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->''Soldiers of the Gran Knights, Combine!''

''Chōjūshin (Super-Heavy God) Gravion'' is a 13-episode {{Super Robot|Genre}} series directed by Creator/MasamiObari and released in 2002 by {{Creator/GONZO}}. Think ''Anime/GaoGaiGar'' loaded with [[{{Meido}} maids]] instead of HotBlooded [[Franchise/{{Transformers}} Autobot]] {{Exp|y}}ies, while the titular robot follows the CombiningMecha formula with FiveManBand, which has been perfected with the likes of ''Anime/CombattlerV'' and ''Anime/VoltesV'' (and with more ladies too, there's only two male pilots).

[[WarWasBeginning The Earth's about to come under attack]] by an alien race called the Zeravire. However, a mysterious billionaire named Klein Sandman has prepared for the invasion with God Gravion, a {{Super Robot|Genre}} that uses the power of gravity to fight. The protagonist is Eiji Shigure, a young man who infiltrates Sandman's St. Germain Castle in search of his missing older sister Ayaka, and is recruited as part of the Gran Knights. The story is given a different slant: although Eiji is the main character, he's effectively TheLancer of this particular Six Man Band, piloting the G-Attacker, the God Gravion's right leg, rather than being the main pilot.

The series seems to come to an abrupt end, but is concluded in the 12-episode sequel ''Gravion Zwei'', which answers many of the series' major mysteries and finally promotes Eiji to the actual lancer seat of the Sol Gravion.

Some of the characters make cameos in ''Anime/DancougarNova'', the remake/sequel to ''Anime/{{Dancougar}}'', and some viewers consider it to be the unoffical "[[SpiritualSuccessor third season]]" of the show.

Most definitely ''not'' to be confused with ''{{Manga/Gravitation}}''.

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!!This series provides examples of:

