Mighty Orbots

Mighty Orbots
Cover of the first VHS volume
マイティ・オーボッツ
Genre	Adventure Comedy Mecha
Anime television series
Directed by	Osamu Dezaki
Produced by	George Singer Tat Ikeuchi Nobuo Inada
Written by	Barry Glasser
Music by	Yuji Ohno
Studio	TMS Entertainment
Licensed by	US Intermedia Entertainment MGM Television
Original network	Animax
English network	ABC
Original run	September 8, 1984 (1984-09-08) – December 15, 1984 (1984-12-15)
Episodes	13

Mighty Orbots (マイティ・オーボッツ^?) is an American/Japanese Super robot animated series created in a joint collaboration of TMS Entertainment and Intermedia Entertainment in association with MGM/UA Television. It was directed by veteran anime director Osamu Dezaki and features character designs by Akio Sugino. The series aired from September 8, 1984 to December 15, 1984 on Saturday mornings in the United States on ABC and later on in Japan by Animax, totaling up to 13 episodes.

Mighty Orbots was developed from an idea pitched by Fred Silverman, possibly in response to the popularity of other robot-related properties such as Hasbro and Sunbow's Transformers. The original six-minute "pilot" featured a slightly different version of Might Orbots called Broots (pronounced "Brutes"). Rob and Ono looked similar to their 'finished' selves, though definitively more late 70s-like. The Orbots, while having the same names as in the finished product, are subtly different, and obviously unfinished. Even their combined form aka "Super-Broots" would go through some more developmental evolution before becoming Mighty Orbots. It was produced by Tokyo Movie Shinsha and Intermedia Entertainment in association with MGM/UA Television for both the United States for the television broadcast and Japan via home video. Unlike many other shows of its kind, Mighty Orbots was not simply a translated Japanese import. The series was directed by anime industry veteran Osamu Dezaki with storyboard work by Dezaki's brother Satoshi Dezaki, character designs by Akio Sugino, and animation by Shingo Araki.