Mega Man: Upon a Star

Mega Man: Upon a Star, known as Rockman: Hoshi ni Negai wo (ロックマン 星に願いを) in Japan, is a 3-episode OVA made by Capcom in 1993, but it was only released in Japan. 9 years later, in 2002 it was imported to North America by ADV Films. The Mega Man characters are from the "game world", and they can appear in the "real world". Dr. Wily manages to exit the game world and tries to conquer the real world, and Mega Man has to stop him, learning about Japan while searching for Wily.

Episodes

 * Episode 1: Appearance in Japan
 * Episode 2: Wish Upon a Star
 * Episode 3: Future Beware

Trivia

 * While the American Mega Man animated series is considered to be the first Mega Man cartoon, Mega Man: Upon a Star was technically first. These shows were produced in 1993, a year before the American episodes were aired.
 * These three shows may have been pseudo pilots for what would become the 1994 Mega Man series, as there are similarities between them.
 * The producers of the American series also served as the U.S. production consultants on these episodes, which would certainly add more credibility to the above theory.
 * One of Mega Man's buster shot poses in the third episode has a striking resemblance to the one constantly shown in the Ruby-Spears cartoon.
 * Scott McNeil and Jim Byrnes (who voiced Dr. Wily and Dr. Light on the American series) also provide their voices in this series.
 * While Dr. Light sounds the same, Dr. Wily's voice is different. He does not have a German accent. Scott also voiced Beat, who sounded like Eddie does in the American series.
 * Terry Klassen (who voiced Cut Man in the American series) actually voices Rush in the first episode.
 * Kathleen Barr (who voiced Roll in the American series) does not voice as Roll, because Roll is much younger here. However, Kathleen did supply the voice of Yuuta and Akane's mom in the first episode.
 * In the original second episode, Dr. Wily and Mega Man frequently curse in Japanese. However, the foul language was not included in the english dubbing of the episode, with the curses being replaced with words like, "Drat!" and "No!"
 * when the kid is fighting starman he says that he will go to wilys catle but in megaman 5 the bad guy is shown to be protoman and yet protoman helps anyway'
 * adding to that when megaman blasts the enterrence he sees  a few froms of darkmen
 * in the start of the 2nd episode megaman is fighing the wily star in megaman V but when wily calls sniper joe megaman is inside the star however it does not seem like he beat the star.
 * when the screen pans out to the real world in the 2nd episode the kid is playing megaman V on an nes even though megaman V is a gameboy game.
 * when wily gets to lights lab the machine he has been tinkering with for all of the game is a time machine posibly the same one used in megaman the wily wars.
 * when megaman goes throgh time the kids seem to already know him.
 * protoman says he wants to fight megaman althogh in megaman V the game he came out of you never fight protoman and beat is not useable.
 * when rush is going to space he did not need any upgrades because he could already go to space