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ElamenSTAR Episode Guide

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ElamenSTAR Episode Guide

 

エラメン☆ spanned five seasons, each season with a slightly different title. The first season was called エラメン☆, the second season エラメン☆  (the R supposedly standing for "Rubian"), エラメン☆ GT (The GT standing for the Great Tumult) the third, スーパーエラメン☆ (Super ElamenSTAR, where each of the Four Underdogs (now adults) gain their new power via upgraded Battlestaffs) the fourth, and スーパーエラメン☆  FINAL the last season.

 

While it is odd that the twelfth and/or thirtheenth episodes are always titled 最後の決戦 with various qualifiers at the end, this became a kind of running tradition. While the 最後の決戦 episodes in the first season were titled as such because they involved the battle with the UberGhast, the second season's 最後の決戦 had scripts written assuming they would be the final two episodes of the show. However, the huge popularity growth the show garnered during the beginning of the second season caused Big East to extend the second season to a full 26 episodes (instead of the planned 13). The script was already written, though, and backplate shots and storyboards were already drawn up, so the episode went through mostly untouched since its finale was already rather open-ended and left room for further adventures. Ironically, the second season's 最後の決戦 episodes were the last episodes re-dubbed for American audiences.

 

Once the first two seasons had episodes titled 最後の決戦, the writers decided to make it a tradition by naming episodes in the next several seasons similarly.

 


 

Season 1: エラメン☆ (ElamenSTAR, episodes 1-26)

Episode NumberEpisode Title (Japanese)Episode Title (English)Original Airdate
1エラメンスターの願いThe Wish of the Elemenstors7th June, 1996
2温泉で遊ぼう!Fun at the Hot Springs!14th June, 1996
3レムニキ物語The Tale of Remuniki21st June, 1996
4ウエクレットの黒い秘密The Dark Secret of Wecret28th June, 1996
5お帰りなさい、エラメン☆!Welcome Home, Elemenstors!5th July, 1996
6騙され易くない!We're Nobody's Fool!12th July, 1996
7エラメンスタの大ピンチElemenstors in a Pinch!19th July, 1996
8海の荒波The Raging Waves of the Sea26th July, 1996
9海難!Shipwrecked!2nd August, 1996
10チューバの問題The Trouble with Tubas9th August, 1996
11エラメンスターの歌謡The Ballad of the Elemenstors16th August, 1996
12最後の決戦:前半The Final Battle: Part 123rd August, 1996
13最後の決戦:後半The Final Battle: Part 230th August, 1996
14心のかたち テーブルクロスのかたちThe Shape of the Heart, the Shape of the Tablecloth6th September, 1996
15神の尊大工The Holy Messiah Carpenter!13th September, 1996
16毛深い脱出: オオカミ人登場!A Hairy Escape: The Wolf-man is Revealed!20th September, 1996
17行ったバットUp to Bat*27th September, 1996
18忍者と海賊の事項A Matter Of Pirates And Ninjas4th October, 1996
19ウエンデルが離れた?Wendel's Gone11th October, 1996
20高い小さいバットの大きい悩みA Tall Thin Bat with a Big Fat Problem18th October, 1996
21...オンドリの騒音The Sound of Ondori25th October, 1996
22戦争人の休日!The War Men's Day Off1st November, 1996
23光に闇を与える物: ムーマー登場!Bringing Darkness to the Light: MooMaa Appears!8th November, 1996
24光に闇を与える物 : ムーマーの復讐!Bringing Darkness to the Light: MooMaa Revenge!15th November, 1996
25彼は音をとばさない!He Doesn't Miss a Sound22nd November, 1996
26要素の創造物を出なさいThe Elemental is Released29th November, 1996

*This episode title is actually a terribly clever pun, which is difficult to translate.

