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UFO Robo Grendizer

UFO Robot Grendizer
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UFOロボ グレンダイザー
(Yūfō Robo Gurendaizā)
Genre Mecha
Manga
Written by Go Nagai
Published by Kodansha
Demographic Shōnen
Magazine TV Magazine
Original run October 1975May 1976
Volumes 2
Manga
Written by Go Nagai
Illustrated by Gosaku Ota
Published by Akita Shoten
Demographic Shōnen
Magazine Boken Oh
Original run October 1975March 1977
Volumes 5
Manga
Written by Go Nagai
Illustrated by Eiji Imamichi
Published by Tokuma Shoten
Demographic Children
Magazine TV Land
Original run October 1975March 1977
Volumes 1
Anime television series
Directed by Tomoharu Katsumata
Written by Go Nagai
Music by Shunsuke Kikuchi
Studio Toei Doga, Dynamic Planning
Network Fuji TV
Original run October 5, 1975February 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 1976March 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
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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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