History Anime / FangOfTheSunDougram

* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Festa Bronco dies a fifth of the way through. Rita dies in episode 45.]]
* KillTheCutie: [[spoiler: Poor Rita.]]

* ActionGirl: Canary, and it's worth noting that this trope is highly uncommon in the setting. She is emphatically ''not'' TheChick or TheHeart, and is the usually the most pragmatic-minded member of Fang of the Sun (failing that, she's the least likely to follow HonorBeforeReason).

In 2021 Shogakukan's [=eBigComic4=] Manga website announced that it will release a Web Manga based on this series, titled "''Get Truth Fang of the Sun Dougram''", on May 28. It is drawn by Yasuo Ohtagaki (The guy behind ''Manga/MobileSuitGundamThunderbolt'') and supervised by the original director of ''Dougram'' Ryousuke Takahashi.

In 2021 Shogakukan's [=eBigComic4=] Manga website announced that it will release a Web Manga based on this series, titled "''Get Truth Fang of the Sun Dougram'', on May 28. It is drawn by Yasuo Ohtagaki (The guy behind ''Manga/MobileSuitGundamThunderbolt'') and supervised by the original director of ''Dougram'' Ryousuke Takahashi.

* BigBad: Donan Cassim is the prominent Earth Federation politician who controls the occupying Earth forces and wants to keep the planet a part of the Earth Federation [[WellIntentionedExtremist so he can use the local resources to save Earth]]. [[spoiler:[[DiscOneFinalBoss However]], Helmut J Lecoque, his secretary, turns out to have been manipulating him for his own ends all along and takes over after his death.]]

* BigBad: Donan Cassim, prominent Earth Federation politician who controls the occupying Earth forces. [[spoiler:Helmut J Lecoque, his secretary, takes the role as the main antagonist to the Fang of the Sun group after the death of Donam Cashim.]]

* SpiderTank: Desert Gunner and Blizzard Gunner. They are much better at moving in their prefer terrain than humanoid models.

* BigBad: [[spoiler: Lecoque takes the role as the main antagonist to the Fang of the Sun group after the death of Donam Cashim.]]

* BigBad: [[spoiler: Lecoque takes the role as the main antagonist to the Fang of the Sun group after the death of Denon Cashim.]]

''Fang of the Sun Dougram'' is a 75-episode {{anime}} series by {{Sunrise}} that aired from October 23, 1981 to March 25, 1983, directed by Ryousuke Takahashi. The show was part of the first flourishing of RealRobot stories. A considerable chunk of ''Dougram'''s DNA comes from ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'', which several of the staff, notably the mechanical designer and the scriptwriter, also worked on.

* TheAce: J. Locke. Shows up in the nick of time to save the Fang of the Sun's bacon, recruits Zaltsev, shows up in the nick of time to save the ''independence movement's'' bacon... Vaguely looks like Che Guevara and has an EyepatchOfPower to boot - {{Sunrise}} couldn't have made a greater [[TheAce Ace]] if they tried.

* BittersweetEnding: Very much so. [[spoiler: Deloyer's independence is recognized by the Earth Federation, but Earth corporations and occupation troops remain. Samalin dies, and Zaltsev is jailed for war crimes - for 30 years. However, the main characters all live and we're left with the hope that they can build a bright future on the planet. The Fang destroy Dougram to symbolize them moving on to make their way on the new Deloyer, and Crinn himself returns to Earth after promising to return within 6 months.]]

* SuperPrototype: Dougram was intended to be the prototype to a production line Combat Armor (supplemental materials call it the "DM") much like the [[MobileSuitGundam Gundam]] was, but the nature of the war subverted this - Destin sold out the factory that was intended to produce them, so Dougram ended up being a one-off. However - it's fast, powerful, heavily armored with linear gun/cannon-resistant materials, can operate underwater for a limited time, and is all-round an extremely well-balanced high-performance Combat Armor that can operate for ''months'' on end with nothing but field repairs from one engineer. Other Combat Armors can do well in one or two of those areas, but not all, and the Dougram has the highest top land speed anyway.

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** At a meta level, ''Dougram'' takes pains to show how a single ''real'' robot would be unlikely to change the course of a war on its own, without politics and the media making it into something more than a pilot in a vehicle. It's more important as a symbol towards the end. (Cf. [[ArmoredTrooperVotoms Votoms]], also by Ryousuke Takahashi, where even this isn't the case and it all falls to a single man.)

Although it is NoExportForYou series, western mecha fan might recognize many of the combat armors under different names from ''BattleTech''.

* ReportingNames: Not within the series, but many of the mecha are far better known in the west by their BattleTech names. And in an inversion, a number of the Combat Armors are referred to by their manufacturer's names.

* TheIdiotFromOsaka: Variation - Giorgio speaks with a noticeable ''Kyuushuu'' accent (ShigeruChiba is from Kumamoto), and gets ribbed by the other Fang of the Sun members as a "small-town biker" for it.

* TheBigGuy: Chico. Wields the Big-E Gun and a mechanic from birth as well. (And, naturally, is voiced by BanjoGinga.)