- Gordian Warrior
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Gordian Warrior 闘士ゴーディアン
(Tōshi Gordian)Genre Mecha TV anime Directed by Shigeru Yanagawa Studio Tatsunoko Production Network Tokyo 12 TV Original run October 7, 1979 – February 27, 1981 Episodes 73 Gordian Warrior (闘士ゴーディアン ) was a popular anime series aired in 1979 to 1981 in Japan. There were 73 episodes aired at 30 minutes each. It is also referred to as Champion of Gordian or Gardian.
Contents
Original Story
The Earth had become a wasteland of deserts as the survivors work to rebuild communities. Daigo Otaki is a young orphan raised by his uncle. Becoming an adult, Daigo discovers that Victor City was in fact planned by his father who was a genius scientist. Daigo's sister Saori had been managing it. She plead Daigo to take on the inheritance that Daigo's father left him, a super robot system known as Gordian. Daigo would join the Mechacon mechanic combat 18th regiment unit, an organization of law enforcers that defend Victor City against attacks from the Madokuta organization.
Concept
The pilot Daigo Otaki controls a small almost human-sized robot container named Protteser. Each time Protteser is in trouble, he jumps into the next biggest robot container named Delinger. Then finally the largest container is Garbin.
Characters
Japanese Name Voices by Daigo Ōtaki Yoshito Yasuhara Peachy Yō Inoue Barihawk Rokurō Naya Dalph Kiyonobu Suzuki Unknown G Hiroshi Masuoka Saori Otaki Gara Takashima Rose Rihoko Yoshida Dokuma Yasuo Muramatsu Erias Yoshino Ohtori Klorias Yūsaku Yara Trosculus/Narrator Masatō Ibu Staff
- Additional Director
Masamune Ochiai
- Screen Writer
Masaru Yamamoto
- Design
Ippei Kuri
- Animator
Kazuhiko Udagawa
- Music
Masaaki Jinbo
Masayuki Yamamoto
DVD release
Episodes (names loosely translated from Japanese) 1. Nice guy of wilderness 2. Combat mission and hiding stronghold 3. Scream, red desert 4. Reviving life 5. Dead fighting of death valley 6. Trap of Victor Town 7. Kape Vuiretsuji of the evening sun 8. Breaking in enemy of anger 9. Fearfully Dokuma president 10. Chief of red nose 11. Bravery 7th regiment 12. Rose of sorrow 13. Gordian on search 14. The giant star which burns 15. Lullaby of wilderness 16. Intense fighting professional 17. The gunman who challenges to the darkness 18. Crisis one hair hell lock 19. Puzzle of Victor Town ground nadir 20. Confrontation of starry sky 21. Secret fighting Maunteihon 22. Rebellion of Victor Town 23. Combat mission of dawn 24. Under the flag of freedom and justice 25. It is dangerous, it does! Victor Town 26. Decisive battle and Victory 27. Stronghold Santori of life 28. The road to the victory which becomes far 29. The Girl who Bears the Cross 30. Secret of Project X 31. Tomorrow it is not fight 32. Obtain Clint 33. Large escape of decision death 34. Wilderness of betrayal 35. Orphan base Santori 36. Enduring the large rock squadron which depends 37. Puzzle of Dokuma 6000 year 38. Puzzle of fall satellite 39. Attack of meteoric swarm 40. Hit the big gun and crush 41. Feeling needless carefulness stick 42. Madam Kuin of trace 43. In addition positive it climbs 44. Birth cry in battle 45. Power of ikusutoron puzzle 46. Bride of Santori 47. Breaking Santori encircling operation 48. Approaching the large accident which comes 49. The secret messenger who crosses the muddy stream 50. Large flood secret (top secret) defeat maneuvers 51. Approach mysterious tornado 52. Acting cool of sun 53. Destruction of enormous civilization town 54. The poison demon interstellar war which is disclosed 55. Great heritage 56. The journey which becomes far 57. Space ship number of wonder 58. Large ice field of slaughter 59. Steed assassination 60. Oath of dawn 61. It recaptures the number 62. Daigo assassination command 63. Duel to the Death, Gordian 64. Blizzard of love 65. Decisive battle eve 66. Starting which becomes new 67. Counterattack of Dokuma disk 68. Approach of abnormal life body 69. Monster of dimensional valley 70. The desired planet which is lost 71. Pollution planet SOS 72. Decisive battle zone 9999 73. Super outer space of glory Merchandise
The original released toy set comes with all 3 robots and the human pilot. The 3 robots ranking from biggest to smallest, Garbin, Delinger, Protteser were respectively released as GB-11, GB-10, GB-09 by Popy pleasure. Their upper sternum is also numbered 3, 2, 1. Though these numbers do not appear in the cartoon at all. It was sold in the US as "Gardian" under the Godaikin line. Garvin was later reappropriated as Baikanfū in Machine Robo: Revenge of Cronos.
References
Ishizuki, Saburo. Alt, Matt. Duban, Robert. Brisko Tim [2005] (2005). Super #1 Robot: Japanese Robot Toys 1972-1982. San Francisco: Chronicle Books LLC. ISBN 0-8118-4607-5
External links
- Episode listing
- Toshi Gordian (anime) at Anime News Network's Encyclopedia
Categories:- Anime series
- Anime of 1979
- Super Robots
- Mecha anime and manga
- Tatsunoko Production
- Additional Director
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