Grandizer

The world of Vega was depleted as a result of the use of the powerful radioactive substance Vegatron. In search of a planet for resettlement, the ruthless king of Vega sends his army, consisting of flying saucers and giant monsters, to capture neighbors - the highly developed, but peaceful planet Flid. The once-blooming Flid turns into a radioactive desert. The only surviving representative of the royal family, Prince Duke Fleed, manages to steal the combat robot Grendizer, created by the Vega empire based on the scientific achievements of the planet Fleed.

Fleeing from his pursuers, Duke Flid falls into the solar system and makes an emergency landing in Japan on the slope of Mount Yatsu in Hokkaido , where he is found dying by Dr. Genzo Amon, a famous scientist, director of the Institute for the Study of Space. Amon passes off the young stranger to his son Dice and helps him hide the Grandizer under the institute. Under the name Daisu, Amon Duke Fleed takes a job at the neighboring White Birch Ranch, owned by former cowboy Danbei Makib. Dunbei's daughter, Hikari, is not indifferent to Dice, but does not know about his origin.

Two years later, Koji Kabuto returned to Japan after designing in the United States (as well as controlling the Mazinger Z combat robot in the fight against Dr. Hell's Earth threat), who designed and built his own flying saucer. He goes to the Institute, attracted by rumors about the appearance of UFOs in these places. Koji plans to make contact with extraterrestrial civilization and, if possible, make peace. Dyce, however, suspects that this is a Vega flotilla under the command of Commander Blackie and General Handel, preparing to enslave the Earth. Koji ignores Dice's warnings and flies to meet the arriving mini-odds ^[2] that immediately attack him. To save Koji and all of humanity, Dyce has to remember his past and use the Grendizer, hidden under a laboratory.

To attack the Earth, the aliens established a military base called Skull Moon ^[3] on the dark side of the moon . Soon, Kouji discovered the true identity of Duke Fleed, and their little rivalry turned into friendship. Dunbei's daughter, Hikari, also found out Dice's secret and became a pilot, contrary to his objections. After the death of Blackie in the battle with Grendizer, King Vega appointed Minister of Science Zuril to help Handel.

Subsequently, it turned out that there are two more survivors from the planet Flid who live on Earth: Duke's younger sister, Maria Flid and the man who saved her. Caught in a crossfire between Grendizer and a monster from Vega, he managed to tell Mary before her death that she was the last surviving member of the royal Flid dynasty. Maria vowed revenge on Grandizer and his pilot. She attempted to ambush Duke, Koji and Hikari at the gates of the Institute. But during the attack, Maria notices Duke's royal medallion (the same as hers) and realizes her mistake. Separated brother and sister find themselves together again, and Mary becomes the last member of the team.

• Duke Flid / Daisuke Umon (in the Russian dubbing - Daisu Amon) is the main protagonist of the series, managing the Grandizer, a prince who fled to Earth with the planet Flid destroyed by Vega’s troops. During this attack, he received a serious radioactive injury to his right arm and has since been sensitive to the vegatron. The only anime character who can transform. Thoroughly refers to orphans.

Seiyu: Kay Tomiyama . Russian dubbing - Anatoly Petrov .

• Koji Kabuto (in Russian dubbing - Koji) is the main character of the Mazinger franchise, here he is a secondary character. He pilots his flying saucer, which in the first episodes was kept by Danbei in the barn, later - a double spacer at the Space Institute.

Seiyu: Hiroi Ishimaru . Russian dubbing - Mikhail Chernyak .

• Dr. Genzo Umon (in Russian dubbing - Amon) is the adoptive father of Duke Fleed, head of the Space Research Institute. Manages military operations from his institution. Has assistants - Akira Hayase, Aoi and Yamada.

Seiyu: Joji Yanami. Russian dubbing - Mikhail Chernyak .

• Danbei Makiba is a comic character. An old cowboy living on the White Birch ranch and raising horses. Short in stature, looks like a baby, wears a cat-like mustache. He is fond of ufology . Duke and Koji call Dunbei an uncle. In one of the series it turns out that he is a widower. He has two children. It is noteworthy that the character first appeared in another franchise of Guo Nagai - “ Cute Honey ”, where he is the father of one of the main characters - Seiji Hayami (in “Cutie Honey” in 1973 and “Shin Cutie Honey”). At Cutey Honey Flash, he was the principal of the school where Haney studied. The reference to the fact that Dunbei comes from Cutie Honey was made by Nagai in Grendizer Giga, where he plays his usual grandizing role, but is also a cyborg like in Shin Cutie Honey.

