History Anime / GaikingLegendOfDaikuMaryu

Gaiking: Legend of Daiku Maryu is a SuperRobot anime produced by Toei Animation. It loosely adapts the [[{{Gaiking}} 1976 anime, Gaiking]], retaining the names and appearances of the the titular HumongousMecha, and throwing in [[ShoutOut little references]] to the original series, such as recurring character names.

* GenreSavvy: Proist. All. The. Freaking. Time. Eventually the heroes shape up too and start keeping up
** She loses her savvyness at the end during her long VillainousBreakdown

Gaiking: Legend of Daiku Maryu began on the 12th of November, 2005, and ran for 39 episodes. It has also features in the SuperRobotWars games for the NintendoDS, SuperRobotWarsK and SuperRobotWarsL. In January of 2011, Toei put up the entire series subtitled... [[BadExportForYou poorly]]... on Hulu. [[http://www.hulu.com/gaiking People living in the United States can view it here.]] The show is also available on Crunchyroll, Crackle, and the U.S. Playstation Video Store.

* BadExportForYou: Toei has released the entire series on Hulu....only with the 16:9 aspect ratio squished into a 4:3 ratio for no apparent reason. Additionally, the subtitles are full of typos, plus some words, even entire sentences are either left out completely (sometimes with no subtitles appearing at all), or are given the wrong translations.

* DarkerAndEdgier: Especially beginning in episode 27.

* MidSeasonUpgrade: Superior Stinger (Puria), [[spoiler:Vulking and Raiking (Lee and Nouza, respectively)]]. Gaiking the Great sort of counts as well for Daiya.

* MoreDakka: Vulking's ultimate attack in ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsK'' is basically a "fire all the weapons" type.

** Gaiking The Great plays it completely straight - it has so much Flame power that its Giga Puncher Grind can use flame to propel and steer itself after leaving The Great's arm.

* MightyGlacier: In contrast to Raiking and Tenkuu Maryuu who subvert the FragileSpeedster trope, Vulking and the Daichi Maryuu play this one straight
* MinovskyPhysics: Hydroroot, the material that powers Gaiking.

* AlternateContinuity / InNameOnly: The only things the two shows share in common are the mecha (obviously including the Daikuu-Maryuu and Gaiking themselves), and Daiya's last name among other things. Otherwise, the second series is a completely separate series that has no relation to the original.

** A nice one for the [[RocketPunch Puncher Grind]] attack. When Daiya first uses it, he fires it off without warning, WrongGenreSavvy in his belief that it'll return using propulsion and guidance like any other RocketPunch. The first time he [[spoiler: uses Giga Puncher Grind as Gaiking The Great, it's propelled through the air by Daiya's and The Great's immeasurable flame power, surprising Proist, who dodged it the first time, expecting the attack to work as always, by tearing through Dvorak on the return path, like a boomerang]].

* EldritchAbomination: Chouryuu Dborak is a lesser version of one, but it's still overpowered

* FastballSpecial: The Shinryu Hydro Blazer and the Death Fire attacks are variations. While Daiya doesn't exactly throw an ally at the opponent, he does throw a ball-shaped Hydro Blazer either directly at an enemy or towards Dick to launch back at the enemy.

** Well, up until the end, at least. Kinda loses it with the whole "power is everything" credo.

* HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler: Nouza does NOT handle the fact he's just spare parts for Proist to claim if she ever gets injured very well.]]

* {{Jerkass}}: Dick. Puria starts off like this, but eventually mellows out and becomes more likable.

* CurbStompBattle: The battle between Chouryuu Dborak and Gaiking the Great. [[spoiler:Proist]] doesn't even get a single hit in, and is not only badly beaten but horribly humiliated as well.

* LukeIAmYourFather: Again, double-subverted. [[spoiler: Captain Garis, despite minor foreshadowing, is ''not'' Daiya's father. He's Ruru's.]]
** [[spoiler: ''"Minor"?'' He says the same things and even has the same mannerisms as Daiya remembers his father having. It's even foreshadowed in the ''opening theme'' - during the "voice of your father" line, the camera does a close-up on Garis' mask. This was nothing less than an intentional bait-and-switch on the part of the writers, and it was executed brilliantly.]]

* OffModel: People do... not watch this show because of its good animation. Except for [[ArtShift episode 13]]
** There was also the occasional scene where the animation got to episode 13's standards for whenever Daiya pulled off a BigDamnHeroes moment, but they were very rare and often hard to spot.
** While most of the series was made up of the usual Toei choppiness, pretty much any scene animated by Hiroyuki Imaishi (of Gurren Lagann and Dead Leaves fame) was really fun to watch. Other than that, a surprising amount of scenes actually looked above average.
*** In general, the animation before episode 13 was very poor, but the episodes afterwards were about average for anime as a whole. Things moved, but not with incredible fluidity, but nothing looked as broken as before episode 13.

** TheDarkChick: Vestaanu, a [[TheStoic cold, calculating]] IronLady who is more often than not watching her colleagues muck up whatever's going on, sending out her [[{{Robeast}} Iron Beasts]] only when she knows that she'll be at an advantage.

* FauxAffablyEvil: Proist generally maintains a cool, regal air about her person, masking her ruthless nature with a persona of elegance. The illusion shatters whenever she loses face and succumbs to her inner rage.

* BeachEpisode: Episode 7 sees the crew disembark relax on a beach.

Gaiking: Legend of Daiku Maryu began on the 12th of November, 2005, and ran for 39 episodes. It has also features in the SuperRobotWars games for the NintendoDS, SRW K and SRW L. In January of 2011, Toei put up the entire series subtitled... [[BadExportForYou poorly]]... on Hulu. [[http://www.hulu.com/gaiking People living in the United States can view it here.]] The show is also available on Crunchyroll, Crackle, and the U.S. Playstation Video Store.

* BadExportForYou: Toei has released the entire series on Hulu....only with the 16:9 aspect ratio squished into a 4:3 ratio for no apparent reason. Additionally, the subtitles are full of typos, plus some words, even entire sentences are either left out completely (sometimes with no subtitles appearing at all), or are given the wrong translations.

* {{Robeast}}: Daiku Maryu and Vestaanu's Armoured Beasts.

* {{Kaiju}}: Darius's Armoured Beasts.

* MonsterOfTheWeek: Follows this format for the first good portion of the story.

* MinovskyPhysics: Hydroroot, the material that powers Gaiking

Five years ago, [[IdiotHero Daiya Tsuwabuki]] and his father were attacked by an [[{{Kaiju}} enormous monster]] while out on a fishing trip. During the attack, [[DisappearedDad Daiya's father was lost at sea]], and has been since pronounced legally dead. However, Daiya alone [[CassandraTruth believes that his father is still alive]]. He believes this because he remembers the gigantic dragon of metal that defeated the monster.

Gaiking: Legend of Daiku Maryu began on the 12th of November, 2005, and ran for 39 episodes. It has also features in the SuperRobotWars games for the NintendoDS, SRW K and SRW L.