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- Americans Hate Tingle: In Japan, Nana is liked for being The Cutie and fitting traditional Japanese ideas of Moe, but in Poland viewers find her annoying and she's considered somewhat of The Scrappy.
- Awesome Music:
- When you hear the whoosh
, it means shut up and listen to Isao Sasaki. - The Daimos transformation theme Daimos Battle Turn is no slouch either.
- When you hear the whoosh
- Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: In episode 39, Georiya shoots an arrow◊ at the Star Of David. It is never explained why this Baamite alien has a specific grudge against the Jewish people considering the anime never mentions them once.
- Catharsis Factor: Episode 40. Full stop. When Kazuya finally has had enough and starts beating the crap out of Miwa. This scene tends to get carried over to Super Robot Wars games featuring Daimos, and it's still awesome.
- Complete Monster:
- King Olban of the Balm Empire, unlike most of his kind, is a power-hungry, cold-hearted tyrant who states his people only exist for him to rule them. Olban rose to power by killing the previous king, and masterminded the war between the Brahmins and humanity. He blamed the humans for his ruler's death, taking advantage of the Brahmins' despair after the loss of their power and risking their extinction simply to gain more to rule. He also shows no compunction in trying to kill his dead sovereign's children as well. Threatening the loved ones of Erika, the daughter of the previous king, Olban forces her to marry him to legitimize his rule, and when he is cornered by her furious brother, Olban threatens to cut the life support of the frozen Brahmins. Once he is fatally wounded, Olban reveals that he had a Dead Man's Switch to make the space station fall to Jupiter to take down his own people alongside him.
- The Chief General of Earth, Sakamori/Sakimori Miwa, believes the best way to win a war is by exterminating your enemy to the last man. Ostensibly on the heroes' side, Miwa tries to undermine them at every time, even accusing them of treason and, despite his job being to protect humanity, he doesn't care when civilians are caught in the crossfire. He also proceeds to execute groups of defeated and helpless Baams simply out of hatred. In many ways, the genocidal, brutal Miwa is as bad as the power-hungry Olban.
- Ensemble Dark Horse: Reiko, purely for the meme factor.
- Fan-Preferred Couple: Going by the number of fics and doujins out there, Richter/Aizam is more popular than Richter/Raiza.
- Friendly Fandoms: Many fans of Daimos also adore Voltes V.
- Genius Bonus: The sun Erika mentioned around Planet Baam is real.
- Germans Love David Hasselhoff:
- Every Filipino's fave super robot second to Voltes V. Allegedly, the name "Erika" shot up in popularity as a baby name in the Philippines after the anime was aired there.
- Being one of the first giant mecha shown there, Daimosnote is one of the most nostalgic titles among anime fans in Poland.
- It has a loyal following in Hong Kong and China as it was shown there during the late 80s-early 90s period.
- Harsher in Hindsight:
- Like it's predecessor series, the anime shows the Twin Towers being attacked during the Alien Invasion. Keep in mind this series is from The '70s.
- In episode 29, Miwa receives a medal from the United Nations, and then proceeds to order the bombings of innocent civilians. In real-life, American President Barack Obama, an awardant of the Nobel Peace Prize, was critisized for authorizing airstrikes in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Somalia and Pakistan.
- Hilarious in Hindsight:
- The Baam's main spaceship, Cobrard, is a pyramid. Guess the aliens really did build them after all!note
- Kyoshiro quoting Karl Marx in the fourth episode. He later gains an Abhorrent Admirer in a delusional rich lady named Reiko.
- In the crappy American Starbirds dub, the MacGuffin is called the "Crystal Light". Crystal Lite is a line of powdered lemonade mixes, so it sounds like they're fighting for their beverages.
- Also in the Starbirds dub, the villainous older brother of one of the main characters is named Roderick. Sound familiar?
- The Baam's main spaceship, Cobrard, is a pyramid
- Memetic Mutation:
- Comparing Miwa to Vegeta because of the hair (and racism).
- "Richaaaard!" "Erikaaaa!". Many Filipinos are familiar with that dramatic conversation.
- "Kazuyaaaa!" "Erikaaaa!". Many Japanese fans and hardcore mecha fans watching the fansubs are also familiar with the original version of the meme.
