Many remakes! Hideaki Anno’s first film is also on the list!70’s and 80’s Robot Anime Cool Combination Scenes.

In the 1970s and 1980s, the “robot anime” genre was very popular in Japan. Real robots, as typified by “Mobile Suit Gundam,” and giant robot-based anime works, later categorized as “super robots,” split the popularity of the genre. Real robots may be more prominent in recent anime, but many anime fans still love giant robot merger scenes.

Here are some “cool robot combination scenes” from Japanese robot anime of the 70s and 80s, based on our own prejudice.

Here are some of the coolest robot combination scenes from Japanese robot anime of the 70s and 80s.

10th Place
DAIAPOLON (Animation title: UFO SOLDIER DAIAPOLON)

10th Place
DANCOUGAR (Animation title: GOD BLESS DANCOUGAR)

9th Place
GOLION (Animation title: BEAST KING GOLION)

8th Place
Zambot 3 (Animation title: Invincible Super Man Zambot 3)

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VOLTES V (Animation title: VOLTES V)

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GAIKING (Animation title: DINO MECH GAIKING)

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GETTER ROBO G (Animation title: GETTER ROBO G)

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IDEON (Animation title: Space Runaway IDEON)

3rd Place
GUNBUSTER (Animation title: GUNBUSTER)

GUNBUSTER is the first film directed by Hideaki Anno, well known for his “Evangelion” series.
The GUNBUSTER is a decisive battle weapon developed by the Earth to counter an unidentified threat, and two machines combine to form the GUNBUSTER, a giant robot over 200 meters long. The quality of the cool images is so high that it is hard to believe that this is an animation from the 1980s.

2nd Place
COMBATTLER V (Animation title: COMBATTLER V)

In the popular robot anime “COMBATTLER V,” five machines combine to form a giant robot measuring 57 meters in height and weighing 550 tons. When the brain waves of the five members of the battle team are synchronized, they can combine to form Combattler.

1st Place
GETTER ROBO (Animation title: GETTER ROBO)

The “GETTER ROBO” appears in the anime GETTER ROBO. It is said to be the originator of robot transformation and combining.
Three machines combine to form the GETTER ROBO. The form of the robot changes depending on which part of Getter each machine is responsible for. There is Getter 1, which is good at air and land battles, Getter 2, which is good at high-speed movement and subterranean battles, and Getter 3, which is good at underwater battles and has superior power. The main pilot changed depending on the robot’s form, which was also unique.