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[[caption-width-right:250:Show us your Karate. [[ThePowerOfLove And love.]]]]

''Tōshō Daimos'' (''闘将ダイモス'', ''Tōshō Daimosu'', ''Fighting General Daimos'', ''Hero Fighter Daimos'', ''Great Leader Daimos'', or just ''Daimos'') is the third entry of [[Creator/TadaoNagahama Tadao Nagahama]]'s ''Anime/RobotRomanceTrilogy'' (or often shortened the Nagahama Romance), preceded by ''Anime/CombattlerV'' and ''Anime/VoltesV''.

''Daimos'' tells the story of Earth being invaded by a race of {{Winged Humanoid}}s called the [[InconsistentSpelling Barmians/Balmians]], all due to failed peace negotiations that took a great toll on both sides. The Earth is outmatched, but they have hope in form of the MotionCaptureMecha Daimos, piloted by the Karate champ Kazuya Ryuuzaki. But problems arise when Kazuya himself meets a mysterious girl named Erika, and falls in love... and later finds out that she is the Princess of the Barmians, and the sister of the head of the invaders, Prince Richter, to boot.

Just like its predecessor ''Voltes V'', ''Daimos'' features alien enemies that turn out to be similar, though it still follows the MonsterOfTheWeek formula.

In May 2023, there are reports that GMA Network is considering to adapt Daimos to a live-action series, following ''Series/VoltesVLegacy''.

Has a [[Manga/VictoryFive sequel manga]].

