The Moon Alien Merged with the Gas Tank!?

	Episode 39
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	Information
Title:	The Moon Alien Merged with the Gas Tank!?
Japanese Title:	月星人、ガスタンクと合体！？ ; (Getsuseijin, gasutanku to gattai!?)
Original airdate:	December 27, 1993
Manga source:	Volume 13: Files 10-11 (131-132)~Volume 14: File 1 (133)
	Story
Cast:	Yaiba Kurogane ; Sayaka Mine ; Takeshi Onimaru ; Princess Kaguya ; General Tsukikage ; Mangetsu ; Shonosuke ; Kagetora ; Musashi Miyamoto ; Jubei Yagyu ; Kojiro Sasaki ; Gerozaimon Geroda ; Namako-Otoko ; Kumo-Otoko ; Ana Shioji ; Ana Shioji's cameraman
	Staff
Director:	Kunihiko Yuyama (chief) ; Norihiko Sudo
Screenplay:	Kenji Terada
Storyboard:	Yoshihiro Yamaguchi
Episode director:	Yoshihiro Yamaguchi ; Kazuya Murata (asst.)
Animation director:	Hideaki Matsuoka
Voice Cast:
	Minami Takayama as Yaiba Kurogane ; Kotono Mitsuishi as Sayaka Mine ; Ryo Horikawa as Takeshi Onimaru ; Rika Fukami as Princess Kaguya ; Daiki Nakamura as General Tsukikage ; Toshihiko Nakajima as Mangetsu ; Masaharu Sato as Musashi Miyamoto ; Takaya Hashi as Jubei Yagyu ; Jurota Kosugi as Kojiro Sasaki ; Kazunari Tanaka as Gerozaimon Geroda ; Tetsuo Sakaguchi as Kumo-Otoko ; Reiko Suzuki as Sayaka's Grandmother ; Tsutomu Kashiwakura as Namako-Otoko ; Mami Matsui as Ana Shioji
	Music
Opening song:	Yūki ga Areba
Closing song:	Shinchigakunaki Tatakai

Chronology
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Cast

Characters

The end scene where Sayaka accidentally sends Yaiba into a lamp post is not from the manga.

The original airdate of the episode was supposed to be December 31st, 1993 between 17:00 and 20:54. However, to not coincide with the new year celebration events, it was moved to 18:00 to 18:30 on December 27th^[1],^[2].