This is a page about the characters appearing in the anime Combattler V. Just as a warning, this page probably contains spoilers.
The Nanbara Connection
Hyouma Aoi
The hot-blooded leader of the team, dressed in red. Hyouma is an avid motorcyclist and speed freak. He pilots the Battle Jet, which forms the head of Combattler V.
- '70s Hair: As befitting of the age his show aired in, he sports sideburns, in addition to typical Anime Hair.
- Artificial Limbs: After Garuda destroys his arms, he gets cybernetic replacements.
- Badass Biker: Hyouma is an avid motorcyclist and speed freak.
- Berserk Button: Since he's an orphan who lived in an Orphanage of Love, please, PLEASE don't ever harm a kid in front of this dude. He will fucking want your HEAD if you do. Any insinuations of harm towards orphans, even outside his orphanage will induce the same thing. This, however, doesn't stop Hyouma from punishing both Kotaro and Robot Buddy Ropet near the end of episode 16 after Kotaro steals his helmet and almost gets the Battle Team killed, and he does this by making the two of them stand around while wearing signs with the words that they really regret their actions.
- Calling Your Attacks: He takes after Kouji Kabuto in this and helps popularize the trope when it comes to the Super Robot Genre.
- The Determinator: So what if you have shot his arms off and he is in terrible pain? He will crawl into the Battle Jet and somehow he will kick your butt. And what if his artificial limbs are getting numb and he cannot drive, let alone pilot? It doesn't matter, either.
- Don't You Dare Pity Me!: He really doesn't want to be pitied just because he's missing his biological arms or his artificial arms are malfunctioning. He'll find a way, while also maintaining that he is The Leader.
- Drives Like Crazy: He's not a lousy driver but a Badass Biker, but he likes having fun as he drives a bit too much. In his first appearance he causes a traffic accident because he broke the speed limit and several patrol cars were trying to catch him. All of his chasers crashed into each other, but of course, he was able to avoid crashing into them.
- Dub Name Change:
- Glen Hyoma in the Philippine dub.
- Roy Lambert in the Italian dub.
- Hotblooded: With the sideburns to match! How can he not be this when he's starring in a 70's Super Robot Genre show.
- Leader Forms the Head: The Battle Jet ends up being the headpiece of Combattler V.
- The Leader: He is The Leader of the Battle Team due to him choosing the Battle Jet after he first arrives at the Nanbara Connection, along with Juzo, Daisaku, and Kosuke.
- Official Couple: Somewhere in the show's second half, Hyouma heard Chizuru confessing her love for him before departing for what amounted to a suicide mission for his sake. They weren't shown dating much even so due to their duties but he did give her a kiss when she asked for one. And in the end, they stayed together in Nanbara Connection.
- Orphan's Ordeal: His parents died when he was a little kid, and he was adopted by the nun who ran an orphanage called the Sun Academy. This causes Hyouma to have strong sentiments when dealing with other orphans and takes himself more seriously as well as being more emotionally invested with it. And most likely why he ends up with Chizuru in the end: They're both orphans.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Hot-Blooded red to his second in command, the cool, calm, and collected Juzo's blue.
- Worthy Opponent: Garuda considers him a Worthy Opponent, and even defended him when one of his underlings dissed him ("Shut up! When you build a Slave Beast able to defeat him then you will be able to speak!"). First he wanted Hyouma to join him, and when Hyouma refused he destroyed his arms and later wanted a face-to-face duel with him and finally, chose him to be his final opponent in a blaze of glory.
Juzo Naniwa
The second member of the team, dressed in blue. Juzo is a cool, level-headed Olympic-class marksman. He pilots the Battle Crusher, which forms the chest and arms of Combattler V. He is the only member of the team whose birthdate is revealed: April 1, 1958.
- Cold Sniper: Aside from being a sniper, Juzo has a rather distant personality and often takes the more pragmatic, sometimes cold decisions.
- Dub Name Change:
- Jason Juzo in the Philippine dub.
- Furio Battler in the Italian dub.
- The Gunslinger: Despite his specialty being a long-range marksman, he's actually fine with any one handed firearms.
- Improbable Aiming Skills: When his old mentor Inspector Maoka was brainwashed by a mind control device and was holding Chizuru hostage, Juzo managed to free him by tossing a handgun in the air, running out of cover to get Maoka to shoot at him, jump over the shot, shoot from his rifle while doing that, and the rifle bullet hits the handgun's trigger, and its bullet dislodges the mind control device from Maoka's neck. And before landing, Juzo fires another rifle round and destroys the device before any of them land on the ground.
- The Lancer: Aside from being the Blue Oni, Juzo is another kind of realist and often butts head with the more idealistic but brash Hyouma.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: There were often some times that Juzo's realist attitude ended up leading the team right into the enemy trap, though he makes up for it by dismantling that trap as well.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The cool, calm, and collected blue to his team leader, the hot-blooded Hyouma's red.
