Details

Release year: 1987

Storyline

Koji Kondo is a young mechanic who finds the Madox-01. He gets stuck inside the machine before he finishes reading the manual. He must now evade the government and find his girlfriend before she disappears forever.

Top credits

Directors

Shinji Aramaki

Writers

Shinji Aramaki

Cast

Yasunori Matsumoto — Koji
Yôko Asagami — Kusumoto
Kazuyuki Sogabe — Kilgore
Arihiro Hase — Onose

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Did you know

• The helicopter which delivers Ellie and Unit 0 to track down Kouji has the name "Rodger Young" stenciled across it. This is a reference to the troop transport Rodger Young in Robert Heinlein's novel "Starship Troopers", widely considered to be the definitive work on powered combat armor. (The movie Starship Troopers (1997) also features the Rodger Young, but Madox 01 predates that film by a decade.)

• There are two English dubs of Metal Skin Panic Madox-01: An Animeigo dub and a Manga UK dub.

• At 6m34 seconds in one of the characters examines a box containing the titular mecha unit. Written in English, it reads as follows: "US.ARMY MARINES OKAWASAKI HEAVY IND CO.LTD 1. Walt Disney production: Steven Lisberser, Director "The design work for this for this feature started with the Aircrafts 2. For this sequel to the famous "2001" I designed the exterior of the Russian space ship Leonov. For the interior, 3. Originally, working personally with Ridley Scott, I was