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GEAR Fighter Dendoh is a 38-episode Super Robot Anime directed and written by Mitsuo Fukuda and Chiaki Morosawa, a husband and wife team more famous in America for Gundam SEED and Gundam SEED Destiny, along with Yasuko Kobayashi of Toku fame.

Dendoh tells the story of an Alien Invasion of Earth by mechanical aliens known as the Galfa and two elementary school kids, Hokuto Kusanagi and Ginga Izumo, who are chosen to fight them by a giant kung fu robot called Dendoh. As chosen pilots of mankind's last, best superweapon, they are recruited by the organization GEAR to etc. etc. etc.

As people familiar with Super Robot anime can tell by now, Dendoh is pretty standard for the genre, and intentionally so. Where it excels is in its storytelling - not being Strictly Formula in spite of its genre conventions - and its likeable cast of characters and their relationships. And of course, tons of Shout-Outs.

A sequel was planned at one point, but when that fell through the staff released plot details, character, and mecha designs onto the Internet for all to see.

Tropes used in GEAR Fighter Dendoh include:

Action Mom Mrs. Izumo is a badass martial artist, and then there's Vega, alias Mrs. Kusanagi
Alien Invasion^[context?]
Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever^[context?]
Arrogant Kung Fu Guy Ginga^[context?]
Big Bad Emperor Galfa who intends to slay all human life to preserve environments as he was originally programmed to do such
Big Bad Pet Emperor Galfa's horrific two-headed pet, Lagowe. Somewhat subverted as he wonders on his own.
Brainwashed and Crazy Altair who is revealed to be Vega's brother who was being used by the villains. A more prominent victim of this trope though is Hokuto
Calling Your Attacks^[context?]
Char Clone Altair. Has the mask, once removed family member whom he's at odds with, and serves as the hero's arch rival.
Complete Monster Emperor Galfa's most powerful minion, Zero
The Dragon Altair, later Zero^[context?]
Empathic Weapon^[context?]
Evil Counterpart Gear Knight Ogre, later becomes good.
Finishing Move^[context?]
Food Chain of Evil Lagowe does this to the sotais to regenerate.
Gotta Catch Em All The Data Weapons^[context?]
Goldfish Poop Gang^[context?]
Giant Robot Hands Save Lives^[context?]
Gratuitous English^[context?]
Heroic BSOD^[context?]
Hot-Blooded Both the boys, but especially Ginga^[context?]
Hot Mom For both the boys, but especially Hokuto^[context?]
Human Alien Altair and Vega^[context?]
Katanas Are Just Better / Everything's Better with Samurai Altair^[context?]
Kill It with Fire The Dragon Flare data weapon^[context?]
Kotono Mitsuishi Vega's voice actress^[context?]
Luke, I Am Your Father Done twice, both times involving Vega...^[context?]
Mask Power Altair and Vega. They are family, the masks keep that from being obvious.
Mons sort of^[context?]
No Export for You This article brought to you by fansubs, Hong Kong bootleg subs, and a half-translated copy of Super Robot Wars R
- There is a fansub in the works based off the Italian version.
Odd Couple Hokuto and Ginga^[context?]
Older and Wiser The stillborn second season would have had the original cast acting as mentors to a team of kids piloting Dendoh-based mecha
Ordinary Elementary School Students
Paper-Thin Disguise Subverted by Vega, who wears a wig and contacts in addition to the traditional mecha anime mask
Post Episode Trailer (featuring Hokuto and Ginga arguing about something pointless instead of telling you what's going to happen)
Robot War Technically^[context?]
Super Robot: The Dendoh itself, and practically every other mecha in the setting follows the same general qualifications.
Super Robot Wars R and MX
Shout-Out To just about every Humongous Mecha anime out there
Spell My Name with an "S" Altea/Althea/Altair, Galfa is also sometimes spelled Gulfer
Stellar Name Hokuto means "North Star". Ginga means "Galaxy". Not to mention Vega and Altair...
Stock Footage
This Is a Drill The Unicorn Drill data weapon^[context?]
Toyetic The titular mecha looks like a toy, appears to be powered by two giant AA batteries, and can only be piloted by two kids.
Verbal Tic, dawa, jyan, bari!
What Could Have Been Some key elements in the show were supposed to be for Sunrise's next Brave show after GaoGaiGar, Brave Saint Baan Gaan, But since the show didn't materialize, said elements came to fruition in this show.
Whip It Good The Viper Whip data weapon and Vega.