Daisaku Nishikawa
The third member, dressed in brown. Daisaku is a judo master who also enjoys sketching. He pilots the Battle Tank, which forms the torso of Combattler V, and which is the only Battle Machine that cannot fly under its own power.
- The Big Guy: The big-bodied member of the team, as well as the pilot of the heaviest machine with the most raw power.
- Cultured Badass: A judoka whose interest is drawing.
- Dub Name Change:
- Bob Nishikawa in the Philippine dub.
- Gonghi Kasuki in the Italian dub.
- Genius Bruiser: He might give the air of a Kindhearted Simpleton, but he's adept enough in sneaking missions.
- Gentle Giant: He's big bodied, but also big hearted and kind.
Chizuru Nanbara
The fourth member, and only female member of the team, dressed in pink. Chizuru is also the granddaughter of Doctor Nanbara. She pilots the Battle Marine, which forms the legs of Combattler V.
- 10-Minute Retirement: After being treated for surgery due to her valvular heart disease... it only took the next episode and she's good to go for the mid-point finale.
- Action Girl: Being a member of the Combattler team means that Chizuru is trained in hand to hand combat and a bit of firearms, so she can handle herself well in ground-based combats.
- Cool Big Sis: While she normally avoids this with the similarly-aged or older teammates, she's basically this to Kosuke and Chie, who call her 'Big Sis' affectionately.
- Dub Name Change:
- Stephanie Nanbara in the Philippine dub.
- Maggie Stevens in the Italian dub.
- The Heart: The only girl in the team as well as one of the more sensible, and functions as the Support Party Member.
- Ms. Fanservice: Chizuru is normally well-dressed, but the show often can't resist giving her either several Panty Shots or Shower Scenes, the latter has a tendency to show that Yotsuya was right: She grew up nicely.
- Official Couple: She started with a crush and love for Hyouma early in the second half of the show, but doesn't reveal it much until she thought she's going on a self-initiated suicide mission for the Connection and Hyouma. Afterwards, they became closer and eventually, when the conflict ended, Hyouma opts to stay with her instead of going back to his orphanage.
- Parental Abandonment: There's no mention of her direct parents, she's been raised by Dr. Nanbara himself, who dies 3 episodes in.
- Pink Means Feminine: The sole girl of the team wearing pink, and compared to her direct successor Megumi (who has more yellow on her), Chizuru is more girly despite still fighting alongside the boys.
- Plucky Girl: Taking after Hyouma's attitude, Chizuru doesn't give a damn that her illness requires immediate surgery. She'll make sure that she still fights, even when Hyouma himself threatens to boot her out of the team for performing poorly (he changed his tune when he realized what's going on).
- Support Party Member: Battle Marine when compared to other components of Combattler. It has little direct weapons (only a vertical-down grenade launcher) and its utilities are to carry Daisaku's Battle Tank, allowing it flight, or to carry damaged crafts and repairing them on the go.
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Literally, as she's not too keen on snakes, even if it's just a shed snake skin.
Kosuke Kita
The fifth member, dressed in green. Kosuke is a child wearing glasses who happens to be an inventor. He pilots the Battle Craft, which forms Combattler V's feet.
- Child Prodigy: The short kid already got his pedigree as an inventor.
- Dub Name Change:
- Kevin Kosuke in the Philippine dub.
- Johnny Linch in the Italian dub.
- Kid-Appeal Character: Type 4, though he's less of a millenial. But still, he appeals to the more younger audience at the time
- Opaque Nerd Glasses: He's the smart kid, boy genius, and wears nerd glasses that hide his eyes
- Shorter Means Smarter: The short boy that makes up his small stature with his big brain.
- The Smart Guy: One of the archetypical example of the 'boy genius' of robot pilots.
Ropet (ロペット, Ropetto?)
A red robot that monitors the emotional state of the Battle Team, and authorizes combination by shouting "Combine, okay!"
- Robo Romance: An episode reveals that he's also capable of love with other robots. However, this Roboko turns out to be a Honey Trap of Miia's design, though Garuda did laugh in disbelief at first when she proposed that plan to him.
- Robot Buddy: He authorizes combination and also serves the team drinks or other things.
Kinta and Chie Ichinoki
The children of Nanbara Connection's cook, who show up after the midpoint of the series. They played the role of Plucky Comic Relief, giving the latter half of the series a much more comedic tone than the serious first half. Along with their pet frog, Keroppe, they sometimes pilot the sidekick machine Kerott into battle.
Dr. (Takeshi) Nanbara
- Dub Name Change: Professor Stevens in the Italian dub.
- Last-Name Basis: He's rarely called by his first name, which is Takeshi.
- Mentor Occupational Hazard: He didn't last after 3 episodes in, to the distress of Chizuru.
