First anime I watch, at the age of 6! Manly tears...

Tekkaman always had that kick ass music incorporated into the battle scenes.

After building up to this more or less all series long, it's a very emotional fight. Sure it's not the most physical like DBZ or something, but it's much more than that. This is Shinya's chance to finally overcome his brother once and for all. At this point he doesn't even care about the invasion. He just wants to fight his brother. The flight around the world before heading back up to the orbital ring just highlights that the hope of humanity lies with Tekkaman Blade. The amusing thing is that Evil had this fight won in the end. He states that had the Blastor mode not malfunctioned, he would have pierced his brother's heart. And so he dies knowing that he finally bested his brother. It's all very emotional IMO.

I prefer the yelling in Tekkaman Blade rather than the cheesey Spiderman-like comeback puns in Teknoman.

ブラスターエビルはこれきりなのがもったいないぐらいデザインが秀逸

This series is fucking brilliant...its up there with my faves like Cowboy Bebop and Evangelion. A bittersweet tragedy, and I am so glad we get the original Japanese version now. The 3 volume set of this series, is a purchase I am so glad I made.

To everyone bashing the fight- keep in mind they had a budget to adhere to. Yea, other anime have had more epic/dynamic final fights, but to us (as mentioned before), just seeing them fly across the earth, with this great soundtrack in the background, just gives fans a chance to really let the magnitude of this fight set in. Blade + Evil dont really need to be exchanging melee blows. their power is BEYOND that. They just have to put all of their pent up emotions into 2 final VOLTEKKA attacks

That song man, that song pretty much tells the whole story behind the invasion and Blade.

森川子安両氏の迫真の演技が光る!森川さんにとっては主役デビュー作だし、子安さんにとっては声優業に行き詰まりを感じ引退しょうと考えていた時期に演じて、両者の声優として一皮むける事が出来た作品ですね。

This anime was very underrated. Tekkaman Blade had to kill family and friends to save the world and then in those ovas the world turns on him. So they made Tekkaman Blade 2 a little bit more light hearted.

tekkaman is my favorite unit in srw J and W..by far

I love this battle :) So much emotion in it.

This is how I pictured fights with my brother in my head

Damn I remember watching this video 11 years ago. I checked to see if it was still here. Glad it is.

Tekkaman Blade is too awesome. VOL TEKKA!

So many great match ups - friend vs friend, Sensei vs pupil, brother vs brother, brother vs sister - one day hopefully we will get a remake or live action movie 🎥 axe was just bad ass

Goddamn I love that "wreeeeee" sound effect before evil & blade land death blows. This and the '89 guyver OVA feature that blissful accelerative noise. I miss transforming suit anime.

this is one of the best Japanese animes back in 90s

Out of all of the climactic final showdowns I've ever seen, none of them is as meaningful and satisfying as this. I mean, sure I've seen hate-driven rivalries, but what Blade and Evil have goes way deeper than that.

personally i think the great thing about this battle isn't the choreography or the great animation or all that stuff, but what REPRESENTS, like, if you have actually watched the whole show, you know this is the very final battle between these rivals/sibling that have been fighting since the first episodes, and how it decides pretty much everything (i know then it comes the battle against omega but shh) and how sad it is

Vintage anime's are amazing. Feels so nostalgic especially with that music.

I love the ending, hadn't watched it in japanse before, sounds cooler than the english versions

The debut role of Yoshikage Kira and the star-making role of DIO

@Mattos7 I always thought this was the perfect end for these two. The fights between Blade and Evil were always very heavy on dialogue and character development. In this fight, Blade has to get to Omega NOW and has to get through Evil to do it, he's finally fully committed to bringing his brother down and there's nothing left to say between them. I always thought this fight was less about action and more about the emotion and sense of finality involved which it communicates wonderfully.

After defeating him, it is revealed that the Radam Beasts were just parasites, as the one controlling Evil is crawling out of his corpse. So basically Blade learns too late that he could have saved his family, resulting in a very emotional Atmosphere (and then he proceeds to kill Omega). Even if Banpresto didn't change anything, i still think that such a emotional battle should not be watched first.

@Slixer While I agree that a lot of this part of the fight, they are just flying across the earth. Though I always interpreted that as showing the viewer what was at stake during that fight. If Blade lost there then the earth was doomed. There wasn't any time left for a contingency plan at that point and the radam plants had already started to turn people into Tekkamen. Still I see what you mean, it would have been great to have 5 full minutes of full on fighting.

man, i loved this anime :)

EPIC SIBLING RIVALRY!!

Whenever I watch the Blastor Transformation I suffer a stroke. So freaking awesome!

Yoshikage Kira vs Dio Brando

It's a shame we are only able to save Tekkaman Rapier/Myiuki in SRW J and W. Evil is cool as fuck

Este momento es una bestia cargada de emotividad de principio a fin.

Actually, Blade's Haikoto Voltekka Powerup only lasted...what..two episodes? Anyway, THIS is how a final battle should be done. It's been hyped up almost all season and it doesn't disappoint.

i got the tekkaman album and i have this song repeated about 5 times on my ipod...such a supe you up fight, and the song fits perfectly...

