History Anime / ShinkonGattaiGodannar

In the past, Earth was [[AlienInvasion under attack from an alien force]] called the "Mimetic Beasts". They carry the [[TheVirus Insania Virus]], which usually targets males and mutates them into monstrosities. TheHero, Goh Saruwatari, along with his partner Milla Ackerman, pilots the HumongousMecha pair [[MeaningfulName Dannar and Okusaer]] and led the final battle against the HiveQueen of the Mimetic Beasts, driving it away at the cost of Milla's life, but in the same time, Goh saved a young girl named Anna Aoi, the daughter of his boss. Attempting to get over Milla's death (whom he actually loved), Goh decided to move on and...proposed to Anna, despite the age gap (Anna's still a high school girl, Goh is...well, someone that would be of a tenured salaryman).

Five years later, all's set for Goh and Anna to get married. Anna already confirms her vow, but right before Goh can declare his...he gets an urgent call that the Mimetic Beasts are back and he needs to go pilot the Dannar and quell them again, thus forcing him to delay stating the vow to Anna. Frustrated, she tries to follow Goh, only to find the Neo Okusaer, sealed after Milla's death. Anna goes on to pilot it (since she's somehow a master of a [[IKnowMortalKombat similar riding game]]) and helps Goh, and thus their life as a newlywed couple and HumongousMecha pilot commence. Their two mechs can even combine into the mighty Godannar, complete with a final attack that requires both of them working in tandem to pull off.

* AchillesInHisTent: Anna, [[spoiler:after learning that Goh still has some feelings for Milla]].

* LoveDodecahedron: Goh has three women going after him: Anna, Shizuru and [[spoiler:Milla]], though the latter two [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy back down for Anna]]. Shizuru herself has Kouji and Goh's little brother Shinobu swooning over her.

* CantCatchUp: Subverted; the Godannar may be the most powerful robot on the good guys' side, but it can't do ''everything''. Its component units, Dannar and Neo Okusaer, are more than capable of winning the day without combining, and the other robots in the series can more than hold their own as well (even Lou's teeny-tiny "Cosmo Diver"). Also, some units specialize in environments in which the Godannar's actually useless, like underwater/in space (Cosmo Diver) and aerial fighting ("Dragliner").

** Tatsuya Aoi, Anna's dad, is voiced by Hiroya Ishimaru, the voice actor for Kouji Kabuto in Anime/MazingerZ. And the first thing he does when he reveals his identity is order the Z MISSILE to be fired. Ye-he-hea! Not to mention that [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qPLDGJJzLw&feature=player_detailpage#t=465s this is how he looks like in his youth]].

In the past, Earth was [[AlienInvasion under attack from an alien force]] called the "Mimetic Beasts". They carry the [[TheVirus Insania Virus]], which usually targets males and mutates them into monstrosities. TheHero, Goh Saruwatari, along with his partner Milla Ackerman, pilots the HumongousMecha pair [[MeaningfulName Dannar and Neo Okusaer]] and led the final battle against the HiveQueen of the Mimetic Beasts, driving it away at the cost of Milla's life, but in the same time, Goh saved a young girl named Anna Aoi, the daughter of his boss. Attempting to get over Milla's death (whom he actually loved), Goh decided to move on and...proposed to Anna, despite the age gap (Anna's still a high school girl, Goh is...well, someone that would be of a tenured salaryman).

* AnAxeToGrind: The Goddiner, China's super robot, has a pair of huge tonfas that can be turned into even bigger axes... and into a pair of kusarigama... and can be joined together to form [[ThisIsADrill a drill]]. Yes, Goddiner RULES. [[DemotedToExtra And yet it never makes it to]] ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars''.

** ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsK'' takes it a step further, by making it a something of an expy of [[Anime/GunXSword Van]], who just happens to be in the same game. It even has the ring jingling...

