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Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

ese television program created by Shotaro Ishinomori

Shotaro Ishinomori

was a Japanese manga artist who became an influential figure in manga, anime, and tokusatsu, creating several immensely popular long-running series such as Cyborg 009 and Himitsu Sentai Goranger, what would go on to become part of the Super Sentai series, and the Kamen Rider Series...

 and produced by Toei

Toei Animation

Toei Animation Co., Ltd. is a Japanese animation studio owned by Toei Co., Ltd. The studio was founded in 1948 as Japan Animated Films . In 1956, Toei purchased the studio and it was reincorporated under its current name...

. It ran for 118 episodes from October 4, 1974 to March 25, 1977 on NET TV

TV Asahi

, also known as EX and , is a Japanese television network headquartered in Roppongi, Minato, Tokyo, Japan. The company writes its name in lower-case letters, tv asahi, in its logo and public-image materials. The company also owns All-Nippon News Network....

. The series is rebooted in the 1999 series .

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.

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
  Midori Katō
  is a Japanese voice actress, actress, and narrator represented by Gekidankawa, Tokyo Actor's Consumer's Cooperative Society, and Sigma Seven , but is now a free agent....
  
  
• Hajime Oyama: Yoshikazu Yamada
• Midori Oyama: Mayumi Sakuma
• Makoto Oyama: Nobuyoshi Fukuda
• Robin-chan: Kaho Shimada
  Kaho Shimada
  Kaho Shimada is a Japanese singer and musical theater actress. Born and raised in Tokyo, she attended Tokyo Municipal Jonan High School...
  
  
• Yamamoto-sensei: Yukari Yamamoto
• Officer Machida: Tōru Yuri
• Taro Ogawa: Masahiro Sumiyoshi
• Yoshiko Ogawa: Miyuki Ueda
  Miyuki Ueda
  , is a Japanese actress and voice actress. She is married to singer Isao Sasaki and is a childhood friend of fellow voice actor Katsuji Mori.-TV anime:*Weiß Kreuz *Space Battleship Yamato **Space Battleship Yamato: The New Journey...
  
  
• Mayumi Ogawa: Yukiko Ebina
• Susumu Ogawa: Makoto Honda

Voice Cast

• Robocon: Keiko Yamamoto
  Keiko Yamamoto
  ', born August 7, 1943, is a veteran female voice actor from Osaka Prefecture. Many of her roles have been young boys or tomboyish young girls.-TV Anime:*Akadō Suzunosuke 1972 *Aria the Natural...
  
  
• Gantz-sensei: Keiichi Noda
  Keiichi Noda
  ', born September 16, 1943 in Yamaguchi Prefecture, is a veteran seiyuu and narrator. He is currently affiliated with Aoni Production. His real name is ....
  
  
• Robogari: Sachiko Chijimatsu
  Sachiko Chijimatsu
  is a female Japanese voice actres represented by Arts Vision.She is most known for the roles of Pyonkichi , Nobita's Mama , Kabu , Shippona , and 001/Ivan Whiskey ....
  
  
• Robopar/Robo Mecha: Kōji Yada
  Koji Yada
  is a Japanese voice actor currently represented by Aoni Production. Kōji Yada is also his birth name, but it is written with different kanji .-TV anime:*Arrow Emblem Hawk of the Grand Prix *Space Battleship Yamato Series...
  
  
• Robowal/Robopu/Robobin: Ichirō Nagai
  Ichiro Nagai
  is a male seiyū from Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture. He was formerly represented by Tokyo Actor's Consumer's Cooperative Society, but is now represented by Aoni Production.-Television animation:*Akuma-kun *Bikkuriman...
  
  
• Robodoro/Roboton: Kenichi Ogata
• Roboton: Keaton Yamada
  Keaton Yamada
  is a Japanese voice actor. He switched from going by his real name, Shunji Yamada, to going by Keaton Yamada in the 1980s. He is currently represented by Remax.- Voice Roles :*Attacker You! *Bonobono...
  
