Cybersix (TV series)

This article is about the television series. For the comic series, see Cybersix.

Cybersix
Genre	Action Crime Science fiction Thriller
Created by	Chu Takara Carlos Meglia Carlos Trillo
Written by	Catherine Girczyc Carlos Meliga Carlos Trillo
Directed by	Hiroyuki Aoyama Toshihiko Masuda Atsuko Tanaka Nobuo Tomizawa Kazuhide Tomonaga Keiko Oyamada
Voices of	Cathy Weseluck Michael Dobson Alex Doduk Janyse Jaud Andrew Francis Terry Klassen
Theme music composer	Robbi Finkel
Country of origin	Canada Argentina Japan (overseas animation)
Original languages	English Portuguese
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	13 (list of episodes)
Production
Producers	Herve Bedard Carole Ducharme Shuno Kato Toshihiko Masuda Koji Takeuchi
Running time	30 minutes
Production companies	TMS Entertainment NOA
Original release
Network	Teletoon (Canada) Fox Kids (USA) Kids Station (Japan) Telefe (Argentina)
Release	September 6 (1999-09-06) – October 23, 1999 (1999-10-23)

Cybersix is an animated science fiction television series, based on the comic strip of the same name by Carlos Meglia. The series was produced by the Vancouver-based Network of Animation (NOA) and animated in Japan by TMS Entertainment. Many of the comic's darker themes had to be toned down for this show in order to make it appropriate for younger viewers. The original music score for the show was composed by Robbi Finkel. Its opening and ending songs were composed by Robbi Finkel with lyrics by Robert Olivier and sung by jazz vocalist Coral Egan. The series originally aired on Teletoon in Canada, Fox Kids in the United States, Kids Station in Japan and Telefe in Argentina.

On May 6, 2000 Cybersix won "Best Animated Production" and "Best Overall Sound of an Animated Production" at the Leo Awards. On April 28, 2001, the series won "Special Mention for the Best Science Fiction Program" at the Pulcinella Awards in Italy for that year's competition.

Cast

• Cathy Weseluck as Cybersix
• Michael Dobson as Lucas Amato
• Terry Klassen as Von Reichter
• Andrew Francis as Julian
• Alex Doduk as José
• Janyse Jaud as Lori Anderson
• L. Harvey Gold as Terra

Additional voices were provided by Brian Drummond and Chantal Strand.

Episodes

Cybersix aired a total of 13 episodes. Each individual episode had a production budget of $360,000 USD. Two seasons of 13 episodes were originally intended to be made, but those plans were cancelled after the first season due to conflicts between production studios.

The series was released in English on DVD for the first time in North America by Discotek Media on 26 August 2014. The box set features commentary by Cathy Weseluck and Brady Hartel on episodes 1 and 13, liner notes on episode 4 and 11, textless opening and ending animations, as well as the show's original short pilot.

