Wonder Beat Scramble – 01

Here is the first episode of Wonder Beat Scramble, a 26-episode TV series produced in 1986 by Tezuka Osamu and written by Takayashiki Hideo (who, coincidentally, also wrote the script for Ganba no Bouken (1975)).

Wonder Beat Scramble tells the story of Sugita Susumu, a brash 13-year-old boy brought in by force to work for Doctor Miya’s White Pegasus team of private microsurgeons/spaceship pilots, learning about the intricacies of the human body in the process. In a story reminiscent of Top wo Nerae! Gunbuster (1988), a spaceship headed by Susumu’s father disappeared during a mission conducted by none other than Doctor Miya. It is three years later that the story begins, with the Sugita family still grieving his loss and Susumu coping through selfishness and violence.

Tezuka Osamu’s appearance at the end of the episode in a so-called Mini-Mini Talk segment is a sure highlight, as he enthusiastically reflects on what was learned during the episode before a catchy ending theme closes the show.

Wonder Beat Scramble is translated by Doctor Beat, and encoded, timed, typeset and edited by Anonymoose. Source raws are provided by AniDub. The video track is encoded in 10-bit h.264, and the audio track is 192kbps DD 2.0, straight from the source.

Download it here on NyaaTorrents.
[Update] – A v2 patch is now available here on MEGA. It improves the styling, fixes a few mistimed lines and renames some characters according to the official spellings.