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Daikuu Maryuu Gaiking (TV)

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Related anime:
    Gaiking (TV 2) (remake)
    Shogun Warriors (U.S. manga)

Alternative title:
Demon King of the Heavens: Gaiking
Dino Mech Gaiking
Festival de los Robots: El Gladiador (Spanish)
Gaiking
Gaiking Il Robot Guerriero (Italian)
Great Sky Dragon Gaiking
Великий Небесный Дракон Гайкинг (Russian)
大空魔竜ガイキング (Japanese)
Themes: mecha
Age rating: Older Children (May contain mild bad language, bloodless violence)
Plot Summary:
Earth is still in danger: aliens from planet Zeraz are willing to invade our planet because theirs is being swallowed by a Black Hole. Led by Great Darius and his four generals, they begin seeding death and destruction. When an ESP warrior is killed by aliens, professor Hi-Tech understands the danger and builds the huge Space Dragon (Daiku Maryu) piloted by Pete, and the gint robot Gaiking whose pilot is Sanshiro Shiwobuki, an ex-baseball player. Daiku Maryu is a big dragon shaped spaceship and his head is the Gaiking torso. When the Gaiking enters the action, Daiku Maryu launches other Gaiking's components and then it re-unite neck with tail, becoming unbreakable.
The story chronicled the battle between the crew of the semi-transformable carrier Daikū Maryū and the Super Mecha Gaiking against an invading race of aliens from the planet Zela, whose home planet is facing destruction by a black hole. The robot Gaiking was piloted by a baseball star named Sanshiro Tsuwabuki (Sanshiro's name was changed to Aries Astonopolis for the English version of the show with the carrier being called the "Great Space Dragon", a literal translation of "Daikū Maryū". Gaiking was notable for being one of the few super robot series to take place in real places outside of Japan, and for being the first Super Robot series to have a mobile carrier for the chief robots.
User Ratings: 22 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Excellent: 2 votes (dub:1, sub:1)
 Very good: 5 votes (dub:2, sub:1, Spa.dub:1, raw:1)
 Good: 9 votes (Spa.dub:3, dub:2, edit.dub:2, ?:1, sub:1)
 Decent: 2 votes (dub:1, ?:1)
 So-so: 2 votes (raw:1, Ita.dub:1)
 Not really good: -
 Weak: -
 Bad: -
 Awful: -
 Worst ever: 1 vote (sub:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 65 users, rank: #2667
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 6.955 (Good-.04), std. dev.: 1.9183, rank: #1830
Weighted mean: 7.020 (Good+.02), rank: #1486 (seen all: 7.23 / seen some: 7.00 / won't finish: 5.19)
Bayesian estimate: 7.172 (Good+.17), rank: #1055
Running time: half hour per episode
Number of episodes: 44
Vintage: 1976-04-01 to 1977-01-27
Opening Theme:
"Daikuu Maryuu Gaiking" by Isao Sasaki, Columbia Yurikago-kai and Koorogi '73
Ending Theme:
"Hoshizora no Gaiking" by ???
Trivia: We have 2
Comment:
When the series was first aired in Japan, Toei Animation credited Akio Sugino as its original creator to avoid paying royalties to Go Nagai, the series real creator. This resulted in a legal battle between Nagai and Toei that lasted for 10 years.
Licensed in 1980 by Jim Terry Productions as part of the Force Five series.
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Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Director: Tomoharu Katsumata

Scenario: Masao Maruyama

Script:
Akio Sugino
Kunio Sakatani

Music: Shunsuke Kikuchi

Original creator: Go Nagai

Character Design: Kazuo Komatsubara

Theme Song Performance:
Columbia Yurikago-kai (OP)
Isao Sasaki (OP)

 

Akira Kamiya as Sanshirou Tsuwabuki

Hidekatsu Shibata as Dr. Daimonji

Kan Tokumaru as Fan Li

Keaton Yamada as Gen Sakon

Kenichi Ogata as Bunta Hayami

Makio Inoue as Peter Richardson

Mami Koyama as Midori Fujiyama (debut)

Noriko Ohara as Erica

Noriko Tsukase as Hachiro

Japanese companies 

Broadcaster: Fuji TV

Music Production: Columbia Music Entertainment

Production:
Dynamic Planning
Toei Animation

English staff 
English cast 

ADR Director: Jim Terry

Script: Collins Walker

Producer: Jim Terry

 (none)
English companies 

Broadcaster: Syndicated

Licensed by: Jim Terry Productions (License expired)

Spanish staff 
Spanish cast 

Music:
Haim Saban
Shuki Levy

Theme Song Performance: Guillermo Aguirre (a.k.a Santiago)

 

Jesus Barrero as Brandon (Sanshiro Tsuwabuki)

Maru Guzmán as Marissa Morgan/Midori Fujiyama

Spanish companies 

Distributor: Cau Cau - Pro Pu Eve Ltda. (Latin America)

Producer: ZIV International, Inc.

Soundtrack: Saban Records

Italian staff 
Italian cast 

Script: Marco Danieli (from ep 27 on)

Translation: Amanda Ronzoni (from ep 27 on)

Director Of Dubbing: Gabriella Rasero (from ep 27 on)

 

Francesco Bulckaen as Sanshiro Suwabuki (from ep 27 on)

Romano Malaspina as Sanshiro Suwabuki (eps 1-26)

Willy Moser as Fan Li

Alessio Puccio as Hachiro (from ep 27 on)

Andrea Lala as Desmon (eps 1-26)

Carlo Reali as Dankel (1st voice; eps 1-26)

Dario De Grassi as Black Darius

Diego Michelotti as Killer (eps 1-26)

Diego Reggente as Dottor Daimoji (eps 1-26)

Erasmo Lo Presto as Dankel

Fabrizio Latini Vidale as Hakiro (eps 1-26)

Fabrizio Vidale as Hakiro

Federica De Bortoli as Midori Fujiyama (from ep 27 on)

Giorgio Locuratolo as Black Darius (eps 1-26)

Guido Sagliocca as Ashmov (1st voice)

Laura Boccanera as Midori Fujiyama (eps 1-26)

Leo Valeriano as
Dankel (2nd voice; eps 1-26)
Yamatake

Luciano Marchitiello as Narratore (from ep 27 on)

Luigi Ferraro as Bunta Hayami (from ep 27 on)

Massimiliano Alto as Sakon (from ep 27 on)

Massimo Rossi as Peat Richardson (eps 1-26)

Maurizio Romano as Fanli (from ep 27 on)

Monica Gravina as Lisa

Nanni Baldini as Yamatake (from ep 27 on)

Oliviero Dinelli as Sakon (2nd voice)

Pierluigi Astore as Black Darius (from ep 27 on)

Renzo Stacchi as Ashmov (eps 1-26)

Riccardo Rossi as
Pella (eps 1-26)
Tony (eps 1-26)

Rino Bolognesi as Dottor Daimoji (from ep 27 on)

Roberto Del Giudice as Bunta Hayami (eps 1-26)

Rodolfo Bianchi as Sakon (eps 1-26)

Stefano Crescentini as Peat Richardson (from ep 27 on)

Italian companies 

Distributor:
Cinitalia Edizioni (eps 1-26)
Yamato Video (Italy)

Dubbing:
Cinitalia Edizioni (eps 1-26)
Promovision (from ep 27 on)

 
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