宇宙魔神ダイケンゴー

うちゅうまじんダイケンゴー

Aired: 1978 - 1979

A TV anime produced by Ashi Productions, a robot-action work broadcast in 26 episodes on the TV Asahi network. Set on the distant planet Emeralda, the survivor princess Rosalie of a near-destroyed kingdom and the Earth boy Raiger pilot the giant robot Daikengo to fight back against the invading Roboleon army. The story layers a princess's exile and the reclamation of her homeland onto a space-opera adventure, weaving melancholy and romance into a good-versus-evil robot tale. Its premise of multiple mecha combining into a single giant robot and its wandering, battle-across-the-stars structure give it a distinctive flavor among the hero-robot works of the era.