History Anime / Daimos

* FantasyCounterpartCulture - Brahmins have Western names, Ancient Egyptian or Greco-Roman culture and their religion looks Christian. To emphasize their alien nature, their names also sound Western to contrast with the humans with Japanese names.

** Lampshaded in the intro. When he is doing his karate, a close-up of the sun can be seen behind him.

* FantasyCounterpartCulture - Brahmins have Western names, Ancient Egyptian or Greco-Roman culture and their religion looks Christian. To emphasize their alien nature, their names are also sound very Western to contrast with the humans with Japanese names.

** Lampshaded in the intro. When he is doing his karate, a close-up of the sun can be seen behind him.

* FantasyCounterpartCulture (Brahmins have Western names, Ancient Egyptian (or is it Greco-Roman?) culture and their religion looks strangely Christian.)

** Lampshaded in the intro. When he is doing his karate, a close-up of the sun can be seen behind him.

* AlienInvasion: The Brahmins had no intention of invading Earth and wanted negotiating a peaceful settlement. However, the death by poisoning of his Emperor and the belief of Terrans had assassinated him changed that.

* FridgeLogic ([[AliensSpeakingEnglish Aliens]] and other nationalities speaking Japanese may be explained away by TranslationConvention, but how do you explain Erika writing a farewell note to Kazuya ''in Japanese''?)

* TrickedOutShoes: Daimos had rockets on its feet AND retractable spikes to simultanesouly kick and stab {{Robeast}}s with.

* UnluckyChildhoodFriend (Nana)

* {{Robeast}} (Mecha Soldiers)

* WorthyOpponent (Richter, full stop. No finer man ever wore a skirt than Richter.)

* AfroAsskicker (Kyoushirou is ''LITERALLY'' an AfroSamurai)

* LauncherMove (Double Blizzard sends an enemy flying up, and on the way down it is jump kicked into oblivion, ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice by Daimos' fist or CleanCut down the middle by a karate chop. It gets upgraded later in the series into Fire Blizzard, which follows a [[FreezeRay Freezer Blast]], thanks to the enemy upgrading their RoBeasts' armor.)

* BewareTheNiceOnes (Kazuya is a rather nice guy when not fighting. But if he's pissed off... he'll go majorly ''batshit''. You're warned, [[spoiler: Miwa]])
* BittersweetEnding ([[spoiler:Earth and Brahmin made peace, Kazuya and Erika reunite, but Richter [[strike:died in a HeroicSacrifice]] [[DrivenToSuicide committed suicide]]. Some ''SuperRobotWars'' games makes it even further with how Miwa is not dead, meaning that some other corrupt force may pull him out of his arrest and generally cause trouble to Kazuya in the future.]])

* CannotSpitItOut (Erika is in constant fear of telling Kazuya that she played a part in killing his father, [[spoiler:while in truth, a lackey of Olban did it, and makes it look like that Richter and Erika did it]])

* {{Cool Car}} (Kazuya's ''Tryper 75S'', which boards into a Cool Tranzer which in turn transforms to a [[SuperRobot Cool Mecha]].)

* HomeBase (The Space Dynamobic, which has multiple functions of TheBattlestar, SpaceBase and MissionControl).

* LauncherMove (Double Blizzard sends an enemy flying up, and on the way down it is ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice by Daimos' fist or CleanCut down the middle by a karate chop. It gets upgraded later in the series into Fire Blizzard, which follows a [[FreezeRay Freezer Blast]], thanks to the enemy upgrading their RoBeast armor.)

* MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter (Erika. Or better said, she's TheEvilPrince 's Beautiful Little Sister)

* [[spoiler:MyGodWhatHaveIDone==>DrivenToSuicide (Richter had the realization of the former in the last episode and drove him to the latter, but not before saving the lives of everybody in the Brahmins' space station first. However, Richter's death gets re-written as a HeroicSacrifice in ''SuperRobotWarsAdvance''.)]]

** Which is the reason Daimos was installed with Freezer Blast and the Double Blizzard upgraded into the Fire Blizzard. Practically [[NewPowersasThePlotDemands New Upgrades as the Enemy Armor demands]], which tallied with it's literal {{Mid Season Upgrade}}.

* WorthyOpponent (Richter,full stop. No finer man ever wore a skirt than Richter.)

Daimos tells the story of Earth being invaded by a race of [[WingedHumanoid Winged Humanoids]] the Brahmins/Balmians, all due to failed peace negotations 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 Brahmins, and the sister of the head of the invaders, Prince Richter, to boot.

* IAmHeroHearMeRoar