Anime like Kikou Kantai Dairugger XV

also known as Armored Fleet Dairugger XV

What is Armored Fleet Dairugger XV about?

Status: Finished

In the original storyline as aired in Japan, Dairugger XV was simply an exploration robot, as well as an intended peace-keeping force. The Earth is in a time of prosperity. The president of the Terran League (the "Galaxy Alliance" in Voltron) launches a mission to explore beyond the galaxy. After commencing its mission of exploration, the starship Rugger-Guard is attacked by a ship of the Galbeston Empire. Dairugger, the super robot, is deployed in order to defend the Earth. It is somewhat by fate that they must help the people of Galbeston find a new planet before it explodes, and liberate it from its despotic Emperor. In the Japanese version, it does not have anything to do with King of the Beasts GoLion, as opposed to the U.S. version, Voltron: Defender of the Universe.

There are three assault team units: Land, Air, and Sea. There are a total of 15 parts referred to as "Rugger," which can combine together to form the super-robot Dairugger. The design of the 15 separate Rugger units came from the sport of rugby, since 15 players are required to form a rugby union. The U.S. version would rename the "Galbeston Empire" to "Drule Empire," along with editing a fair amount of violence and sexual content to keep the show safe for general audience broadcast.





Tags: Aliens , Politics , Space Opera , Super Robot , War , Environmental , Shounen , Ensemble Cast
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Go Lion

Hyakujuu-Ou GoLion

Also known as Go Lion.

Studio: Toei Animation , Media Blasters
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Mecha , Sci-Fi

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Tags: Aliens , Dystopian , Super Robot , Ensemble Cast , Kaiju , Primarily Male Cast , Episodic , Maids , Slavery
Lightspeed Electroid Albegas

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Also known as Lightspeed Electroid Albegas.

Studio: Toei Animation
Status: Finished
Genres: Mecha

Three talented students of a technical high school, Daisaku, Tetsuya and Hotaru create award-winning robots as part of a school competition. At this time, the evil Derinja race that plans control of all space extends its ambitions to Earth. To combat this threat, Hotaru's father, Professor Mizuki, takes the three robots and modifies them for battle. Albegas, a super robot, is born.



Tags: Aliens , Super Robot , Robots , Tokusatsu , Kaiju
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Mobile Suit Gundam

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Also known as Mobile Suit Gundam.

Studio: Sunrise , Bandai Entertainment
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mecha , Sci-Fi

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Tags: War , Military , Real Robot , Space , Space Opera , Politics , Conspiracy , Tragedy , Primarily Teen Cast , Travel , Foreign , Coming of Age , Male Protagonist , Ensemble Cast , Revenge , Super Power , Guns , Anti-Hero , Love Triangle , Desert , Environmental , Time Manipulation
Future Robot Daltanious

Mirai Robo Daltanias

Also known as Future Robot Daltanious.

Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Mecha

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Tags: Episodic , Super Robot , Space , Aliens , Kaiju , Male Protagonist , War , Family Life
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Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 2202

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Also known as Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 2202.

Studio: Xebec
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Sci-Fi

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Meanwhile, the notorious former crew members of the Yamato, who have each gone their separate ways, receive a psychic message from the mysterious Goddess Teresa. She urges them to return to their beloved ship and travel to the distant planet Terezart. They are promised a revolutionary power to combat the unprecedented threat of the relentless Gatlantis Empire, who are approaching Earth with all but innocent intentions.

Unable to resist her plea, the crew reassembles and sets sail on another perilous intergalactic voyage, one that will test their sheer courage and versatility in the face of an even greater foe.



Tags: Space Opera , Military , Space , Primarily Adult Cast , Clone , Aliens , CGI , Time Manipulation , Amnesia , Tomboy , Suicide , Artificial Intelligence , Cosmic Horror , Revenge , Lost Civilization
Star Blazers: The Quest for Iscandar

Uchuu Senkan Yamato

Also known as Star Blazers: The Quest for Iscandar.

