Gaiking (1976)

Original title

大空魔竜ガイキング

Genre

mecha

Country

Japan

Length

1 season, 44 episodes

Rated

NR

Rating

8.4 of 10 from 44 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The series follows a male protagonist and his ensemble crew who pilot a giant transforming robot called Gaiking to defend Earth from alien threats. The show features a mobile carrier for the robot and takes place in real world locations outside of Japan.

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What happens

Gaiking (大空魔竜ガイキング, Daikū Maryū Gaikingu; lit. Sky Devilsaur Gaiking) is a Japanese Super Robot mecha anime series produced by Toei Animation. For distribution purposes, Toei refers to this television series as Dino Mech Gaiking. It ran from April 1976 through January 1977 and consisted of 44 episodes of 25 minutes each. Gaiking was notable for being one of the few super robot series to take place in real places outside Japan, and for being the first Super Robot series to have a mobile carrier for the chief robots. In the US, Gaiking was part of Mattel's popular Shogun Warriors import toy line of the late 1970s and Jim Terry's Force Five anthology series. In 2005, a re-imagining titled Gaiking: Legend of Daiku-Maryu was produced. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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