宇宙の騎士テッカマンブレード (Starknight Tekkaman Blade), King Records KILA-54/5 through KILA-64/5. Six volumes, two CLV discs each, ¥9,800 (税込) per volume, COLOR, MONO, NTSC. KILA-54/5 (第1〜8話): January 21, 1993. KILA-56/7 (第9〜16話): March 24, 1993. KILA-58/9 (第17〜24話): May 21, 1993. KILA-60/1 (第25〜32話): July 21, 1993. KILA-62/3 (第33〜40話): September 22, 1993. KILA-64/5 (第41〜49話): November 26, 1993. King Records / スターチャイルド (STAR CHILD). ©創通エージェンシー / タツノコプロ / テレビ東京.
TV series: 49 episodes, TV Tokyo, February 18, 1992–February 2, 1993. Production: タツノコプロ (Tatsunoko Production) / 創通エージェンシー. Chief Director: ねぎしひろし (Negishi Hiroshi). キャラクターデザイン・設定: TOIIO (湖川友謙 / Kogawa Tomonori) and 佐野浩敏 (Sano Hirotoshi). メインメカデザイン: 佐山善則 (Sayama Yoshinori) and 中原れい (Nakahara Rei). シリーズ構成: 関島眞頼 (Sekijima Mayori) and あかほりさとる (Akahori Satoru). 音楽: 和田薫 (Wada Kaoru). 主なキャスト: 森川智之 (D.Boy), 林原めぐみ (Aki), 松本保典 (Noal), 横山智佐 (Milly), 子安武人 (Tekkaman Evil).
Six Volumes
Two CLV discs per volume, eight episodes per disc pair, six volumes released bimonthly across 1993. The TV series ran February 18, 1992 to February 2, 1993; the final LD volume (KILA-64/5) arrived November 26, 1993, ten months after the finale. Vol.6 covers nine episodes (第41〜49話) rather than eight — the series total of 49 does not divide evenly. Each volume is レンタル禁止 (no rental).
CLV, MONO. The broadcast was stereo; the base LD track is standard analog mono. From Vol.2 onward, a portion of each disc carries video extras recorded in stereo from 35mm negative: specific transformation and combination sequences telecined at higher resolution than the TV broadcast print. Vol.2's extras are the Blue Earth ship launch and the initial Tekkaman transformation (early animation version). Vol.3 adds the Pegasus transformation and a Tech-Set scene compilation.
Vol.1 obi, KILA-54/5, blue. 「中原れいの描き下し『テッカマン・アキ』のカラーイラストと門外不出の㊙キャラ設定集を掲載!!」 DISC I (1〜4話) / DISC II (5〜8話) story text. 特典全プレNews: 特製8cmCD & みゆきちゃんテッカセッター・フィギュア (永遠の非売品) プレゼント!! チャプター付（55ヶ所）. 税込¥9,800 / CLV / COLOR / MONO / レンタル禁止 / KILA 54/5. STAR CHILD.
Vol.1 inner jacket art by 佐山善則 (Sayama Yoshinori). Tekkaman Blade (pink/white) and Tekkaman Evil (dark blue) facing each other across an Earth-orbit frame, beam weapon firing between them. Signed 'By Sayama.' ©創通エージェンシー / タツノコプロ. Each volume's inner art is a Sayama original in this format: two Tekkaman in confrontation.
The Guest Gallery
Each volume includes a newly commissioned color illustration by a guest animator, under the heading GUEST GALLERY. The artist and subject change per volume. Vol.1's gallery is by 中原れい (Nakahara Rei, co-mecha designer on the series): a Sol-Tekkaman reconnaissance variant designed for Aki, labeled 「幻(?)のアキ用ソルテッカマン」(phantom Sol-Tekkaman for Aki). The Fermion cannon is replaced with sensor equipment; armoring is reduced; the only weapon is a single-shot needle gun. Handwritten technical notes accompany the illustration. The suit appears nowhere in the 49 episodes.
Vol.3's guest is 鈴木典孝 (Suzuki Noritaka, Studio OX): Blade redrawn as a samurai-armored configuration, titled 「鉄火男無礼道！」(Tekka-Man Musha Version). Each gallery treats the Tekkaman suit as a design space, not a fixed object, and the guest animator re-enters it from their own drawing vocabulary.
Vol.1 GUEST GALLERY: 中原れい (Nakahara Rei). 「幻(?)のアキ用ソルテッカマン」. Sol-Tekkaman reconnaissance configuration: sensor unit array replaces Fermion cannon, armor reduction, single-shot needle gun. Color illustration with handwritten technical annotations. 表題: VOL.1, 中原れい, 「幻(?)のアキ用テッカマン」.
Vol.2 GUEST GALLERY: 板野一郎 (Itano Ichiro). 「進合宇宙層197X年 — その後のノアル？」(United Space Layer 197X: What happened to Noal?). Noal Freeman in profile (civilian clothes, cropped blond hair) beneath a red Tekkaman mecha in orbit above Earth. In-universe speculation piece: three years after the war, Noal has risen to lieutenant colonel commanding a Tekkaman-equipped unit, Red In team. Story text at upper left in Japanese.
