Beginning with robot animation, animations about machinery were increasingly being created, and at this time, Dragon's Child Studio, which wanted to do a new genre, completed this funny type of animation. The animation was supervised by Hiroshi Sasawa, and after Ryunoko's Oraa Guzura Dado, his accumulated humor was brought to full play in this work.
Timeship (Taiwanese translation of "Rescue Little Hero"), a 1977 robot animation film produced by Japan's Dragon's Son Studio, premiered on Fuji Television in Japan and translated by Liaoning People's Art Theater in August 1994.
The story is roughly:
Dr. Kieda finally completes the expected time machine "Time Spaceship", and dr. Kieda begins time travel under the gaze of his daughter Junko and assistant Danping, but Dr. Kieda cannot find Any trace of Dr. Kieda in the timeship returning from the trip.
However, the ship also leaves a talking parrot Dream dream, and hangs an expensive gem "W Gem" around Dream's neck, and Junko and Tanpei take this gem to start a time journey to find the Doctor.
On the other hand, the evil jade led by Yoni also takes aim at the "W Gem", Joni, along with his genius inventor Gru and the strange power of Fasha, the three of them steal the design of the timeship from the Doctor's research institute and build their own time machine, and then they pilot their own time machine and start chasing Danping and their timeship, but what awaits Yoni and the others on the way to time travel is a magical world where the past and the future are intertwined.
The character was designed by Kitaka Amano, who later became a famous illustrator. The mechanical designer was Mitsuki Nakamura, who made serious style styling in the previous "Mark 5" and "Science Ninja Team", but he designed a lot of funny style machinery in this game.
Among them are various insect-shaped machines such as the time spade bata, which features a one-horned fairy as the protagonist, and the time locust, which is based on a locust.
The mechanism of the villain was designed by Kunio Ogawara, which includes the "Mecha Nimaru", an exterior device based on a skeleton that is different in shape each time.
However, this animation is not loved from the beginning, and at first some people even sent letters to the production team to criticize the funny and nonsensical scenes that appeared in the work, but after the charm of the performance, scripting, painting, voice actors, etc., gradually attracted a large number of supporters for this animation. After the broadcast slowly surpassed a year, the anime received more and more praise, so the official decision was made to make Timeship a series.
The series retains the humorous fighting style of the righteous and the evil, and in other respects is free to play with imagination. In 2000, Kiranukiman, a "Time Machine 2000", was broadcast through TV Tokyo in Japan, and the voices for the series' common villain trio (known as "Three Evils") were three voice actors, Nameri Ohara, Nanami, and Kazuya Tachibana.
The Timeship series is a representative work of dragon child studio humor animation, and the OVA animation "Timeship King Road Resurrection" was also produced to commemorate the 30th anniversary of dragon child studios. In addition, this series also has a lot of development in terms of games.