Professor Yotsuya
A friend of Dr. Nanbara who was a misanthropic alcoholic man, disgusted with how mankind kept ruining nature. However, Nanbara convinced him to fight for humanity, leading him to be the next mentor of the Combattler team and slowly healing his mistrust to humanity.
- The Alcoholic: He's always seen with an alcoholic drink. However, he made a point to stop drinking during the midpoint of the story, when the team attacked and defeated Oreana and Garuda, in order to respect Nanbara.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Despite being something of a misanthropic alcoholic, he still gets the job done.
- Dub Name Change: Professor Mirabilius in the Italian dub.
- Guile Hero: If he's involved in a plan, he's always a believer of "To trick the enemy, you must trick your allies." making it look like he lost his mind to the Combattler Team, but always having a working backup plan that benefits the team.
- Humans Are Bastards: At first, he believes that humanity are just monsters that kill each other and pollute nature, so they deserve to suffer genocide so nature can take over Earth. Nanbara convinced him otherwise (because the Campbellians also attacked nature) and he eventually tried to overcome the mindset.
- Knight in Sour Armor: Yotsuya already had the beliefs that Humans Are Bastards, having witnessed the cruelty humans inflicted to nature, but after being convinced by Nanbara, he starts helping and saving mankind, while still harboring his misanthropy, but by the end of it, he pulls through and decides that humanity is worth protecting too.
The Campbellians
Oleana(オレアナ)
Garuda's "Mother," Oreana orders him to attack the earth. The Campbellians' greatest scientist, she built a giant statue to house her mind in before coming to Earth in search of a new home for her people. After her dismissal of Garuda and his discovery of the truth behind his existence, she reveals a mechanical body housed within the statue and attempts to attack Com-Battler, but is first destroyed by Garuda.
- Big Bad: For the first season.
- God Guise: When she arrived on Earth, the humans thought she was a God and worshipped her, but Oleana never really bothered to respond or manipulate the humans' mistake.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: After being fed up with Garuda's constant mistakes, she planned to have him fired. Garuda proceeds to eventually find out his identity and then be the one to kill Oreana.
- Orcus on His Throne: Oreana never leaves her subterannean castle.
Great General Garuda(大将軍ガルーダ)
The ostensible leader of the Campbellian's attacks on earthling cities, Garuda oversees the deployment of the Monster of the Week. He is able to change his appearance at will from a blue-skinned, blonde-haired human to a humanoid eagle. After numerous failures to destroy Combattler V and the Nanbara Connection, he is stripped of his rank by Oreana. Soon after, he learns the truth of his origin: That he is actually the last in a line of androids created by Oreana to be her perfect son and the leader of the invasion force. Consumed by revenge, he finishes building the incomplete slave beast Big Garuda and uses it to destroy Oreana.
- Alien Prince: He's the son of Oleana, the leader of the warring Campbellians.
- Animorphism: His default form is a blue-skinned blonde man, but at times, he turns into a bird man.
- Conquering Alien Prince: He wants to conquer the Earth as per Oleana's orders (and is implied to have conquered many other planets in the past alongside Oleana). He doesn't get very far, hence Oleana frequently abusing him.
- The Dragon: Oreana's second in command and the most constant foe of the Combattler Team.
- Dub Name Change: Malik in the Italian dub.
- The Dog Bites Back: While Oreana simply ran out of patience and tried to fire Garuda, he eventually decided that he'll strike back as revenge. He ends up being the one who kills Oreana, not the Combattler Team.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He clearly has a soft spot for one of his underlings, Miia, and treated her with care, tried to futilely resurrect and repair her when she's killed and continuously cradled her as he goes for his final battle. After realizing that he was a robot all along, he found even more common grounds with Miia, and was content with them being Together in Death.
- The Heavy: Since Oreana does not leave her place ever, Garuda is the one who foresaw the invasion of Earth and comes up with plans.
- Meaningful Name: In Hindu mythology, Garuda
was the name of a powerful Eagle linked to Vishnu. Fitting for a Campbellian alien that can shapeshift into a bird. - Noble Demon: Downplayed. While he does has a sense of honor of being a proud Campbellian warrior and had a sense of fair play, he's very selective about it. While he tried to have a fair fight with Hyouma, once that was done, he's back to the usual dirty tactics, because for him, the lower human beings don't deserve his 'honor'. On the other hand, he certainly shows a soft spot for Miia.
- Tomato in the Mirror: He believed that he was a full blooded Campbellian, until he came across a room full of imperfect robots that looked like him. It was then he realized that he's not a Campbellian, but a robot made by Oreana. And thus, Garuda's world broke apart.
Miia(ミーア)
One of Garuda's android assistants. She is secretly in love with Garuda, but he is oblivious to her feelings. In a gambit to save Garuda after he is dismissed, she sacrifices her life piloting the slave beast Demon against Combattler V.
