History Anime / UFORoboGrendizer

* TheBridge: The [[AirborneAircraftCarrier aircrafts]] and [[StarShip spaceships]] of [[AlienInvasion the Vegan Empire]] had bridges fitted with the essential characteristics.

* CompanionCube: It seldom happened, but you still have in one of the manga versions, when Duke was fleeing from the Vegans he pleaded Grendizer carrying him far away. Nonetheless, Grendizer was [[FirstChurchOfMecha the embomient of the Fleedian god of War]], so he could have a point.

A while ago, the Vega homeworld became unstable and fell into ruin due to [[DugTooDeep its inhabitants overmining and overexploiting]] [[{{Unobtainium}} Vegatron, a powerful radioactive ore]]. [[TheEmpire Seeking to find another planet to settle on]], [[BigBad King Vega's]] armies started attacking and conquering neighbor worlds, like [[TheKingdom planet Fleed]], a highly advanced but peaceful and idyllic world. The Vegan Alliance easily succeeded on taking over the planet, but [[NuclearWeaponsTaboo the Vegatron bombs]] that they used to annihilate the Fleedian army and cities [[HoistByHisOwnPetard turned the planet into an inhabitable radioactive wasteland]].

* TheKingdom: Fleed from ''Anime/UFORoboGrendizer'' -one of the ''Anime/MazingerZ'' series- fits into this, in spite of being the entire planet. Benevolent monarch? Checked. A prince who is also TheHero (Duke Fleed) and a Princess [[spoiler:(Maria Grace Fleed)]]? Checked. Princess has a romantic relationship with one of the heroes [[spoiler:[[Anime/MazingerZ Kouji Kabuto]]]]? Checked. GhibliHills surrounding the ShiningCity? Checked. Invaded -and conquered- by TheEmpire? Checked.

* TelescopingRobot: Grendizer had one scythe stored into each shoulder could be joined to shape a double-edged shaft. The blades also worked like a PrecisionGuidedBoomerang. And that is not counting all weapons hid into its flying device.

* {{Unobtainium}}: Grendizer is built with an alien metal called Gren. Since it can not be found on Earth, when Grendizer gets damaged, Alloy Z is used to repair it.

* TookALevelInBadass: Hikaru Makiba.

** Duke Fleed and his HumongousMecha is the only thing stands between the human beings and global genocyde. What he has in exchange? Danbei Makiba insulting him, bossing him around and [[OverprotectiveDad threatening with killing him if he does so much like breathing near from his daughter Hikaru]]. Danbei also uses to complain if Grendizer did not exist, [[TooDumbToLive they could be such a good friends with the aliens]].

* HopeSpot: In second-to-last episode, Rubina finds out her fiancé [[spoiler:Duke Fleed]] is alive and flies to Earth to meet him. She apologises for the crimes her father committed and tries to convince him everybody -both Vegans and Earth's inhabitants- shall die if the war continues, and the only way to prevent it is they getting married and talking her father into moving the Vega folk to Fleed. And he accepts. For a moment it seems like if the war is over, but a Vegan squad was using Rubina like an unwitting bait attacks [[spoiler:Duke.]] Rubina herself [[spoiler:dies]] shortly after, destroying any hope of the conflict would end up peacefully and without one side annihilating the another one.

* InterspeciesRomance: The Mazinger trilogy has several examples from romances between humans and humanoid aliens: Duke and Hikaru, and [[spoiler:Kouji and Maria]]. And the you have [[spoiler:Duke and Rubina]]. Both of them are aliens but they are from different species -and born in different planets-.

* AlphaStrike: In the climax of the first season's two-part finale Duke played chicken with the Mother Burn -Blackie's CoolStarship-, shooting all of Grendizer's weapons at once as he flied straight towards it. [[spoiler:And he won!]]
* AlternateContinuity: As things currently stand, Grendizer is the most powerful robot in the ''Mazinger'' universe... but so is the [[Anime/MazingerZ Mazinkaiser]]. This means that the two are mutually exclusive and aside from a single piece of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAec-jyYmTY promotional material]], they have ''never'' appeared together in a fictional work, be it animation or a ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'' game. Go Nagai often jokes that he doesn't want to establish one as more powerful than the other and avoids having Grendizer and Mazinkaiser appear side by side for that reason. There have been rumors that he intends to clear this up at some point, but so far the two remain exclusive.

