The first series (Anime Oyako Gekijo) began at the home of a young boy named Christopher “Chris” Peepers (Sho Asuka in Japanese) who discovers the ancient bible named Superbook (Time/Space Travel Book) that book can speaks and sends him, his friend Joyeux “Joy” Quantum (Azusa Yamato), and his clockwork toy figure namely Gizmo the Crusader Robot (Zenmaijikake) back in time to the early events of the Old Testament. Somehow, Gizmo transforms the toy into a real-life robot that can walk and talk for the duration of the adventure, although he still needs to be wound up regularly.
In the first episode, Chris and Joy were cleaning the attic for Chris’s father, a somewhat eccentric college professor, when they noticed an old book glowing. The children tried to open the book, but were unable to open it, no matter how hard they pulled. The book promptly opened on its own, shining a blinding light around Chris’s bedroom, and started to speak before whisking the children and Gizmo back in time to the Garden of Eden to experience the story of Adam and Eve.
In Superbook II (Pasokon Travel Tanteidan), which took place two years after the first series, the book fell onto a computer keyboard, giving anybody the ability to see into the past from Christopher’s home via the monitor. Ruffles, his poodle, has managed to get lost in time, which prompted Gizmo and Christopher’s little brother (rewritten as his cousin in the English dub) named Uriah “Uri” Peepers (Yuu Asuka in Japanese) to search for her. Chris and Joy kept watch and control of the computer from the present. The older children also had a hard time trying to prevent what happened a secret from Chris’s parents. In this series, Gizmo appeared as a fully fledged functioning robot in the present day rather than as a toy in the second series but still needed to be wound up regularly. Gizmo also has a built-in computer keyboard and a monitor in his chest for Gizmo and Uri to stay in contact with Chris and Joy in the present day as well as transporting to other places in time or returning to the present.
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