History YMMV / UFORoboGrendizer

* NoProblemWithLicensedGames: ''UFO Robot Grendizer - Feast of the Wolves'' is a fun albeit short action game that's also very faithful to the show with its storytelling, which is a given considering how despite being a licensed game the developers are diehard ''Grendizer'' fans who put a lot of passion into it.

* HilariousInHindsight: Naming the enemies '''"Vegans"'''. [[spoiler:So living on an herbivorous diet ruins planets and turns you into destroyer of worlds? They might be trying to imply that the enemies are from the star ''Vega'', but still...]] To double the hilarity, ''ComicBook/ScottPilgrim'' features people who gain super-powers by becoming vegans. Countdown to ''Scott Pilgrim''/''Grendizer'' fanfic begins now...

* BrokenBase: Between the Anime/MazingerZ / Anime/GreatMazinger fans and the ones from Grendizer anime (especially fans from France, Canada and the Middle East for the latter) This is due to the distribution of the anime in this countries previously to the two prequels, leading to the confusion that the former series were actually [[TheyCopiedItSoItSucks rip-offs]] of Grendizer. Besides clarifications over time, there is still a feel of mutual hate, since the anime version of Grendizer differs very much from the original manga and the concept of the whole Mazinger saga, leading over time to Mazinger fans call Anime/{{Mazinkaiser}} as the true third series from the saga, and Grendizer fans considering their anime as a self-contained universe, somehow settling the conflict (except if a Anime/{{Mazinkaiser}} vs. Grendizer in ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'' multiverse turns up...)

** In France. ''Goldorak'', as it's known there, arrived in the late 70s on a public channel and created a public outcry. The reason was the ''french'' opening song, that some found kinda xenophobic, extending this to the show itself. It was a HUGE success anyway, and it's basically thanks to this show that the anime fanbase ''exists'' in France, since it created the first French generation of anime fans.
*** Likewise in Quebec, when said French dub was exported to La Belle Province in 1978 and became a Saturday morning institution on Creator/{{TVA}}, staying on in reruns through at least 1984. Years later, when it was rerun again to coincide with its DVD release, it caused a sensation all over again. It wasn't the first anime aired in Quebec, but it had a cultural impact that few other shows have had, before or since.
** Many Middle Eastern anime fans name this as their very first anime.
* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: ''Good god''. There's actually a case for naming the trope "Non-Japanese Love Grendizer", as the show has an absolutely enormous following in the Arab world, as well as in Europe, particularly in France and Italy (where it was the first exported anime to get truly, monstrously popular). In Italy, where the show is known as ''Goldrake'', it's ''still'' very popular, particularly with kids of the 80s. Quebec also got the imported French version and it did well there - in sharp contrast to how it ultimately fared in the U.S. The video game adaptation for 2023 is also published and developed by French companies (with little involvement from Creator/BandaiNamco and [[VideoGame/SuperRobotWars their usual crossover]] where ''Grendizer'' showed up occasionally), showing just how loved this series was there. A French sequel comic was also released in 2021.
* HilariousInHindsight: Naming the enemies '''"Vegans"'''. [[spoiler:So living on an herbivorous diet ruins planets and turns you into destroyer of worlds? They might be trying to imply that the enemies are from the star ''Vega'', but still...]] To double the hilarity, ''ComicBook/ScottPilgrim'' features people who gain super-powers by becoming vegans. Countdown to Scott Pilgrim/Grendizer fanfic begins now...

-->'''Duke''': "And it was then... That cruel rain began to fall! A deluge from children began to rain upon Fleed. From three-thousand meters in the sky... The children..."
* SequelDisplacement: ''Grendizer'' was aired in France and in Italy before ''Anime/MazingerZ'', becoming phenomenally popular. When ''Mazinger-Z'' was aired, it was accused of ripping-off one of its sequels in France. (Italy, on the other hand, happens to love Mazinger as much as Grendizer, probably the only occurence of this outside of Japan).
* ShipToShipCombat: In this franchise's fandom you find two kind of people: those that think that ''[[Anime/MazingerZ Kouji Kabuto]]'' was in love with Sayaka Yumi, and those that think that he barely cared for her like a friend (Sayaka has always been his OfficialCouple or at the very least ImpliedLoveInterest, but you talk about facts to a shipper) and he paid more attention to any other woman that showed up in the series (Misato, Erika, Minerva...). ''[[Anime/UFORoboGrendizer Kouji/Maria]]'' are the largest faction of the second group by far, due to the sheer amount of people watched ''Grendizer'' first. And then you have the people who ships Sayaka with Boss, or the arguments among Duke/Hikaru and Duke/Rubina shippers. However, debates between shippers are refreshingly civil and without mud-slinging.

