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GR: Giant Robo (GR ジャイアントロボ, GR: Jaianto Robo) is an animated TV series written by Chiaki Konaka (Serial Experiments Lain, The Big O) and directed by Masahiko Murata (Jinki:EXTEND, Mazinkaiser). At the dawn of the 21st century, Earth is overrun by giant robots. Daisaku Kusama encounters the titular Robo in a ruin in Okinawa ...
Giant Robo (ジャイアントロボ, Jaianto Robo) is a Japanese manga series by Mitsuteru Yokoyama. The manga, which was first published in 1967, spawned a live-action tokusatsu television series of the same name , as well as a series of original video animations called Giant Robo: The Day the Earth Stood Still .
Ultraman, is Japan's first and most famous Kyodai Hero. Kyodai Hero (巨大ヒーロー, Kyodai Hīrō, lit. ' Giant Hero ') is a television subgenre in tokusatsu that involves Japanese superheroes or robots either with the ability to grow to immense heights to fight giant monsters or who are originally giant as a part of their lives.
[21] Mike Crandol of Anime News Network says Imagawa "takes the best of the old and mixes it with the best of the new to create the definitive giant robot story." [16] John Huxley of Anime Boredom concludes the series is "the super robot show as it was in your mind's eye, a perfect combination of the old without the disappointment of reality." [19]
Year(s) Name Series Type Notes 1963–66: Astro Boy: Astro Boy: TV series: 1963–66: Gigantor: Tetsujin 28-go: TV series: 1964: Mighty Atom: The Brave in Space
TV series: released in the U.S. as Johnny Sokko and His Flying Robot; the last Toei Superheroes series of the 1960s; First Toei Superhero Show to feature a Giant Robot in a starring role. 1968: Kappa no Sanpei: Yokai Daisakusen: 河童の三平 妖怪大作戦 (Sanpei the Kappa: The Great Yōkai Battle Plan) TV series
Gigantor (1963–1966), Japanese animated TV series about the giant titular robot. In Lost in Space (1965–1968): Robot B-9 (a.k.a. The Robot), Class M-3 General Utility Non-Theorizing Environmental Control Robot assigned to the space craft Jupiter 2; The Robotoid (Robby the Robot) in the episode "War of the Robots" (1966)
Mecha, also known as giant robot or simply robot, is a genre of anime and manga that feature mecha in battle. [1] [2] The genre is broken down into two subcategories; "super robot", featuring super-sized, implausible robots, and "real robot", where robots are governed by realistic physics and technological limitations.