Ep#	Title	Original airdate (Teletoon)
1	"Mysterious Shadow"	September 6, 1999 (1999-09-06)
High school teacher Lucas Amato befriends fellow teacher Adrian Seidelman, and encounters the dangerous minions of José and Von Reichter by night, not knowing that Adrian is actually the mysterious Cybersix, who comes to his rescue. Cybersix heads off to stop José from counterfeiting money and to rescue the engraver and printer being forced to make it.
2	"Data-7 & Julian"	September 12, 1999 (1999-09-12)
Von Reichter sends a panther called Data-7 to seek and destroy Cybersix. Adrian meets a young boy named Julian, who is forced by his master to pick pockets. Cybersix finds José in an abandoned theatre where Julian lives and battles Data-7, until the panther looks at a picture from Adrian's wallet and saves Julian's life. Data-7 is revealed to be a resurrected Cyber-29 and defects to join Cybersix against Von Reichter.
3	"Terra"	September 18, 1999 (1999-09-18)
Von Reichter creates a monster named Terra. When the creature battles Cybersix, her altruistic essence transforms his malevolent heart to goodness. José traps Terra and restores his aggression. José sets the tower on fire, trapping Cybersix and Terra inside. However, Terra regains his free will and sacrifices himself to save Cybersix.
4	"Yashimoto, Private Eye"	September 19, 1999 (1999-09-19)
José kidnaps Julian and his new friend Ikiko, to blackmail Ikiko's older brother Detective Yashimoto into hunting down Cybersix. Yashimoto meets Cybersix in her apartment deducing she is Adrian. Yashimoto uses a Cybersix mannequin to fool José, while Julian and Ikiko make their escape. José summons a giant ammonite-like creature, before Cybersix and Data-7 destroy it.
5	"Lori is Missing"	September 25, 1999 (1999-09-25)
Lori, a student at Meridiana High School has a crush on Adrian and finds out where he lives but is disgusted to find Cybersix there; (Talking to Data-7). After Lori converses with Lucas, he realizes Adrian knows about Cybersix. Lori is captured by José's gang. Cybersix rescues Lori and foils José's mission to rob the national bank.
6	"Blue Birds of Horror"	September 26, 1999 (1999-09-26)
Meridiana is beset by swarms of hostile birds that attack those who step outside. Eventually after a visit from Cybersix, Lucas deduces the birds are being controlled by José and pause only whenever new broadcasts are transmitted. Lucas creates diversions to allow Cybersix to get to the TV tower and electrical broadcaster, where Cybersix and Data-7 battle and destroy José's giant bird abomination.
7	"Brainwashed"	October 2, 1999 (1999-10-02)
Meridiana's top six detectives including Julian's friend Henrique are brainwashed by José's new mind-control device to seek out Cybersix. Julian catches wind of this, but is captured by José and becomes bait to lure Cybersix into a trap. Julian removes the mind control device on Henrique, who helps Cybersix escape, and they battle José's goons as a thunderstorm destroys the base.
8	"Gone With the Wings"	October 3, 1999 (1999-10-03)
A horde of winged goblins attack Cybersix, but they retreat at dawn. Julian finds the goblins' lair and is trapped by them, but Data-7 rescues him. After a second encounter with the goblins, Cybersix realizes their weakness. Cybersix brings a train to the goblin lair and as she keeps the goblins at bay, Data-7 and Julian load the eggs on the train. Cybersix traps the goblins on the train and destroys them and their eggs in the sunlight.
9	"The Eye"	October 10, 1999 (1999-10-10)
José receives from his father an eyeball creature capable of draining its victims' consciousness and growing in the process. Cybersix reflects the eye's gaze back at it with mirror glass, but the eye intensifies its power at a stadium. As José struggles to capture the now out of control eye, Cybersix destroys it with a tank of liquid nitrogen, thus restoring the city's population.
10	"Full Moon Fascination"	October 9, 1999 (1999-10-09)
A werewolf monster turns other people into werewolves, as a new teacher named Elaine signs on to work at the high school and dates Lucas, causing Adrian to become upset. Lucas transforms into a werewolf and Cybersix realizes Elaine is the werewolf monster. Cybersix snaps Lucas out of his wild trance and destroys Elaine, purging the infection from Lucas.
11	"The Greatest Show in Meridiana"	October 16, 1999 (1999-10-16)
José captures Data-7 and stages a circus show, where Cybersix is captured by robotic animals and is forced to become part of the attraction. Lucas is taken backstage and manages to free Data-7 and disables the robots' programming, while Data-7 rescues Cybersix. All three of them fight and destroy the robots along with the circus.
12	"Daylight Devil"	October 17, 1999 (1999-10-17)
A reptilian woman named Griselda, who has invisibility powers stalks Cybersix relentlessly in a deadly chase. During a class field trip, she discovers that Adrian is Cybersix. Griselda injures Adrian who cannot retaliate as this would expose his true identity to others. After a long ambulance chase after Adrian, Griselda drives off a bridge. Adrian tries to help Griselda, but she compassionately sacrifices herself to save Cybersix from a moving train.
13	"The Final Confrontation"	October 23, 1999 (1999-10-23)
Von Reichter sends an island-sized living bomb to destroy Meridiana with Cybersix in it at midnight. Before heading off for a final confrontation, Adrian reveals who he really is to Lori and Lucas. José, who is determined to keep Meridiana for himself, reverses the direction of the bomb, while Cybersix, with the help of failed experiments, overwhelms Von Reichter and the living bomb destroys his laboratory.

See also

• Night Hood

External links

• Template:Tv.com show
• Cybersix at IMDb
• Cybersix (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
• Telecom's official Cybersix page (English)