*** Original manga: The psychotic [[InsaneAdmiral Barados]] is the worst of the Vegan commanders. When attacking Planet Fleed, Barados built a mountain out of the civilian dead while abducting the women and children. Barados used them as hostages to get Planet Fleed to turn over their best weapons and proceeded to "[[ExactWords release]]" them--by dropping them down miles to shatter upon the ground. Upon taking command of the invasion upon Earth, Barados targets civilians to abduct and ties them to his own mecha when engaging Grendizer, killing several just to prove a point and intending on killing them all to secure his victory.

* SequelDisplacement: ''Grendizer'' was aired in France and in Italy before ''Anime/MazingerZ'', becoming phenomenally popular. When ''Mazinger-Z'' was aired, it was accused of ripping-off one of its sequels.

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: ''Good god''. There's actually a case for naming the trope "Non-Japanese Love Grendizer", as the show has an absolutely enormous following in the Arab world, as well as in Europe, particularly in France and Italy (where it was the first exported anime to get truly, monstrously popular). In Italy, where the show is known as ''Goldrake'', it's ''still'' very popular, particularly with kids of the 80s. Quebec also got the imported French version and it did well there - in sharp contrast to how it ultimately fared in the U.S. The video game adaptation for 2023 is also published and developed by French companies (with little involvement from Creator/BandaiNamco and [[VideoGame/SuperRobotWars their usual crossover]] where ''Grendizer'' showed up occasionally), showing just how loved this series was there.

** Hikaru Makiba in the anime TookALevelInBadass and went through an AdrenalineMakeover, going from farm girl to flying ship pilot and ActionGirl. The original manga she had not that CharacterDevelopment.

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: ''Good god''. There's actually a case for naming the trope "Non-Japanese Love Grendizer", as the show has an absolutely enormous following in the Arab world, as well as in Europe, particularly in France and Italy (where it was the first exported anime to get truly, monstrously popular). In Italy, where the show is known as ''Goldrake'', it's ''still'' very popular, particularly with kids of the 80s. Quebec also got the imported French version and it did well there - in sharp contrast to how it ultimately fared in the U.S.

*** Likewise in Quebec, when said French dub was exported to La Belle Province in 1978 and became a Saturday morning institution on Creator/{{TVA}}, staying on in reruns through at least 1984. Years later, when it was rerun again to coincide with its DVD release, it caused a sensation all over again. It wasn't the first anime aired in Quebec - [[Creator/{{CBC}} Radio-Canada]] was airing ''Manga/SallyTheWitch'' as early as 1969 - but it had a cultural impact that few other shows have had, before or since.

*** Likewise in Quebec, when said French dub was exported to La Belle Province in 1978 and became a Saturday morning institution on Creator/{{TVA}}, staying on in reruns through at least 1984. Years later, when it was rerun again to coincide with its DVD release, it caused a sensation all over again.

** In France. Arrived in the late 70s on a public channel and created a public outcry. The reason was the ''french'' opening song, that some found kinda xenophobic, extending this to the show itself. It was a HUGE success anyway, and it's basically thanks to this show that the anime fanbase ''exists'' in France, since it created the first French generation of anime fans.

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: ''Good god''. There's actually a case for naming the trope "Non-Japanese Love Grendizer", as the show has an absolutely enormous following in the Arab world, as well as in Europe, particularly in France and Italy (where it was the first exported anime to get truly, monstrously popular). In Italy, where the show is known as ''Goldrake'', it's ''still'' very popular, particularly with kids of the 80s. Quebec also got the imported French version (on Creator/{{TVA}}) and it did well there - well enough that when the series was released on video some years later, it actually made the news. That's in sharp contrast to how it fared south of the U.S.-Canadian border, with an edited dubbed version which is all but forgotten now.

