Galaxy Boy Troop (銀河少年隊) was a children's TV series created by Osamu Tezuka that combined marionettes with traditional animation.
The series also aired in France as Le Commando De La Voie Lactée.
Occasionally, the producers incorporated live-action film of characters' lips moving superimposed on the puppets, in an effect similar to the little-used American Syncro-Vox technique.
[2] In the first season, the eponymous Galaxy Boy Troop, headed by a boy named Rob, travels across the galaxy to find a material that can restart Earth's dying Sun.
Although the show is primarily puppetry, it still manages to include many characters from Osamu Tezuka's Star System in marionette form.