 

Season 2: エラメン☆  (ElamenSTAR R, episodes 27-52)

Episode NumberEpisode Title (Japanese)Episode Title (English)Original Airdate
27グランビノスの撥Curse of the Guranbignoth31 December, 1996
28運命の箪笥The Drawers of Fate14 June, 1997
29二人で、絶対に!Together, We Can!21 June, 1997
30影の化け物Monsters of the Shadows28 June, 1997
31ムーマーの大真面目の大会MooMaa's Deathly Serious Competition5 July, 1997
32マーキツミスが燃えている!Mahrkitsmith is Burning!12 July, 1997
33箪笥ダンスDresser Dance*26 July, 1997
34剳と剣The Sickle and the Sword2 August, 1997
35過去の英霊Great Men of the Past9 August, 1997
36このしつこい谷間はどこだ?!Where is that Pesky Chasm?16 August, 1997
37地殻の中への旅Journey to the Center of the Earth's Crust23 August, 1997
38第二最後の決戦:ムーマーが歯向う!The Second Final Battle: MooMaa Strikes!30 August, 1997
39第二最後の決戦:ムーマーの解きほぐす時The Second Final Battle: The Time of MooMaa's Unraveling6 September, 1997
40あなた!お風呂がわいたよ!A Hot Bath13 September, 1997
41虫螻の影の中In the Shadow of the Worms20 September, 1997
42家書Letters From Home27 September, 1997
43戦争人が練り歩いてるWar Men on Parade4 October, 1997
44帰航Homeward Bound11 October, 1997
45壊れた卵の殼Broken Eggshells18 October, 1997
46逆逆襲のシャアChar's Counter-Counterattack25 October, 1997
47四つのキャンプ火の物語Four Campfire Stories1 November, 1997
48凶悪な秘策A Dastardly Fiendish Plot8 November, 1997
49哀れな森で迎撃!Ambush Among the Forest of Misery!15 November, 1997
50秘密...Secrets...22 November, 1997
51正当な取捨と易い取捨The Right Choice and The Easy Choice29 November, 1997
52四人の殺げることThe Sundering of the Four25 December, 1997

*This episode title is actually a terribly clever pun, which is impossible to translate.

 

Season 3: エラメン☆ GT (ElamenSTAR GT, episodes 53-78)

Episode NumberEpisode Title (Japanese)Episode Title (English)Original Airdate
53今日は!お久しぶり!Hello! Long time no see!9th September, 1998
54血の誓い!エッグチェア先生は約束を守らない!Blood Oath! Dr Eggchair breaks a promise!16th September, 1998
55悪運!フィーラ間違う地図を買っちゃったBad Luck! Phila buys the wrong map!22nd June, 1998
56迷子!無限の木の海Lost! The endless sea of trees!30th September, 1998
57じゃね!行って来ます!Bye! We'll be back!7th November, 1998
58ショック! 職場で性別!Shock! Sexism in the workplace!12th November, 1998
59お遊び!みんな、仲良くしてね!Games! Everyone play nice!19th November, 1998
60天雲! 私も翔けたいですよ!Clouds! I want to fly, too!26th November, 1998
61再起! ランデル、戻せ!Re-Awakened! Put it back, Lander!4th December, 1998
62遅い! 勝ちもある、負けもある!Late! You win some and you lose some!11th December, 1998
63一緒!仲間がいるならなんだって平気さ!Together! Friends make everything better!16th December, 1998
64冷静!負けるもんか!Logic! We can lick this problem!31st December, 1998
65最後の決戦 VFinal Battle V6th January, 1999
66危険! 古い製造所の悩み!Danger! Trouble at the old mill!13th January, 1999
67沈黙! 私達はこそこそしなければならない!Silence! We have to sneak around!20th January, 1999
68火! 動物を除けば!Fire! Save the animals!27th January, 1999
69恐怖! 不快感の攻撃!Terror! Assault of nightmares!3rd February, 1999
70恐れ! 戦争の人は打つ!Fear! The War Men strike!10th February, 1999
71輝き! 太陽は明るい照らす!Sparkle! The sun shines bright!17th February, 1999
72秒読み! それが余りに遅い前に, 急速!Countdown! Hurry, before it's too late!24th February, 1999
73衝突! 武器によって戦い棒である!Clash! Fighting with battlestaffs!3rd March, 1999
74ズーム! 私達は競争に勝たなければならない!Zoom! We must win the race!10th March, 1999
75ドッカアーン! 爆発は都市を揺する!Boom! Explosions rock the city!17th March, 1999
76ニャーア! 余りにも多くの不必要な猫!Meow! An infestation of cats!24th March, 1999
77驚き! 悪人は現われる!Surprise! The villain appears!31st March, 1999
78復讐のための必要性! 死への戦い!Vendetta! A fight to the death!7th April, 1999