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-''GEAR Fighter Dendoh'' is a 38-episode [[Super Robot]] [[Anime]] directed and written by Mitsuo Fukuda and Chiaki Morosawa, a husband and wife team more famous in America for ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam Seed|Gundam SEED]]'' and ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Destiny|Gundam SEED Destiny]]'', along with Yasuko Kobayashi of [[Toku]] fame.
+'''''GEAR Fighter Dendoh''''' is a 38-episode [[Super Robot]] [[Anime]] directed and written by Mitsuo Fukuda and Chiaki Morosawa, a husband and wife team more famous in America for ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED|Gundam SEED]]'' and ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny|Gundam SEED Destiny]]'', along with Yasuko Kobayashi of [[Toku]] fame.
 Dendoh tells the story of an [[Alien Invasion]] of Earth by mechanical aliens known as the Galfa and two elementary school kids, [[Ordinary High School Student|Hokuto Kusanagi]] and [[Arrogant Kung Fu Guy|Ginga Izumo]], who are chosen to fight them by a giant kung fu robot called Dendoh. As chosen pilots of mankind's last, best superweapon, they are recruited by the organization GEAR to etc. etc. etc.
-As people familiar with [[Super Robot]] anime can tell by now, Dendoh is pretty [[Troperrific|standard]] for the genre, and intentionally so. Where it excels is in its storytelling - not being [[Strictly Formula]] in spite of its genre conventions - and its likeable cast of characters and their relationships. And of course, tons of [[Shout-Out|Shout Outs]].
+As people familiar with [[Super Robot]] anime can tell by now, Dendoh is pretty [[Troperrific|standard]] for the genre, and intentionally so. Where it excels is in its storytelling - not being [[Strictly Formula]] in spite of its genre conventions - and its likeable cast of characters and their relationships. And of course, tons of [[Shout-Out]]s.
 A sequel was planned at one point, but when that fell through the staff released plot details, character, and mecha designs onto the Internet for all to see.
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-This show provides examples of:
+{{tropelist}}
 * [[Action Mom]] Mrs. Izumo is a badass martial artist, and then there's {{spoiler|Vega, alias Mrs. Kusanagi}}
-* [[Alien Invasion]]
+* [[Alien Invasion]]{{context}}
-* [[Attack of the Fifty Foot Whatever]]
+* [[Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever]]{{context}}
-* [[Arrogant Kung Fu Guy]] Ginga
+* [[Arrogant Kung Fu Guy]] Ginga{{context}}
 * [[Big Bad]] Emperor Galfa who intends to slay all human life  {{spoiler|to preserve environments as he was originally programmed to do such}}
 * [[Big Bad Pet]] Emperor Galfa's horrific two-headed pet, Lagowe. Somewhat subverted as he wonders on his own.
 * [[Brainwashed and Crazy]] Altair who is revealed to be  {{spoiler|Vega's brother who was being used by the villains.}} A more prominent victim of this trope though is {{spoiler|Hokuto}}
-* [[Calling Your Attacks]]
+* [[Calling Your Attacks]]{{context}}
+* [[Char Clone]] Altair. Has the mask, once removed family member whom he's at odds with, and serves as the hero's arch rival.
-* [[Char Clone]] Altair
 * [[Complete Monster]] Emperor Galfa's most powerful minion, Zero
-* [[The Dragon]] Altair, later Zero
+* [[The Dragon]] Altair, later Zero{{context}}
-* [[Empathic Weapon]]
+* [[Empathic Weapon]]{{context}}
 * [[Evil Counterpart]] Gear Knight Ogre, later becomes good.
-* [[Finishing Move]]
+* [[Finishing Move]]{{context}}
 * [[Food Chain of Evil]] Lagowe does this to the sotais to regenerate.
-* [[Gotta Catch Em All]] The Data Weapons
+* [[Gotta Catch Em All]] The Data Weapons{{context}}
-* [[Goldfish Poop Gang]]
+* [[Goldfish Poop Gang]]{{context}}
-* [[Giant Robot Hands Save Lives]]
+* [[Giant Robot Hands Save Lives]]{{context}}
