![]() As Getter-2, Getter was equipped with drills and became much faster to the point to where it could create afterimages. When the three planes combined as Getter-1, Getter took a shape suitable for aerial combat, using its Getter Beam to waste away the enemy machines. Getter Robo was the first Super Robot to combine from several smaller machines, in this case airplanes. Getter Robo (1974) Change, Getter-1! Switch On! While the Mazinger series continued with Great Mazinger and Grendizer, the company behind Mazinger Z created another heavily-influential robot series. Mazinger Z's traits, including the variety of weapons (and their mostly English names), the hot-blooded pilot, and the "mid-season upgrade," are used even in modern Super Robot series. Mazinger Z's success inspired other anime and manga studios in a way that previous robot series Tetsujin-28/Gigantor and Giant Robo did not. Hell's forces, decimating them with attacks such as the Rocket Punch, Koushiryoku (Photon) Beam, and Breast Fire. Juuzou Kabuto Juuzou is eventually killed, but not before revealing the robot to his grandson Kouji Kabuto. Mazinger Z, created by Go Nagai, was the first Japanese series to feature a robot piloted via cockpit and is therefore seen as the first true Super Robot franchise. ![]() Notable Super Robot Anime/Manga Mazinger Z (1972) Mazin Go! In these robots, each member of the team is usually responsible for a separate part of the combined robot, such as one person for the legs, one person for the arms, and one person to call out attacks. Several Super Robots are actually amalgamations of several smaller robots, formed through an unnecessarily intricate combination sequence. ![]() Many of these weapons seem to be voice-activated.or at the very least, are called out by the pilot before they are used. Rocket Punches are par for the course, as are eye beams, chest blasters, oversized swords, axes, shuriken, arrows, yo-yos, tops, etc. CharacteristicsĪs opposed to Real Robots, which use more modest weapons like machine guns, cannons, beam rifles, and small-scale beam swords, Super Robots feature impractical, high-powered, massively-damaging attacks. Recently, however, Super Robots have made a comeback in anime. Shows featuring Super Robots were the only robot shows of the 1970s, but became much less prominent once Mobile Suit Gundamstarted the Real Robot movement in Japan. ![]() While "Real Robots" (generally referred to as mecha) generally attempt to remain within a certain realm of realism, Super Robots focus more on flashy, over-the-top designs and weaponry. Super Robots represent the more extravagant side of robot anime. ![]()
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