Gear Fighter Dendoh
Overview. "Gear Fighter Dendoh" tells the story of two Japanese schoolboys—short-tempered Ginga Izumo and level-headed Hokuto Kusanagi—who meet each other one day, only a few minutes before the Earth is attacked by Galfa (sometimes translated as Gulfer or Garufa), a race of sentient machines determined to wipe out all life in the universe. In the midst of this chaos, the two are chosen by Dendoh, a giant robot built to battle Galfa, to be its pilots, causing them to become members of the Guard Earth and Advanced Reconnaissance organization designated with the protection  of Earth from the Galfa advance. The two young pilots find themselves in a race to obtain the powerful and animal-like Data Weapons before Galfa can get their hands on them. The show is directed and plotted by Mitsuo Fukuda and his (eventual in 2006) wife, Chiaki Morosawa, the duo who went on to create "Mobile Suit Gundam SEED" and its sequel "Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny". Notably, Morosawa was not sole head scriptwriter for Dendoh, instead sharing duties with Yasuko Kobayashi, previously known for writing on Toei's Super Sentai Franchise Galfa Empire. Seventeen years before the events  of the series, Emperor Galfa was a biological manager program from planet Alktos that sought to destroy human life due to how they can and have easily destroyed nature. In an effort to save the environment from human intervention, he created a vast empire of machines to exterminate human life and named the empire after himself. In the final episode Galfa reveals his true form as a six headed mechanical dragon, possibly a reference to The Beast From The Sea or Orochi. After conquering the planet he created a large moon-sized satellite resembling the Death Star that emits an  energy barrier that shields the entire planet and not only houses all of his forces, but also is armed with a gravitational cannon that can destroy planets. Opening and Closing Themes. Opening: Closings: Insert Song: Video Game. "Gear Fighter Dendoh" has spawned one platform title for the PlayStation. It was released in 2001. "Dendoh" was also featured in the "Super Robot Wars" series of Japanese simulation games. It has appeared in 2002's "Super Robot Wars R" for the Game Boy Advance and "Super Robot Wars MX" for the PlayStation 2 and its PSP version. Homage Weapons. In episode 24  of the series Dendoh is forced to fight without the aid of data weapons, forcing it to use an arsenal of weapons that are homages to various early mecha anime. This incarnation has been dubbed as Full Armor Dendoh.