The show really cements that this rivalry was seeded from before either Takaya or Shinya became a Tekkaman. I completely agree with how well this fight works as the end to a rivalry. Also I didn't include the fight between them that happens in the earlier part of the episode. Most of this episode is dedicated to Blade and Evil fighting.

Well, a full battle would have been awesome, but when they went Blaster the power levels they reach would wreak Earth surface. I mean, Blade hurled a simple Voltekka lancer and by missing it he blasted a beach. I don't know how much destruction would cause if he misses a Blaster Voltekka...

04:37 Tekkaman Evil isn't so evil anymore.

@ShadowSonic2 It was the glitch in Evil's blaster form that caused him to slightly miss Blade.

It's a shame they don't make good anime like this anymore

you know whats even cooler the fact that tekkaman blade is going to be in tatsnoko vs capcom

Fantástic

Greatest Anime Ever!!!!

I love Evil's Blastor Mode

1:01 me when i see chocolate cake.

At 2:11 I swear, these athlete camera men are very fast. Able to keep up pace with Blaster Blade and Blaster Evil.

So cool

@PSPman128 There is a similarity since some of the designers who worked on Tekkaman Blade, also worked on a few Gundam series. But, the concept of Tekkaman Blade was developed years before the non-UC Gundams (eg. Gundam Wing, Gundam X, Gundam Seed) even came into existence. So, it's the other way around: Tekkaman Blade was the series that inspired the creation of many of the Gundam designs.

Consider yourself lucky! I learned about him through the Americanized version of this series, Teknoman. (And the series got cancelled WAY before they got to this scene.)

Tekkaman Blade is a great character it's a shame I only learned about him through TvC.

I remember when I was watching it as a 10 year kid , the BGM shocked me ~

Tekkaman blade Blade in tatsunoko vs capcom is AWESOME...ñ_ñ

xDDD i luv it! xDDDi also watched when i was in kinder!!! xDDD

thumbs up if your still watching this in 2011

I started up Tekkaman Blade II and can't believe it's related to this. Seems downright terrible... This was an incredible series with probably one of the coolest rivalries I've ever seen. A nice break from your usual mecha.

i still want to use evil in SRW games

@Mattos7 that was for us to notice the awesome-epic background music

Wow. Watched this around 1995.

fully agreed

The animation got a lot better by this point. I only got to watch the Saban dub in the US. :/ Yeah, the voice acting for that dub was unusually good, but the editing was almost "Sailor Moon"-bad. x.o

haha wow! used to watch this show on cheez tv when i was 7.... totally forgot about it till today. bad guy named Evil? you cant beat that :P

今思えば子安さんが声優として成功したのはこの作品かも知れませんね

D-boy (and his seiyu) owns all the rest!

excelente teknoman

Matt you do TV Tropes editing on Tekkaman Blade lol.

The only thing more kickass would be having Evil as an alternate outfit/color in the game. Hey, it's the closest we can get for now, right?

Think of it like armored skin or an exoskeleton . Using the tekka crystal gives them the armor/skin, so yea you'd still get blood from gashes and stabs.

テッカマんブレドがんばれ！

Blade fights Sabre before Darkon himself in the final battle.

agreed

@DorianMichaelsIII It works in much the same way Guyver does, D-boy's scar is from a wound he got while fighting as a Tekkaman. Its just that where Guyver uses bio-tech, Tekkaman armour uses some other manner of super-advanced technology.

fucking miss this show

@Ambriz745 Aren't the kids from Gatchaman supposed to be in it too? I know I saw them on advertisement spots for that game-- but I had no idea the Tekkamen were going to make an appearance too.

Yeah, TB II was pretty shitty. It's a great rivalry because they're blood brothers and their powers are pretty much even. In most mecha shows, the rivalries tend to be uber powerful prototype mecha vs custom units

twins in fact.

God, the music, for Japanese, amps me up.

Ah, the memories... But wow! A power-up that doesn't last 10 episodes! Impossible! ;p

this is my fav anime ever!!! where can i buy the series on dvd?

Voltekka!!

Real Anime.

Blaster tekkaman is so damn cool!

Talk about Akira meets Gundam. Man!!

like gundam unicorn and macross frontier they make every anime fan quiver their kness because of their epicness

POINTY MECHA ROCKS!

yea hard out. they shuld have considered a 2nd season. or even make 1 now

ALLUDENLOO ES UNA LEYENDA iNMORTAL TU SOBREViViRAS""..

Who like mechanime?

Anyone know the name of the track that plays during Evil and Blade's final fight from the OST?

wow I thought that perhaps the fight had been cut or something... turns out it always looked kinda bad with them doing nothing for most of it.

the battle and animation of gundam 0083 gp01 vs gp02

If they make a Tatsunoko vs capcom 2 they should have Sabre/Evil as the final boss

can you upload the background song please i cant find anywere ;_;

Hey, dude. This is taken from the show itself. This is how the battle looks and sounds in the Japanese version.

Who exactly wrote the song?

If you think Masquerade's good on the DS, check the version in J on the GBA... the versions of the songs tended to be better in J, oddly.

@Guyverman01 I think it would.

DIO vs Kira

lemme geuse bad DBZ memories?

I liked this show....but really, naming the bad twin "Evil"? That's as subtle as a nuke.

HI CODE VOLTEKKA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Damn, how sore were the actors' throats after all this?