-* [[Gratuitous English]]
+* [[Gratuitous English]]{{context}}
-* [[Heroic BSOD]]
+* [[Heroic BSOD]]{{context}}
-* [[Hot-Blooded]] Both the boys, but especially Ginga
+* [[Hot-Blooded]] Both the boys, but especially Ginga{{context}}
-* [[Hot Shounen Mom]] For both the boys, but especially Hokuto
+* [[Hot Mom]] For both the boys, but especially Hokuto{{context}}
-* [[Human Alien]]  {{spoiler|Altair and Vega}}
+* [[Human Alien]]  {{spoiler|Altair and Vega}}{{context}}
-* [[Katanas Are Just Better]] / [[Everything's Better With Samurai]] Altair
+* [[Katanas Are Just Better]] / [[Everything's Better with Samurai]] Altair{{context}}
-* [[Kill It With Fire]] The Dragon Flare data weapon
+* [[Kill It with Fire]] The Dragon Flare data weapon{{context}}
-* [[Kotono Mitsuishi]] Vega's voice actress
+* [[Kotono Mitsuishi]] Vega's voice actress{{context}}
-* [[Luke, I Am Your Father]] Done twice, both times involving Vega...
+* [[Luke, I Am Your Father]] Done twice, both times involving Vega...{{context}}
-* [[Mask Power]] Altair and Vega
+* [[Mask Power]] Altair and Vega. {{spoiler|They are family, the masks keep that from being obvious}}.
-* [[Mons]] sort of
+* [[Mons]] sort of{{context}}
 * [[No Export for You]] This article brought to you by fansubs, Hong Kong bootleg subs, and a half-translated copy of ''[[Super Robot Wars Reversal|Super Robot Wars R]]''
 ** There is a fansub in the works based off the Italian version.
-* [[Odd Couple]] Hokuto and Ginga
+* [[Odd Couple]] Hokuto and Ginga{{context}}
 * [[Older and Wiser]] The stillborn second season would have had the original cast acting as mentors to a team of kids piloting Dendoh-based mecha
 * [[Ordinary High School Student|Ordinary Elementary School Students]]
 * [[Paper-Thin Disguise]] Subverted by Vega, who wears a wig and contacts in addition to the traditional mecha anime mask
 * [[Post Episode Trailer]] (featuring Hokuto and Ginga arguing about something pointless instead of telling you what's going to happen)
-* [[Robot War]] Technically
+* [[Robot War]] Technically{{context}}
+* [[Super Robot]]: The Dendoh itself, and practically every other mecha in the setting follows the same general qualifications.
-* [[Super Robot]]
 * [[Super Robot Wars]] [[Super Robot Wars Reversal|R]] and [[Super Robot Wars MX|MX]]
 * [[Shout-Out]] To just about every [[Humongous Mecha]] anime out there
-* [[Spell My Name With an "S"]] Altea/Althea/Altair, Galfa is also sometimes spelled Gulfer
+* [[Spell My Name with an "S"]] Altea/Althea/Altair, Galfa is also sometimes spelled Gulfer
 * [[Stellar Name]] Hokuto means "North Star". Ginga means "Galaxy". Not to mention [[wikipedia:Vega|Vega]] and [[wikipedia:Altair|Altair]]...
 * [[Stock Footage]]
-* [[This Is a Drill]] The Unicorn Drill data weapon
+* [[This Is a Drill]] The Unicorn Drill data weapon{{context}}
 * [[Toyetic]] The titular mecha looks like a toy, appears to be powered by two giant AA batteries, and can only be piloted by two kids.
 * [[Verbal Tic]], dawa, jyan, bari!
-* [[What Could Have Been]] Some key elements in the show were supposed to be for [[Sunrise]]'s next [[Brave Series|Brave show]] after [[Gao Gai Gar]], ''Brave Saint Baan Gaan'', But since the show didn't materialize, said elements came to fruition in this show.
+* [[What Could Have Been]] Some key elements in the show were supposed to be for [[Sunrise (company)|Sunrise]]'s next [[Brave Series|Brave show]] after [[GaoGaiGar]], ''Brave Saint Baan Gaan'', But since the show didn't materialize, said elements came to fruition in this show.
-* [[Whip It Good]] The Viper Whip data weapon and Vega
+* [[Whip It Good]] The Viper Whip data weapon and Vega.
 {{reflist}}
 [[Category:Anime]]
 [[Category:GEAR Fighter Dendoh]]
+[[Category:Anime of the 2000s]]
+[[Category:Pages with working Wikipedia tabs]]
+[[Category:Sunrise (company)]]