Kotetsu Jeeg is the first mecha #anime I watched on Italian television:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBN1dZz-GoE
I loved this sequence where Miwa takes off on a weird jet plane called Big Shooter while Hiroshi jumps off a cliff with a winged motorbike:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzBCFlf9KTQ
#anime
All of Go Nagai mechas had unnecessarily complicated launch sequences. Ufo Robot Grandizer had multiple route options:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTuEhMXV1ZI
#anime
Trider G7 came out in the middle of the decadent age of mecha anime, characterized by toy robots piloted by children.
I thought it was silly even when I was the same age of the protagonist!
For being a #mecha #anime designed to promote a transformable toy, Daitarn 3 had pretty good humor. Plus, the Meganoid commanders were all caricatures of human flaws: narcissism, greed, lust, ambition...
This one for instance wanted to direct the greatest martial arts movie of all times 😂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsQU5-X7Yio
The Meganoids also had their own transformation sequences: they used a special machine with four energy emitters to grow and shapeshift their bodies into a Megaborg before the final duel with the Daitarn 3.
There are cues that becoming a Megaborg is irreversible and a difficult step for some Meganoid commanders who are still attached to their original human form.