* NamesToKnowInAnime
** Creator/TakayukiKondo (Go)
** Creator/MaiNakahara (Anna)
** Creator/YumiKakazu (Shizuru)
** Creator/NobuyukiHiyama (Kouji)
** Creator/KaoriShimizu (Lou)
** Creator/AyaHisakawa (Milla)
** Creator/HikaruMidorikawa (Knight)
** Creator/YukariTamura (Ellis)
** Creator/MamikoNoto (Momoko)
** Creator/ToruOkawa (Ken)
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Ken's "Blade Gainer". A giant super robot ninja with a cape and earrings and a skyscraper-sized sword, with a GIANT ROBOT CROW perched on its shoulder. Piloted by Ken, whose voice is the same as [[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist Colonel Roy Mustang]] and [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Rufus Shinra]], with {{shout out}}s to the [[{{Anime/Daimos}} Double Blizzard]] from its blade. [[RuleOfCool Yeah]].\\
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''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsK'' takes it a step further, by making it a something of an expy of [[Anime/GunXSword Van]], who just happens to be in the same game. It even has the ring jingling...

* VideoGame/SuperRobotWars: Makes a less-than-appreciated debut in Scramble Commander 2, but a "proper" one in [[VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsK K]]. Although none of the non-Japanese mecha and characters make it in so it still hasn't gotten a complete showing. [[VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsL L]] has some late mechs cameo, but the playable mechs remains the same.

* AffectionateParody: ''Godannar'' is a love letter to old-school SuperRobot shows and to the ''Franchise/UltraSeries'' tokusatsu, and it's an absolute treat to any fan of either genre. The Super Robot side is well repented: from it's catchy theme songs (the first one sung by AkiraKushida, the second one's sung by [[JAMProject Ichiro Mizuki]] and Creator/MitsukoHorie) to its wholehearted embrace of cliches (CallingYourAttacks, [[TransformingMecha robots "hulking out" into more powerful forms]], CombiningMecha) and similar; the Ultra side has its monster designs and even behaviors call back to the old school Toku. That the monsters all explode when hit with the heroes' finisher just adds to the feel. As a result, this show is just one huge ball of awesome.

* AffectionateParody: ''Godannar'' is a love letter to old-school SuperRobot shows and to the ''Franchise/UltraSeries'' tokusatsu, and it's an absolute treat to any fan of either genre. The Super Robot side is well repented: from it's catchy theme songs (the first one sung by AkiraKushida, the second one's sung by [[JAMProject Ichiro Mizuki]] and MitsukoHorie) to its wholehearted embrace of cliches (CallingYourAttacks, [[TransformingMecha robots "hulking out" into more powerful forms]], CombiningMecha) and similar; the Ultra side has its monster designs and even behaviors call back to the old school Toku. That the monsters all explode when hit with the heroes' finisher just adds to the feel. As a result, this show is just one huge ball of awesome.

''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsK'' takes it a step further, by making it a something of an expy of [[{{GunXSword}} Van]], who just happens to be in the same game. It even has the ring jingling...

** Musical homage to a tune from ''Series/SpaceSheriffGavan'' is used during several battle sequences. Specifically, the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtmCGiJmmbc&feature=related Laser Blade theme]], which has gotten a lot of mileage (also getting an homage in ''DanGaiOh'').

* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Ken's "Blade Gainer". A giant super robot ninja with a cape and earrings and a skyscraper-sized sword, with a GIANT ROBOT CROW perched on its shoulder. Piloted by Ken, whose voice is the same as [[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist Colonel Roy Mustang]] and [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Rufus Shinra]], with {{shout out}}s to the [[{{Daimos}} Double Blizzard]] from its blade. [[RuleOfCool Yeah]].\\

** Tetsuya Kouji's name is taken from the heroes of MazingerZ and GreatMazinger ('''Kouji''' Kabuto and '''Tetsuya''' Tsurugi). Also, look at the NinjaPirateZombieRobot entry. The show's second theme song is even sung by Ichiro Mizuki, THE singer for anime robot theme songs, including Mazinger, CombattlerV, {{Dangaioh}} and many other classics.
** Anna's outfit while doing the TrainingFromHell is a shout out to Noriko Takaya of GunBuster
** Tatsuya Aoi, Anna's dad, is voiced by Hiroya Ishimaru, the voice actor for Kouji Kabuto in MazingerZ. And the first thing he does when he reveals his identity is order the Z MISSILE to be fired. Ye-he-hea! Not to mention that [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qPLDGJJzLw&feature=player_detailpage#t=465s this is how he looks like in his youth]].
** In episode 2, Goh is reading a Newspaper that has the Marriage of Gai and Mikoto (of GaoGaiGar fame) as it's headline. This show is really all about shout outs from hommages to attack names, seiyuu and character's names. There would be far too many to list.

