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{{quote|''[[Gratuitous English|UCHUU SPACE NUMBER ONE]], [[Ear Worm|SENGOKU MAJIN NUMBER ONE!]]''}}

''[[GoShogun]]'' (戦国魔神ゴーショーグン, ''Sengoku Majin Goshōgun'') was a super robot anime series produced in 1981 and aired in 1982 in Japan. It is variously referred to in English as "''Demon God of the War-Torn Land [[GoShogun]]"'', "''Warring Demon God [[GoShogun]]"'', "''Civil War Devil-God [[''GoShogun]]"'' and "''[[Macekre|Macron 1"]]''.

A meteor strikes the Earth and is found to emanate a powerful new energy called [[Applied Phlebotinum|Beamler]], which is used to power a battle robot, [[GoShogun]], and a teleporting fortress, Good Thunder. The Docouga Crime Syndicate, lead by crime lord [[Big Bad|Neo Neros]], try to steal the secret of the energy from the inventor of [[GoShogun]], but he kills himself rather than let them acquire it. His son Kenta is targeted by Neo Neros next, but he is taken in by the crew aboard Good Thunder, who travel the world fighting Neo Neros's forces with [[GoShogun]]. Eventually Kenta learns that he is actually an alien. In the end, [[Heel Face Turn|Neo Neros's three officers side against him with the GoShogun crew]]. After he is defeated, [[But Now I Must Go|Kenta takes GoShogun into space, back to his home planet]].

''Go ShogunGoShogun'' has a sequel: a movie ''Go ShogunGoShogun: The Time [[Gratuitous French|Étranger]]'' (戦国魔神ゴーショーグン 時の異邦人, ''Sengoku Majin Goshōgun: Toki no Étranger''), released in 1985. The movie takes place 40 years after the series. Remy Shimada, a former member of the Go Shogun team, now an old woman, lies in a coma after a car accident as her former team mates and Docouga generals watch it helplessly. But in the depths of her subconscious Remy goes back to the time of her childhood and youth and fights death along with her five comrades. The movie is strikingly [[Genre Shift|different from the series]] in its dark and surrealistic tone, resembling the works of [[Satoshi Kon]].

* [[Cut and Paste Translation]]: In 1985, staff in the USA combined footage from [[''GoShogun]]'' and ''Akū Daisakusen Srungle'', a similar show produced by Kokusai Eiga-sha, to form "''Macron-1"'', which portrays the Srungle characters as being part of another branch of the organization fighting evil in a parallel universe. This combined series was produced and released in the United States by Saban.

** The US version involves test pilot David Chance travelling into a parallel universe under the tyrannical control of an organization called GRIP, led by Dark Star. Chance's entrance into the other universe allows GRIP to send their forces to Earth, leaving Dark Star's cyborg henchman Orn to remain in control in the alternate universe. GRIP is opposed by the two teams of Macron-1, the first led by Dr. Shegall and his team on Earth (from the [[''GoShogun]]'' footage), while in the alternate universe Chance organizes a band of rebel warriors, Beta Command, to combat and overthrow Orn (from the ''Srungle'' footage). The Beta Command members were given much less screen time than the Earth team.

*** The dubbed US version was voiced by the same cast as Carl Macek's Harmony Gold adaptation of ''[[Macross]], Genesis Climber Mospeada'', and others into ''[[Robotech]]''.

* [[Meaningful Name]]: Leonardo Medici Bundle's first &and second names are based on Leonardo da Vinci & Lorenzo de Medici.

* [[Musicalis Interruptus]]: In ''[[Super Robot Wars]''], Leonardo Medici Bundle's ship has "The Blue Danube" as its default background music. This song is being played by enormous speakers, and is the ''only'' situation in which [[Super Robot Wars Original Generation|Elzam V. Branstein]] (a.k.a. Ratsel Feinschmecker)'s theme "Trombe!" has been overridden.

* [[Parody]]: [[''GoShogun]]'' is one of the first robot anime to parody other robot series and poke fun at the genre concepts. Two of the more obvious examples are Kernagul, whose greatest ambition is to own a chain of fast food restaurants, and an enemy robot modeled after the [[Mobile Suit Gundam|RX-78-2 Gundam]], which, when granted sentience by [[''GoShogun]]'', declares that it doesn't want to fight any more and destroys itself.

{{quote| '''Bundle''': Remy defies the odds. Her will to live itself has always been a thing of beauty.}}

{{quote| '''Remy''': Pardon me! Hope I didn't disturb you.<br />