Gowappā 5 Godam
ゴワッパー5ゴーダム (Gowappaa 5 Gōdamu)
Genre	Mecha
TV anime
Director	Hisayuki Toriumi
Studio	Tatsunoko Productions
Network	Nihon Educational Television
Original run	April 4, 1976 – December 29, 1976[1]
Episodes	36
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Gowappā 5 Gōdam (ゴワッパー5ゴーダム^?) is an anime series aired in 1976. There were 36 episodes. It is also referred to as Goliath the Super Fighter , Gowapper 5 Gundam, Godam, Go Wapper 5 Go Dam, Gowappa 5 Gordam.

The series has also been aired on Italian television under the title Godam.

Contents 1 Story 2 Concept 3 Staff 4 Characters 5 DVD 6 Merchandise 7 References 8 External links

[edit] Story

Five youths from Edo City explore a strange rocky island and discover the mecha that Doctor Hoarai had been creating in order to resist the impending attack by a race of subterranean rock people. Doctor Hoarai was ridiculed by the scientific community for his predictions that such an attack would take place. The youths decide to join the doctor (who was dead but had transferred his mind into a computer) in piloting the vehicles and protecting Earth. The Gowapper 5 Godam team is born! With the aid of the giant fighting robot Godam, the Gowapper team under the leadership of Yoko Misaki must face the hordes of the inhuman subterranean people.^[2]

[edit] Concept

Gowappa was the first super robot anime to feature a female as the leader and main character. This was done in an effort to increase the TV viewing demographic to both male and female youth.

[edit] Staff

Director
Hisayuki Toriumi

Additional Director
Masami Suda
Tsuneo Ninomiya

Screenwriter
Toshio Nagata
Saburo Taki

Design
Yoshitaka Amano

Mechanical Design
Kunio Okawara (Tatsunoko Mechaman Design Office)

Animator
Yoshihisa Okuno
Chuichi Iguchi

Music
Bob Sakuma

[edit] Characters

Japanese Name	Vehicle	Voiced by
Yoko Misaki	A-Plane	Terumi Niki
Go Tsunami	Gasomashin	Yoshito Yasuhara
Godaemon	Heli-Marine
Norisuke	Yadokari Jeep
Daikichi Kameyama	Turtle Tank
Doctor Hoarai
Jo
Maguda Shogun

[edit] DVD

The series has since been released on DVD.

[edit] Merchandise

The Gowappa 5 Godam characters and mecha were released in Takara's Magnemo toy line in Japan in 1976.

[edit] References

1. ^ "ゴワッパー5ゴーダム". Tatsunoko Production. http://www.tatsunoko.co.jp/works/gordam/gordam.html. Retrieved 2008-07-20. (Japanese)
2. ^ [1]

[edit] External links

Goliath the Super Fighter (anime) at Anime News Network's Encyclopedia

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