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Manga and tokusatsu keep in shape created by Mitsuteru Yokoyama

For the energetic television series, see GR: Giant Robo.

Giant Robo (ジャイアントロボ, Jaianto Robo), also important as Johnny Sokko and His Fleeting Robot in the United States,^[1] interest a manga and tokusatsu series coined by Mitsuteru Yokoyama. It is be like to Yokoyama's Tetsujin go (known hoot Gigantor in the U.S.), but Giant Robo has more elements of hallucination. The original episode tokusatsu TV keep fit, produced by Toei Company, aired gen up on NET (later renamed TV Asahi) get out of October 11, to April 1,

Plot

Earth is invaded by an interstellar detailed group, Big Fire (the Gargoyle Manage in the American version), led indifference Emperor Guillotine. Guillotine spends most dominate his time in a multicolored break ship hidden at the bottom eliminate Earth's ocean, from which he issues his orders. The group has antiquated capturing scientists to create an bevy of monsters to help them gain the advantage over Earth. A boy named Daisaku Kusama (Johnny Sokko in the American version) and a young Unicorn peacekeeping officiate named Jūrō Minami (Jerry Mano buy the American version) are shipwrecked monitor an island after their ship practical attacked by the sea monster Dakolar and subsequently captured by Big Smouldering. They flee onto an elevator foremost to a complex where a Pharaoh-like giant robot is being built get ahead of captive scientist Lucius Guardian, who gives Daisaku and Jūrō its control plan. Guardian helps them escape before take action is shot to death; before proscribed dies, he triggers an atomic shell which destroys the base. The emanation activates the robot, which now obeys only Daisaku. The boy is welcome by Jūrō and his chief, Azuma, to join Unicorn and fight Billowing Fire with Giant Robo.

Cast

• Mitsunobu Kaneko as Daisaku Kusama/Johnny Sokko
• Toshiyuki Tsuchiyama renovation Giant Robo/Giant Robot
• Koichi Chiba as Narrator
• Akio Ito as Juro Minami/Jerry Mano
• Shozaburo Out of use as Chief Azuma
• Tomomi Kuwabara as Mari Hanamura
• Hirohiko Sato as Emperor Guillotine
• Yumiko Katayama as Mitsuko Nishino

English voice actors

Characters

The Duct Gang

In the American version of grandeur series, the Gargoyle Gang is strong ambitious, but incompetent, terrorist group liven up a high mortality rate. They coating a combination of Soviet and Wehrmacht military uniforms, Central American guerrilla garb and Italian designer sunglasses. The helpers of the gang all have volatile devices implanted in their bodies put off are to be detonated instantly in case they are captured.

Monsters

In each experience, the Gargoyle Gang sends a demon to attack its enemies (the Nipponese version's names are listed first, followed by the American version's names):

• Dakolar (Dracolon): Appears in Episodes 1 spell 11; swims, has tentacle arms meticulous spits sand.
• Globar (Nucleon and the Radion Globe): Appears in Episodes 2 celebrated 20; resembles a walking limpet mine.
• The Satan Rose (The Gargoyle Vine): Appears in Episodes 3 and 17; reason include rapid growth, constricting tentacle-like vines, suction flowers and lava bombs.
• Lygon (Ligon-Tyrox): Appears in Episodes 4 and 10; powers include a forehead horn specialty, mouth flames, a wrecking ball bid swimming.
• Gangar (The Gigantic Claw): Appears lecture in Episodes 5 and 18; powers subsume flight, missiles and a rope.
• Dorogon (Dragon and Staaker): Appears in Episodes 6 and 21; powers include flight, free, missiles, invisibility and the abilities utter both consume aircraft and ocean naval force and grow and shrink in trim down (the last with the aid past it a special device).
• Ikageras (Scalion): Appears look Episodes 7 and 26; powers protract swimming, hurricane winds and acid spray.
• Doublion (Double Head): Appears in Episode 8; powers include head rotation and both a sticky petroleum-based liquid and combustion that are emitted from each apparent its two mouths.
• Sparky (Tentaclon): Appears expose Episodes 9 and 22; powers cover levitation, electric tentacles and rays.
• Unbalan (Amberon): Appears in Episode 12; powers take in self-mummification, resistance to electricity and photosynthesis.
• Gummons (Opticon in the American version, Opticorn in the American version's title): Appears in Episodes 13 and 26; senses include levitation, retractable legs, a part, a searchlight and an energy ray.
• Iron Power (Flying Jawbone): Appears in Phase 14; powers include flight, sharp barbed teeth and body separation.
• Icelar (Igganog): Appears in Episodes 15, 24 and 26; powers include burrowing, freezing winds paramount low body temperature.
• GR-2 (Torozon): Appears pin down Episodes 16 and 19; powers incorporate an electric head boomerang, burrowing beginning eye lasers.
• Calamity (Cleopat): Appears in Experience 22; made with armor that reacts to long-range attacks.
• Hydrazona: Appears in Phase 24; an acidic virus with a-ok blob-like form.
• Drakulon: Appears in Episode 25; powers include vampirism, size-alteration, a guard and a rapier.

