Johnny Sokko & his Flight Golem is the title given in the U.S. to the 26-episode tokusatsu (live-action) series according to Giant Robo, by Toei Company Ltd. in 1967.

A in the future 7-episode OVA series wwhen produced by Mu Films around a interval between 1992 & 1997, & is considered as one of the right of the "retro-anime" produced in the Nineties. These are available in VHS tapes by Manga Streaming videos & DVD by Media Blasters.

The 1967 Series

A original tokusatsu TV series aired on NET (nowadays TV Asahi) from October 1One, 1967 to April 1, 1968, by owning the amount of Xxvi episodes.

The Plot

the Globe is under invasion by a terrorist organization known as Heavy Fire (Gargoyle in the America version), led per alien Emperor Guillotine. A class action captures man of science to produce an army of elephantine monsters to rampage a Globe. However fate stumbles in the little son known as Daisaku Kusamthe (Johnny Sokko in the Usa) & a young human known as Jūrō Minami (Jerry Mano in a United states), the latter is secretly Member U3 of the top-secret peacekeeping organization, Unicorn. Daisaku & Jūrō come shipwrecked in an island when a ocean liner they were on was attacked by the jumbo sea monster known as Dracolon, & come captured by members of Large Fire. After trying to escape, it prevent higher around an elevator that leads down to the brobdingnagian construction complex in which the elephantine automaton is existence bult! Pharaoh-like within appearance, this perdurable android golem is existence built by captive man of science Dr. Lucius Guardian, world health organization decides to give them escapees its control device, the miniature transmitter built into the wrist watch. A golem may exclusively exist as controlled per number 1 voice that is recorded around its electronic brain (however he 1st needs to exist as agitate by atomic energy). Dr. Shielder assists Daisaku & Jūrō escape, merely to become shot to dying, but not prior to he placed an atomic bomb that destroyed a base, a resultant explosion activates a elephantine automaton, which moves to Daisaku's each command! When a controller of the automaton (as yet referred to as "Giant Robo," or even good "Giant Robot" in the United states of america), Daisaku is invited by Jūrō & his chief Azuma to join Unicorn when its Seventh member, U7! When U7, Daisaku fights a evil forces of Large Fire by having a aid of U3/Jūrō & Giant Robo.

What's Robo Saying?

It's usually known that Giant Robo doesn't speak, however each instance Daisaku gives him the command, he responds by using an reechoing, roaring "MASSHHHH!!!"

The US Version

A entire series was 1st broadcast around the United States in 1969 and became quite popular in the next few years. Around 1970, several episodes were edited together to produce a moving-picture show Voyage Into Space which has today reached cult film status.

Spell recently freed around DVD by Toei Videos in Japan, a Xxvi episode series & a film keep around never been officially freed in a United States, by using the exceptiin of the number one eight episodes, which were freed on videocassette by Orion Home Streaming video.

The OVA Series

Plot

Giant Robo requires place around 2049. These are a retro-esque first in which a invention of the Shizuma Cause has caused the third energy revolution, ascending humanity into an age of prosperity that began ten years ago. At that period, Dr. Shizuma & his quartet colleagues began to respond with a causes. It where can i exist as a hone energy source; non-polluting & reclaimable.

Using this recently revolution there come the heavily price...

Dr. Franken Von Vogler, one of a 5 men world health organization created the causes, went harebrained & activated an experimental reactor core that was existence developed per 5 man of science around their laboratory in Bashtarlle. a core meltdown ensued, stimulating the globe-wide energy neutralization field & an explosion that resulted in the destruction of the entire city, & the loss of a single third of the Globe's people. A event was entitled A Tragedy of Bashtarlle & became a greatest tragedy in the history of world.

At present Dr. Von Vogler, along sustaining his associates, a would-manque dictators known as Large Fire, dispatch a elephantine orb to float through the world, draining the energy from either altogether major cities & stimulating spherical chaos. the Experts of Justice, a class action of martial creative person, scientific geniuses, & intelligence agent come placed to prevent Heavy Fire. Its members include Von Fogler's have girl, Ginrei & tike Daisaku Kusama. Exclusively the voice of Daisaku, the boy of a man of science murdered by Large Fire, might control Giant Robo, a Xc-foot tall armed services originally designed by Daisaku's father for Large Fire however today devoted to fight crime.

Production notes on the OVA

A title of the OVA series is Giant Robo: A Animation, sustaining a added subtitle GR: a Day a Globe Stood However. Begun inside 1992, a episodes of this OVA were produced intermittently due to the involment of its director, Yasuhiro Imagawa, in more projects. Composer Masamichi Amano scored the gradiose eventually beautiful theme for the plan, considered by fans when the bit of of his better operate & a highlight of the series by itself.

Besides Gigantor, Inagawa pastiched more characters from either Mitsuteru Yokoyama on the series, including characters from Godmars, Babel II, Sally, the Witch, Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Tales of the Water Margin/Suikoden (a go ii retold the stories inside both of the Four Classics of Chinese literature).

OVA Character and Other References

On this button's the unfair listings of the character & more information in the GR OVA:

Large Fire - Babel II (Babiru Nisei �ビル２世) Neptune - Poseidon (The jumbo automaton, one of Threesome protectors of Babel II) Garuda - Lopross/Ropross (The elephantine "bird", protector of Babel II) Achilles - Rodem (The shape-shifting talking melanise panther, protector of Babel II) Koumei - Kung Ming (brilliant strategian from either Romance of the Three Kingdoms) Ryozanpaku - Liang Shan Po (location in which a story of Water Margin took place)

Spin-off OVAs

A Giant Robo OVA series spun off into 3 30-microscopic video cds (thought to exist as produced to distract a fans in a period of a previous-episode hiatus of the original), a lot of the two starring the virtually all popular character in the indicate, beautiful intelligence agent Ginrei. A plots & situations one episodes come extra comedy-oriented & tongue-within-bantering than a original series. These video cds come:

War within Heaven Forbidden Fruit ''Ginrei's Blue Eyes''

In Might 17, 2005, these streaming videos were freed officially in DVD by Media Blasters Studio.