Getter Robo Go

Getter Robo Go
Cover of Getter Robot Go Ongakushu CD album. From left to right, characters Gai, Go and Sho, and Getter Robot's main form in the back.
ゲッターロボ號 (Gettā Robo Gō)
Genre	Mecha
Anime television series
Directed by	Hiroki Shibata
Produced by	Chiyo Okazaki Tatsuya Yoshida
Written by	Hiroyuki Hoshiyama Yukiyoshi Ohashi Junki Takegami Shoji Tonoike Katsuhiko Chiba
Music by	Michiaki Watanabe
Studio	Toei Animation
Original network	TV Tokyo TV Setouchi
Original run	February 11, 1991 – January 27, 1992
Episodes	50
Manga
Written by	Tatsuya Yasuda
Published by	Shogakukan
Demographic	Kodomo
Magazine	TV-kun
Original run	December 28, 1990 – April 30, 1991
Volumes	1
Manga
Written by	Tatsuya Yasuda
Published by	Shogakukan
Demographic	Kodomo
Magazine	Bessatsu Coro Coro Comic Special
Original run	February 1991 – February 1992
Volumes	1
Manga
Written by	Go Nagai
Illustrated by	Ken Ishikawa
Published by	Tokuma Shoten Daitosha
English publisher	US Viz Media
Demographic	Shōnen
Magazine	Monthly Shōnen Captain
Original run	February 1991 – May 1993
Volumes	7

Getter Robo Go (ゲッターロボ號, Gettā Robo Gō^?) or Getter Robot Go, also known as Venger Robo or Venger Robot Go outside Japan, is a Japanese mecha anime and manga series created by Go Nagai and Ken Ishikawa.

The anime was originally broadcast from February 11, 1991 to January 27, 1992 on TV Setouchi and TV Tokyo with a total of 50 episodes. Along with the TV series, a few manga versions were released. One of them was released in the US under the name Venger Robo and in Spain as Venger Robot Go. The anime and manga are unrelated, and while the anime is a remake of the original series, the manga is a sequel of the original manga. The series is sometimes wrongly written in Japanese as ゲッターロボ号.

In the year 200X, Doctor Rando, a genius scientist gone mad, has broken the peace on the Earth by trying to conquer the world from his Polar base, using an army of his Metal Beasts, super robots developed by him to conquer the world and led by his genetically created officers. No regular weapons seem to work against the Metal Beasts. To combat him, Japan's Defense Agency request the cooperation of NISAR, the Japan International Aerospace Corporation, which has developed a robot, the Getter Robo. Dr. Tachibana, the head of the Getter Robo project, is reluctant to use the robot for battle. Despite this, Getter Robo, piloted by Go Ichimonji (later joined by Sho Tachibana and Daido Gai), is able to defeat a Metal Beast with the sacrifice of Shinichi, the son of Dr. Tachibana. This prompts the improvement of Getter to make it a transforming machine piloted by three persons, capable of defeating the Metal Beasts and stopping Dr. Rando from conquering the world.

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The anime is a remake of the original Getter Robot series with no real relationship with the previous anime or manga. Each episode features a different metal beast enemy, a similar format to the TV anime Mazinger Z. The design of the Getter Robot has some features reminiscent of Mazinger Z, such as a "Rocket Punch" attack. The series also marked the renewal of business relationships between Toei Animation and Go Nagai, which were interrupted by the conflict with Daiku Maryu Gaiking.