Studio: Academy Productions , Group TAC
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Sci-Fi

In the distant future, the war between the human race and the Gamilon has taken its toll on the planet Earth. Constant bombardment of radioactive asteroids has rendered the planet's atmosphere uninhabitable. As a means of relief aid, Queen Starsha of the planet Iscandar offers the Earth Forces a device that can completely neutalize the radiation off the planet. For this task, the space battleship Yamato is launched from the remains of its World War II ancestor on a 148,000 light-year journey. However, the crew of the Yamato has only one Earth year to travel to Iscandar and back, or the human race will come to an end.



Tags: Space , Space Opera , Aliens , Military , War , Travel , Post-Apocalyptic , Primarily Adult Cast , Ensemble Cast , Artificial Intelligence , Heterosexual , Robots , Real Robot
Legend of the Galactic Heroes

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Also known as Legend of the Galactic Heroes.

Studio: Kitty Film , T.P.O , K-Factory , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Sci-Fi

For decades, the Galactic Empire has been locked in an interstellar war with the Free Planets Alliance, a conflict that involves thousands of spaceships and millions of soldiers on both sides. Two new commanders enter the conflict with great hopes: Imperial Admiral Reinhard von Lohengramm and the FPA's Yang Wen-Li. As they deal with superiors and subordinates, maneuver through complicated political arrangements, plot strategies, and win battles, each will be tested, and ultimately, changed, by the reality of war.



Tags: Space Opera , Politics , War , Military , Space , Ensemble Cast , Primarily Adult Cast , Tragedy , Philosophy , Economics , Femboy , Primarily Male Cast , Terrorism , Male Protagonist , Cult , Royal Affairs , Gore , Revenge , LGBTQ+ Themes , Coming of Age , Foreign , Tomboy , Post-Apocalyptic , Heterosexual
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Hyouga Senshi Gaislugger

Hyouga Senshi Gaislugger

Studio: Toei Animation , TV Asahi , Tokyo Movie Shinsha
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Sci-Fi

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Balatack

Choujin Sentai Baratack

Also known as Balatack.

Studio: Toei Animation , Oh! Production
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Mecha , Sci-Fi

Late at night, at a lake surrounded by a peaceful forest, a mysterious spaceship landed on the water. The group that emerged from that ship kidnapped the head of space engineering, Professor Katou, and his family.

The Professor's second son, American football player Yuuji, who had run away from home was in the middle of a game and knew nothing of what had happened.

The four young people watching him were Mark, Dickey, Franco, and Yuri. They were a team of four psychics who had been training in a secret base. They had seen the previous night's events and believed them to be an alien attack. Believing their only option to be the transforming robot Baratack, they used their psychic powers to kidnap Yuuji.

Baratack could only move by combining the powers of Yuuji and the other four acting as one. When all five, including the astonished Yuuji, cried "Pentagoras Unite!” Baratack emerged. Yuuji was overcome with a violent rage, his fighting spirit burning to defeat the Golteus reptile army.



Tags: Super Robot , Super Power , Aliens
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Chou Denji Robo Combattler V

Also known as Combattler V.

Studio: Sunrise , Toei Animation , Studio Nue , Discotek , TV Asahi
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Mecha , Sci-Fi

The first of Tadao Nagahama's Romance Super Robot Trilogy. (#2: Chou Denji Machine Voltes V, #3: Toushou Daimos)

Thousands of years ago, the people of the planet Campbell decided to leave their planet and seek out new worlds to inhabit. One group, lead by the scientist Oreana, landed on Earth, but was delayed from their mission. In the early 21st century, Oreana's group reawakens and begins their plan to conquer the Earth. The only effective defense against the Campbellians' giant biomechanical slave beasts is the super-electromagnetic robot, Combattler V and its pilots.



Tags: Super Robot , Aliens , Kaiju , Episodic , Robots , War , Male Protagonist , Primarily Male Cast , Heterosexual , Torture , Motorcycles , Tragedy , Guns
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