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Daimos tells the story of Earth being invaded by a race of [[Winged Humanoid|Winged Humanoids]] called the [[Spell My Name with an "S"|Brahmins/Balmians]], all due to failed peace negotations that took a great toll on both sides. The Earth is outmatched, but they have hope in form of the [[Motion Capture Mecha]] Daimos, piloted by the Karate champ Kazuya Ryuuzaki. But problems arise when Kazuya himself meets a mysterious girl named Erika, and falls in love... and later finds out that she is the Princess of the Brahmins, and the sister of the head of the invaders, Prince Richter, to boot.
Just like its predecessor [[Voltes V]], Daimos features alien enemies that turn out to be [[Not So Different]], though it still follows the Monster Of The Week formula.
Daimos is also one of the series often included in ''[[Super Robot Wars]]'', and should there be any chance that it is together with ''[[G Gundam]]''... expect Kazuya to have some rivalry with Domon Kasshu.
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* [[Anti-Villain]] (All of the Brahmin antagonists except for Olban and his lackey, Georiya.)
* [[Award Bait Song]] (The closing theme "Erika No Ballad". It sums up the [[Star-Crossed Lovers]] plotline ''right off the bat''.)
* [[Beard of Evil]] (Olban has a nice, thick one.)
* [[Berserk Button]]: Kazuya is a good, nice, peaceful boy, but... Threatening his beloved Erika? Bad idea. Killing children in front of him? VERY bad idea. Getting people executed for no reason other than you are a racist nutjob? Ashtoundingly BAD idea. {{spoiler|Miwa}} found out about that the hard -and very painful- way.
* [[Beware the Nice Ones]] (Kazuya is a rather nice guy when not fighting. But if he's pissed off... he'll go ''majorly'' batshit. You're warned, {{spoiler|Miwa}})
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* [[Chest Blaster]] (''"DOUBLE/FIRE BLIZZAAAAAAARRRDDD!!!"'')
* [[Compilation Movie]] (One titled ''Starbirds: The Movie'' was produced by 3-B Productions (the people who did [[Mazinger Z|Tranzor Z]]. It features a whole new round of [[Dub Name Change|Dub Name Changes]] (Kazuya becomes Kelly, Kyoshiro becomes ''Duncan'') and [[Dub Induced Plot Hole|Dub Induced Plot Holes]] (natural when cutting a 44 episode series down to a 72 minute movie), but is overall fairly coherent.)
* [[Cool Car]] (Kazuya's ''Tryper 75S'', which boards a Cool Tranzer which in turn transforms into a [[Super Robot|Cool Mecha]].)
* [[Diagonal Cut]]: Daimos does this to a enemy mecha in episode 8. And he did not it with a bladed weapon but with its hand.
* [[Dub Name Change]]: Kazuya to Kelly in ''Starbirds'', and Richard in the Philippine dub.
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* [[The Gunslinger]] (To some degree, Nana)
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: {{spoiler|Halleck in episode 9.}}
* [[Home Base]] (The Space Daimobic, which has multiple functions of [[The Battlestar]], [[Space Base]] and [[Mission Control]]).
* [[Hotblooded Sideburns]] (Kazuya)
* [[Incurable Cough of Death]] (Aizam, Richter's buddy. It didn't kill him, though)
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* [[Manly Tears]]: And Kazuya is not ashamed of shedding them!
* [[The Medic]] (Erika's job)
* [[McNinja]] (Brahmin assassins)
* [[Motion Capture Mecha]] (One of the first in animation history. There was at least one before; the South Korean cartoon ''[[Robot Taekwon V]]'' (so named because its pilot was a Tae Kwon Do champ who used martial arts to fight the [[Monster of the Week]]) which, apart from this gimmick started out as a cheap knockoff of ''[[Mazinger Z]]''.)
* {{spoiler|1=[[My God, What Have I Done?]] ==> [[Driven to Suicide]] (Richter had the realization of the former in the last episode and drove him to the latter, but not before saving the lives of everybody in the Brahmins' space station first. However, Richter's death gets re-written as a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] in ''[[Super Robot Wars Advance]]''.)}}
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** Also including [[Shozo Iizuka]] as Balbas (slightly [[Playing Against Type]] because {{spoiler|he's quite the [[Noble Demon]] [[Anti-Villain]] in the end}}) and [[Ryusei Nakao]] as Georiya (more in-type, but he used a REALLY deeper tone of voice, making him quite unrecognizable)
* [[Nigh Invulnerable]] (Later in the series, monsters of the week are often equipped with [[Unobtainium]] armor which makes attacks bounce off as if from a rubber band. It takes a combination of severe heat and cold to render them brittle.)
** Which is the reason Daimos was installed with Freezer Blast and the Double Blizzard upgraded into the Fire Blizzard. Practically [[New Powers as the Plot Demands|New Upgrades as the Enemy Armor demands]], which tallied with it's literal [[Mid-Season Upgrade]].
* [[Not So Different]] (There are bad humans and good humans, as well as bad Brahmins and good Brahmins)
* [[Obviously Evil]]: One look at Georiya (Grovil in the Filipino dub) and you just knew he had something to do with the death of the previous Brahmin emperor and Kazuya's father.
* [[Please Spare Him, My Liege|Please Spare Her My Liege!]](Margaret did this to save Erika from Richter's wrath when he found out she was in love with Kazuya.)
* [[The Power of Love]] (Other than Daimos, THIS is Kazuya's forte)
** He even develops a combo attack with Erika based on love in the Victory Five manga!
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* [[Say My Name]] ("ERIKAAAAA!!!", also followed by "KAZUYAAAAA!!!!")
* [[Shorttank]] (Nana, nicnkamed "[[Candy Candy]] with a gun" by fans)
* [[Shoryuken]]: [[Punctuated!
* [[Spanner in the Works]] (Olban's plan for world domination started to unravel when Maradon, a gardener, found out he was responsible for the previous Emperor's assassination.)
* [[Spell My Name with an "S"]] (Brahmin... or Balm?)
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