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Ambassador Magma

alt title(s): The Space Giants

The first color Toku broadcast two months before Ultraman, Ambassador Magma was based on the manga by Osamu Tezuka. Later was turned into an anime. The series revolves around a family of robot-like beings (technically, they aren't robots) who are called upon by an Earth boy whenever a giant monster appears initiated by Goa, a space alien. The one summoned by three whistles is the titular Magma, who fought the monsters.

The dub of this series was known as The Space Giants. It cut minimal scenes but still changed names. Magma became Goldar for instance. Another name change was Earth to Methusa (after the 900-year old man in The Bible, after all, he did look it!) The opening was not kept, but the music within the show, including uses of the famous theme tune, was.

An animated OAV was produced in 1993 which retold the story (not very well).

The series provides examples of the following tropes:

The Kid With The Remote Control- Mamoru with his whistle.
Mooks- Goa's Near-Humans.
Pet The Dog- Goa's apparent motivation for his invasion of Earth(or so he says) is to make a literal world where There Are No Adults and children can be happy(leading to Michael Jackson jokes from this troper). Although there are some Unfortunate Implications in his plan; what happens when the kids grow up?
Big Bad- Goa.
Monster Of The Week- Subverted somewhat in that the monsters are used mulitiple episodes, like a serial.
Names To Know In Anime- Osamu Tezuka, obviously and Toru Ohira, voice of Goa.
Hey Its That Guy- Gen Shimizu, who played the wizard Earth, was famed for being in many Kurosawa films and one Godzilla film.
Alien Invasion
Friend To All Children- Goa, according to him.
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