* EleventhHourSuperpower: The Chōjūken in ''Gravion'' and [[spoiler:Ultimate Gravion]] in ''Zwei''.
* AchillesInHisTent: Okay, being pissed at Touga for [[spoiler: attempting to kill Cecile along with that Zeravire]] is understandable. But [[spoiler:leaving the team to fight a ''more powerful'' Zeravire by themselves]]? [[WhatTheHellHero What The Hell, Eiji]]?
* AmbiguouslyGay: Jose, the AmbiguouslyBrown blond who loves soccer, is [[CampGay somewhat flamboyant in his mannerisms]].
* ArtisticLicenceAnatomy: There are several characters whose boobs move independently of each other and move while the character is still. While boobs do move, they don't bounce around like that.
* AscendedFanboy:
** Sandman might as well be an older [[VideoGame/SuperRobotWars Ryuusei Date]].
** Alex Smith, recurring MauveShirt: He eats ''natto'' while dressed like [[VideoGame/FatalFury Terry Bogard]] and fanboys Gravion. Then he turns out to be a Gran Trooper (who is absolutely thrilled to shake Gravion's hand).
* AttractiveBentGender: Eiji and Touga looks pretty good in a dress; Alex unknowingly hits on them - Eiji twice.
* BadassCrew: The Gran Knights, as well as the Gran Troopers of ''Zwei''.
* BattleBoomerang: God Gravion's Graviton Crescent, which serves as its primary finisher during the first season.
* BecomingTheMask:
** [[spoiler:What happens when you put on Raven's mask.]]
** [[spoiler: Mizuki, sent to spy on the Gran Knights, truly starts feeling like she belongs there.]])
* BishieSparkle: Sandman gets these a few times. Cue mass {{Squee}} from his MaidCorps.
* BlindIdiotTranslation: The very first episode features the infamous "Status Clitical" emergency screen.
%% * BridgeBunnies: The above-mentioned MaidCorps.
* BrotherSisterIncest: [[spoiler:Hugi towards Lufira, his younger sister.]] The fact that it's a robot does not change the fact that [[spoiler: he still made out with a fawning [[ReplacementGoldfish robot he created and programmed]] who ''looks exactly like his younger sister''.]]
* BigBrotherInstinct: {{Inverted|Trope}} Eiji's search for older sister Ayaka is what brings him to the castle.
* CallingYourAttacks: This ''is'' a {{Super Robot|Genre}} show.
** Also parodied in the Hot Spring episode: Sandman calls out the names of his ping-pong serves/smashes. [[MundaneMadeAwesome And it is awesome]].
* ChasteHero: Touga, justified because his training didn't include socialization; the closest he gets to romantic intent is obliviously asking ''Eiji'' to "marry him."
* ChestBlaster: God Gravion's Graviton Arc and Sol Gravion's Sol Graviton Nova.
%% * CombiningMecha: Naturally, the Gravions.
%% * TheComicallySerious: Raven.
* CoolSword: God Gravion has the Graviton Sword in its chestplate, subverted in that while it's used as a finisher the first time, every other Zeravire is basically immune to it and thus it only gets used a small handful of times. The White Steel Fang definitely qualifies, though.
%% * CuteClumsyGirl: Eina.
%% * DeathSeeker: [[spoiler:Hugi and Sandman]].
%% * DrillTank: G-Driller.
* {{Expy}}:
** Compatible Kaiser and G Compatible Kaiser of the ''[[VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsOriginalGeneration Original Generation]]'' sub-series bears striking similarities and attacks to the God Gravion and Sol Gravion respectively. It helps that Masami Obari, ''Gravion's'' director and character/mecha designer, was tasked by Banpresto to redesign the Kaiser.
** Sandman is like taking [[VideoGame/SuperRobotWars Masaki Andoh, Shu Shirakawa, and Ryusei]] and smashing the result into a single character
* {{Fanservice}}: A signature of any work by Obari.
** Just to give you an idea: The cover for the DVD release features the main female cast at the beach, with Faye and Luna ''taking each other's bikini tops off''. God Gravion is faintly in the background, as if to assure you that this show is in fact about giant robot fights.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: The fact that [[spoiler:Mizuki is an EFA spy]] has been given some hints within the series before the reveal, although [[RewatchBonus it may take some rewatches to notice]]:
** In the final episode of season 1, there are several:
*** When the EFA's newest weapon after researching got destroyed, somehow Mizuki felt extra down, though she dismissed it as working overnight. [[spoiler:Of course she would feel that way because the Zeravire just crushed her hard work on leaking information to the EFA in instant.]]
*** After the Zeravire is defeated, the President namedropped a certain "Lt. Tachibana". [[spoiler:This refers to Mizuki, whose last name is Tachibana, not just some random same-named agent.]]
*** And likewise, Mizuki also sported a rather sorrowful face despite the joyous celebration on beating that 'final' Zeravire. [[spoiler:This is because she's about to begin her phase of BecomingTheMask, genuinely caring for her fellow pilots, but being torn with her old duty as a spy.]]
** During the ping-pong table, Mizuki picked up her partner, Alex, a member of the EFA, out of random pick in a lobby, and they got along really great. [[spoiler:They wouldn't be as such, if Mizuki wasn't a spy from Alex's side.]]
* FormFittingWardrobe: [[spoiler:Ayaka as Raven, whose breasts are hidden by the top she wears as Raven]].
* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: Raven snaps Sandman out of his [=BSOD=]; Eiji does likewise for Touga.
* GratuitousEnglish: Notably Faye Xin Lu's CatchPhrase: "Jack Off", which the dub mercifully avoided.
%% * HardDrinkingPartyGirl: Mizuki Tachibana.
%% * HeroicBSOD: Touga, Leele... and Sandman.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Eina; [[BackFromTheDead she gets better]]]].
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:Hugi manages to get multiple hoistings in the same scene: The failsafe device that shuts down the Genocidron System, upon seeing Leele, causes the core of Goma to stop functioning and get destroyed. His RidiculouslyHumanRobot clone of his dead sister stops him from killing Sandman due to InstantAIJustAddWater, and since he was also plugged into Goma's core it weakens him enough for Sandman to cut him down. Add in the fact he revealed himself the BigBad just to lure Sandman out to fight...]]
* HumanAliens: [[spoiler:Sandman, Leele and Hugi, as well as the population of Selias and Llambias]].
* IdiotBall: Gravion episode 10. Hey, Eiji, you don't want to the captured Cecile to be killed when Gravion is forced to make it's attack? How about running in and ''getting her out of there'' instead of standing around and yelling for Touga not to attack? Okay, good, you've reached and freed her. Now it's time to run away as fast as--''why the hell are you pointing a gun at Gravion?!'' Move! Get off the giant monster!
* IdiotHero: Touga takes this to the point of GeniusDitz.
* LatexSpaceSuit: All pilot's suits, which has {{fanservice}} for [[FemaleGaze both]] [[MaleGaze sexes]].
* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler:Sandman is Leele's.]]
* MaleGaze: Other than [[MauveShirt pilot Alex]], it's completely inverted; it's generally the girls who stare in awe at Klein Sandmann.
* MarshmallowHell: When crowding in a narrow vehicle, Mizuki puts Eiji's head between her boobs.
%% * MauveShirt: [[TheFederation EFA]] pilot Alex; the Gran Troopers.
* MaidCorps: Klein Sandman has a decent amount, ''[[https://abload.de/img/yande.re30952anyaarmog2s1l.jpg as you can see here.]]'' What stands out is that they all look different and have outfits specific to their tasks (more typical servants, but also engineers, guards, nurses), and run the whole gamut from TokenMiniMoe adorable to mature and sexy.
* {{Meido}}: A big number of the cast are hired as maids by Klein Sandman. They run the whole ganmut
%% * MidSeasonUpgrade: Sol Gravion.
* MissedTheCall: [[spoiler:Faye missed the call, though not for lack of [[JumpedAtTheCall jumping]]; but Sandman chose Touga as Gran Kaiser pilot at the last minute]].
* TheMole: [[spoiler:Mizuki's actually a spy for the EFA]].
** WelcomeBackTraitor: [[spoiler: Though admittedly, she's just broken Luna out of the EFA base.]]
** NecessarilyEvil: [[spoiler:Mizuki knows that betraying the Gran Knights was not a moral act and she came prepared with the Knights not forgiving her. But she didn't regret her actions, considering that leaking information to the government enabled them to catch up with the Gran Knights technology-wise and be of help during the battle against Zeravire.]]
%% * MotionCaptureMecha: Gran Kaiser and Gran Sigma.
* MsFanservice: Mizuki is one of the shining example of Creator/MasamiObari's tendency to draw super sexy women pops up. She's REALLY busty, and also a mature and attractive blonde. And has a sexy voice too in either [[Creator/YuuAsakawa Japanese]] or [[Creator/KiraVincentDavis English]] version.
%% * MysteriousWaif: Leele.
* MythArc: It takes all of both seasons for Eiji to finally find his sister Ayaka.
* PigeonholedVoiceActor: Mizuki is a super busty MsFanservice, so it's not surprising that her seiyuu is Creator/YuuAsakawa.
%% * PowerCrystal
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: [[spoiler:Sandman's at least 400 years old and implied to have lived for millennium]].
