History Anime / CombattlerV

Thousands of years ago, the people of the planet Campbell decided to leave their planet and seek out new worlds to inhabit. One group, lead by the scientist Oreana, landed on Earth, [[{{SealedEvilInACan}} but was delayed from their mission]]. In the early 21st century, Oreana's group reawakens and begins their plan to [[TakeOverTheWorld conquer the Earth]].

The entire series follows the then-standard {{Monster of the Week}} format, with the first season featuring Oreana's protege Garuda sending various mecha to defeat Combattler V. His tactics range from brute force to cunningness and taking hostages. At one point he even duels Hyouma in a sword fight with their feet chained together. As the series moves on, his trust for Oreana lessens. Garuda eventually discovers that he is in fact a cyborg after chancing on a room containing numerous failed attempts at creating him. In the final episode of the first season, he defeats Oreana, and then duels Combattler V, which eventually leads to his defeat.

The second season features Empress Janera and her generals Dungele and Warchimedes. Eventually, the entire base of the Campbellian empress is deployed, and only through the help of the airborne Nanbara Connection Base is Combattler V able to destroy it. However, Janera manages to deploy an [[EarthShatteringKaboom Earth Bomb which is supposed to destroy the Earth]]. Notably, the team is not dispirited, [[HeroicSacrifice but are quite calm and instead happy for having the chance to fight to protect Earth]]. Just as it looks as though Earth will be destroyed, the "true" leader of the Campbellians, [[PunnyName Deus]], riding in a golden wagon, informs the team of the coup d'etat at Campbell, and [[DeusExMachina stops the bomb seconds before it reaches the Earth]].

* YouFailBiologyForever: Lampshaded in episode 9. The main characters are studying a strange giant egg. A X ray scanner reveals a four-legged animal inside it. The next conversation follows:
-->'''Hyoma:''': Looks like a horse.\\
'''Juuzo:''' Idiot, that's a goat!\\
'''Chizuru:''' You're both idiots. Horses and goats don't hatch out of eggs!

* BigBad: Oreana, followed by [[GreaterScopeVillian Empress Janera.]]

* GreaterScopeVillain: Empress Janera is the power behind Generl Garuda and the eventual foe of the Combattler Team.

* BigBad: Oreana, followed by
* BiggerBad: Empress Janera.

* FiveManBand: The first example (and most imited) in a robot series:

** BiggerBad: Empress Janera.

* {{Leader Forms The Head}}: Hyoma is the team's leader. Guess what body part his jet forms. No, seriously. Take a guess.

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The series (along with the later two shows) was created by Saburo Yatsude, who would later go on to create ''Anime/GoLion'' (best familiar to American viewers as the "Lion Force" half of Anime/{{Voltron}}). "Saburo Yatsude" is not a real person, but a pseudonym which refers to the collective staff at Toei ([[Creator/ToeiCompany the main office]], rather than the [[Creator/ToeiAnimation animation studio]]; the series was animated by Nippon {{Sunrise}} and produced by Toei Co. Ltd).

The series was brought over to the US in a fashion... As part of a toyline called ''Shogun Warriors'' that also included other super Robots such as {{Anime/Raideen}} and Anime/GreatMazinger In 1979 MarvelComics licensed it as part of the 20-part miniseries ''Shogun Warriors'', along with ''{{Anime/Raideen}}'' and ''Anime/PlanetRoboDanguardAce'', under the name Combattra. One of the latter issues in the series even featured the standard [[LetsYouAndHimFight "Heroic misunderstanding"]] with the ComicBook/FantasticFour.

The series (along with the later two shows) was created by Saburo Yatsude, who would later go on to create ''Anime/GoLion'' (best familiar to American viewers as the "Lion Force" half of Anime/{{Voltron}}). "Saburo Yatsude" is not a real person, but a pseudonym which refers to the collective staff at Toei ([[ToeiCompany the main office]], rather than the [[ToeiAnimation animation studio]]; the series was animated by Nippon {{Sunrise}} and produced by Toei Co. Ltd).

