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Title: Robotech

Overview: Robotech is an 85-episode adaptation of three different anime television series made between 1982-1984 in Japan; the adaptation was aired in 1985. Within the combined and edited story, Robotechnology refers to the scientific advances discovered in an alien starship that crashed on a South Pacific island. With this technology, Earth developed giant robotic machines or mecha to fight three successive extraterrestrial invasions.

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Cast

  • Lance Belmont (voice): Cam Clarke
  • Scott Bernard (voice): Gregory Snegoff
  • Ariel (voice): Melanie MacQueen
  • Rook Bartley (voice): Susie London
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