- The Polish fandom equates Olban to Santa Claus.
- Moral Event Horizon: Miwa's first crossing was when he indiscriminately attacked fellow humans just to have a shot against the Baam-seijin, ignoring them as 'inevitable' collateral damage and dismissing them as 'useless'. If that didn't convince you, he then repeated this after press-ganging the President of the United Nations into unleashing a bomb that could wipe out 350,000 to 700,000 human lives... and deliberately launched it anyway when the UN ordered him to abort. As Kyoshiro puts it, he was just concerned with getting all the glory after he was presented with a medal (that was meant for Prof. Izumi). All in all, while the audience has known what kind of monster he is from that event, Kazuya and the Daimovic crew were still capable of putting up with him, until Miwa gunned down harmless Baamites personally. That was when the trope became an in-universe example, with Kazuya finally running out of patience with Miwa and administering a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown, and the UN also deciding that enough is enough and proceeding to strip him of his rank.
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- Narm:
- The villains are called "The Baam (pronounced "Balm") Empire". At times it sounds like the heroes are fighting against a tub of Vaseline.
- The Baam crowns have large centerpieces (that resemble snakes and birds). They also explode when detached from the headpiece.
- The Philippine-English dub changes the name of the "Baam" to "Brahmin", a real-life group of people. Hence, General Miwa's rants about them sounds like he's very racist against a certain Indian caste.
- Narm Charm: The Filipino English dub. This being a '70s dub, lowering your standards before watching is advised.
- No Yay: Richter/Raiza for some. He frequently slaps and kicks her, while she never leaves his side no matter how nasty he gets. It doesn't help that Raiza's feelings for him are completely one-sided.
- Older Than They Think: Daimos pulled off his own version of the Shoryuken with his "Hissatsu! Reppu Seikenzuki!" nearly a full decade before the first Street Fighter game came out.
- Retroactive Recognition: Balbas' little brother Himley is voiced by Ryūsei Nakao before he found his signature style with Frieza. Masako Nozawa, who would go on to voice Son Goku, also debuted one episode prior as Genta.
- Ships That Pass in the Night: Nana/Kyoshiro has a small following.
- Spiritual Successor: Daimos has one in Romeo × Juliet, which is also a retelling of Romeo and Juliet IN SPACE!.
- They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Raiza. Concept art and promotional material imply that she was originally meant to have a larger part in the story - one art book depicts her in similar battle armour to Richter, and another implies that Raiza, Richter and Erika were childhood friends. However in the anime itself, not only do none of these appear, Raiza herself doesn't even go through any Character Development, lacks a backstory/character arc of her own and remains a mere Satellite Love Interest for Richter until her death.
- Unconventional Learning Experience:
- Unintentionally Unsympathetic: Kazuya when he brought a wounded Baam soldier to a human hospital and asked that he be treated, only to get disgusted stares from the patients instead and for the doctor to refuse to treat him. Kazuya acts bewildered that they don't want him there, even though he himself witnessed the soldier murder innocent humans. One patient even has a mental breakdown upon seeing the Baam soldier because she was reminded of how they killed her parents.
- Values Dissonance: Episode 24 is about Cairo trying to photograph the underneath of Nana's clothes, his antics being Played for Laughs. Even Kyoshiro and Kazuya know what he's doing but don't say anything. Since Nana is sixteen, this would be considered illegal imagery in many countries.
- Viewer Name Confusion: Is it Balm, Barm, or Baam? Similarly, is the demonym Balmite, Barmite, Baamite, Baamian, Balmian or Barmian? If you want to keep it simple, you could always use their Japanese name, the Ba(a?)m-seijin.
- What Do You Mean, It's Not Political?: The anime is rife with this trope, to the topic of housing refugees from a foreign nation, said refugees having a wildly different culture from their host country (which the anime's female heroine rejects, having witnessed it first hand), the dehumanization of foreigners by both sides, authoritative figures such as Miwa and Olban using the suffering of their nations to consolidate their power and persecute the innocent, backed by mass support, Richter trying to prevent his sister's Interspecies Romance with a human, UN members committing war crimes and being excused because of their positions, the five permanent members of the UN steamrolling over the interests of smaller nations and the general theme of War Is Hell.