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: ''Good god''. There's actually a case for naming the trope "Non-Japanese Love Grendizer", as the show has an absolutely enormous following in the Arab world, as well as in Europe, particularly in France and Italy (where it was the first exported anime to get truly, monstrously popular). In Italy, where the show is known as ''Goldrake'', it's ''still'' very popular, particularly with kids of the 80s. Quebec also got the imported French version (on Creator/{{TVA}}) and it did well there - well enough that when the series was released on video some years later, it actually made the news.

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: ''Good god''. There's actually a case for naming the trope "Non-Japanese Love Grendizer", as the show has an absolutely enormous following in the Arab world, as well as in Europe, particularly in France and Italy (where it was the first exported anime to get truly, monstrously popular). In Italy, where the show is known as ''Goldrake'', it's ''still'' very popular, particularly with kids of the 80s. Quebec also got the imported French version and it did well there.

** Original manga: The psychotic [[InsaneAdmiral Barados]] is the worst of the Vegan commanders. When attacking Planet Fleed, Barados built a mountain out of the civilian dead while abducting the women and children. Barados used them as hostages to get Planet Fleed to turn over their best weapons and proceeded to "[[ExactWords release]]" them--by dropping them down miles to shatter upon the ground. Upon taking command of the invasion upon earth, Barados targets civilians to abduct and ties them to his own mecha when engaging Grendizer, killing several just to prove a point and intending on killing them all to secure his victory.

** Creator/GosakuOta manga: [[BigBad King Vega]], ruler of the Vegan forces, is a [[GalacticConqueror brutal conqueror]] who abandoned most of his people to die on their doomed homeworld, deeming them unworthy of rescue. Conquering world after world, Vega had Planet Fleed annihilated, with the people massacred, converted into CannonFodder soldiers, or having the women sent to "service" Vegan officers. On Earth, Vega commands widespread destruction from his forces, and when he takes command, intends to [[NukeEm set off every nuke in the world]] to exterminate all life on the planet, something which [[EvenEvilHasStandards horrifies even other Vegan commanders]] like the ruthless Zuril.

* EarWorm:
** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tW8JKCouIA4 original opening]]. DUKE! DUKE! DYUKU FURIIDO! TOBE! TOBE! GURENDAIZA!
** The Italian opening ( ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dD00eiQFDI Ufo Robot, Ufo Robot...]]'') and the second ending ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7PXyRmT2Do GOOOLLLDRAAAKKE!!!]])

* HilariousInHindsight: Naming the enemies '''"Vegans"'''. [[spoiler:So living on an herbivorous diet ruins planets and turns you into destroyer of worlds? They might be trying to imply that the enemies are from the star ''Vega'', but still...]]
** To double the hilarity, ''ComicBook/ScottPilgrim'' features people who gain super-powers by becoming vegans. Countdown to Scott Pilgrim/Grendizer fanfic begins now...

* GatewaySeries: In France. Arrived in the late 70s on a public channel and created a public outcry. The reason was the ''french'' opening song, that some found kinda xenophobic, extending this to the show itself. It was a HUGE success anyway, and it's basically thanks to this show that the anime fanbase ''exists'' in France, since it created the first French generation of anime fans.

* GatewaySeries: In France. Arrived in the late 70s on a public channel and created a public outcry. The reason was the ''french'' opening song, that [[WhatAnIdiot some]] found kinda xenophobic, extending this to the show itself. It was a HUGE success anyway, and it's basically thanks to this show that the anime fanbase ''exists'' in France, since it created the first French generation of anime fans.

* GatewaySeries: In France. Arrived in the late 70s on a public channel and created a public outcry. The reason was the ''french'' opening song, that [[WhatAnIdiot some]] found kinda xenophobic, extending this to the show itself. Was a HUGE success anyway, and it's basically thanks to this show that the anime fanbase ''exists'' in France, since it created the first French generation of anime fans.

** Gosaku Ota manga: [[BigBad King Vega]], ruler of the Vegan forces, is a [[GalacticConqueror brutal conqueror]] who abandoned most of his people to die on their doomed homeworld, deeming them unworthy of rescue. Conquering world after world, Vega had Planet Fleed annihilated, with the people massacred, converted into CannonFodder soldiers, or having the women sent to "service" Vegan officers. On Earth, Vega commands widespread destruction from his forces, and when he takes command, intends to [[NukeEm set off every nuke in the world]] to exterminate all life on the planet, something which [[EvenEvilHasStandards horrifies even other Vegan commanders]] like the ruthless Zuril.