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* ''Over the Rainbow'' by Little Voice
* ''Over the Rainbow'' by Little Voice

==Trivia==
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*In one part of the series, GEAR outfits Dendoh with a variety of weapons that do not rely on its Hyper Battery system. Not coincidentally, all of them are inspired by weapons from other [[Sunrise (company)|Sunrise]] giant robot anime and many others—the missile pod used by machines in ''[[Xabungle|Sentou Mecha Xabungle]]'', [[Raideen|Yuusha Reideen]]'s Gogun bow, Choudenji Yo-Yo from ''[[Combattler V]]'', the Beam Rifle from ''[[Gundam]]'', Double Tomahawk from ''[[Getter Robo G]]'', The Double-End Axe from ''[[Grendizer]]'', [[Voltes V]]'s Tenkūken and many others.
*The idea of battery-powered mecha and support vehicles was later revisited in Fukuda's next anime, ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED]]'', where the mobile suits—not counting [[Freedom Gundam|Freedom]], [[ZGMF-X09A Justice Gundam|Justice]], and [[ZGMF-X13A Providence Gundam|Providence]]—were powered by rechargeable batteries, and [[OMNI Enforcer]] developed a support plane for [[Strike Gundam]], the [[FX-550 Skygrasper]], which had many stock animation sequences that resembled those of the Cell Fighter.
*In an homage to Dendoh, Fukuda later named the mobile suit used by [[Andrew Waltfeld]] in ''SEED'' after Ragou, a [[cerberus]]-like beast which appears in this series.
*In another homage to Dendoh, Fukuda used the surnames of Dendoh's main pilots as names for battleships in ''SEED'' (Ginga's surname Izumo became the name of a class of ship employed by the Orb Union, while Hokuto's surname Kusanagi was the given name to an Izumo-class battleship that featured prominently in the series).
*Sara Gallagher, a minor character from Fukuda's earlier series, ''[[Cyber Formula]]'', makes brief cameos as one of Eris's friends (though with a slightly redesigned look). A more mature-looking Sara later plays a more important role in Sunrise's ''[[Mai-Otome]]''.


==Video Game==
==Video Game==

Revision as of 06:57, 15 June 2008

GEAR Fighter Dendoh
GenreMecha, Action, Drama
Anime
Directed byMitsuo Fukuda
StudioSunrise
Released October 4, 2000 – June 27, 2001

Gear Fighter Dendoh (GEAR戦士電童, Gear Senshi Dendō) is an anime series that aired in Japan. It ran for 38 episodes, from October 4, 2000 to June 27, 2001, on the TV Tokyo network and its affiliates.

Overview

Gear Fighter Dendoh tells the story of two Japanese schoolboys—short-tempered Ginga Izumo and level-headed Hokuto Kusanagi—who meet one day in the midst of an attack on the Earth by Gulfer, a race of sentient machines determined to wipe out all life in the universe. The two are chosen by Dendoh, a machine built to battle Gulfer, to be its pilots during this attack. They also become members of the Guard Earth and Advanced Reconnaissance (GEAR) organization designated with the protection of Earth from the Gulfer advance. The two pilots find themselves in a race to obtain the powerful and animal-like Data Weapons before Gulfer can get their hands on them.

The show is directed and plotted by Mitsuo Fukuda and his wife, Chiaki Morosawa, the duo who went on to create Mobile Suit Gundam SEED and its sequel Mobile Suit Gundam SEED DESTINY. Notably, Morosawa was not sole head scriptwriter for Dendoh, instead sharing the duty with another female writer who went on to be the head writer for Toei's Kamen Rider Ryuki.

Cast and Crew

Cast

Crew

Opening and Closing Themes

Opening:

Closings:

  • COUNT DOWN by Little Voice (ep. 1–19, 22–38)
  • Brand New Mermaid by C-DRiVE (ep. 20 and 21)

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  • Over the Rainbow by Little Voice

Video Game

Gear Fighter Dendoh has spawned one platform title for the Sony PlayStation. It was released in 2001.

Dendoh was also featured in the Super Robot Wars series of Japanese simulation games. It first appeared in 2002's Super Robot Wars R for the Nintendo Game Boy Advance and Super Robot Wars MX for the Sony PlayStation 2.

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