 

Season 4: スーパーエラメン☆ (Super ElamenSTAR, episodes 79-103)

This Season, and Season 5 pick up events from the end of Super ElamenSTAR - My name is Phila!, which takes place when the Four Underdogs (Japanese) are about ten years older than they were in the previous three seasons.

 

Episode NumberEpisode Title (Japanese)Episode Title (English)Original Airdate
79完全に育てられるAll Grown Up!25th September, 1999
80一、二、三、四、悪はドアにあるOne, Two, Three, Four, Evilnors at the Door2nd October, 1999
81女ほど素敵なものはないThere is Nothing Like a Dame9th October, 1999
82難攻不落のアームワーArmoire of Invincibility16th October, 1999
83ダヌアンの責任いないDanwan Had Nothing To Do With This23rd October, 1999
84ソファー、そうですSofa, So Good30th October, 1999
85家具は血の勝利で燃えるChez Lounges About All Day6th November, 1999
86エラメンストリ、ウエンデルちゃんElemenstory, My Dear Wendel13th November, 1999
87ショキランッグオンッグヴェ カターホイコイ!Shokirang'ong've Kata'hoikoi!20th November, 1999
88月光順序と無秩序The Moonlit Order and Chaos27th November, 1999
89エラメンストルは細い棒を使うIn Which the Elemenstors Work With Wands4th December, 1999
90第四最後の決戦:マークムーマメナス(前半)Final Battle Four: The Myrkmoom Menace (Part 1)11th December, 1999
91第四最後の決戦:マークムーマメナス(後半)Final Battle Four: The Myrkmoom Menace (Part 2)9th June, 2000
92フニリヤー環境Furniliar Surroundings25th December, 1999
93腰掛けは古い腰掛けのようでないNo Stool Like the Old Stool1st January, 2000
94帽子掛けクローンHatrack of the Clones8th January, 2000
95イクリーケム、はいEcreekem If You Got 'em15th January, 2000
96ゆりかごをトランチャンツ手The Hand That Transchants the Cradle22nd January, 2000
97項目法律六十九の夏Summer of Item Law 6929th January, 2000
98黒要塞にもどって来られるReturn to the Blackest Minathok5th February, 2000
99バッタールについての短十三話Thirteen Short Tales About Battal12th February, 2000
100黄鐘祭Well-Hung Wang Chung19th February, 2000
101ウォンバットの子宮Womb of the Wombat26th February, 2000
102焼烏のスープA Pot of Roast Crow Soup4th March, 2000
103魔神の葬式Funeral for a Fiend11th March, 2000

*The writers of this season were aware of the popularity of The Wizbits Cartoon overseas and took great pleasure in crafting cross-lingual puns for the episode titles. Consequently the English episode titles in season four are much more loosely translated than in other seasons. This is because, for the duration of this season only, the episodes were often named in English first.

**This is the only season of ElamenSTAR that does not have 26 episodes. This is because one other episode, occasionally referred to as "Episode 79-and-a-Half," was never animated (or, it is rumored, completely written). This episode was supposed to address the implied temporal manipulation in Vendetta! A fight to the death!, which led some fans to believe that Season 4 and Season 5 take place in a separate timeline. Purists disagree, insisting that episode 78 alone takes place in a different timeline (and even then only as a marketing scheme for the movie).