板野一郎
Itano Ichiro built his reputation on missile-spiral sequences in 超時空要塞マクロス (1982): the animation style in which missiles spiral outward in complex three-dimensional formations while a Valkyrie corkscrews through them became associated specifically with him and acquired his name. The Itano Circus appears across Zeta Gundam, Megazone 23 Part II, and Bubblegum Crisis. His Vol.2 contribution is one full-spread color illustration, not animation. He chose an open question (what happened to Noal after the war) and gave it a specific year and a specific promotion. The illustration includes a story paragraph in Japanese describing the postwar political situation and Noal's changed role.
The guest gallery structure assumes that the people who did the work have opinions about the work that didn't fit into production. The illustration commissions are one form of that: animators who handled specific episodes or sequences given a spread to answer the questions the series left open.
Vol.2 ㊙キャラ設定集: STARKNIGHT TEKKAMAN-BLADE variation settei. Six Tekkaman suit configurations labeled A through F. A: Blade standard. B: Evil (red). C: Dagger (green/yellow). D-E: sketch variants. F: blue-scheme suit. Per-suit specifications and design notes. Headed 'Wipe your tears away / D-Boy//'. KILA-54/5 (Vol.1 reference at top).
Vol.2 front jacket, KILA-56/7. March 24, 1993. Full cast portrait against black: D.Boy and Aki center, supporting cast and Tekkaman Evil (background mech). Character-focused composition, no action pose. STARKNIGHT TEKKAMAN-BLADE VOL.2.
Vol.3 front jacket, KILA-58/9. May 21, 1993. D.Boy and Aki in a cave or alien interior, facing the viewer. No armor. STARKNIGHT TEKKAMAN-BLADE VOL.3.
Vol.3 back jacket, KILA-58/9, signed SAYAMA. Tekkaman Omega (pink/lavender) in a circular ornate frame against canyon terrain and moon. Episode list at top: 17. Steel Messiah / 18. In Compensation for Honorable / 19. Silent Soldier / 20. Anger Change (DISC I) / 21. Premonition / 22. Make Up Your Mind Miyuki / 23. Their Bruised Meeting Again / 24. A Mask Confession (DISC II). ¥9,800 (税抜¥9,515), CLV, KILA 58/9.
かわら版
「てっかまんかわら版」(Tekkaman Broadsheet) is a newspaper-format insert included with each volume: tabloid print on newsprint stock, headed with the series title and the volume number. Its contents are split between reader engagement and in-universe material. The reader-facing half carries fan letters with staff responses, production news, and industry announcements (Vol.3 announces the Tekkaman Blade OVA, the vol.3 insert being one of the earliest confirmations in print). The in-universe half runs two serials: 「ブレードの日記」(Blade's Diary), first-person entries by D.Boy, and 「みゃきちゃんの文芸日記」(Miyuki's Literary Diary) by Miyuki, which in Vol.3 includes a hand-drawn map titled 「ラダムの地球侵略プローグ」(Prologue to Radam's Earth Invasion).
The かわら版 format, named for the woodblock-printed news sheets of the Edo period, frames the supplement as ephemeral information rather than collectible documentation. Each issue is dated, volume-specific, and written as if alongside the broadcast. Vol.1's broadsheet was printed while the series was airing.
「てっかまんかわら版」Vol.3. Two-page newsprint broadsheet. Left: 「みゃきちゃんの文芸日記③」: Miyuki's Literary Diary, including hand-drawn map 「ラダムの地球侵略プローグ」. Right: fan letters corner 「お友達からのお便りコーナースペシャル」with reader illustrations. Bottom left: 番外NEWS (Galactic Saver announcement). King Records / スターチャイルド, dated 平成5年7月 (July 1993).
Vol.2 back jacket, KILA-56/7, signed SAYAMA. Tekkaman Blade (white/pink) and Tekkaman Evil (dark) in a blood-red urban combat scene, skyscrapers dripping crimson. 'GATHERING EIGHT EPISODES.' DISC I: 9. Rescue / 10. Cradlesong at Battlefield / 11. D-File / 12. Evil. DISC II: 13. Destiny / 14. One's Blood Devil / 15. Return to Life Demon / 16. A Strikebreaker. ¥9,800 (税抜¥9,515), KILA-56/7.
The Tekkaman Blade Blu-ray BOX (KIZX-90233, King Records, January 27, 2016) contains all 49 episodes plus Tekkaman Blade II (6 OVA episodes), a new interview with 森川智之, and a 40-page booklet. It also includes the LD video bonus footage: the 35mm negative telecine scenes that were, on the original discs, a compensation for the base MONO track. The LD volumes carry what the Blu-ray cannot replicate: six GUEST GALLERY illustrations, the per-volume ㊙ design sheets, and the かわら版 newsletters dated as the series was airing. The Blu-ray is the complete archive. The LD set is twelve discs released bimonthly, each arriving alongside or just after the broadcast it covered, with a guest animator's answer to a question the series hadn't resolved yet.
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