Seiyu: Kosei Tomita . Russian dubbing - Anatoly Petrov .

• Hikaru (in Russian dubbing - Hikari ^[4] ) Makiba is Dunbei's eldest daughter. Not indifferent to Duke. Subsequently, she began to participate in military operations. Pilots marine spacer. The image of the character changes slightly from the 37th series. In the Grendizer Giga manga, Hikaru is the main character from another popular Go Nagai franchise - Cutie Hani and her real name is Hani Kisaragi. In the Mazinger Angels manga dedicated to the female characters and robots of the Mazinger franchise, Hikaru controls Diana A, the second robot by Sayaki Yumi from Mazinger Z.

Seiyu: Chiyoko Kawashima . Russian dubbing - Elena Solovyova .

• Maria Grace Fleed - the younger sister of Duke Fleed, was considered dead during the disaster of the planet Fleed. It controls the drill spacer. In Grendizer Giga, she initially poses as Ryuk Fleed's sister, Maria Uryu. In fact, she is a cyborg named Maria Flora. It was she who erased Ryuku's memory that he hails from the star Flid, but at the beginning of the manga returned her. In the Mazinger Angels manga, Maria pilots the Minerva X robot.

Seiyu: Rihoko Yoshida . Russian dubbing - Elena Solovyova .

• Goro Makiba is a child, the youngest son of Dunbei, attending school. Helps his father at the ranch, despite his age, knows how to ride a horse.

Seiyu: Kazuko Sawada. Russian dubbing - Elena Solovyova .

• Banta Arano is Dunbei's neighbor. Wearing a sombrero , comic character. Rude and ignorant. In love with Hikaru. He lives with his mother.

Seiyu: Kenichi Ogata. Russian dubbing - Mikhail Chernyak .

• The boss is Koji Kabuto's friend and partner, a character from Mazinger Z and Great Mazinger . Appears in only 14 and 31 episodes. Manages his modified robot "Boss Borot".

Seiyu: Hiroshi Otake. Russian dubbing - Anatoly Petrov .

• Emperor Vega is the chief anagonist, supreme commander of the invasion forces.

Seiyu: Joji Yanami. Russian dubbing - Anatoly Petrov .

• Handel is a minor antagonist, general, commander of the Vega Joint Forces. He has a wife who originally lived in his head, because of this, when she appeared (about once or two per series), his face split in two. After the 27th episode, he acquired the ability to change a man’s face into a woman’s one, reminiscent of a mask from the kabuki theater.

Seiyu: Kosei Tomita (male voice), Kazuko Sawada (female voice). Russian dubbing - Mikhail Chernyak (male voice), Elena Solovyova (female voice).

• Commander Blackie is a grotesque-looking alien of gray color and with long ears. So vain that in the 7th series he destroyed a space monster so that the winner's laurels would go to him. Sometimes he personally pilots space monsters. He died in a battle with Grendizer in the 27 series.

Seiyu: Kenichi Ogata. Russian dubbing - Anatoly Petrov .

• Science Minister Zuril is Handel’s smart and prudent assistant who succeeded Blackie as the deceased. Appears for the first time in series 28. Has a computerized eye .

Seiyu: Banjo Ginga . Russian dubbing - Anatoly Petrov .

Initially, the anime “Alien Robot Grendizer” was planned with a completely different idea - the name was “Great battle of flying saucers”. It was a pilot series.

The cardinal differences were both in the characters and in the Grandizer, which in the pilot series was called Hattiger Gattay ( Japanese соединение体, connection, combination) , and in the planned storyline.

The plot was that the main enemy was Princess Terron from the planet Yaban under the guidance of her father (prototype of the emperor Vega, but bearded). Hattiger also flew out of the spacer, but in the folded mode it was an invisible part, and outwardly looked more like a Combattler V than distinguished by its originality.

The series was changed almost immediately - Koji Kabuto was introduced, respectively, so that the main robot corresponds to the main idea of ​​Guo Nagai - super robots, it was changed into the familiar Grandizer.

After 1975, full-length films about the Grandizer were made: “The Grandizer against the Great Masinger,” “The Grandizer. Battle at sunset ”,“ Grandizer, Getta Robot and the Great Masinger against the great sea monster. ”

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• "Grendizer" on the website of the channel " 2x2 "

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