Gordian Warrior
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| Gordian the Warrior | |
 Cover of the first DVD box set | |
| 闘士ゴーディアン (Tōshi Gōdian) | |
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| Genre | Mecha, superhero, sci fi |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Masamune Ochiai Kunihiko Okazaki |
| Produced by | Masatsugu Nagai Tomoyuki Miyata |
| Written by | Yu Yamamoto |
| Music by | Masaaki Jinbo Masayuki Yamamoto |
| Studio | Tatsunoko Production |
| Original network | Tokyo Channel 12 |
| Original run | October 7, 1979 – February 27, 1981 |
| Episodes | 73 |
Gordian Warrior (闘士ゴーディアン, Tōshi Gōdian) is a Japanese anime television series that aired in 1979 to 1981.[1] There were 73 episodes. It is also referred to as Champion of Gordian or Gardian.
Original story
[edit]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 a planned city designed by his father who was a genius scientist. Daigo's sister Saori had been managing it. She pleaded with 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
[edit]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
[edit]| 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 |
| Roset | Rihoko Yoshida |
| Dokuma | Yasuo Muramatsu |
| Erias | Yoshino Ohtori |
| Klorias | Yūsaku Yara |
| Anita | Kazue Komiya |
| Trosculus/Narrator | Masatō Ibu |
Staff
[edit]- Series directors
Masamune Ochiai
Kunihiko Okazaki - Series composition
Yu Yamamoto - Design
Ippei Kuri - Animator
Kazuhiko Udagawa - Music
Masaaki Jinbo
Masayuki Yamamoto
Merchandise
[edit]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. Gordian was later reappropriated as Baikanfū in Machine Robo: Revenge of Cronos.
Availability outside Japan
[edit]Anime Sols funded the legal streaming of the show.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ PRODUCTION, TATSUNOKO. "タツノコプロ | ゴワッパー5 ゴーダム". www.tatsunoko.co.jp.
- ^ "Anime Sols Project Page". Archived from the original on 2014-07-28. Retrieved 2014-07-20.
Sources
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Tatsunoko Pro.
- Episode listing Archived 2009-02-25 at the Wayback Machine
- Toshi Gordian (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
