Six God Combination Godmars
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Six God Combination God Mars | |
六神合体ゴッドマーズ (Rokushin Gattai Goddomāzu) | |
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Genre | Mecha, Drama |
Created by | Mitsuteru Yokoyama (manga Mars) |
Anime television series | |
Directed by | Tetsuo Imazawa |
Produced by | Tōru Horikoshi Shigeru Akagawa Atsushi Shimizu Yasuji Takahashi |
Written by | Keisuke Fujikawa |
Music by | Kei Wakakusa |
Studio | Tokyo Movie Shinsha |
Licensed by | |
Original network | Nippon TV |
Original run | October 2, 1981 – December 24, 1982 |
Episodes | 64 |
Anime film | |
God Mars: The Movie | |
Directed by | Tetsuo Imazawa |
Produced by | Shigeru Akagawa |
Written by | Keisuke Fujikawa |
Music by | Kei Wakakusa |
Studio | Tokyo Movie Shinsha |
Licensed by | |
Released | December 18, 1982 |
Runtime | 97 minutes |
Original video animation | |
Godmars: The Untold Legend | |
Directed by | Masakatsu Iijima |
Produced by | Tadahito Matsumoto |
Written by | Keisuke Fujikawa |
Music by | Reijirō Koroku |
Studio | Tokyo Movie Shinsha |
Licensed by | |
Released | June 5, 1988 |
Runtime | 55 minutes |
Six God Combination God Mars (六神合体ゴッドマーズ, Rokushin Gattai Goddomāzu) is a mecha anime television series that was popular during its broadcast between 1981 and 1982 in Japan, Hong Kong, and Italy. The series consists of 64 episodes and 2 movies. Other loosely translated names are "Hexademon Symbiote God Mars", "Six God Union God Mars", and "Six Gods United As One Being"; sometimes spelling the title mecha as "Godmars".
The anime show is loosely based on the 1976 Mars manga from Shōnen Champion magazine by Mitsuteru Yokoyama. God Mars is named as such to represent the mythological Roman God of war.
Plot[]
In the year 1999, humanity begins to advance beyond the known Solar System. The small planet Gishin, led by the Emperor Zul, who aims to conquer the galaxy, runs into conflict with Earth. He targets Earth for elimination and to do this, he sends a male baby called Mars to live among humanity. Accompanying the baby is a giant robot named Gaia, which utilizes a new power source strong enough to destroy an entire planet. As planned, Mars is expected to grow up, where he will activate the bomb within Gaia to fulfill the mission of destroying the Earth. However, when Mars arrives on Earth he is adopted into a Japanese family and given the name Takeru. Seventeen years later, Takeru grows up with a love for humanity and refuses to detonate the bomb as ordered by Zul. However, if Takeru was to die, the bomb within Gaia would explode destroying the earth.
Takeru possesses psychic powers (ESP). Takeru also can pilot the God Mars robot with his mind. Takeru decides to join the Earth defense forces and becomes a member of the Crasher Squad (an elite space-defense force), where he and his friends take a last stand against the Gishin's attack. The relationship of Takeru with his brother Marg, which as fate would have it, pitted the two against each other in the war.
Unknown to the Gishin, five other robots were created in secrecy alongside Gaia by Takeru's father and sent with Gaia to protect Takeru. Whenever Earth is in danger, Takeru is able to summon the five other robots to combine with Gaia to form the giant robot God Mars. The five other robots are Sphinx, Uranus, Titan, Shin and Ra.
Voice actors[]
Name | Japanese Name | Voices by |
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Mars/Takeru Myojin | マーズ/明神タケル | Yū Mizushima |
Kenji Asuka | 飛鳥ケンジ | Hiroya Ishimaru |
Naoto Ijuin | 伊集院ナオト | Hirotaka Suzuoki (anime) Gô Shinomiya (Super Robot Wars Series) |
Mika Hyuga | 日向ミカ | |
Akira Kiso | 木曽アキラ | Yoku Shioya |
Namida Akashi | 明石ナミダ | Eiko Yamada |
Shigeru Otsuka | 大塚長官 | Kousei Tomita |
Dr. Myojin | 明神博士 | Takeshi Aono |
Shizuka Myojin | 明神静子 | |
Marg | マーグ | Yūji Mitsuya |
Rose | ロゼ | Rumiko Ukai |
Flore | フローレ | Yoshiko Sakakibara |
Gasshu | ガッシュ | Akio Nojima Kazuyuki Sogabe (eps 43-44) |
Emperor Zuul | ズール皇帝 | Goro Naya |
Gyron | ギロン総統 | Osamu Kobayashi |
Rui | ルイ | Kumiko Takizawa |
Narrator | ナレーター | Eiji Kanie |
Staff[]
- Original Manga author and Creator: Mitsuteru Yokoyama
- Series director: Tetsuo Imazawa
- Producer: Atsushi Shimizu, Shigeru Akagawa, Toru Horikoshi, Yasuji Takahashi
- Character Design: Hideyuki Motohashi
- Animation director: Hideyuki Motohashi
- Music: Kei Wakakusa
- Mecha design: Hajime Kamegaki
- Background Art: Tsutomu Ishigaki
Media[]
Film[]
A compilation theatrical feature was released in 1982 called God Mars: The Movie.
Original video animation[]
Later in 1988, a God Mars OVA was released under the title God Mars: The Untold Legend which focused on the life of Marg, Mars' twin brother. Gaia, God Mars, and the Gishin robot Zeron receive redesigns although the OVA mostly focuses on an alternate telling of Marg's life on Gishin up until the events of episode 19.
Video games[]
God Mars would go on to make guest appearances in games like Super Robot Wars. In Super Robot Wars Destiny and Super Robot Wars Z2: Hakai-hen, the player gets a "Game Over" whenever God Mars is destroyed, due to the God Mars storyline for the first 25 episodes. In Hakai-hen, there is even a special game-over screen for when this happens.
Home release[]
Discotek Media announced its license to the series at Otakon 2018 on August 12 and was released on a SDBD disc set on December 18, 2018. Throughout its 2 discs, it contained the series, the movie, and the OVA.[1]
Reception[]
God Mars came out very early in the super-robot animation era of the 1980s, having been created by Mitsuteru Yokoyama and did very well when it aired. In 1982 it won the Anime Grand Prix.
References[]
- ^ "God Mars complete series and movie on SDBD Blu Ray!". October 23, 2018. Retrieved October 23, 2018.
- Ishizuki, Saburo. Alt, Matt. Duban, Robert. Brisko Tim [2005] (2005). Super #1 Robot: Japanese Robot Toys 1972-1982. San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books LLC. ISBN 0-8118-4607-5
- Clements, Jonatha. McCarthy Helen. [2006] (2006). The Anime Encyclopedia: Revised & Expanded Edition. Berkeley, CA: Stone Bridge Press. ISBN 978-1-933330-10-5
External links[]
- TMS Godmars Library (in Japanese)
- God Mars (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
- 1981 anime television series
- 1982 anime films
- 1988 anime OVAs
- 1988 anime films
- 1981 Japanese television series debuts
- 1982 Japanese television series endings
- Discotek Media
- Shōnen manga
- Super robot anime and manga
- Television series set in 1999
- TMS Entertainment