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=== [[Korean War]] ===
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I have been editing this article for a few days. I ran down through the article and fixed any grammer mistakes I could find. I would appreciate any suggestions on what to do and how I can really improve it further. Thanks a lot. [[User:Mr. Killigan|Mr. Killigan]] 06:17, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
title_name=Tosshou Daimos
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|ja_name=闘将ダイモス
|ja_name_trans=Brave Leader Daimos
|genre=Mecha
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|director=Tadao Nagahama
|studio=[[Sunrise (company)|Sunrise]]/[[Toei Animation]]
|network={{flagicon|Japan}} [[TV Asahi]]<br>{{flagicon|Philippines}} [[Intercontinental_Broadcasting_Corporation|IBC 13]]/[[GMA 7]]
|first_aired=[[1 April]] [[1978]]
|last_aired=[[27 January]] [[1979]]
|num_episodes=44
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==== Kirill Lokshin ====
'''Tosshou Daimos''' (闘将ダイモス, Brave Leader (or Fighting King) Daimos) is a televised anime series produced by Nihon Sunrise. Daimos is the third installment of [[Tadao Nagahama]]'s [[Robot Romance Trilogy|Romantic Trilogy]], following [[Combattler V|Choudenji Robo Combattler V]] and [[Voltes V|Choudenji Machine Voltes V]]. It ran from [[1 April]] [[1978]] to [[27 January]] [[1979]] and consisted of 44 episodes. Several pivotal episodes were released as a movie titled "Starbirds" in the US by 3B, which also released Tranzor Z. The name Daimos is derived from [[Deimos (moon)|Deimos]], one of the two moons of [[Mars]]. Apart from Japan, the show also aired in the Phillipines. In the early 1980's the was a VHS release in France, but only the 1st 7 episodes were available.
There are a number of areas to work on, at this point; keep in mind, though, that this is a very high-profile article, so you should be careful to move slowly and carefully to avoid getting entangled in any editorial conflicts here.
==Story==
* <s>The article is, in my opinion, simply too long; we're looking at 72K (~12,000 words) of prose. The "Legacy" section, in particular, is ripe for splitting out into a separate [[Legacy of the Korean War]] article, with a much shorter summary left in the main one.</s>
* <s>"Korean War (1950 – 1953)" should really be something like "Course of the war"; you probably don't want to repeat the article title as a section heading.</s>
* The citations need cleanup; at a minimum, all of the embedded external links should be converted to footnotes. There are also a number of "citation needed" tags floating around. Beyond that, more thorough citation would be appropriate throughout the article; see [[WP:MILHIST#CITE]] for some guidelines.
* <s>The "Depictions" section should be turned into prose, rather than a laundry list of films; see also [[WP:MILHIST#POP]].</s>
* <s>The "Names" section, as it's presently constituted, would work much better as a narrow sidebar; it's of some interest, but I doubt there's enough material to sustain a separate section.</s>
* <s>The "See also" section should be eliminated. If something isn't worth linking from the text, it's generally not worth linking at all. </s>
* <s>The rump "Bibliography" section should be removed as well.</s>
* The "External links" section could use trimming.
Hope that helps! [[User:Kirill Lokshin|Kirill]] 04:08, 13 July 2007 (UTC)<s>cool</s>
::Thank you very much for offering your opinion! [[User:Mr. Killigan|Mr. Killigan]] 00:57, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
After the destruction of their homeworld, the survivors of the planet Brahm head towards Earth with the goal of negotiating the purchase of land to emigrate to. Unfortunately, during the negotiations, the Barmian's leader, Leon, is assassinated by his second in command, Olban, and the delegation from Earth is framed for the murder. In the ensuing chaos, Doctor Isamu Ryuuzaki of the Earth delegation is shot and killed.
Shortly after the disastrous end of the talks, the Barmians begin a campaign of terror against Earth, lead by Leon's son, Admiral Richter, who deploys a variety of "Mecha Soldiers" against the planet's defenses. The only thing standing between the Earthlings and annihilation is the transforming, [[karate]]-using super robot, Daimos and its pilot, Kazuya Ryuuzaki. But that changes when he meets and falls in love with a mysterious girl named Erika, who turns out to be Richter's sister. Over the course of their struggles to reunite, Kazuya and Erika each learn that the other's people are not all evil... and that their own people are not all good.
