- Ganbare!! Robocon
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Ganbare!! Robocon がんばれ!!ロボコン
(Ganbare!! Robokon)Genre Science fiction, Comedy TV anime Directed by Shotaro Ishinomori Studio Toei Network NET TV Original run October 4, 1974 – March 25, 1977 Episodes 118 TV anime Moero!! Robocon
燃えろ!!ロボコンStudio Toei Network TV Asahi Original run 1999 – 2000 Episodes 51 Game CR Ganbare!! Robocon Publisher NewGin Genre Pachinko Platform Arcade Released 2004 
This train on the Senseki Line, commissioned in honor of Shotaro Ishinomori, features Robocon prominently.
Ganbare!! Robocon (がんばれ!!ロボコン Ganbare!! Robokon, Do Your Best!! Robocon) was a Japanese television program created by Shotaro Ishinomori and produced by Toei. It ran for 118 episodes from October 4, 1974 to March 25, 1977 on NET TV. The series is rebooted in the 1999 series Moero!! Robocon (燃えろ!!ロボコン Moero!! Robokon, Burn!! Robocon).
The story followed Robocon, a student of Gantz' Robot Academy who lives amongst humans and aids them as part of his studies. Though Robocon is a screw up, he make efforts to establish a good image for robots in the eyes of humans they cross paths with.
Contents
Robots
- Robocon: A robot who lives amongst humans and aids them as part of his studies at Robot Academy. However, Robocon is a screw up and is afraid of cockroaches. He can transform into the Robocon Car.
- Gantz: The Robot teacher of Robot Academy who built all his student robots, who he accesses via the Scoring Connecter to check their "study" of the week.
- Robobin: A delivery robot who's normal of leisure until he transforms into bike-mode, becoming fast yet implusive. He always makes sure his deliveries get there on time and takes his job very seriously. Unfortunately Robocon seems to always be there to mess things up for him somehow getting him a low score in the end.
- Robo-P: A policewoman robot who likes to whistle. She has a huge crush on Robocon and is usually distracted from her duties because of it.
- Robogeta: Though a weather forecasting robot, his forecast rarely proves right. What he does is he throws his slipper into the air and judges the weather from the position it lands in. He always scores low because of this. He later makes friends with Roboboss as the bullies to Robocon
- Robokero: A frog-karaoke robot. He always tries to improve the mood with singing and believes that songs are a good way of cheering people up. He scores decently, but what he does usually isn't sufficient enough to earn a perfect score.
- Robomogu: A egg-shaped chef robot who works in a restaurant and serves people delicious food. He's friendly and sociable, but takes his cooking very seriously.
- Robodigi: Robodigi is a robot with a large monitor like head with two number digits as eyes (his neutral eyes is the number eight and the line in the middle moves to show sadness/anger) He always speaks politely and is a know it all. He works in a laboratory helping solve complex problems.
- Roboboss: He works at a construction site and is physically the most powerful robot in his class. Rash and impulsive, he is always looking for ways to get a perfect score. And once that gets too hard he tries to find ways to ruin everyone elses.
- Robin-chan:
Cast
- Shintaro Oyama: Shigehisa Ōno
- Hatsue Oyama: Midori Katō
- Hajime Oyama: Yoshikazu Yamada
- Midori Oyama: Mayumi Sakuma
- Makoto Oyama: Nobuyoshi Fukuda
- Robin-chan: Kaho Shimada
- Yamamoto-sensei: Yukari Yamamoto
- Officer Machida: Tōru Yuri
- Taro Ogawa: Masahiro Sumiyoshi
- Yoshiko Ogawa: Miyuki Ueda
- Mayumi Ogawa: Yukiko Ebina
- Susumu Ogawa: Makoto Honda
Voice Cast
- Robocon: Keiko Yamamoto
- Gantz-sensei: Keiichi Noda
- Robogari: Sachiko Chijimatsu
- Robopar/Robo Mecha: Kōji Yada
- Robowal/Robopu/Robobin: Ichirō Nagai
- Robodoro/Roboton: Kenichi Ogata
- Roboton: Keaton Yamada
- Robosho/Robokiwi/Robochoi: Sanji Hase
- Roboton/Robogaki/Robogera: Osamu Katō
- Robopecha/Robopyon: Kazuko Sawada
- Robowal/Robocar: Yonehiko Kitagawa
- Robodeki: Akira Kamiya
- Robomero: Junko Hori
- Roboinu: Kaneta Kimotsuki/Shun Yashiro
- Roboriki: Hiroshi Masuoka
- Robopeka: Isamu Tanonaka
- Robo-chan: Kazuko Sugiyama
Theme Songs
All songs were sung by Ichirou Mizuki and composed by Shunsuke Kikuchi.
- OP 1: Ganbare Robocon, written by Shotaro Ishinomori
- OP 2: Oira Robocon Robotto dai! (おいらロボコンロボットだい!) by Shotaro Ishinomori
- ED 1: Robocon, Best in the Robot World (ロボコン・ロボット世界一 Robokon Robotto Sekaiichi) written by Saburō Yatsude
- ED 2: Robocon Gattsurakon (ロボコンガッツラコン) by Saburō Yatsude
- Summer ED: Robocon Ondo (ロボコン音頭) by Saburō Yatsude
- Winter ED: Run! Robocon Athletic Meet (走れ!!ロボコン運動会 Hashire! Robokon Undōkai) by Shotaro Ishinomori
Categories:- Anime series
- Shotaro Ishinomori
- 1974 Japanese television series debuts
- 1977 Japanese television series endings
- 1999 Japanese television series debuts
- 2000 Japanese television series endings
- Japanese television dramas
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