* ShockAndAwe: '''Super Electromagnetic (ChoDdenji) Spark'''! Combattler V summons lightning from its antennae and re-channels it through its hands towards enemies with great explosive force.

* VariableLengthChain: '''Super Electromagnetic (ChoDdenji) Crane!'''. Combattler V can release a spiked block which is connected to the arms with a wire.

* BifurcatedWeapon: '''Twin Lancer!'''.

* ChainsawGood '''Atomic Chainsaw'''

* CarFu: '''Gran Light Wave Rail, Fire! Grandasher!'''

* EverythingsBetterWithSpinning: '''Chou~denji~ Spiiiiiiin'''!

* FlyingBrick, the mecha equivalent ("It's not 57 meters and 550 tons for nothing!")
* FrickinLaserBeams: '''V Laser'''
* HalfHumanHybrid: Garuda

* KillerYoYo: '''Choudenji Yo-yo'''!

* MacrossMissileMassacre[=/=]RecursiveAmmo: '''Big Burst Divider!'''

* ''Anime/RobotRomanceTrilogy'': The first series of the trilogy.
* ShockAndAwe: '''Choudenji Spark'''!
* ShoutOut:
** The name "Campbellians" may be a reference to SF writer Creator/JohnWCampbell, who helped invent the [[ScienceHero Space Hero]] genre.

* VariableLengthChain: '''Choudenji Crane!'''

The series was brought over to the US in a fashion... As part of a toyline called ''Shogun Warriors'' that also included other super Robots such as {{Anime/Raideen}} and Anime/GreatMazinger In 1979 MarvelComics licensed it as part of the 20-part miniseries ''Shogun Warriors'', along with ''{{Anime/Raideen}}'' and DanguardAce, under the name Combattra. One of the latter issues in the series even featured the standard [[LetsYouAndHimFight "Heroic misunderstanding"]] with the ComicBook/FantasticFour.

This series is a staple of the ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'' franchise. It was introduced in ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars3''

The series (along with the later two shows) was created by Saburo Yatsude, who would later go on to create ''Anime/GoLion'' (best familiar to American viewers as the "Lion Force" half of {{Voltron}}). "Saburo Yatsude" is not a real person, but a pseudonym which refers to the collective staff at Toei ([[ToeiCompany the main office]], rather than the [[ToeiAnimation animation studio]]; the series was animated by Nippon {{Sunrise}} and produced by Toei Co. Ltd).

* FollowTheLeader: Being a SuperRobotGenre show, naturally it used ''Anime/MazingerZ'' as its template. However, later SuperRobotGenre shows that used the FiveManBand trope used ''Combattler-V'' as their template.

* MarthDebutedInSmashBros Alongside ''{{Anime/Raideen}}'', poor ''Combattler'' was involved in one of the most '''bizarre''' instances of the trope in the history of the entire ''medium''. Suffice it to say that Marvel Comics didn't watch the show at any point, and you sure won't find Hyouma and crew anywhere in "Shogun Warriors"...

''Chōdenji Robo Combattler V'' (''Chōdenji Robo Konbatorā Bui'') is the first part of the ''Anime/RobotRomanceTrilogy'' of Super Robot series created by "Saburo Yatsude" and directed by Tadao Nagahama (the next ones being ''Anime/VoltesV'' and ''Anime/{{Daimos}}''). The robot's name is a portmanteau of Combine, Combat and Battle, and the V is intended both as an abbreviation for "victory" and in reference to the five component machines that form the robot, as well as its five pilots. The V is proununced as the letter V, whereas in the follow-up series, ''VoltesV'', it is prounounced "5".

* {{The Professor}}s: Dr. Nanbara and Dr. Yotsuya.

** The name "Campbellians" may be a reference to SF writer JohnCampbell, who helped invent the [[ScienceHero Space Hero]] genre.