* AllYourColorsCombined: The Mazinger trilogy series have extensively played with this trope:
** In ''UFO Robo Grendizer'', Mazinger-Z, Great Mazinger and Grendizer combined all of their attacks in one manga scene to destroy a Vegan starship. And in one of the movies, Grendizer and Great Mazinger combined their ChestBlaster attacks to destroy a Saucer Beast.

''UFO Robot Grendizer'' (UFOロボ·グレンダイザー, UFO Robo Gurendaizā, sometimes romanized as UFO Robo Grendizer), known alternately by the names ''Grandizer'', ''Goldorak'' and ''Goldrake'', is a SuperRobotGenre MechaShow anime and manga created by GoNagai, and the final series in the ''Mazinger'' trilogy, (chronologically set after ''Anime/MazingerZ'' and ''Anime/GreatMazinger''). It was broadcast on Japanese television from October 5, 1975, to February 27, 1977, and lasted 74 episodes. ''[[RuleOfThree Three]]'' manga versions were produced, one of them written by GoNagai and the others by GosakuOta and EijiImamichi.

* AndThisIsFor: It happens at least once in the manga penned by GoNagai. After the Vegans kill one of his oldest friends, Duke [[UnstoppableRage rips to pieces]] a Saucer Beast as he yells: "And this is for my friend!"

* EldritchAbomination: Several of them showed up in the trilogy, often overlapping with GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: Great Emperor of Darkness [[spoiler:as well known as Hades]] (BigBad from ''Anime/GreatMazinger''), Gilgilgan (of the Great Mazinger vs Getter Robo movie), Grangen (of the Great Mazinger vs Getter Robo G feature), Dragonsaurus (of Grendizer, Getter Robot G, Great Mazinger: Kessen! Daikaijuu movie), the Bigbad of SuperRoboRetsuden (a {{Crossover}} penned by Creator/KenIshikawa featuring the most popular HumongousMecha of GoNagai)... and in the Manga/ShinMazingerZero manga [[spoiler:Mazinger Z itself.]]

* FinalBattle: It varies depending on if we are discussing the GoNagai manga, the anime series or the GosakuOta manga. In the anime version, [[spoiler:after his daughter got murdered, King Vega decided he had got it: he had wasted military resources trying take over Earth as planet Vega imploded and everyting he had managed was using up their resources, running out of {{Robeast}}s, and losing his commanders, his best soldiers and his daughter. So he ordered his troops to destroy their SpaceBase to hammer in them the idea of they now had no choice but conquering Earth or die, and he launched a full attack with the remnants of his army. Meanwhile, Duke took off in Grendizer and Kouji, Hikaru and Maria on a new starship. Both sides fought in the space, between Earth and Moon. The Vegan army was finally destroyed in the final confrontation, and Duke killed King Vega.]] GoNagai manga version had no a definite ending, but GosakuOta version did it, and the final was very different from the anime series. Let's tell it got [[spoiler:TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt]] worse.

* ItsPersonal: In the GoNagai manga, Commander Barendos [[spoiler:dropped Duke's little siblings from a height from three kilometers]]. In front of Duke. Duke is usually calmed when he is not piloting, but the only sight or mention of Barendos is enough to press Duke's BerserkButton.

* SadisticChoice: It happened fairly often, especially in the manga penned by GoNagai. In one chapter Duke gets attacked by one of his oldest friends, whom he believed dead but was being mind-controlled by the Vegans. His friend could not control his body but he still could warn Duke stay away from him... and beg kill him.

* AirJousting: Grendizer could [[CombiningMecha combine with a space-ship]], and the Vegan army mainly used mini-ufos and {{Robeast}}s [[TransformingMecha that often were capable to transform into large flying saucers]], and all of them were carried in huge starships. Hence, nearly every episode had a major or minor dog fight. One of the most awesome moments in the series happened when Duke played a game of chicken with [[CoDragons Blackie's]] mothership.

** And in another chapter, Brunhild, an old friend of Duke. Nonetheless, he was aware enough to warn Duke against come closer [[TearJerker and beg to kill him]].

* EarthIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse: Kind of subverted. The Vegans had conquered many other planets before striking Earth. It is true Duke Fleed landed on Earth -from all places!- when he ran away from the Vegan troops, and the Vegans show a special interest for Earth, but that is because there are not so many habitable worlds (FridgeBrilliance which is utterly true!). Earth, Fleed and Vega had a similar atmosphere and enviroment, so Earth was the kind of planet they were searching for.

* LukeIAmYourFather: It was inverted and played straight. [[spoiler:Maria]] told [[spoiler:Duke]] she was daughter of [[spoiler:the King and Queen of Fleed]], not knowing he was [[spoiler:their son, and therefore, her brother.]] The moment they played this trope straight with each other was definitely a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming.

* StarcrossedLovers:Duke and Hikaru. Hikaru's father refused accepting their relationship (on grounds of Duke being male. Danbei was an OverprotectiveDad was perfectly willing to kill any male came near from his daughter), but that was not the real obstacle (or an obstacle for that matter). The real obstacle was Duke wanted to return his planet to rebuild it if he managed surviving the war, whereas Hikaru did not want to leave Earth. Not matter what their feelings are, a separation is inevitable. Also, [[spoiler:Duke and Rubina. Rubina is King Vega's daughter. They got engaged before the Fleed's invasion, but King Vega -who never agreed the engagement in first place-, refuses seeing his daughter getting married with Duke.]] Of course,'' [[TearJerker/UFORoboGrendizer it ended up in tears]]''.

* TakingTheBullet: During an aerial duel between Grendizer and another starship in the episode 72, [[spoiler:Rubina]] flies her own ship between Grendizer and an energy beam to save Duke. She [[spoiler:dies shortly after. Her [[HeroicSacrifice]]]] is done more tragic because Duke had accused her from betraying him shortly before. The whole episode was a TearJerker.

!!'''Anime/UFORoboGrendizer''' contains examples of:

** In ''Anime/UFORoboGrendizer'', Mazinger-Z, Great Mazinger and Grendizer combined all of their attacks in one manga scene to destroy a Vegan starship. And in one of the movies, Grendizer and Great Mazinger combined their ChestBlaster attacks to destroy a Saucer Beast.
* AlwaysChaoticEvil: At the beginning it looks the trope is being played straight, but finaly it is averted. Several of the Vegans are decent people and many of them are given redeeming qualities.

* BlackAndWhiteMorality: At first sight the Mazinger trilogy seems belonging to this trope since the the heroes are mostly good guys and the villains tend to be pure evil, but in reality the morality in these series is more greyish than it seems. [[MadScientist Dr.]] [[BigBad Hell]] [[FreudianExcuse became mad after having endured years of abuse, insults and mockery from everybody -including his parents- since he was a little kid, and even when he made a good action, he usually got beaten and scorned]]. [[Anime/GreatMazinger Great General of Darkness]] wanted to take over the surface world because the Mykene civilization had been forced to live underground for millennia and he wanted his people to enjoy again things humans take for granted -such as seeing sunlight and breathing fresh air-. [[UFORoboGrendizer Emperor Vega]] began invading other planets because his own homeworld was dying, and several of his henchmen were {{Well Intentioned Extremist}}s wanting to establish a benevolent dictatorship because they genuinely believed Earth people would be better off. And, frankly, humans in [[Anime/MazingerZ the]] [[Anime/GreatMazinger Mazinger]] [[Anime/UFORoboGrendizer trilogy]] often acted like [[UngratefulBastard utter]] [[HumansAreBastards bastards]] and forced the heroes to ponder why they bothered.

* CardCarryingVillain: Vega's homeworld was dying cause the overexploitation of a rare radioactive mineral called vegatron. BigBad King Vega started his campaign of conquest through the galaxy because he needed to find a suitable world to settle their people on (and because he was a power-hungry bastard). His CoDragons followed him out of loyalty to him or to the Empire, and some of them were {{WellIntentionedExtremist}}s, but Barados... Good Lord, Barados was pointlessly cruel and he committed atrocities as laughing: deliberately murdering women and children to exterminate a planet's population, taking hostages to blackmail his enemies with and then killing them in a horrible way... Let's tell than TheHero Duke told that was the only Vegan he could not forgive and when [[spoiler:he died,]] no Vegan higher-up missed him.

* GutPunch: In the Ota chapters both sides loses the war. The Vegan invaders are destroyed, but [[spoiler:Duke, Maria and Sayaka die]] and TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt happens. Only [[spoiler:Kouji and Hikaru]] are left alive. It was lucky ''Grendizer'' was the last series in the original saga, because you get to wonder how the creators could have gone one.

