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Getta Robo (1974)

Getter Robo is a Super Robot manga series created by Go Nagai and Ken Ishikawa, as well as an anime series produced by Toei Animation. The series had a total of 51 episodes. Getter Robo is often credited as the first combiner robot in anime history, although the Astroboy series featured combining robots in a few episodes in the previous decade.

The plot involves three strong-willed teenagers from the same high school: soccer player and martial artist Ryoma Nagare, rebel loner Hayato Jin and Judo master Musashi Tomoe, who pilot three specially designed combat jets which can be combined together in different forms to form three different kinds of giant robots, Getter-1 (used for aerial combat), Getter-2 (for land-based conflicts), and Getter-3 (for undersea battles). They were assembled by Prof. Saotome, who conceived the Getter Robo project as a means of deep-space exploration, but became instead Earth's first line of defense against the Dinosaur Empire, which is a civilization of reptile-like humanoids, who evolved from the now-extinct dinosaurs that roamed the earth millions of years ago. They have lived many years underground, and they now want to reclaim the Earth as theirs and destroy humanity.

The series was groundbreaking in the anime mecha genre: for the very first time, it introduced the concept of separate machines combining to form a Super Robot. Using three jets, Getter Robo could combine in three different ways to create three different versions of Getter Robo for different conditions and situations. This idea was originally discussed during the creation process for Mazinger Z (the first Super Robot to be piloted internally), but was dropped and then developed for Getter Robo.

This combination idea proved to be a very powerful concept that has been used in the super robot genre ever since. Also, by adding three pilots to the robot was able to add an element of teen drama, probably influenced by the already popular anime sci-fi team show Gatchaman or G-force (better known in the U.S. as Battle of the Planets).

The cartoon series aired in the Philippines on IBC channel 13 in 1978 as Getta Robot, but did not last very long, and many have said that the last episode was never shown before it was pulled off the air. Although the series was not as popular as Mazinger Z, Daimos, or Voltes V, there was a lot of Getta Robot bootleg merchandise in circulation from the late 70's till the mid 80's. The included various robot toys, shirts, and even sari-sari store cheese snacks, tex cards, and candy.

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