==Characters==
===Earthlings===
*'''Kazuya Ryuuzaki''' ([[Akira Kamiya]])
The pilot of Daimos and the hero of the series, he was raised by the Izumis after his father's death. After meeting and falling in love with Erika, he fights for the day when the war will end and they will be reunited, with his strong will of survival motivating him to be victorious. He is a karate black belt and champion; at age 14 he suffered a terrible accident, but managed to finish his rehabilitation succesfully.
**'''Filipino-English Dubbed Name''': Richard Hartford
**'''Starbirds Dubbed Name''': Kelly Hunter
**'''French Dubbed Name''': Kazuya Ryuuzaki
*'''Kyoushiro Yuuzuki''' ([[Kazuyuki Sogabe]])
Kazuya's friend, and the main pilot of the jet fighter Galva FX-II. Apart from being an ace fighter pilot, he is also a skilled swordsman who takes the war with the Brahmins very seriously. He also has a grudge against his strict grandfather, whom he blames for his parents' misfortune.
**'''Filipino English-Dubbed Name''': Edward Kramer
**'''Starbirds Dubbed Name''': Duncan
**'''French Dubbed Name''': Kyoushiro
*'''Nana Izumi''' ([[Youko Kuri]])
The granddaughter of Shinichirou Izumi, an excellent markswoman and sometimes co-pilot of Galva FX-II. She has a crush on Kazuya, and initially resents Erika. She leaves the group for some time after committing a big mistake that almost costs her her life, and returns with a more serious attitude.
**'''Filipino English-Dubbed Named''': Joanna
**'''French Dubbed Name''': Nana
*'''Shinichirou Izumi''' ([[Hisashi Katsuta]])
After the death of Doctor Ryuuzaki, he takes over the operations of Daimobic. He taught Kazuya in the art of Karate.
**'''Filipino English-Dubbed Name''': Professor Yurgen
**'''French Dubbed Name''': Docteur Izumi
*'''Cairo''' ([[Inoue You]])
The ever-cheerful support robot at Daimobic.
*'''General Sakamori Miwa''' ([[Tamio Ouki]])
A leader of Earth's military, Miwa is a bigot who wants nothing more than to see all of the aliens destroyed.
**'''Filipino English-Dubbed Name''': General Harris
*'''Isamu Ryuuzaki''' ([[Shozo Iizuka]])
The founder of the Daimobic labs and designer of Daimos. He is killed during the breakdown of the negotiations between the Brahmins and the Earthlings.
===Brahmins===
*'''Olban'''
Personal adviser of Ricther and Erika's father. He usurped the throne by killing Leon. He also wanted to make Erika his queen, despite the huge age gap between them. In the end, he was killed by Richter in mortal combat but before he died he revealed that he has a remote-controlled implant in his heart that in case he would be killed, it would automatically control the whole asteroid Brahmin city to move towards the sun, but was thwarted by Kazuya.
*'''Richter''' ([[Osamu Ichikawa]])
A disgruntled admiral and prince who has hatred to all earthlings because of his father's death. He has an obssesion to conquer earth to become the new home for the Brahmin. At first he hated Kazuya because of Erika's love for the human who controls Daimos. But in the end after he found out that Olban was the one who assassinated Leon, he is determined to kill Olban and regain the throne of Brahmin but was mortally wounded by a throng of machine guns by the Brahmin genocide squad. He committed suicide by crashing himself to the sun. Although not an evil person, he is often blinded by his desire for vengeance.
**'''Filipino English-Dubbed Named''': Ulrich
**'''Starbirds Dubbed Name''': Roderick
*'''Erika''' (Miyuki Ueda)
The Brahmin princess, sister of Richter and the true love of Kazuya. Once a royal princess while accompanying his father Leon and brother Richter to a council meeting with the earth forces, she witnessed on how her father died and accidentally pushed Richter and killed Professor Kazuya, feeling guilty over the incident. Thus to atone the death of her father she is working as a field nurse while Richter became the admiral for the Brahmin forces against earth. But in a space accident she fell out of a burning spaceship and fell to the sea, losing her past memories about herself and what she did. Then in Kazuya's first battle he found her unconscious and by that moment he fell in love with her, unknown that she is a Brahmin.