A while ago, the Vega homeworld became unstable and fell into ruin due to [[DugTooDeep its inhabitants overmining and overexploiting]] [[{{Unobtainium}} Vegatron, a powerful radioactive ore]]. [[TheEmpire Seeking finding another planet to settle on]], [[BigBad King Vega's]] armies started attacking and conquering neighbor worlds, like [[TheKingdom planet Fleed]], an highly advanced but peaceful and idyllic world. The Vegan Alliance easily succeeded on taking over the planet, but [[NuclearWeaponsTaboo the Vegatron bombs]] that they used to annihilate the Fleedian army and cities [[HoistByHisOwnPetard turned the planet into an inhabitable radioactive wasteland]].

However the coming of the Vegan Alliance is about of putting an end to his peaceful life. [[IJustWantToBeNormal Duke hates war and fighting, he likes his new life and he just wants to be normal,]] but if he does not fight his adoptive world will become another poisoned CrapSackWorld. And if he ran and abandoned his home again cowardly he would be unable to stand it (he already got a pretty severe HeroicBSOD due to leaving Fleed).

Kouji Kabuto, hero of the the wars against ''[[Anime/MazingerZ Dr. Hell]] and ''[[Anime/GreatMazinger the Mykene Empire]], return to Japan after a short stay overseas and arrives at the Makiba Ranch to meet [[TheProfessor Prof. Umon]] and talk with him about the recent trend of ufo sightings in Japan. There he meets the Makiba family and Daisuke, Dr. Umon's son, who comes across like a weird, silent, lonely and taciturn boy. To add to the weirdness, when Kouji expresses his desire of being the one to make FirstContact with intelligent alien lifeforms, Daisuke warns him that he can not be sure that the aliens he intends to meet are friendly.

Kouji Kabuto, hero of the the wars against ''[[Anime/MazingerZ Dr. Hell]] and ''[[Anime/GreatMazinger the Mykene Empire]], return to Japan after a short stay overseas and arrives at the Makiba Ranch to meet [[TheProfessor Prof. Umon]] and talk with him about the recent trend of ufo sightings in Japan. There he meets the Makiba family and Daisuke, Dr. Umon's son, who comes across like a weird, silent, lonely and taciturn boy. To add to the weirdness, when Kouji expresses his desire of being the one makes a FirstContact with intelligent alien lifeforms, Daisuke warns him that he can not be sure of the aliens he intends meeting are friendly.

''Grendizer'' was well-received in countries like France, Italy, Canada, the Middle East, Greece and Russia (but not in Japan, and in countries in which the previously two series were broadcasted first, due to the differences in concept and story). When it was shown in the US, it was {{Macekre}}d into ''Anime/{{Grandizer}}'' as part of the ''Force Five'' syndication block. Two episodes of ''Grandizer'' were released on VHS in America; it is otherwise hard to get in the US.

* AlienAmongUs: This is the initial premise: Duke [[spoiler:and his sister Maria]] arrived at Earth running from his homeworld's destruction, and he chose living on our planet (he ''might'' leave at any time, but having no home to return to, he sees no point), pretending being a normal human. However, Kouji suspected he was not a normal person when he met him for first time, and playing his charade gets increasingly hard due to the [[TheEmpire VeganAlliance]] [[AlienInvasion invasion]] he has to fight, in such a way that the whole case know his real self after the first season. Finally, after the GrandFinale he [[spoiler:and his sister]] return to planet Fleed to help to rebuild it.

* AdaptationInducedPlotHole: ''Grendizer'' was aired in France and in Italy before ''Anime/MazingerZ''. Then, the viewers not know that Koji (renamed with a different name) was the main character of Mazinger Z and every reference to this in the series is lost.

* ExecutiveMeddling: Go Nagai originally wanted Sayaka to be the 4th spazer pilot but was opposed by director and co-plotter of the series, Shingo Araki, who wanted and indeed did introduce his own character to the series, Maria.