 

Season 5: スーパーエラメン☆  FINAL (Super ElamenSTAR FINAL, episodes 104-129)

Episode NumberEpisode Title (Japanese)Episode Title (English)Original Airdate
104エラメンスター、襲来Elemenstor Attack15th July, 2000
105見知らぬ、青空An Unfamiliar Sky22nd July, 2000
106汚い、ねいすThe Dirty Couch29th July, 2000
107ながいす、窮地Ottoman's Dilemma5th August, 2000
108ズラ、心のむこうにZula, Beyond Her Heart12th August, 2000
109決戦、塩のかるい沼沢Face-Off in the Lesser Saltmarsh19th August, 2000
110戦争人の造りしものA Work of the War Men26th August, 2000
111フィーラ、伐!Phila Strikes!2nd September, 2000
112みんな、勝ったほしいみたいに詠め!All of You, Chant Like You Want to Win!9th September, 2000
113マグマべーザーMagma Bather16th September, 2000
114身動きした闇の中でWithin the Stirring Shadows23rd September, 2000
115彼女、家具のために余人苦しいさせないでShe said, "Don't make others suffer for your furniture"30th September, 2000
116最後の決戦:エラメンスター、侵入Final Battle: Elemenstor Invasion7th October, 2000
117ルービアン、魔法の座Rubian, the Throne of Magic14th October, 2000
118事実と背信Truth and Betrayal21st October, 2000
119恐怖と身震い、そしてFear and Trembling, and...28th October, 2000
120四人目のエラメンスターThe Fourth Elemenstor4th November, 2000
121死の選択をThe Choice of Death11th November, 2000
122女の戦いA Woman's Fight18th November, 2000
123物語を織るTo Weave a Story25th November, 2000
124ルービアン、誕生The Birth of Rubian2nd December, 2000
125バッタールの立ち止まる日The Day Battal Stood Still9th December, 2000
126哀愁Sorrow16th December, 2000
127大詰めの初める、とか「時節、それが変わっている」The Beginning of The End, or "The Times They Are A-Changin'"23rd December, 2000
128始める世界The World Beginning30th December, 2000
129世界の中心でアイを叫んだ徒歩の鏡台The Ambulatory Dresser that Shouted I at the Heart of the World6th January, 2001

 

Movies and Specials:

IDMovie Title (Japanese)Movie Title (English)Release Date
Movie #1エラメン☆ - 段ボールの☆ElamenSTAR - Star of Cardboard28th July, 1997
Movie #2スーパーエラメン☆ - フィラです!Super ElamenSTAR - My name is Phila!22nd September, 1999
Movie #3出現エラメン☆Advent ElamenSTAR (CG direct-to-video release)26th November, 2004
Special #1広島にエラメン☆ElamenSTAR in Hiroshima15th December, 1996

Comments (Show all 80)

Anonymous said

at 1:47 am on Jan 28, 2006

Remember that while the Four Underdogs founded the school, they did not necessarily teach there, unless that contradicts something already written. Most of the time all that is mentioned is that they founded it, which they did in fact do.
As for being mentioned in one breath, Lincoln could have been said to have "Ended the civil war and freed the slaves" all in one breath when these events occured at different times.

Anonymous said

at 1:59 am on Jan 28, 2006

they were indeed the first grand elemenstors which taught at the citadel

Anonymous said

at 2:08 am on Jan 28, 2006

That's true, but teaching is only part of having a grand citadel. They have to recruit students, as well, and when the world is threatened, they are called into action. Pretty standard "Epic" fare d^_^b

Anonymous said

at 2:57 am on Jan 28, 2006

ErMaC... are you still working on the Lesser Saltmarsh entry?

Anonymous said

at 3:35 am on Jan 28, 2006

If you're referring to Face-Off at the Lesser Saltmarsh, no. Sorry I just left work and came home and must've closed the browser without cancelling or committing my edit, my apologies. I'm working on laying down all the basic episode summaries for season 5 as fast as I can.

