History Anime / Daimos

* EvilLaugh: Olban. In the English dub, he laughs at Daimos for being unable to penetrate his space station's shields. Later he does it again when Kazuya gets distracted by [[spoiler:Margarete's death]] and suddenly finds himself from

* AliensAreBastards: Averted. Although someone who will be not mentioned -coughMiwacough- was convinced of it, Barmians are not different than humans and most of them are decent people; unfortunately the actual mastermind of the war/invasion, Olban, ''is'' a bastard. It overall shows that humans and aliens aren't so different, they have their own equal share of good people and bastards.

* AloofDarkHairedGirl: Erika is tall, dark-haired and calm and rational.
* AntiVillain: All of the Baam antagonists except for Olban and his lackey, Geroiya. They're just trying to ensure their people survive.

* BeardOfEvil: In this series, if you have facial hair, then you would be considered an irredeemable bad guy. Olban's nice, thick beard and Miwa's pointy mustache are good example for this, whereas cleanly shaved faces signify either good guys or morally grey. There are exactly one inversion for each types in this though, Prof. Izumi also has a beard, but he's a ReasonableAuthorityFigure, whereas Geroiya is cleanly shaved, but he's Olban's #1 lackey and equally evil.

** One of the first Anime examples. Daimos had two forms: spaceship and battle robot.

''Daimos'' tells the story of Earth being invaded by a race of {{Winged Humanoid}}s called the [[SpellMyNameWithAnS 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.

* AntiVillain: All of the Barmian antagonists except for Olban and his lackey, Geroiya. They're just trying to ensure their people survive.

* {{Brainwashed}}: Very much implied at one episode when Erika was shown a machine that allows her to think of happy thoughts and reduce her stress with her Barmian friend Cindy, and Erika's first suspicious response is if it's a machine that will drill up teachings that HumansAreBastards and should die (it's not) to her brain. This gives the implication that many Barmian soldiers (especially those under Olban) were practically indoctrinated to hate humans, making them very fanatic or at best REALLY fearful against humans.

* FantasyCounterpartCulture: Barmians have Western names, Ancient Egyptian or Greco-Roman culture and their religion looks Christian.

* GoodWingsEvilWings: The Baam-Seijin had functional, angel-like, white wings sprouting from their backs. Their wings don't represent their alignment at all, though, they were not portrayed like being inherently good or evil, but like similar to the humans (AlwaysChaoticEvil was completely averted).

* 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, despite 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.

* InterspeciesRomance: Kazuya is a human and Erika is a Barmian. They fall in love.

* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler: Erika's mother]].

* McNinja: Barmian assassins.

* ObviouslyEvil: One look at Geroiya (Grovil in the Filipino dub) and you just knew he had something to do with the death of the previous Barmian emperor and Kazuya's father.

* PetTheDog: In the earlier episode, even Miwa proved to be able to do this in his own dickish way. When Kyoshiro failed to save Erika from falling from a cliff (she survives because of being a Barmian), he proceeded to take away all of the accusations he had about Kazuya being a possible Barmian spy, personally got him out of the containment and genuinely expressed his condolences that Erika was KIA. While he did say insensitive things afterwards, he wasn't acting like a dick like usual. Take note that this was the only time Miwa acted decent. Afterwards, it's a series of JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope for [[GeneralRipper him.]]

* [[PleaseSpareHimMyLiege Please Spare Her My Liege!]]: Margaret did this to save Erika from Richter's wrath when he found out she was in love with Kazuya.

* SpannerInTheWorks: Olban's plan for world domination started to unravel when it was overheard by Himley, Balbas' little brother, who was about to report about the cruelty of Geroiya towards Anti-Olban peace movements, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard which was ordered by Olban in the first place.]]
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Brahmin... or Balm?

* TelescopingRobot: The ornament on his chest are in reality two daggers, and they covered a hatch opened up to reveal its ChestBlaster. Its feet are also armed with [[ArmedLegs retractable spikes]] for good measure.

* UnderwaterBase: The Barmian HomeBase on Earth was located on the bottom of the ocean.

* WingedHumanoid: The whole Barmian race.

''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 Tadao Nagahama's ''Anime/RobotRomanceTrilogy'' (or often shortened the Nagahama Romance), preceded by ''Anime/CombattlerV'' and ''Anime/VoltesV''.

''Toushou Daimos'' (''Hero Fighter Daimos'', ''Great Leader Daimos'', or just ''Daimos'') is the third entry of Tadao Nagahama's ''Anime/RobotRomanceTrilogy'' (or often shortened the Nagahama Romance), preceded by ''Anime/CombattlerV'' and ''Anime/VoltesV''.

** Daimos pulled this off nearly a full decade before the first Franchise/StreetFighter game came out.
** Not to be confused with his [[DualWielding "Souryuu Ken"]] or [[DoubleWeapon Double Dragon Blade]] from his chest.

* TheGunslinger: To some degree, Nana.

* InterspeciesRomance: Kazuya and Erika.

