Grendizer
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ＵＦＯロボ グレンダイザー (Yūfō Robo Gurendaizā) |
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| Genre | Mecha |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Go Nagai |
| Published by | Kodansha |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Magazine | TV Magazine |
| Original run | October 1975 – May 1976 |
| Volumes | 2 |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Go Nagai |
| Illustrated by | Gosaku Ota |
| Published by | Akita Shoten |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Magazine | Boken Oh |
| Original run | October 1975 – March 1977 |
| Volumes | 5 |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Go Nagai |
| Illustrated by | Eiji Imamichi |
| Published by | Tokuma Shoten |
| Demographic | Children |
| Magazine | TV Land |
| Original run | October 1975 – March 1977 |
| Volumes | 1 |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Tomoharu Katsumata |
| Written by | Go Nagai |
| Music by | Shunsuke Kikuchi |
| Studio | Toei Doga, Dynamic Planning |
| Original network | Fuji TV |
| Original run | October 5, 1975 – February 27, 1977 |
| Episodes | 74 |
| Anime film | |
| Directed by | Yoichi Kominato |
| Produced by | Masahisa Saeki |
| Written by | Shozo Uehara |
| Music by | Shunsuke Kikuchi |
| Studio | Toei Doga |
| Released | December 20, 1975 |
| Runtime | 24 minutes |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Go Nagai |
| Illustrated by | Yu Okazaki |
| Published by | Kodansha |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Magazine | TV Magazine |
| Original run | June 1976 – March 1977 |
| Anime film | |
| UFO Robot Grendizer: Akai Yuuhi no Taiketsu | |
| Directed by | Tokiji Kaburagi |
| Produced by | Chiaki Imada |
| Written by | Tatsuo Tamura |
| Music by | Shunsuke Kikuchi |
| Studio | Toei Doga |
| Released | December 19, 1976 |
| Runtime | 24 minutes |
UFO Robot Grendizer (ＵＦＯロボ グレンダイザー Yūfō Robo Gurendaizā?), also known as Force Five: Grandizer in the United States, is a Super Robot TV anime and manga created by manga artist Go Nagai. It is the third entry in the Mazinger trilogy. It was broadcast on Japanese television from October 5, 1975, to February 27, 1977, and lasted 74 episodes. The robot's first appearance in the United States was as a part of the Shogun Warriors line of super robot toys imported in the late 1970s by Mattel, then in Jim Terry's Force Five series, both under the title Grandizer. It is still widely popular in the Middle East, and it was especially popular in France and Quebec, as well as among French speaking Canadians in the province of New Brunswick, where it was aired under the title Goldorak. In Italy, the series was as popular and known as Goldrake.
The Vega homeworld has become unstable due to the exploiting of Vegatron, a powerful radioactive ore. Seeking to expand his militaristic empire and find a substitute planet to settle upon, the ruthless King Vega unleashes his armies—composed of flying saucers and giant robotic monsters—and turns first against neighbors such as Fleed, a highly advanced but peaceful world. In a tragically ironic twist, the invaders' blitzkrieg turns against them: the once verdant, idyllic Fleed is turned into a radioactive wasteland. Too late, the only known survivor of the royal family, the Crown Prince Duke Fleed, manages to steal the Grendizer, the robotic embodiment of the Fleedian God of War, from the Vegan invaders who plan to use it to spearhead their invasion fleet. Grendizer is a giant monster robot that interfaces with Spacer (Spaizer), a flying saucer that enables the robot to fly.
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