* WalkingTheEarth: [[spoiler:Lou and Ken]] are shown doing this. It even looks like it's pulled out of FistOfTheNorthStar; perhaps a ShoutOut?

* ShooTheDog (How Lou gets separated with her soon-to-be-dead father, the beginning of her RoaringRampageOfRevenge)

*** [[HourglassHottie And the hips]] and booty to [[IncrediblyLamePun back]] it up? Check!

* CatchPhrase: In the dub, Shizuru gave us "Who the hell do you think I am?", ''[[OlderThanYouThink way before]]'' [[TengenToppaGurrenLagann Kamina]])

* XMeetsY: ''GetterRobo'' meets ''AiYoriAoshi''.

** TakayukiKondo (Go)

** YumiKakazu (Shizuru)

* RelationshipVoiceActor: Shizuru and Lou gets a bit..."reversed revisit" in ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsOriginalGeneration'' as [[VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsAdvance Lamia Loveless]] and [[VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsAlpha Seolla Schweizer]] (veteran and junior pilots, respectively, whereas the veteran [[spoiler:gets killed and shortly after comes BackFromTheDead]].\\
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Also, Shizuru and Kouji, both partners, are basically [[GaoGaiGar Renais Cardiff Shishioh and Guy Shishioh]]...if Renais was the main protagonist instead of Guy.

* NamesTheSame: The Goddiner pilots' names are really the Japanese names of [[RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms Meng Huo and Zhu Rong]].

** TohruOokawa (Ken)

** YukariTamura (Ellis)

** KaoriShimizu (Lou)

** MamikoNoto (Momoko)

* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Ken's "Blade Gainer". A giant super robot ninja with a cape and earrings and a skyscraper-sized sword, with a GIANT ROBOT CROW perched on its shoulder. Piloted by Ken, whose voice is the same as [[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist Colonel Roy Mustang]] and [[FinalFantasyVII Rufus Shinra]], with {{shout out}}s to the [[{{Daimos}} Double Blizzard]] from its blade. [[RuleOfCool Yeah]].\\

* TheTease: Shizuru does this Kouji with glee, which does nothing to squelch his ginormous crush on her. It's implied that since Shinobu like her too, she does this purposely get them to fight over her for the lulz.

** MaiNakahara (Anna)

** NobuyukiHiyama (Kouji)

** HikaruMidorikawa (Knight)

** [[{{Meganekko}} A spectacle wearing]], [[HotMom delicious older lady?]] Check!

* HotShounenMom: Anna's mother Kiriko Aoi.
* HumongousMecha: Indutiably.

* AnAxeToGrind: The Goddiner, China's super robot, has a pair of huge tonfas that can be turned into even bigger axes... and into a pair of kusarigama... and can be joined together to form [[ThisIsADrill a drill]]. Yes, Goddiner RULES. [[DemotedToExtra And yet it never makes it to]] ''SuperRobotWars''.

''SuperRobotWarsK'' takes it a step further, by making it a something of an expy of [[{{GunXSword}} Van]], who just happens to be in the same game. It even has the ring jingling...

* RelationshipVoiceActor: Shizuru and Lou gets a bit..."reversed revisit" in SuperRobotWarsOriginalGeneration as [[SuperRobotWarsAdvance Lamia Loveless]] and [[SuperRobotWarsAlpha Seolla Schweizer]] (veteran and junior pilots, respectively, whereas the veteran [[spoiler:gets killed and shortly after comes BackFromTheDead]].\\

* SuperRobotWars: Makes a less-than-appreciated debut in Scramble Commander 2, but a "proper" one in [[SuperRobotWarsK K]]. Although none of the non-Japanese mecha and characters make it in so it still hasn't gotten a complete showing. [[VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsL L]] has some late mechs cameo, but the playable mechs remains the same.