%% * SuperRobot

%% * TropeCodifier: For CombiningMecha anime.

The series was brought over to the US in a fashion... As part of a toyline called ''Shogun Warriors'' that also included other super Robots such as {{Anime/Raideen}} and Anime/GreatMazinger In 1979 MarvelComics licensed it as part of the 20-part miniseries ''Shogun Warriors'', along with ''{{Reideen}}'' and DanguardAce, under the name Combattra. One of the latter issues in the series even featured the standard [[LetsYouAndHimFight "Heroic misunderstanding"]] with the ComicBook/FantasticFour.

The series was brought over to the US in a fashion... As part of a toyline called ''Shogun Warriors'' that also included other super Robots such as {{Raideen}} and Anime/GreatMazinger In 1979 MarvelComics licensed it as part of the 20-part miniseries ''Shogun Warriors'', along with ''{{Reideen}}'' and DanguardAce, under the name Combattra. One of the latter issues in the series even featured the standard [[LetsYouAndHimFight "Heroic misunderstanding"]] with the ComicBook/FantasticFour.

* MarthDebutedInSmashBros Alongside ''{{Raideen}}'', poor ''Combattler'' was involved in one of the most '''bizarre''' instances of the trope in the history of the entire ''medium''. Suffice it to say that Marvel Comics didn't watch the show at any point, and you sure won't find Hyouma and crew anywhere in "Shogun Warriors"...

!!'''Anime/CombattlerV''' provides examples of:

* SuperRobot
* VideoGame/SuperRobotWars (A staple of the franchise. Introduced in ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars3'', as one of the very first robots outside of the ''Anime/MazingerZ'', ''Manga/GetterRobo'' and ''Franchise/Gundam'' franchises. Appeared in ''SRW [[VideoGame/SuperRobotWars64 64]]'', ''[[VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsAdvance Advance]]'', ''[[VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsAlpha the Alpha series]]'', ''[[VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsCompact2 the Compact 2 trilogy (& Impact)]]'', ''[[VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsCompact3 Compact 3]]'', ''[[VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsJudgment J]]'', ''[[VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsReversal R]]'', and ''[[VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsL L]]''.)

* TropeCodifier: For CombiningMecha anime.

The series was brought over to the US in a fashion... As part of a toyline called ''Shogun Warriors'' that also included other super Robots such as {{Raideen}} and GreatMazinger In 1979 MarvelComics licensed it as part of the 20-part miniseries ''Shogun Warriors'', along with ''{{Reideen}}'' and DanguardAce, under the name Combattra. One of the latter issues in the series even featured the standard [[LetsYouAndHimFight "Heroic misunderstanding"]] with the ComicBook/FantasticFour.

The series (along with the later two shows) was created by Saburo Yatsude, who would later go on to create ''GoLion'' (best familiar to American viewers as the "Lion Force" half of {{Voltron}}). "Saburo Yatsude" is not a real person, but a pseudonym which refers to the collective staff at Toei ([[ToeiCompany the main office]], rather than the [[ToeiAnimation animation studio]]; the series was animated by Nippon {{Sunrise}} and produced by Toei Co. Ltd).

* VSign: Taken not as a hand gesture, but a symbolic phrase in ''CombattlerV''. Usually used to get spirits up.

* FiveManBand: The pilots of Combattler V, arranged according to altitude in the Combattler Machine. Two of them are [[TheSmartGuy Smart Guys]].[[note]]GeniusBruiser Daisaku and GadgeteerGenius Kosuke.[[/note]]
** TheHero - Hyoma Aoi
** TheLancer - Juzo Naniwa
** TheBigGuy - Daisaku Nishikawa
** TheChick - Chizuru Nanbara
** KidAppealCharacter - Kosuke Kita
*** The concept was recycled in the follow-up series ''VoltesV'', with TheChick and KidAppealCharacter switching piloting duties in the legs and the feet of the mecha.