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Gold Lightan - The Golden Warrior (TV)

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©Tatsunoko Production

Alternative title:
Golden Warrior - The Gold Lightan
Ōgon Senshi Gold Lightan (Japanese)
البطل الذهبي (Arabic)
無敵小戰士 (Chinese (Taiwan))
黄金戦士ゴールドライタン (Japanese)
골든라이탄 (Korean)
Themes: mecha
Objectionable content: Mild
Plot Summary: Hiro finds what appears to be a broken lighter. However, it is actually Gold Lightan, who has fallen to Earth from the Robot Dimension. He stays in compact size until called upon to act as a valiant warrior to save Earth from alien invasion.
Running time: half hour per episode
Number of episodes: 52
Episode titles: We have 52
Vintage:
1981-03-01 to 1982-02-18
1986-09-20 to 1987-03-06 (Taiwan, CTS)
2006 (Middle East - Spacetoon Broadcast)
Opening Theme:
"Ōgon Senshi Gold Lightan" (黄金戦士ゴールド・ライタン) by Ryō Miyauchi
Ending Theme:
"Mechanical dancing fight" (メカニカル・ダンシング・ファイト) by TOMO
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Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Chief Director: Kōichi Mashimo
Series Composition: Akiyoshi Sakai
Script:
Akira Momoi (ep 9)
Akiyoshi Sakai (17 episodes
eps 1, 3, 7, 15-16, 25, 28, 37, 41-42, 44-46, 49-52
)
Kaoru Kinoshita (eps 35, 40)
Kazuo Satō (eps 4, 10, 23)
Keiji Kubota (8 episodes
eps 2, 6, 21, 24, 34, 39, 43, 46
)
Kōichi Mashimo (ep 48)
Masaaki Sakurai (eps 11, 19)
Mitsuo Aimono (4 episodes
eps 14, 18, 27, 31
)
Mizuho Nishikubo (ep 48)
Shigeru Sato (ep 45)
Takeshi Shudō (11 episodes
eps 5, 8, 12, 17, 20, 22, 26, 30, 35, 40, 47
)
Tomomi Tsutsui (6 episodes
eps 13, 29, 32-33, 36, 38
)
Tomoyuki Miyata (eps 22, 25)
Screenplay: Akiyoshi Sakai (ep 3)
Episode Director:
Aritoki Sugiyama (ep 31)
Asuma Kusa (eps 18, 28)
Futoshi Takano (ep 5)
Hiroko Tokita (eps 29, 44)
Kazuo Yamasaki
Kōichi Mashimo (10 episodes
eps 1, 3, 9, 19, 25, 30, 37, 43, 49, 52
)
Koji Sawai (10 episodes
eps 13, 18, 22, 27, 33, 36, 39, 43, 46, 52
)
Kunihiko Yuyama
Mamoru Oshii (eps 27, 33)
Masayuki Kojima (eps 38, 45)
Mizuho Nishikubo (11 episodes
eps 3, 10, 12, 16, 21-22, 29, 35, 42, 44, 48
)
Shohei Ishida (8 episodes
eps 7, 14, 17, 20, 23, 26, 31, 39
)
Takaaki Ishiyama (4 episodes
eps 28, 37, 40, 49
)
Yasuo Ishikawa (6 episodes
eps 20, 24, 32, 38, 45, 51
)
Yoriyasu Kogawa (13 episodes
eps 2, 6, 8, 11, 15, 17, 19, 26, 30, 34, 41, 47, 50
)
Yukihiko Uchida (eps 4, 7, 13)
Music:
Masaaki Jinbo
Masayuki Yamamoto
Character Design: Ippei Kuri
Art Director:
Kazuo Okada
Mitsuki Nakamura
Animation Director:
Chūichi Iguchi
Sadao Miyamoto
Takashi Nakamura (5 episodes
eps 6, 22, 30, 41, 48
)
Woo Young Jung
Yuji Moriyama (ep 18)
Mechanical design:
Katsushi Murakami
Kunio Okawara
Masahiro Satō
Shoji Kawamori (Studio Nue)
Sound Director: Fusanobu Fujiyama
Producer: Tomoyuki Miyata