- Bodyguard Crush: She's just an assistant for Garuda, but she's crushing so hard on him, while all Garuda did was just 'treat her nicely'. He only reciprocrates when she's about to die.
- Chained to a Rock: Miia is attached to the wall, being an android, where she happily plays the harp for Garuda.
- Cute Monster Girl: Technically, she's an android, but she has several monster elements like horns, facial markings and monster paws for hand. She's still kind of pretty.
- Dub Name Change: Marzia in the Italian dub.
- Morality Pet: She's the one person that Garuda treated fairly even for an underling.
- Taking You with Me: Her final plan is to immobilize the Combattler V and then blow herself up along with the robot, thus earning victory and restoring Garuda's position. It almost would have worked, had Hyouma not quickly decided to use the Big Blast at that particular moment as a last second option.
Narua
Another of Garuda's subordinates, he is in charge of training and activating the slave beasts that fight Combattler V.
- Dropped a Bridge on Him: See Girua's entry, and even worse: We don't even hear his death scream, we'll just have to take the show's word for it and consider him dying alongside Girua.
Girua
Garuda's strategic advisor. After Garuda's dismissal, he is given command of Oreana's forces, only to be killed by Combattler V during the latter's confrontation with Oreana.
- Dropped a Bridge on Him: He's promoted after Garuda's demotion, and was given command of Greydon, usually a battleship that would be too much to handle for Combattler V alone. Combattler V proceeds to easily throw it to the ceiling, destroying it along with Girua (and Narua) without much fanfare, especially since they rarely ever directly interact with the heroes (while Garuda did all the time).
Empress Janera(女帝ジャネラ)
The final enemy of Combattler V and a very powerful sorceress. She can transform from a beautiful woman into a snakelike creature. In the penultimate episode, she attempts to destroy the Nanbara Connection and Combattler V with a bomb attached to Combattler's foot. Professor Yotsuya discovers the bomb in time to separate the foot from the rest of Combattler and raise the Choudenji Barrier, sacrificing the Connection and saving Combattler. Upon hearing of the revolt on Campbell, she makes a final attack on the forces of the Earth, but is defeated by Combattler. As her final revenge, she attempts to destroy the earth by sending a thermonuclear explosive into the planet's core. As she attempts to escape Earth, Warchimedes confronts her and destroys himself to kill her.
- Bad Boss: Doesn't show the slightest hint of respect for her underlings, and will shock them for the slightest transgression. Especially Dungele.
- Big Bad: As the supreme ruler of the Campbellians, takes up this role in the second half of the series.
- Cool Ship: In the final episode, she fields her personal Magma Beast, the Santo Magma. It's a ship with the appearance of a four-headed dragon.
- Dirty Coward: She ditches Campbell for Earth when things go wrong. When her force is defeated by Combattler, she tries to blow up the Earth and flee from there.
- God Save Us from the Queen!: Natch. Judging by title, The Empress as well.
- Lack of Empathy: She only seeks to serve her own ends, and anyone else is either a tool for her use or a vermin to be squashed.
- Reptiles Are Abhorrent: Her transformation. And her Santo Magma.
Warchimedes(ワルキメデス)
Janera's scientific and strategic advisor, and Dungele's older brother. He coordinates the building and selection of the Magma Beasts that are sent to fight Combattler V. After the death of Dungele, he pilots a Magma Beast into battle, attacking Combattler V and giving Janera the opportunity to destroy the Nanbara Connection. When he is defeated, his brain is transferred into a robot body, which he then self-destructs to kill Janera. His name, pronounced "Warukimedesu" in Japanese, rather than being partly based on the English word "war", may be better regarded as a portmanteau formed from "waru" (meaning "evil") and "Arukimedesu" (Archimedes), thus epitomising the classic sci-fi concept of a great but evil scientist.
- Dub Name Change: Warchimer in the Italian dub.
- Mad Scientist
- Reforged into a Minion: Done by Janera in the final episode.
- Taking You with Me: Against Janera
General Dungele(ダンゲル将軍)
Janera's other subordinate, and Warchimedes's younger brother. He pilots the Magma Beasts against Combattler V and the Nanbara Connection. One of his hands is an oversized lobster-like pincer. After numerous defeats at the hands of Combattler V, Janera kills him by detonating a bomb inside his helmet.
- Noble Demon: Despite his looks and attitude, Dungele values an honorable fight. To the point that if he is involved in a particularly devious or underhanded plan, he'll show insubordination and refuse to do his part.
- You Have Failed Me: Janera executes him after failing to destroy the Combattler team one time too many.
Deus
The true leader of the Campbellians. After the coup d'etat which overthrew Janera's supporters on Campbell, he came to Earth to help rebuild the cities damaged by Janera's attacks.