*'''Raiza''' ([[Kazuko Yanaga]])
Richter's beautiful scientist and a loyal subject of the Brahmin Empire. She has affections and high regards with Richter but she fancies Erika in inflicting her suffering since Raiza considers her a traitor. But it was in the end that she was killed by Olban himself because of helping Richter to ploy an assassination plot against the Brahmin leader.
**'''Filipino English-Dubbed Name''': Laila
*'''Balbas''' ([[Shozo Iizuka]])
Richter's bald-headed stocky general. He was killed when Geroiyer placed him and Richter in a Beast Robot while Raiza is in control of the robot in combat to destroy Daimos.
**'''Filipino English-Dubbed Name''': Zendor
*'''Margarette''' ([[Miyoko Aso]])
Erika's nanny. She was the only witness of how the two royal siblings grow up, and eventually she's a confidant to Erika's feelings for the enemy pilot Kazuya. Eventually she sacrificed her life to protect Erika from Richter's brutal torture. Eventually she lost her wings as a punishment for being a "traitor" but she manage to protect Erika all her life.
**'''Filipino Dubbed Name''': Rowena
*'''Garny Halleck''' ([[Hiroya Ishimaru]])
A Bramin warrior who, in exchange for a pardon for his supposedly traitorous activities, challenged Kazuya to a person-to-person duel. When the duel was interruped by Barmian ninjas attempting to kill both of them, Kyoshiro helped him and Kazuya escape. During their rematch, a combat machine containing a nuclear bomb attacked them. Halleck entered the machine, flying it into space and sacrificing himself to save Kazuya. In his final transmission to Kazuya, he told him that Erika was waiting for the day that they will be reunited again in peace.
**'''Filipino English-Dubbed Name''': Hector
*'''Aizem''' ([[Makio Inoue]])
A Brahmin noblewoman and Erika's bestfriend. In their childhood, Erika managed to save her from a violent gale. And in return,now as an adult, she helped the Barmian princess to meet Kazuya on earth, which in the end she sacrificed her nobility for the sake of Erika's happiness.
==Trivia==
* Akira Kamiya, who voiced Kazuya, is a veteran seiyuu who also voiced such heroes as Ryouma Nagare, the pilot of Getter-1.
* Hiroya Ishimaru is better known for voicing the pilot of [[Mazinger Z]], Kouji Kabuto. In most other animes, his characters and those of Akira Kamiya are friends and allies.
* The album Circus by the Filipino alternative band [[Eraserheads]] contains quotes from different people who supported the band, two simple quotes are included "Erika" from a person named Richard and "Richard" from a person named Erika are seen. The quotes are in reference to the two main protagonists of the show and their multiple scenes in which they are running to each other while saying the lines quoted. (Kazuya's name is changed to Richard in the dubbed show shown in the Philippines.)
* Daimos was banned in the Philippines during the term of then president turned dictator Ferdinand Marcos around the early 1980's. Along with other super-robot-anime shows like Voltes V, it was banned citing reasons of its negative affects on young people.
* Out of the three Super Robot Romance Trilogy mechas, [[Voltes V]] and Daimos are the closest and extremely popular to the hearts and minds of the Filipino people.
* The only time you can see all three Super Robot Romance Trilogy mechas, featured in one package, namely [[Combattler V]], [[Voltes V]] and Daimos, is in the following games: Super Robot Taisen (Wars) Alpha 2 and Super Robot Taisen Alpha 3 for the [[PlayStation 2]] and Super Robot Taisen Advance for the [[Game Boy Advance]] under the company [[Banpresto]]. The latter features a special combination attack of the three, known by fans as the "Final Naginama Special" (based off the famous "Final Dynamic Special" attack done by the Mazinger and Getter Robo units), exclusive only for the said game.
==External links==
* {{ann anime|id=1295}}
{{Robot Romance Trilogy}}
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