Six God Combination Godmars

Infobox animanga/Header
name = Six God Combination Godmars


ja_name = 六神合体ゴッドマーズ
ja_name_trans = Rokushin Gattai Goddomāzu
genre = Mecha, DramaInfobox animanga/Anime
title =
director = Tetsuo Imazawa
studio = Tokyo Movie Shinsha Entertainment
network = flagicon|Japan Nippon TV
flagicon|Hong Kong TVB
first = March 2 1981
last = December 24 1982
episodes = 64

nihongo|"Six God Combination Godmars"|六神合体ゴッドマーズ|Rokushin Gattai Goddomāzu was a popular anime series aired in 1981 to 1982 in Japan, Hong Kong and Italy. There were 64 episodes aired. Other loosely translated names are "Hexademonic Symbiote Godmars", "Six God Union Godmarz", "Six Gods Unit".

Original Story

In the year 1999, humanity begins to advance beyond the solar system. The planet Gishin, led by the Emperor Zule, which aims to conquer the galaxy, runs into conflict with Earth. He targets Earth for elimination and to do this, he sends a baby called Mars to live among humanity. Accompanying the baby is a giant robot named Gaia, which utilizes a new power source strong enough to destroy an entire planet. As planned, Mars is expected to grow up, where he will activate the bomb within Gaia to fulfill the mission of destroying the Earth. However, when Mars arrives on Earth he is adopted into a Japanese family and given the name Takeru. Seventeen years later, Takeru grows up with a love for humanity and refuses to detonate the bomb as ordered by Zule. However, if Takeru was to die, the bomb within Gaia would explode destroying the earth.

Takeru possesses psychic powers ( ESP ). Takeru also can pilot the Godmars robot with his mind. Takeru decides to join the Earth defense forces and becomes a member of the Crasher Squad (an elite space defense force) where he and his friends take a last stand against the Gishin's attack.

The relationship of Takeru with his brother Maag, which fate would have it, pitted the two against each other in the war.

Unknown to the Gishin, five other robots were created in secrecy alongside Gaia by Takeru's father and sent with Gaia to protect Takeru. Whenever Earth is in danger, Takeru is able to summon the five other robots to combine with Gaia to form the giant robot Godmars. The five other robots are Sphinx, Uranus, Titan, Shin and Ra.

Concept

The anime show is loosely based on the 1976 Mars manga from Shōnen Champion magazine by Mitsuteru Yokoyama. Godmars is named as such to represent the mythological Roman God of war.

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Original Manga author and Creator: Mitsuteru Yokoyama

Series director: Tetsuo Imazawa

Producer: Shigeru Akagawa, Yasuji Takahashi

Character Design: Hideyuki Motohashi

Animation director: Hideyuki Motohashi

Mecha design: Hajime Kamegaki

Background Art: Tsutomu Ishigaki

Characters

{|class="wikitable"! Japanese Name ! Japanese Full Name! English Name! Voices by
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Narrator || || Narrator || Eiji Kanie
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Mars/Takeru || Takeru Myoujin || Takeru || Yuu Mizushima
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Dr. Myoujin || Maag Myoujin || Maag || Takeshi Aono
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Sizuka Myoujin || Sizuka Myoujin || Sizuka || Toshiko Maeda
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Margu || || || Yuji Mitsuya
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Mika Himura || || Mika || Yoko Kawanami
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Roze || || Rose || Rumiko Ukai
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Akira Kiso || || || Yoku Shioya
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Naoto Ijuuin || || || Hirotaka Suzuoki
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Flore || || || Yoshiko Sakakibara
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Mika Hyuga || || || Youko Kawanami
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Kenji Asuka || || || Hiroya Ishimaru
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Gasshu || || || Akio Nojima
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Namida || || || Eiko Yamada
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Choukan Otsuka || || Director Otsuka || Kousei Tomita
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Emperor Zuul || || Emperor Zure || Naya Goro
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Rui || || || Kumiko Takizawa
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Robots

{|class="wikitable"! Name ! Robot Location! Color! Specialty! Hidden in! Size
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Gaia || Body Core Internal || red || Gravitational beam || Japanese statue in the reefs || -
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Sphinx || Body Shell Middle || blue, red || God of Stones || Egypt between Pyramid and Sphinx || 25 meters of height, 300 tons of weight
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Uranus || Right Arm || white || Freezer beam || Icebergs near Greenland || 15 meters of height, 100 tons of weight
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Titan || Left Arm || green || Cyclone blast || Indian Ocean || 15 meters of height, 100 tons of weight
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Shin || Right Foot || black, red || Flare || Among India Statues || 25 meters of height, 300 tons of weight
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Ra ||Left Foot || blue, yellow || Pulsar beam ||Among Easter Island Statues || 25 meters of height, 150 tons of weight
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DVD

The 64 episodes span 3 DVD collections.

Video games

Godmars would make appearances in games like Super Robot Wars.

Reaction

Godmars came out very early in the super robot animation era of the 1980s, having been created by Mitsuteru Yokoyama. The show did appear in the U.S as an edited televised movie in 1982 called Godmars. Later in 1988 a Godmars OVA was released. And a theatrical feature was to follow called "Godmars: The movie plus".

Trivia

* Godmars in combination is 50 meters tall, weighing 1050 tons.

* Godmars is also known to be spelled as Godmarz.

* Episodes 1 to 26 were aired weekdays at 6:00pm to 6: 30pm. Episodes 27 to 64 were aired at 5:30pm to 6:00pm.

* The Godmars toy would serve as the prototype for an unreleased Mighty Orbots toy. In addition, the Godmars series served as the prototype for the Mighty Orbots series.

* The Godmars toy was released in the US Market with different names for six robots; Commandbot (Gaia), Giantbot (Sphinx), Uranus, Titan, Shin, and Ra were all named based on their Base Color with a "bot" Suffix (Ra was Bluebot for example)

References

* Ishizuki, Saburo. Alt, Matt. Duban, Robert. Brisko Tim [2005] (2005). Super #1 Robot: Japanese Robot Toys 1972-1982. San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books LLC. ISBN 0-8118-4607-5

* Clements, Jonatha. McCarthy Helen. [2006] (2006). The Anime Encyclopedia: Revised & Expanded Edition. Berkeley, CA: Stone Bridge Press. ISBN 978-1-933330-10-5

External links

* [http://www.tms-e.com/library/tokushu/godmars/ Godmars Library]
* [http://www.robozzy.com/godmars/godmars.htm Godmars Info]