Please move all character-related tropes to [[Characters/{{Daimos}} characters]] page.
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!!''Daimos'' provides examples of:
* The90s: According to WordOfGod, ''Daimos'' takes place in 1999.
* AdaptationalLocationChange: In the ''Starbirds'' dub, the setting of the show was changed from Japan to California. The character's names are also changed to sound more traditionally Western-sounding.
* ActionBomb: Episode ten featured a [[{{Robeast}} Mecha Soldier]] designed to latch on Daimos and detonate the nuke built in its body.
* AerithAndBob: Seen in the ''Starbirds'' adaptation because of some of the choices made. Some of the characters kept their original names (Erika and Nana). Some of them, human and alien, had them changed to Western names (Richter becomes Roderick, Kyoushiro becomes Duncan). And Kazuya, not that weird a name, becomes ''Kelly Hunter''.
* AllLoveIsUnrequited:
** Sayuri goes from despising Kazuya to falling for him because of his kindness, before acknowledging that his heart belongs to another woman.
** Nana also had a crush in Kazuya growing up and her ADayInTheLimelight episode has her acknowledge his feelings for Erika and accept that she can't change his mind.
** Reiko has a crush on Kyoshiro, but her UpperClassTwit attitude is so grating to him that he's actually scared of her. He is relieved when, after being forced to rescue her from the Baam-seijin, Reiko declares that she no longer loves him.
** [[AlphaBitch Raiza]] has a crush on [[WarriorPrince Richter]]. However, Richter nonchalantly slaps and hits her, calls her useless and tries to have her replaced with more competent generals. Nevertheless, Raiza keeps trying to wiggle into his good graces, only to be met with further abuse each time.
* AlternativeForeignThemeSong: Has a Hong Kong Cantonese-language [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbPIMJ9QXzQ one]].
* AllThereInTheManual: The ''Literature/RomanRoboAnimeClimaxSelection'' and ''[[Literature/TadaoNagahamaRobotRomanceAnimationChronicleInfobook Tadao Nagahama: Robot Romance Animation Chronicle Infobook]]'' have many behind-the-scenes information and meta elements regarding the show.
* AwardBaitSong: The closing theme "Erika No Ballad". It sums up the StarCrossedLovers plotline ''right off the bat''.
* BigApplesauce: The first episode opens with Barmians blowing up New York, complete with the newly constructed World Trade Center twin towers.
* BittersweetEnding:
** [[spoiler:Earth and Barm make peace, Kazuya and Erika reunite, but Richter [[strike:died in a HeroicSacrifice]] [[DrivenToSuicide committed suicide]].]]
** Not to mention the lives of so many Humans and Barmians were needlessly lost in a war neither side wanted.
* TheBladeAlwaysLandsPointyEndIn: Often, when someone lost his sword, it landed point-first on the ground. It happened to enemies but also to Kyoshiro.
* ComingOfAgeStory: It's a love story marked by war, with relatives and associates on both Kazuya and Erika's side having blood on their hands, and learning to let go of the world that once was so that they can learn to live in peace with one another.
* CompilationMovie:
** One titled ''[[AntagonistTitle Starbirds: The Movie]]'' was produced by 3-B Productions, the same people who did [[Anime/MazingerZ Tranzor Z]]. It features a whole new round of {{Dub Name Change}}s ("Kazuya" becomes "Kelly", "Kyoshiro" becomes "Duncan") and {{Dub Induced Plot Hole}}s (natural when cutting a 44 episode series down to a 72 minute movie), but is overall fairly coherent. It's actually speculated to be in the PublicDomain, as it has popped up as a dollar store DVD release more than once.
** In Italy, when ''Daimos'' was released, dubbing studio Alsen[[note]]Different from the company that dubbed the original ''Daimos'' anime into Italian, Compagnia Realizzazioni Cinetelevisive (CRC)[[/note]] produced a CompilationMovie called ''Daimos - Il figlio di Goldrake'' (Daimos, the son of Anime/{{Grendizer}}) where it connected the universes of ''Daimos'' and ''Grendizer'' by stating that Kazuya was Daisuke's son, and he had inherited his robot from him. Completely contradicting the source material, it mish-mashed clips of both series and produced an alternate ending. Italians who watched both series were very confused about the sudden change in canon. You can watch a breakdown of the film [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDUgXUpO-Xw here]].
* CherryBlossoms: When Kazuya and Erika have a MeetCute in the garden, we see them surrounded by beautiful pink blossom petals.
* CutShort: ''Daimos'' was originally supposed to have 50 episodes, but the studio that aired it wanted to produce the sentai series ''Battle Fever J'' instead and forced the crew to scrap the original plot in favour of the messy BittersweetEnding it has. Creator/TadaoNagahama expressed his disappointment of this in the ''Literature/RomanRoboAnimeClimaxSelection'', giving more details on what could have been had ''Daimos'' finished its run.
* DeathOfAChild: In the second episode, a kid spends a short while egging Kazuya and Erika on to kiss. Later, when the enemy attacks, an explosion destroys the greenhouse he had gone into. Kazuya and Erika bolt to the place and find him lying between the rubble. The kid opens his eyes and asks Kazuya if he "got lucky" before dying as Kazuya is holding him in his arms.
* DubInducedPlotlineChange: Every foreign dub of ''Anime/{{Daimos}}'' removes Nana's crush on Kazuya because he's her brother.
* EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench: One episode deals with Kyoshiro dealing with Reiko, his former female student whom he taught French, and in order to shut her up for a time, he told her to memorize "Je t'aime"/"I love you". That was the only thing she remembered literally, including mistaking it as a sexy declaration of love, much to Kyoshiro's dismay.
* ExpositoryThemeTune: "Beat them, beat them, as long as you have strength. Show them your karate." And the closing credits tune narrates StarcrossedLovers Erika and Kazuya love story.
* FirstContact: The Emperor initiated it, hoping it led to a peaceful collaboration and understanding among both peoples. Unfortunately, not all shared his ideals.
* GratuitousForeignLanguage: Gratuitous Croatian - the base is named "Daimovic" after Daimos, and "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croatian_name#Croatian_given_names -ovic]]" is a common Croatian-style patronym. It also doubles as a {{pun}} and MeaningfulName since it was founded by Kazuya's father.
* HeroBall: The good guys certainly take a lot of time to figure out that [[spoiler:Erika is just pretending to be into marrying Olban while secretly planning to murder him. Despite being blackmailed into marrying him in the first place, and her reaction when she realizes she shot Kazuya with an actual bullet.]] The bad guys, including the future husband himself, are much more suspicious of her new-found loyalty.
* LatexSpaceSuit: The astronaut banch of Daimovic, including Kazuya and Kyoshiro, all wear these.
* {{Melodrama}}: To the surprise of nobody, ''Daimos'', a Creator/TadaoNagahama work, is a melodrama. It's the tale of an AlienPrincess who falls for a human boy...while their planets are at war and he leads the main resistance by preventing the alien's attacks with his SuperRobot. Both face scrutiny, abuse and humiliation for their romance, are called traitors and even face jail (in his case) and ({{execution}} in her case - don't worry, she escapes). However, their love perserveres through it all, and they never stop searching for solutions to the conflict- and even their biggest in-universe detractors are left in shock by the power of their love.
* MilitariesAreUseless: Averted, as Earth does have a military. It's just a shame that it's led by a [[HumansAreBastards war-hungry, genocidal maniac]] who's so incompetent he leads his innocent men to their deaths, as well as pissing off the antagonistic alien race who already have a low view of humans.
* MyNaymeIs: The Italian dub, as opposed to most others, avoids DubNameChange, but a lot of names is pronounced differently, if not weirdly: for example, Richter becomes "Richiter", Geroiya is pronounced either "Gero" or "Guerroyer" and Balbas is "Valbas".
* NighInvulnerable: Later in the series, monsters of the week are often equipped with {{Unobtainium}} armor which makes attacks bounce off as if from a rubber band. It takes a combination of severe heat and cold to render them brittle.
* ObviouslyEvil: One look at Georiya and you just knew he had something to do with the death of the previous Baam emperor and Kazuya's father.
* OncePerEpisode: Every episode, to transform and activate Daimos, Kazuya yelled "Daimos, Battle Turn!", as -pretty uselessly- performing a kata with his arms.
* PersonalSpaceInvader: One of the Baam mechas is loaded with nukes and latches on Daimos to blow it up. Kazuya could not get rid of it, and it took an [[spoiler:Gurney committing HeroicSacrifice]] to save his life.
* PhenotypeStereotype: The Japanese characters usually have brown hair, alongside pale or peach-coloured skin. Miwa has black hair and tanner skin, while Kyoshiro is dark-skinned with pouffy hair. Sayuri has thin black hair and black eyes, passing for a YamatoNadeshiko. Nana is aversion, having blonde hair and blue eyes despite being Japanese.
* RaceLift: As the Starbirds dub changes the setting from Japan to California, most of the characters (who were originally Japanese) were changed to white, except Duncan[[note]]Kyoshiro[[/note]] who's black.
* SayMyName: "ERIKAAAAA!!!", also followed by "KAZUYAAAAA!!!!" or "RICHAAAARD!!!!"
** Not to be confused with his [[DualWielding "Souryuu Ken"]] or the [[DoubleWeapon "Double Dragon Blade"]] from his chest.
* TheThreeFacesOfEve:
** Erika is the calm, intelligent, reflective, prudent and reluctant to do anything rash wife.
** Liza is the hot and sensual seductress, using her body charms to get what she wants.
** Nana is the young, temperamental, rash child.
* WouldntHurtAChild:
** Do not ''even'' think of hurting a child in front of [[TheHero Kazuya]] [[HotBlooded Ryuuzaki]] lest you have your face rearranged.
** In episode 2, a child got killed during the enemy air raid. Kazuya snapped, instantly got in his HumongousMecha and utterly tore apart the {{Robeast}} enemy.
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