History Anime / GoLion

* GenreSavvy: The first MonsterOfTheWeek was actually smart enough to attack the lion robots when they were trying to combine.
** A later Beastman tried the same trick, only to discover that the Lions now had a force field during their combination to prevent this.
*** Which in itself, is GenreSavvy on the part of the Lions.

* AnyoneCanDie: ''Lots'' of characters die, often in quite gruesome ways. Toei had its work cut out for it when it adapted the show to the more kid-friendly ''Anime/{{Voltron}}''.

* ThemeSong: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQsABGChyVk See here.]]

* OneTwoThreeFourGo: Hence the name; "''Go''-Lion.

* AnyoneCanDie: ''Lots'' of characters die, often in quite gruesome ways. Toei had it's work cut out for them when they adapted it to the more kid-friendly [[Voltron]].

* AlienInvasion

* AllYourColorsCombined

* AnyoneCanDie
* AssKickingPose

* CallingYourAttacks

* CombiningMecha

* HumongousMecha

* {{Leitmotif}}
* LimitedWardrobe: Everyone else has exactly two outfits - his uniform, and one set of civvies, save for Fala, who also has a dress.

* MonsterOfTheWeek

* OneTwoThreeFourGo

* SuperRobot

* TheWorfEffect: Every encounter the titular robot has with a beastman who is a physical threat to Golion is an example of this.

** Right after the title card in the first episode, a Galran ship flies past the screen in a way reminiscent of the Star Destroyer at the beginning of ANewHope.

''King of the Beasts [=GoLion=]'' (百獣王ゴライオン, ''Hyakujuuou Goraion'') is a CombiningMecha from Creator/ToeiAnimation that aired in 1981. Since shows like this were a dime a dozen in Japan, it unfortunately got overlooked. But [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff elsewhere, including America]], where HumongousMecha shows were still practically unheard of, it got recognition as the lion robot of ''Anime/{{Voltron}}''.

''King of the Beasts [=GoLion=]'' (百獣王ゴライオン, ''Hyakujuuou Goraion'') is a CombiningMecha from {{Toei}} that aired in 1981. Since shows like this were a dime a dozen in Japan, it unfortunately got overlooked. But [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff elsewhere, including America]], where HumongousMecha shows were still practically unheard of, it got recognition as the lion robot of ''Anime/{{Voltron}}''.

* ByThePowerOfGreyskull" "Let's [=GoLion=]!"

'''''King of the Beasts [=GoLion=]''''' (百獣王ゴライオン, ''Hyakujuuou Goraion'') is a CombiningMecha from {{Toei}} that aired in 1981. Since shows like this were a dime a dozen in Japan, it unfortunately got overlooked. But [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff elsewhere, including America]], where HumongousMecha shows were still practically unheard of, it got recognition as the lion robot of ''Anime/{{Voltron}}''.

* DarkerAndEdgier: It never quite matches the works of GoNagai or YoshiyukiTomino, but it's still a fair bit more brutal than most kid-friendly SuperRobot shows of its day and downright shocking to anybody who's more familiar with ''Voltron''. It's particularly notable the way the director seems to take perverse delight in causing secondary or unnamed characters to drop like flies, most notably the entire population of Earth in the first episode.

* CatsAreMean: [[WickedWitch Honerva]]'s RightHandCat.
* ChestInsignia

* ForGreatJustice: The opening song.

* KilledOffForReal:

* StockFootageFailure: Happens a few times, especially in early episodes. For instance, the first full launch of the five lions in episode 4 shows Fala boarding the craft that take the pilots to the lions, instead of Shirogane.

* MeditatingUnderAWaterfall

* {{Hidden Backup Prince}}ss: Princess Fala, who is the only survivor of her family.

* FirstChurchOfMecha: Golion is just worshiped as one on Altea. When he went up against an actual Goddess, he got a major lesson in humility.

* TransformationIsAFreeAction: Subverted oh so many times, that's what happens when you get DangerouslyGenreSavvy villains.

* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:Sincline goes crazy and kills Honerva when he found out that his mother was human.]]

See also ''Anime/DairuggerXV'', ''Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross'', and ''Franchise/SuperSentai''.

百獣王ゴライオン (''hyakujuu ou goraion'')[[note]]King of One Hundred Beasts [=GoLion=][[/note]] is a CombiningMecha from {{Toei}} that aired in 1981. Since shows like this were a dime a dozen in Japan, it unfortunately got overlooked. But [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff elsewhere, including America]], where HumongousMecha shows were still practically unheard of, it got recognition as the lion robot of ''Anime/{{Voltron}}''.

* AlwaysChaoticEvil: There doesn't seem to be a single decent member of the alien species that makes up the [[TheEmpire Galra Empire]].

* BackupTwin: Ryoh Shirogane.

* {{Bishounen}}

** King Raimon does this a lot.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Takashi.
* TheEmpire

* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: Why the censoring on ''Voltron'' isn't considered outright {{Bowdlerization}}.
** Indeed. The Earth itself even blows up in one episode; something WEP ''really'' couldn't show.

* FighterLaunchingSequence

* InfantImmortality: ''Horrifically'' ''averted''.

* KilledOffForReal
* KingOfBeasts

* OverlordJr: Sincline, the even worse then his dad variety.

* {{Robeast}}: The Deathblack Beastmen. A group of more powerful, robot monsters called the Mechablack Beastmen were introduced later on.

* TheStarscream: Prince Sincline.
* StayInTheKitchen: The way Fala's guardians treat her some of the time.
* StockFootage

* {{Warrior Prince}}ss: Fala, and even Amue near the end.
* WickedWitch: Honerva.

* EverybodysDeadDave: The team are introduced returning to Earth only to find the rest of humanity has nuked itself into oblivion. Naturally this part was edited away for ''{{Voltron}}''...

* HighPressureBlood: The episode with the Red Beret fighters from Galra/Doom. While [=GoLion=] in general has a harder edge than {{Voltron}}, this episode rivals even the infamous first ten minutes of ''Manga/ElfenLied''. This is one instance where the edits made perfect sense for a syndie kids cartoon.

百獣王ゴライオン (''hyakujuu ou goraion'')[[note]]King of One Hundred Beasts [=GoLion=][[/note]] is a CombiningMecha from {{Toei}} that aired in 1981. Since shows like this were a dime a dozen in Japan, it unfortunately got overlooked. But [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff elsewhere, including America]], where HumongousMecha shows were still practically unheard of, it got recognition as the lion robot of ''{{Voltron}}''.

->''One!... Plus one!... Plus one!... Plus one!... Plus one!... GoLion!!''

百獣王ゴライオン (''hyakujuu ou goraion'')[[note]]King of One Hundred Beasts GoLion[[/note]] is a CombiningMecha from {{Toei}} that aired in 1981. Since shows like this were a dime a dozen in Japan, it unfortunately got overlooked. But [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff elsewhere, including America]], where HumongousMecha shows were still practically unheard of, it got recognition as the lion robot of ''{{Voltron}}''.

* HighPressureBlood: The episode with the Red Beret fighters from Galra/Doom. While GoLion in general has a harder edge than {{Voltron}}, this episode rivals even the infamous first ten minutes of ''Manga/ElfenLied''. This is one instance where the edits made perfect sense for a syndie kids cartoon.

See also ''DairuggerXV'', ''Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross'', and ''SuperSentai''.

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