Guest Character Design:
Akemi Takada
Kazuhiko Utagawa
In-Between Animation: Hiroyuki Kitakubo (uncredited)
Key Animation:
Chūichi Iguchi
Hyeong-In Park
In Young Kim
Junichi Yokoyama (eps 1, 6, 52)
Masami Abe
Megumi Nojima
Mieko Katase
Seung-Chan Lee
Takashi Nakamura (41)
Woo Young Jung
Yoshihiro Matsushita
Mecha Establishment: Masaharu Kawamori 
Opening Animation: Masami Suda
Planning:
Ippei Kuri
Shigeru Yanagawa
Presentation: Kenji Yoshida
Sound Effects:
Junichi Sasaki
Shoji Kato
Theme Song Arrangement: Chito Kawachi
Theme Song Performance:
Eijirō Tai (ED)
Ryō Miyauchi (OP)
Issei Futamata as Gold Lightan
You Inoue as
Hiro (Hiroshi) Oumi 
Hiroshi Taikai (Hiro)

Akira Murayama as Happei Aburada
Daisuke Gouri as Sayokka
Kazuya Tatekabe as King Ivalda
Minoru Inaba as
Futoshi Mizuki (Big)
Narrator
Naoko Kouda as Mannakka
Reiko Suzuki as
Denji Lightan (30 episodes
eps 5, 16, 24-31, 33-52
)
Monkichi Kogarashi (Monkey)
Saeko Shimazu as
Emi Takakura
IC Lightan (35 episodes
eps 5, 7, 9, 16-17, 20, 22, 24-31, 33-52
)
Satomi Majima as
Mechanic Lightan (34 episodes
eps 5, 7, 13, 16, 19-20, 24-31, 33-52
)
Tomokazu "Tonbo" Gokuraku
Shōzō Iizuka as Uyokka
Yuji Mitsuya as
Osamu Nanjo (Sam)
Scope Lightan (30 episodes
eps 5, 10, 16, 24-28, 30-31, 33-52
)
Yūko Mita as
Ohina Taikai (25 episodes
eps 1-5, 7-11, 13-19, 22-23, 26-29, 32, 34
)
Time Lightan (31 episodes
eps 5-6, 16, 24-31, 33-52
)

Akira Murayama as
Akudos (ep 49)
Amen2:3Kings (ep 37)
Hideki Fukushi as Isamu Kogarashi (ep 7)
Kazuya Tatekabe as
George Takakura (eps 4, 21, 26)
Ken (ep 16)
Reiko Suzuki as Devil Shoes (ep 29)
Shoji Kato as Wanbeak (ep 1)
Shōzō Iizuka as
Namizō Taikai (6 episodes
eps 4-5, 13-14, 26, 34
)
Yukigon (ep 3)
Takumi Miura as Momiji Akino (9 episodes
eps 6, 15, 18, 20, 26, 29, 33-34, 47
)
Tomomichi Nishimura as Mister Mecha X (eps 30, 49-52)
Japanese companies
English staff
English companies
(none)
Internet Streaming: HIDIVE
Licensed by: Sentai Filmworks (according to HIDIVE)
English cast
(none)
Arabic cast
Arabic staff
Translation: Ammar Youssef

Assistant Director: Nadim Sulaiman
Mixage & Theme Recording: Samer Abu Asali
Montage: Samer Abu Hamad
OP Composed & Arranged: Ibrahim Sulimani
OP Theme Song Performance:
Aasim Sukkar
Rasha Rizk
Preparation: Sahar Mustafa Al-Tabbaa
Production manager: Radwan Hijazi
Revision:
Emad Aker
Shafik Bitar
Sound: Ghassan Harfush
Supervision: Maamoon Al-Rifai
Alia Houaija
Ameera Huthaify
Fatima Saad
Lama Al-Shamandi
Lina Dawa
Mahmood Dakkak
Mamoon Al-Farkh
Mansour Al-Salaty
Muhammad Kheir Abu Hassoon
Nedal Hammadi
Rafat Bazoo
Ramia Al-Ibrahim
Samar Kokash
Taghrid Gargour
Zayd Al-Zarif
Arabic companies
Broadcaster: Spacetoon
Distributor: Animation International (Mahr Al-Hajj Weiss)
Dubbing:
Al Zahra Centre - VENUS (Syria)
Production: Animation International (Mahr Al-Hajj Weiss)
Chinese (Taiwan) staff
Chinese (Taiwan) companies
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) cast
(none)

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