release never happened and the Chinese and Spanish dubs have also been lost to time.
Fear not, for Discotek Media has licensed the rights to it and has the English-subbed Japanese version available for your purchase.
And in Italy, the series is available on Amazon Prime streaming.
No Export for You: World Events Productions initially intended to dub Daltanious and release it in the United States, but the mishap with the Toei employee prevented this from happening. Of course Discotek Media picked up Daltaniousnote 41 years after the Toei mishap, mind you but it never got the American English dub as intended. One can imagine how a BowdlerisedDaltanious for American audiences would have turned out....
Kento originally had long, shaggy black hair. He had two prominent Idiot Hairs on the top.
Danji had shorter hair, but one of his eyes was covered by his bangs.
Ochame had a pet puppy (or what appears to be a stuffed toy of one).
Daltanious aired on TV Tokyo in the timeslot previously held by Spider-Man (Japan), however, the original plan was for Spider-Man's follow-up to be Battle Fever J, now recognized as the revival and the third installment of the Super Sentai franchise. Battle Fever instead premiered on TV Asahi, thus inheriting the network of its predecessors and securing it for its successors to this day, over a month before Spider-Man concluded.
Unfinished Dub: In Taiwan, only episodes 1-39 aired, cutting off the remaining 8 episodes.
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