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Brave Reideen

Brave Raideen
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Promotional artwork by Tohokushinsha company
勇者ライディーン
(Yūsha Raidīn)
Genre Mecha
Anime television series
Directed by Yoshiyuki Tomino (01-26)
Tadao Nagahama (27-50)
Written by Masaki Tsuji
Sōji Yoshikawa
Studio Sunrise
Original network TV Asahi
Original run April 4, 1975March 26, 1976
Episodes 50
Anime television series
Raideen the Superior
Directed by Toshifumi Kawase
Written by Fumihiko Shimo
Hideki Sonoda
Music by Kenichi Sudo
Kiyoshi Murakami
Tom Keane
Studio Sunrise
Original network TV Tokyo
Original run October 2, 1996June 25, 1997
Episodes 38
Anime television series
Reideen
Directed by Mitsuru Hongo
Written by Masahiro Yokotani
Music by Yoshihiro Ike
Studio Production I.G.
Licensed by
Original network WOWOW
Original run March 3, 2007September 1, 2007
Episodes 26
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Brave Raideen (勇者ライディーン Yūsha Raidīn?) is a super robot anime series. Produced by Tohokushinsha, Asahi News Agency and Sunrise, it aired on NET (now TV Asahi) from 4 April 1975 to 26 March 1976, with a total of 50 episodes. The official name being Raideen the Brave, it is mainly known as "Brave Raideen" or "Heroic Raydeen". A series called Raideen the Superior (超者ライディーン?) was broadcast from 1996 to 1997 on TV Tokyo, and another series called Reideen was broadcast in 2007 on WOWOW.

After a slumber of twelve millennia, the Demon Empire awakens to seize control of the Earth. Raideen, the giant robot-like protector of the lost continent of Mu, senses the evil presence and awakens within its golden pyramid. A young Japanese boy, Akira Hibiki, is alerted about the Demon Empire by a mysterious voice and rushes to the pyramid. It is soon revealed that Akira is a descendant of the ancient people of Mu who must help Raideen save the Earth. Akira enters the robot by accelerating his motorcycle to a high speed and then throws himself upward, allowing a beam from the robot to pull him into the robot's head and into an internal cockpit from where he assumes control of Raideen. Akira is aided by Mari Sakurano, who happens to be the daughter of a prominent scientist, and his friends from the soccer club. Half way through the story the Demon Empire's master, Barao, is released from his statue prison and intends to finish what he started twelve thousand years earlier.


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