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| ゴワッパー5ゴーダム (Gowappaa 5 Gōdamu) |
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| Genre | Mecha |
| TV anime | |
| Director | Hisayuki Toriumi |
| Studio | Tatsunoko Productions |
| Network | Nihon Educational Television |
| Original run | April 4, 1976 – December 29, 1976[1] |
| Episodes | 36 |
Gowappā 5 Gōdam (ゴワッパー5ゴーダム) is an anime series aired in 1976. There were 36 episodes. It is also referred to as Goliath the Super Fighter , Gowapper 5 Gundam, Godam, Go Wapper 5 Go Dam, Gowappa 5 Gordam.
The series has also been aired on Italian television under the title Godam.
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Five youths from Edo City explore a strange rocky island and discover the mecha that Doctor Hoarai had been creating in order to resist the impending attack by a race of subterranean rock people. Doctor Hoarai was ridiculed by the scientific community for his predictions that such an attack would take place. The youths decide to join the doctor (who was dead but had transferred his mind into a computer) in piloting the vehicles and protecting Earth. The Gowapper 5 Godam team is born! With the aid of the giant fighting robot Godam, the Gowapper team under the leadership of Yoko Misaki must face the hordes of the inhuman subterranean people.[2]
Gowappa was the first super robot anime to feature a female as the leader and main character. This was done in an effort to increase the TV viewing demographic to both male and female youth.
Director
Hisayuki
Toriumi
Additional Director
Masami Suda
Tsuneo Ninomiya
Screenwriter
Toshio Nagata
Saburo Taki
Design
Yoshitaka
Amano
Mechanical Design
Kunio Okawara
(Tatsunoko Mechaman Design Office)
Animator
Yoshihisa Okuno
Chuichi Iguchi
Music
Bob Sakuma
| Japanese Name | Vehicle | Voiced by |
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| Yoko Misaki | A-Plane | Terumi Niki |
| Go Tsunami | Gasomashin | Yoshito Yasuhara |
| Godaemon | Heli-Marine | |
| Norisuke | Yadokari Jeep | |
| Daikichi Kameyama | Turtle Tank | |
| Doctor Hoarai | ||
| Jo | ||
| Maguda Shogun |
The series has since been released on DVD.
The Gowappa 5 Godam characters and mecha were released in Takara's Magnemo toy line in Japan in 1976.
Goliath the Super Fighter (anime) at Anime News Network's Encyclopedia
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