Gordian the Warrior
Cover of the first DVD box set
闘士ゴーディアン
(Tōshi Gōdian)
GenreMecha
Anime television series
Directed byMasamune Ochiai
Kunihiko Okazaki
Produced byMasatsugu Nagai
Tomoyuki Miyata
Written byYu Yamamoto
Music byMasaaki Jinbo
Masayuki Yamamoto
StudioTatsunoko Productions
Original networkTokyo Channel 12
Original run October 7, 1979 – February 27, 1981
Episodes73

Gordian Warrior (闘士ゴーディアン, Tōshi Gōdian) is a Japanese anime television series that aired in 1979 to 1981.[1] There were 73 episodes. It is also referred to as Champion of Gordian or Gardian.

Original Story

The Earth had become a wasteland of deserts as the survivors work to rebuild communities. Daigo Otaki is a young orphan raised by his uncle. Becoming an adult, Daigo discovers that Victor City was in fact planned by his father who was a genius scientist. Daigo's sister Saori had been managing it. She pleaded with Daigo to take on the inheritance that Daigo's father left him, a super robot system known as Gordian. Daigo would join the Mechacon mechanic combat 18th regiment unit, an organization of law enforcers that defend Victor City against attacks from the Madokuta organization.

Concept

The pilot Daigo Otaki controls a small almost human-sized robot container named Protteser. Each time Protteser is in trouble, he jumps into the next biggest robot container named Delinger. Then finally the largest container is Garbin.

Characters

Japanese Name Voices by
Daigo ŌtakiYoshito Yasuhara
PeachyYō Inoue
BarihawkRokurō Naya
DalphKiyonobu Suzuki
Unknown GHiroshi Masuoka
Saori OtakiGara Takashima
RosetRihoko Yoshida
DokumaYasuo Muramatsu
EriasYoshino Ohtori
KloriasYūsaku Yara
AnitaKazue Komiya
Trosculus/NarratorMasatō Ibu

Staff

  • Series Directors
    Masamune Ochiai
    Kunihiko Okazaki
  • Series Composition
    Yu Yamamoto
  • Design
    Ippei Kuri
  • Animator
    Kazuhiko Udagawa
  • Music
    Masaaki Jinbo
    Masayuki Yamamoto

Merchandise

The original released toy set comes with all 3 robots and the human pilot. The 3 robots ranking from biggest to smallest, Garbin, Delinger, Protteser were respectively released as GB-11, GB-10, GB-09 by Popy pleasure. Their upper sternum is also numbered 3, 2, 1. Though these numbers do not appear in the cartoon at all. It was sold in the US as "Gardian" under the Godaikin line. Gordian was later reappropriated as Baikanfū in Machine Robo: Revenge of Cronos.

Availability outside Japan

Anime Sols funded the legal streaming of the show.[2]

References

  1. ↑ PRODUCTION, TATSUNOKO. "タツノコプロ | ゴワッパー5 ゴーダム". www.tatsunoko.co.jp.
  2. ↑ "Anime Sols Project Page". Archived from the original on 2014-07-28. Retrieved 2014-07-20.

Sources

  • Ishizuki, Saburo. Alt, Matt. Duban, Robert. Brisko Tim [2005] (2005). Super #1 Robot: Japanese Robot Toys 1972-1982. San Francisco: Chronicle Books LLC. ISBN 0-8118-4607-5
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