Gordian Warrior

Gordian Warrior
闘士ゴーディアン (Tōshi Gordian)
Genre	Mecha
TV anime
Directed by	Shigeru Yanagawa
Studio	Tatsunoko Production
Network	Tokyo 12 TV
Original run	October 7, 1979 – February 27, 1981
Episodes	73
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Gordian Warrior (闘士ゴーディアン^?) was a popular anime series aired in 1979 to 1981 in Japan. There were 73 episodes aired at 30 minutes each. It is also referred to as Champion of Gordian or Gardian.

Original Story

The Earth had become a wasteland of deserts as the survivors work to rebuild communities. Daigo Otaki is a young orphan raised by his uncle. Becoming an adult, Daigo discovers that Victor City was in fact planned by his father who was a genius scientist. Daigo's sister Saori had been managing it. She plead Daigo to take on the inheritance that Daigo's father left him, a super robot system known as Gordian. Daigo would join the Mechacon mechanic combat 18th regiment unit, an organization of law enforcers that defend Victor City against attacks from the Madokuta organization.

Concept

The pilot Daigo Otaki controls a small almost human-sized robot container named Protteser. Each time Protteser is in trouble, he jumps into the next biggest robot container named Delinger. Then finally the largest container is Garbin.

Characters

Japanese Name	Voices by
Daigo Ōtaki	Yoshito Yasuhara
Peachy	Yō Inoue
Barihawk	Rokurō Naya
Dalph	Kiyonobu Suzuki
Unknown G	Hiroshi Masuoka
Saori Otaki	Gara Takashima
Rose	Rihoko Yoshida
Dokuma	Yasuo Muramatsu
Erias	Yoshino Ohtori
Klorias	Yūsaku Yara
Trosculus/Narrator	Masatō Ibu

Staff

• Additional Director
  Masamune Ochiai

• Screen Writer
  Masaru Yamamoto

• Design
  Ippei Kuri

• Animator
  Kazuhiko Udagawa

• Music
  Masaaki Jinbo
  Masayuki Yamamoto

DVD release

Episodes (names loosely translated from Japanese)
1. Nice guy of wilderness
2. Combat mission and hiding stronghold
3. Scream, red desert
4. Reviving life
5. Dead fighting of death valley
6. Trap of Victor Town
7. Kape Vuiretsuji of the evening sun
8. Breaking in enemy of anger
9. Fearfully Dokuma president
10. Chief of red nose
11. Bravery 7th regiment
12. Rose of sorrow
13. Gordian on search
14. The giant star which burns
15. Lullaby of wilderness
16. Intense fighting professional
17. The gunman who challenges to the darkness
18. Crisis one hair hell lock
19. Puzzle of Victor Town ground nadir
20. Confrontation of starry sky
21. Secret fighting Maunteihon
22. Rebellion of Victor Town
23. Combat mission of dawn
24. Under the flag of freedom and justice
25. It is dangerous, it does! Victor Town
26. Decisive battle and Victory
27. Stronghold Santori of life
28. The road to the victory which becomes far
29. The Girl who Bears the Cross
30. Secret of Project X
31. Tomorrow it is not fight
32. Obtain Clint
33. Large escape of decision death
34. Wilderness of betrayal
35. Orphan base Santori
36. Enduring the large rock squadron which depends
37. Puzzle of Dokuma 6000 year
38. Puzzle of fall satellite
39. Attack of meteoric swarm
40. Hit the big gun and crush
41. Feeling needless carefulness stick
42. Madam Kuin of trace
43. In addition positive it climbs
44. Birth cry in battle
45. Power of ikusutoron puzzle
46. Bride of Santori
47. Breaking Santori encircling operation
48. Approaching the large accident which comes
49. The secret messenger who crosses the muddy stream
50. Large flood secret (top secret) defeat maneuvers
51. Approach mysterious tornado
52. Acting cool of sun
53. Destruction of enormous civilization town
54. The poison demon interstellar war which is disclosed
55. Great heritage
56. The journey which becomes far
57. Space ship number of wonder
58. Large ice field of slaughter
59. Steed assassination
60. Oath of dawn
61. It recaptures the number
62. Daigo assassination command
63. Duel to the Death, Gordian
64. Blizzard of love
65. Decisive battle eve
66. Starting which becomes new
67. Counterattack of Dokuma disk
68. Approach of abnormal life body
69. Monster of dimensional valley
70. The desired planet which is lost
71. Pollution planet SOS
72. Decisive battle zone 9999
73. Super outer space of glory

Merchandise

The original released toy set comes with all 3 robots and the human pilot. The 3 robots ranking from biggest to smallest, Garbin, Delinger, Protteser were respectively released as GB-11, GB-10, GB-09 by Popy pleasure. Their upper sternum is also numbered 3, 2, 1. Though these numbers do not appear in the cartoon at all. It was sold in the US as "Gardian" under the Godaikin line. Garvin was later reappropriated as Baikanfū in Machine Robo: Revenge of Cronos.

References

Ishizuki, Saburo. Alt, Matt. Duban, Robert. Brisko Tim [2005] (2005). Super #1 Robot: Japanese Robot Toys 1972-1982. San Francisco: Chronicle Books LLC. ISBN 0-8118-4607-5

External links

• Episode listing
• Toshi Gordian (anime) at Anime News Network's Encyclopedia