Invincible Steel Man Daitarn 3

Invincible Steel Man Daitarn 3
Logo from show opening
無敵鋼人ダイターン3 (Muteki Kōjin Daitarn 3)
Genre	Mecha
Anime television series
Directed by	Yoshiyuki Tomino
Written by	Hiroyuki Hoshiyama Kenichi Matsuzaki Masaaki Sakurai Minoru Notatani Noburo Tateya Shoichi Taguchi Sōji Yoshikawa Yoshihisa Araki Yoshiyuki Tomino
Music by	Takeo Watanabe Yuji Matsuyama
Studio	Nippon Sunrise
Original network	Nagoya TV
Original run	3 June 1978 – 31 March 1979
Episodes	40

The Unchallengeable Daitarn 3 (無敵鋼人ダイターン3, Muteki Kōjin Daitān 3^?, lit. Invincible Steel Man Daitarn 3) is an anime series created by Yoshiyuki Tomino and Hajime Yatate, and produced by Sunrise. It was first broadcast on Japanese TV in 1978. The series lasted for 40 episodes. The opening theme Come Here! Daitarn 3 is sung by Makoto Fujiwara. Despite being relatively unsuccessful in Japan, the series became very popular abroad, especially in Italy during the early 80's.

Sōzō Haran was a brilliant scientist that was conducting research on Mars. He created a form of cyborg life with the ability to think for itself. These cyborgs, dubbed the Meganoids (メガノイド, Meganoido^?), soon ran out of control and killed Dr. Haran along with his whole family, save his youngest son, the 16-year-old Banjō Haran. Banjō escapes from Mars on a rocket with a solar-powered super robot called Daitarn 3, which was built with the special metals of Mars. Now 18 years old and living on Earth in a luxurious mansion, Banjō fights against the meganoids and their leader, Don Zauser and his second in command Koros, with the aid of his faithful butler Garrison, his two gorgeous companions, Reika and Beauty, and an orphan boy named Topo. Together they must stop the evil meganoids which aspire to turn all humans into cyborgs and thus "improve" the human race.