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Played straight when [[spoiler:Hugi dies and we find his excesses were powered by CyberneticsEatYourSoul]]; subverted [[spoiler: when Sandman tries it and gets talked down]].
* RedHerring: Early in ''Zwei'', Eiji encounters a picture where Raven is shown to be together with Ayaka, so they must be two different entities. [[spoiler:Raven ''is'' Ayaka, however, because the Raven mask will make anyone take on the Raven identity, and Ayaka is his latest host, the one who wielded it when the portrait was taken was most likely Luna's father.]]
* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: [[spoiler:Eina and the present-day 'Lufira']].
* {{Robeast}}: Warrior-class Zeravire.
* RocketPunch: Gravion's Graviton Pressure Punch and Sol Gravion's Graviton Tornado Punch.
* SayMyName: Occurs often, but [[spoiler:'''''"Hugi-niisan!"''''']] probably takes the cake.
%% * ShowerOfAngst: Faye gets one.
* ShoutOut: Gravion is losing badly against an enemy, when a new robot piloted by a mysterious person comes out of nowhere and saves the day. Mecha fanboy Alex immediately nicknames the newcomer "[[Anime/GreatMazinger Great Gravion]]", effectively pointing out the reference to the last episode of ''Anime/MazingerZ''.
%% * SkySurfing: G-Gradius.
* SortingAlgorithmOfEvil: Mostly invoked in the first season and justified accordingly - The Zeravire was constantly learning and evolving, so the subsequent MonsterOfTheWeek adapts to the previous weapons Gravion had used to finish off its predecessors. It evolved to the point that when the final opponent of the first season was sent to Earth, it did not bother to attack anything else but ominously settled down, clearly waiting for Gravion's arrival since it was designed purely to counter all of Gravion's attacks. All except for the ultimate weapon White Steel Fang, which Sandman had yet to reveal at that point in time. This continued into the second season Zwei, where even the [[SoLastSeason White Steel Fang]] struggled to beat the Zeravire.
* SuperPrototype: Gran Sigma, though the God Gravion itself is a prototype.
* SpyCatsuit: Mizuki wears an extremely {{Stripperific}} version, particularly noticable in [[http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/1361/80b109624fc0966909a0013.gif ''Zwei'''s OP]].
* ThisIsADrill: G-Driller and Geo Javelin. Geo Javelin's is a drill ''[[RuleOfCool on fire]]''.
* TokenMiniMoe: This series has three of them. Anya is a {{genki|Girl}} CurtainsMatchTheWindow FieryRedhead with GirlishPigtails. Brigitta is just as {{genki|Girl}} and has odango hair as well as purple eyes. Cecile is a RavenHairIvorySkin beauty, has CurtainsMatchTheWindow black eyes with elegant hair and [[ProperLady acts proper]] if a bit shy. All of them are {{Meido}} in Sandmann's castle. And at least the first two are quite obsessed with Eiji's "physicals". [[DirtyKid Make of that what you will]].
* TransformationNameAnnouncement: Sandman [[IAlwaysWantedToSayThat always wanted to do it once]]: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNZfFT6qklM&feature=related&fmt=18 He gets to]].
* TransformingMecha: The Gran Troopers get the jet/robot modes.
* VictoryIsBoring: [[spoiler:Once Mizuki finished her spying job for her government, she retired to her own private resort island... and it takes about one episode to bore her with her luxury and decides to get back in action... [[BecomingTheMask this time on the side she was spying]].]]
* WhamEpisode: Episodes 6-7 plunges the Gran Knights into one big DarkestHour little by little and pretty much sheds away that this was just a cookie cutter super robot anime, showing its true colors. [[spoiler:First, Mizuki openly left the Gran Knights and revealed that she was a spy for the government. Then Leele fell into a comma after learning about her true identity as Sandman's daughter and also her relations with the Zeravire, partially due to Touga's NoSocialSkill upbringing escalating, which caused Eiji to lash out and Touga lost concentration in the next battle, causing Eina to commit a HeroicSacrifice and in the ensuing blast, Luna went MIA, actually captured by the government. Because of this, Touga ends up on a ''massive'' HeroicBSOD and even Sandman for once fell into his own HeroicBSOD. Basically, at that point, the Gran Knights were seriously undermanned. For one final wham that surprisingly isn't making things worse, we get to see Raven's identity: at the moment, it's Ayaka Shigure, Eiji's sister.]]
* WholesomeCrossdresser: Touga winds up in a dress more often than you'd think, and he never seems to mind.
%% * WrenchWench: Thoria.
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