* ArmedLegs

* BattleCouple: In a spinoff manga featuring the Nagahama Romance robots, Erika gets her own mecha, Phobos (aka Deimos and Phobos, the moons of Mars), which allows her to fight with Deimos and do a CombinationAttack.

* BreakTheCutie: Erika.

* ShoutOut:
** To ''Voltes V''. Daimos's [[KillItWithIce "Freezer Storm"]] and [[KillItWithFire "Fire Blizzard"]] upgrades used to weaken the armor of the [[RoBeast Mecha Soldiers]] are reminiscent of how Voltes V's "Choudenji Ball" upgrade weakens the [[FantasyMetals maxingal armor]] of the Beast Fighters. Ditto with the [[RetractableWeapon "Souryuu Ken"]] being part of Daimos's chest, just like Voltes's "Tenku Ken".
** To ''Anime/MazingerZ''. The extreme hot and cold effect that the "Freezer Storm" and "Fire Blizzard" [[FireIceDuo combo attack]] has on metal is roughly the same as [[BreathWeapon "Rust]] [[ChestBlaster Hurricane"]] by Mazinger. It also compromises the integrity of the metal body of the Mecha Soldier, making it very brittle and likely to develop cracks but for different reasons.
** To ''Animation/RobotTaekwonV''. The South Korean SuperRobot film series may or may not have inspired Daimos to become a MotionCaptureMecha while being a ''Mazinger Z'' clone.

* TelescopingRobot: The ornament on his chest are in reality two daggers, and they covered a hatch opened up to reveal its ChestBlaster. Its feet are also armed with [[[[ArmedLegs retractable spikes]] for good measure.

* 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 robots' armor.

** To ''Voltes V''. Daimos's [[KillItWithIce "Freezer Storm"]] and [[KillItWithFire "Fire Blizzard"]] upgrades used to weaken the armor of the [[RoBeast Mecha Soldiers]] are reminiscent of how Voltes V's "Choudenji Ball" upgrade weakens the [[FantasyMetals maxingal armor]] of the Beast Fighters.

** To ''Anime/MazingerZ''. The extreme hot and cold effect that the "Freezer Storm" and "Fire Blizzard" [[FireIceDuo combo attack]] has on metal is roughly the same as [[BreathWeapon "Rust Hurricane"]] by Mazinger. It also compromises the integrity of the metal body of the Mecha Soldier, making it very brittle and likely to develop cracks but for different reasons.

* TelescopingRobot: The ornament on his chest were in reality two daggers, and they covered a hatch opened up to reveal its ChestBlaster. [[ArmedLegs Its feet were armed with retractable spikes]]...

* {{Samurai}}: Kazuya's buddy Kyoshiro... an ''afro'' Samurai.

** Not to be confused with his "Souryuu Ken" or Double Dragon Blade from his chest.

** To ''Anime/MazingerZ''. The extreme hot and cold effect that the "Freezer Storm" and "Fire Blizzard" [[FireIceDuo combo attack]] has on metal is roughly the same as "Rust Hurricane" by Mazinger. It also compromises the integrity of the metal body of the Mecha Soldier, making it very brittle and likely to develop cracks but for different reasons.

* ShoutOut: To ''Voltes V''. Daimos's [[KillItWithIce "Freezer Storm"]] and [[KillItWithFire "Fire Blizzard"]] upgrades used to weaken the armor of the [[RoBeast Mecha Soldiers]] are reminiscent of how Voltes V's "Choudenji Ball" upgrade weakens the [[FantasyMetals maxingal armor]] of the Beast Fighters.

* StarCrossedLovers: Kazuya and Erika. Kazuya is an earthling martial artist defending the Earth against the race of winged aliens invading it, among which Erika is a part of.

* SayMyName ("ERIKAAAAA!!!", also followed by "KAZUYAAAAA!!!!")

* ButtMonkey: Believe it or not, [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness earlier to the series]], [[GeneralRipper Miwa]] is also this, serving as the CommanderContrarian only existing to be proven wrong and sometimes gets into hilarious, humiliating situations [[LaserGuidedKarma because of his jackassery]] (tossed to the pool, hurt his arm trying to hit the RobotBuddy out of frustration, etc). As the series goes on, however, Miwa gets much more extreme that his antics were played for dead seriousness than occasional humor.

* TransformationNameAnnouncement: After shouting "JUST IN!" and having Kazuya's CoolCar enter the rear of Daimos in truck trailer "Tranza" form, he then travels from driver seat to the main Tranza cockpit, where he gets hooked up with cables on his arms and shoulders before announcing, "DAIMOS BATTLE TURN!", which starts the Daimos TransformationSequence.

* 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.

* CompilationMovie: One titled ''[[AntagonistTitle Starbirds]]: The Movie'' was produced by 3-B Productions (the 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's popped up as a dollar store DVD release more than once.

** Daimos pulled this off nearly a full decade before the first Franchise/StreetFighter game came out. Not to be confused with his "Souryuu Ken" or Double Dragon Blade from his chest.