Anonymous said

at 3:37 am on Jan 28, 2006

no.. I don't want to get in the way of season 5, that's coming together really excellently.. I was referring to the actual entry "Lesser Saltmarsh" which it looks like you've got locked... sounds like you don't need it...

Anonymous said

at 4:25 am on Jan 28, 2006

If I have it locked it's a mistake, sorry.

Anonymous said

at 4:37 am on Jan 28, 2006

yeah.. I grabbed it and added a Lesser Saltmarsh entry

Anonymous said

at 7:57 pm on Jan 30, 2006

Okay Season 5 is getting close to done, has anyone already been looking through Season 3, or is writing those mostly up for grabs?

Anonymous said

at 8:18 pm on Jan 30, 2006

I think everything is up for grabs if it's red d^_^b. The nice thing about it is, if there's anything you miss while you're "watching the episodes," it's still that much easier for others to add in once the majority of the episode is "transcribed."

Anonymous said

at 2:16 am on Jan 31, 2006

ok... so it seems clear to me that the telling of how the underdogs successfully defeated char reyarteb "for real" does not actually exist in the canon material.. I suppose that I had forgotten that with all the time manipulation and multiple final battles.

Anonymous said

at 2:21 am on Jan 31, 2006

Congrats ErMaC. Bang-up job! I love that verve you get when you suddenly pitch through a set of broken links like a berserker armed with some sort of steam-powered blending implement. You crested your berserker-rage with much skill.

Anonymous said

at 2:32 am on Jan 31, 2006

ok.. pretty sure this solves the debate.. check out the description I just wrote for the vendetta episode and let me know if it jives with your understanding of the underdogs lore

Anonymous said

at 2:50 am on Jan 31, 2006

Waitwaitwait, that's not how it ended, was it?
What I remember, the first time they actually fight Char to the death was at the end of the whole show.
All of ElamenSTAR takes place contiguously, where they defeat moomaa, they defeat char, but blow up the world, and so they go back to just before the world blows up and erase their memories. Then the events of the Radio dramas take place, where they meet again for the first time and decisively defeat Char, as told in Book 4.
The whole timesorcley/brainmanglement thing was added by the writers so that both stories could happen one after the other and not conflict.

Anonymous said

at 2:51 am on Jan 31, 2006

The elamenSTAR writers needed to ret-con the whole show into the greater timeline, so they added the Brainmanglement to the ending so that the Radio Dramas could then take place. Hence the timeline is:
1) Season 1-3
2) 10 years pass.
3) Super ElamenSTAR Movie
4) Season 4-5
5) Brainmanglement
6) Radio Dramas

Anonymous said

at 2:53 am on Jan 31, 2006

Or at least, that what I thought when I was rewatching the episodes. :P

Anonymous said

at 3:08 am on Jan 31, 2006

I personally relish the confusion surrounding this so I'm alright with how it sits now and the underdogs technically sit in an infinite loop of "try it until you fulfill your destiny" which we know they somehow ultimately broke out of because the rest of the elemenstor saga happened.

Anonymous said

at 3:09 am on Jan 31, 2006

feel free to change this interpretation...

Anonymous said

at 4:10 am on Jan 31, 2006

No, I think that's pretty much how it went. Very "Myth of Sisyphus" style--also Stephen King stole something like this idea for the ending of the Dark Tower Books I think. d^_~b It's a fantastic ending, though I could have done without the seizure-inducing "telesorc'ley" scene at the end, and the sitting-in-chairs-on-a-stage-discussing-their-problems. I guess that was meant to represent brainmanglement? Anyways...

Anonymous said

at 10:57 am on Jan 31, 2006

Okay well I thought the whole thing at the end was written to make it so ElamenSTAR and the Radio Dramas would both count as canon. If the cycle in ElamenSTAR goes on forever, Char is never defeated.
Char has to be beaten by the Four at some point, and Book 4 says its in the Radio Drama, so logically ElamenSTAR must take place before it.