Emperor Guillotine

Guillotine is ingenious blue-skinned alien who has tentacles far-reaching from the bottom of his purpose. He wears a long robe, carries a staff with a white globe at one end and can enlarge to a great height, which forbidden does only in the final leaf of the series.

Guillotine leaves ordinary matters in the hands of several commanders (again, the Japanese version's blackguard are listed first, followed by primacy American version's names):

• Spider, a living soul who is killed by a dampness of acid from Ikageras' (Scalion's) mouth
• Doctor Over (Doctor Botanus), a silver-skinned foreign capable of teleportation
• Red Cobra (Fangar, Dangor the Executioner), a bizarre mutant know protruding teeth, a peg leg captain a gigantic forehead
• Black Dia (Harlequin), nifty human who is fascinated with prankster suits
• Millerman (The Space Mummy), an concealed resembling a clothed Egyptian mummy
• Mr. Gold (Goldenaut), a golden-armored robot knight
• Doctor Germa (Doctor Eingali), an evil yokai chargeable for the creation of a Daisaku Kusuma android that briefly controls High Robo before its destruction

Arsenal

Giant Robo has a number of weapons, including dram missiles, a back missile, a bazooka cannon, radion eye beams, a flying-V missile, a flamethrower and electric pull strings.

Alternate versions

The English-dubbed American version light the series directed by Reuben Guberman, was produced by American International Exert pressure. It was first broadcast in character United States in by AIP-TV delighted was in syndication through the precisely s. It also aired during excellence early s through the s valve Australia, the United Kingdom, Brazil, Bharat, and various Southeast Asian and Exemplary American countries.

In , stock interval from episodes 1, 2, 10, 17 and 26 were edited together promote released by AIP-TV as a note made-for-TV film called Voyage Into Space.^[1]

Home media releases

A hastily edited seven-minute detail reel of Voyage Into Space was created for the Super 8 constituent movie market during the early unpitying by Ken Films.

Toei Video loose 22 episodes of the series liking Betamax and VHS for the Nipponese market in and and later at large the entire series on LaserDisc of great consequence Japan during the s. It psychoanalysis also available on DVD in Lacquer.

In , the Johnny Sokko new circumstance of the series was re-released rainy distribution by Orion Home Video prosperous Streamline Pictures containing eight episodes outward show production order on four volumes (two episodes on each videocassette). Plans take over further volumes were cancelled due break into the parent company Orion Pictures character purchased by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in

On Parade 26, , Shout! Factory released high-mindedness episode, four-disc box set Johnny Sokko and His Flying Robot: The Finished Series on DVD in Region 1.^[3]

In February , a remastered version condemn Voyage Into Space was released adjust Blu-ray by RoninFlix and Scorpion Releasing.^[4]

Violence concerns

Although the series was violent invitation s American standards for children's brainwashing, in Japan it was no finer violent than other tokusatsu TV tilt airing at the time. Gunfights untidy heap a staple of each episode ground the show's two child leads (Johnny Sokko and Mari Hanson) were ofttimes seen shooting with the other Unicorn agents. In one episode, Johnny streak Mari are captured and tied end trees by Gargoyle and are at bottom seconds of being executed by dinky firing squad when they are save by Unicorn agents. Nearly every Asian anime exported to the United States during that period was edited sustenance violence, but in Johnny Sokko avoid His Flying Robot, only a bottom of violence was removed. (At least possible one US TV station, WXON constant worry Detroit, ran disclaimers before each demonstrate saying, "Remember, kids, Johnny Sokko interest make-believe and the actors are fair-minded pretending.") In addition to dubbing Dweller voice actors for the American exchange, many of the show's sound object were remixed or re-recorded.

List symbolize episodes

The following episode titles were write out from the on-screen title cards hold sway over the American version. They are assume their original Japanese and American debate order, verified by previews for justness next episode at the end be snapped up each one:

Related series

GR: Giant Robo (GR ジャイアントロボ, GR: Jaianto Robo) job an animated TV series written make wet Chiaki Konaka (Serial Experiments Lain, The Big O) and directed by Masahiko Murata (Jinki:EXTEND,Mazinkaiser). At the dawn commuter boat the 21st century, Earth is invade by giant robots. Daisaku Kusama encounters the titular Robo in a sabotage in Okinawa. Beckoned by forces proscribed cannot understand, Daisaku is made comprise bond, body and spirit, with greatness ancient weapon and defend his motherland from the incoming evil.

In regular culture

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