* MarthDebutedInSmashBros: In various countries, Grendizer got aired before its predecessor Anime/MazingerZ. So for many, Koji Kabuto was Duke's friend before being TheHero of his own series.
** An even bigger problem, however, lies in the fact Koji's name was changed in a lot of foreign versions (for example, in France and Italy where ''Grendizer'' was [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff absurdly huge]], Koji was called "Alcor" [[ThemeNaming after the star]] in ''Grendizer'') and then got his normal, unmodified name back in other Mazinger works that aired after ''Grendizer'' was huge. These being the pre-Internet days, people didn't pick up on the fact that it was supposed to be the same character and so audiences assumed that [[OlderThanTheyThink Mazinger was simply a very blatant, cheap knockoff of Grendizer]].

* RecycledTheSeries: In 1975 Creator/ToeiAnimation produced a SuperRobotGenre movie called ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uchu_Enban_Daisenso Uchu Enban Daisenso]]''. Creator/GoNagai, who did the designs of characters and mechas, liked the concept so much that he decided to recycle and improve his designs and create a new ''Mazinger'' anime based on the movie ''.

** The ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'' games have exploited this. When several of the GoNagai mechas show up in the same game, they are given combination attacks. It is usually called Final Dynamic Special, and it is always impressive: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-f3LOeDqTI]].

* RunningGag: Only in ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars''. Maria is interested at Kouji, so if she meets his other LoveInterest Sayaka who is as {{Tsundere}} as Maria herself... they fight over him, with Kouji [[ChasteHero being completely oblivious]].

* VideoGame/SuperRobotWars: Out of the trilogy this series has appeared the least but nevertheless has appeared a few times (2, 3, 4, EX, Compact 2, Impact, 64, Advance, Destiny, MX, and the first Z game). Rumor had it that Grendizer appears the least due to GoNagai not wanting ''Anime/{{Mazinkaiser}}'' (which was created for the games and appears in many installments) or Grendizer to be shown as superior to one another in any way, but the SRW staff has said that there isn't an specific reason keeping the two series from appearing together. They simply just haven't decided to use them together yet.

''UFO Robot Grendizer'' (UFOロボ·グレンダイザー, UFO Robo Gurendaizā, sometimes romanized as UFO Robo Grendizer), known alternately by the names ''Grandizer'', ''Goldorak'' and ''Goldrake'', is a SuperRobotGenre MechaShow anime and manga created by GoNagai, and the final series in the ''{{Mazinger}}'' trilogy, (chronologically set after ''Anime/MazingerZ'' and ''Anime/GreatMazinger''). It was broadcast on Japanese television from October 5, 1975, to February 27, 1977, and lasted 74 episodes. ''[[RuleOfThree Three]]'' manga versions were produced, one of them written by GoNagai and the others by GosakuOta and EijiImamichi.

* DemotedToExtra: Kouji was TheHero in {{Mazinger Z}}. In {{UFO Robo Grendizer}} he is merely TheLancer.

* AlternateContinuity: As things currently stand, Grendizer is the most powerful robot in the ''Mazinger'' universe... but so is the [[MazingerZ Mazinkaiser]]. This means that the two are mutually exclusive and aside from a single piece of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAec-jyYmTY promotional material]], they have ''never'' appeared together in a fictional work, be it animation or a ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'' game. Go Nagai often jokes that he doesn't want to establish one as more powerful than the other and avoids having Grendizer and Mazinkaiser appear side by side for that reason. There have been rumors that he intends to clear this up at some point, but so far the two remain exclusive.

* EldritchAbomination: Several of them showed up in the trilogy, often overlapping with GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: Great Emperor of Darkness [[spoiler:as well known as Hades]] (BigBad from ''Anime/GreatMazinger''), Gilgilgan (of the Great Mazinger vs Getter Robo movie), Grangen (of the Great Mazinger vs Getter Robo G feature), Dragonsaurus (of Grendizer, Getter Robot G, Great Mazinger: Kessen! Daikaijuu movie), the Bigbad of SuperRoboRetsuden (a {{Crossover}} penned by Creator/KenIshikawa featuring the most popular HumongousMecha of GoNagai)... and in the ShinMazingerZero manga [[spoiler:Mazinger Z itself.]]

* MarthDebutedInSmashBros: In various countries, Grendizer got aired before its predecessor MazingerZ. So for many, Koji Kabuto was Duke's friend before being TheHero of his own series.

* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: Several characters. The more prominent of them was Rubina. She was a good person sincerely loved Duke, and wanted reuniting with him to end up the war and rebuilding his planet together. Unfortunately, when she managed meeting Duke to talk with him, [[spoiler: one of the Vegan generals took that chance to ambush Duke, and she died shilelding her fiancee from a shot.]]
* TrueBlueFemininity: Hikaru is femenine, gentle and caring and wore a blue uniform. On contrast, Maria was a tomboyish {{Tsundere}} and usually wore red or pink.

* TwoFaced: Lord/Lady Gandal is a [[MazingerZ Baron]] [[TwoFaced Ashura]] {{Expy}} with two personalities, a male one and a female one. During the first season, his body was male, but when the female side wanted taking control, his face split in two halves, revealing a tiny female human inside the head. Afterwards, his face changed every time he switched personalities. Due to their different personalities he combined being TheDragon with being TheStarscream.

* EldritchAbomination: Several of them showed up in the trilogy, often overlapping with GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: Great Emperor of Darkness [[spoiler:as well known as Hades]] (BigBad from ''Anime/GreatMazinger''), Gilgilgan (of the Great Mazinger vs Getter Robo movie), Grangen (of the Great Mazinger vs Getter Robo G feature), Dragonsaurus (of Grendizer, Getter Robot G, Great Mazinger: Kessen! Daikaijuu movie), the Bigbad of SuperRoboRetsuden (a {{Crossover}} penned by KenIshikawa featuring the most popular HumongousMecha of GoNagai)... and in the ShinMazingerZero manga [[spoiler:Mazinger Z itself.]]

* BlackAndWhiteMorality: At first sight the Mazinger trilogy seems belonging to this trope since the the heroes are mostly good guys and the villains tend to be pure evil, but in reality the morality in these series is more greyish than it seems. [[MadScientist Dr.]] [[BigBad Hell]] [[FreudianExcuse became mad after having endured years of abuse, insults and mockery from everybody -including his parents- since he was a little kid, and even when he made a good action, he usually got beaten and scorned]]. [[GreatMazinger Great General of Darkness]] wanted to take over the surface world because the Mykene civilization had been forced to live underground for millennia and he wanted his people to enjoy again things humans take for granted -such as seeing sunlight and breathing fresh air-. [[UFORoboGrendizer Emperor Vega]] began invading other planets because his own homeworld was dying, and several of his henchmen were {{Well Intentioned Extremist}}s wanting to establish a benevolent dictatorship because they genuinely believed Earth people would be better off. And, frankly, humans in [[MazingerZ the]] [[GreatMazinger Mazinger]] [[UFORoboGrendizer trilogy]] often acted like [[UngratefulBastard utter]] [[HumansAreBastards bastards]] and forced the heroes to ponder why they bothered.

* EldritchAbomination: Several of them showed up in the trilogy, often overlapping with GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: Great Emperor of Darkness [[spoiler:as well known as Hades]] (BigBad from ''GreatMazinger''), Gilgilgan (of the Great Mazinger vs Getter Robo movie), Grangen (of the Great Mazinger vs Getter Robo G feature), Dragonsaurus (of Grendizer, Getter Robot G, Great Mazinger: Kessen! Daikaijuu movie), the Bigbad of SuperRoboRetsuden (a {{Crossover}} penned by KenIshikawa featuring the most popular HumongousMecha of GoNagai)... and in the ShinMazingerZero manga [[spoiler:Mazinger Z itself.]]

* LetsYouAndHimFight: The manga has the Vegans mind-control Kouji and Tetsuya into going after Grendizer in ''MazingerZ'' and ''GreatMazinger''.

''Grendizer'' was well-received in countries like France, Italy, Canada, the Middle East, Greece and Russia (but not in Japan, and in countries in which the previously two series were broadcasted first, due to the differences in concept and story). When it was shown in the US, it was {{Macekre}}d into ''{{Grandizer}}'' as part of the ''ForceFive'' syndication block. Two episodes of ''Grandizer'' were released on VHS in America; it is otherwise hard to get in the US.

* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Kouji. Also, [[spoiler:Duke Fleed]] in the Nagai Heroes e-manga.
** And in the manga penned by GoNagai, Kouji and Tetsuya. And in another chapter, Brunhild, an old friend of Duke. Nonetheless, he was aware enough to warn Duke against come closer [[TearJerker and beg to kill him]].