Anonymous said

at 1:10 pm on Jan 31, 2006

book 4 was 1997. at the time it was thought that elamenstar would be 3 seasons. gavment was confused as to when the underdogs defeat char

Anonymous said

at 1:16 pm on Jan 31, 2006

but that is just one fantheory... no materials state which time was "real" so the dramas could be it

Anonymous said

at 7:08 pm on Jan 31, 2006

Heheh... well, the debate will probably continue forever, that's the beauty of the thing. Some people will never accept the cartoon as canon, even though it fits just fine. Same with the radio dramas. Of course the only "official" word on canon comes down to, "we'll say whatever we have to say to sell more stuff."

Anonymous said

at 8:27 pm on Jan 31, 2006

ok.. if this is what we're going with we probably should include some info in the wiki on the possible theories in which the various versions could fit together.

Anonymous said

at 10:02 pm on Feb 1, 2006

I stand by my theory that the writers meant for the Radio Dramas to take place after the whole series, so both competing theories should probably be listed somewhere.
Perhaps there should be a "Four Underdogs" timeline page, seeing as how they are in so many different works.

Anonymous said

at 10:04 pm on Feb 1, 2006

ok cool.. I'll see if I can put something together.

Anonymous said

at 2:08 am on Feb 2, 2006

seems like this page would be shorter if you made a page for each season

Anonymous said

at 11:43 pm on Feb 3, 2006

We also might want to prune all the old discussion stuff at the bottom of the page. I'd just remove it but I thought someone might want to save it or something. If there are no objections I'm going to remove the discussion stuff at the bottom.

And I don't think splitting it into Season pages would be prudent, the TOC makes reaching a season easy.

Anonymous said

at 11:46 pm on Feb 3, 2006

if we're pruning, make sure we're not losing information not preserved elsewhere in the wiki. I think that the snippet about "Dragol" is not written of elsewhere

Anonymous said

at 2:35 am on Feb 4, 2006

Consider it pruned.

Anonymous said

at 2:39 am on Feb 4, 2006

nice

Anonymous said

at 10:52 pm on Feb 13, 2006

Wait wait... I thought the final episode of Season 3 occurred outside of the timeline the rest of the series took place in? Because continuity is preserved through all five seasons--I thought season 4 retconned the season 3 closer as a "dream of one temporal possibility" in a fight the Four actually won.

Anonymous said

at 11:01 pm on Feb 13, 2006

Hmm.. I don't see anything about that, but there is an entry on the final radio dramas episode saying that because of the end of season 3 the movie, season 4 and season 5 may actually take place in the time line of the radio dramas. I think that when they were finishing season 3 and working on the movie they starting to cook up the idea of multiple timelines and resets to tie all the underdog stories together.

Anonymous said

at 11:09 pm on Feb 13, 2006

Hmm... back to the source material I guess. We'll get this straightened out eventually.

Anonymous said

at 11:58 pm on Feb 13, 2006

I've actually seen fist fights break out over this at Denny's at 4 am on con weekends.

Anonymous said

at 2:04 am on Feb 22, 2006

Should we make some sort of note that all of ElamenSTAR's continuity should be viewed in a pre-Countdown context? Now that there's finally some sort of proper temporal shakedown coming this year, we should also clear up some of the speculation about the differences between the radio dramas and the TV show, as they all can be reconciled now through Countdown to Infinite Wizbits.

K said

at 11:29 pm on Aug 1, 2006

It... is... FINISHED.

K said

at 11:30 pm on Aug 1, 2006

Okay, so, now it's time for me to clean up everything related to the series, so "finished" is wildly inaccurate, but at least all the episodes have plots. d^_^b

Tim said

at 11:37 pm on Aug 1, 2006

ok so.. no party yet then?

Anonymous said

at 6:55 pm on Aug 2, 2006

Impressive. Most Impressive.

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