NG Knight Lamune & 40 - Ending

NG Knight Lamune & 40 was a Japanese television series of 1990 that was never distributed by any English-language firm. It was one of the Lamune group of television shows and OAVs, and the "NG" in the title stands for "new generation", for there was a previous set of shows under the Lamune title. In all there where 3 OVA series (NG Knight Lamune & 40 EX, NG Knight Lamune & 40 DX, VS Knight Lamune & 40 Fresh) and two other television anime series (NG Knight and VS Knight Lamune & 40 Fire).

The original concept for the show was developed by Takehiko Ito. Much of the story was written by Satoru Akahori, and the mecha design was done by Rei Nakahara. (Collectively this team is known as "B3".) All anime and OVA in the series where produced by Starchild Records, and the show was broadcast on TV Tokyo from April 6, 1990 to January 4, 1991.

This show is not related to the anime series Lamune of 2005.

The main storyline of the series involves a boy named Baba Lamune who is sucked into the video game "King Sccasher." Lamune is a blood relative of the hero "Lamuness," and in the program he is destined to save the world from the evil Abruham. "Lamune" is the name of a popular, lemon-flavored Japanese carbonated drink, and most character names in the series are based of drinks, such as the character Miruku (Milk). The name "Sccasher" is based on the name of a competitor to Lamune, namely "Lemon Squash", a drink not franchised in America whose name is based on that of "Orange Crush", which is.

Although not being distributed in English speaking countries, it has received an Arabic dub along with VS Knight Lamune & 40 Fire, however instead of VS being a sequel to NG, the Arabic distributors did the complete opposite airing VS Knight Lamune & 40 Fire first then airing NG Knight Lamune & 40 as its sequel changing the plot of the NG to make it look like a sequel instead of a prequel.