  
• Robosho/Robokiwi/Robochoi: Sanji Hase
  Sanji Hase
  ', born ' on January 2, 1936 in Tokyo, Japan, was a seiyū and the father of Macross star Arihiro Hase. He died of lung cancer on March 8, 2002 at the age of 66...
  
  
• Roboton/Robogaki/Robogera: Osamu Katō
• Robopecha/Robopyon: Kazuko Sawada
• Robowal/Robocar: Yonehiko Kitagawa
  Yonehiko Kitagawa
  is a Japanese voice actor represented by Aoni Production. He was formerly credited as '. He is a graduate of Hosei University.-Notable Voice Work:*Azumanga Daioh is a Japanese voice actor represented by Aoni Production. He was formerly credited as '. He is a graduate of Hosei University.-Notable...
  
  
• Robodeki: Akira Kamiya
  Akira Kamiya
  is a Japanese voice actor. He has been represented by Theater Echo, Aoni Production, and others. He is currently represented by Saeba Shoji.-Career:Kamiya made his debut on Mahou no Mako-chan in 1970 while working for Theater Echo...
  
  
• Robomero: Junko Hori
  Junko Hori
  is a Japanese actress and voice actor represented by Production Baobab.She is known as the voice of the protagonists in 3 Fujiko Fujio works, Obake no Q-tarō, Ninja Hattori-kun, and Chinpui...
  
  
• Roboinu: Kaneta Kimotsuki
  Kaneta Kimotsuki
  is a Japanese voice actor who was born in Kagoshima.He is most known for the roles of Suneo Honekawa , Dracula , Pāyan , Iyami , Tom , Benzou Karino , Horrorman , Conductor and Jiminy Cricket is a Japanese voice actor who was born in Kagoshima.He is most known for the roles of Suneo Honekawa...
  
  /Shun Yashiro
  Shun Yashiro
  was a Japanese actor and voice actor from Tsuyama, Okayama. At the time of his death, he was affiliated with Theater Echo. Throughout his career, Yashiro was also known as , , and ....
  
  
• Roboriki: Hiroshi Masuoka
• Robopeka: Isamu Tanonaka
  Isamu Tanonaka
  was a Japanese seiyū from Taitō, Tokyo. During his life he has been attached to Gekidan Tōgei and then Theatre Echo; he was attached to Aoni Production at the time of his death...
  
  
• Robo-chan: Kazuko Sugiyama
  Kazuko Sugiyama
  , born is a voice actress who was born in Nagoya and works for Aoni Production.In February 2010, she received a "Merit Awards" from the 4th Seiyū Awards....
  
  

Theme Songs

All songs were sung by Ichirou Mizuki

Ichirou Mizuki

, better known by his stage name , is a Japanese vocalist, lyrist, composer, voice actor and actor best known for his work on theme songs for anime and tokusatsu. For over 40 years, he has recorded over 1200 songs for Japanese film, television, video and video games. He is referred to by fans and...

 and composed by Shunsuke Kikuchi

Shunsuke Kikuchi

is a prolific Japanese composer from Hirosaki. He specializes in incidental music for media such as television and film.Active since the early 60s, he has been one of Japan's most highly demanded film and TV composers, working principally on tokusatsu and anime productions for children, as well as...

.

• OP 1: Ganbare Robocon, written by Shotaro Ishinomori
  Shotaro Ishinomori
  was a Japanese manga artist who became an influential figure in manga, anime, and tokusatsu, creating several immensely popular long-running series such as Cyborg 009 and Himitsu Sentai Goranger, what would go on to become part of the Super Sentai series, and the Kamen Rider Series...
  
  
• OP 2: by Shotaro Ishinomori
• ED 1: written by Saburō Yatsude
  Saburo Yatsude
  is a collective pen name used by Toei Company television producers when contributing to their various anime and tokusatsu series, whereas Izumi Todo is solely Toei Animation...
  
  
• ED 2: by Saburō Yatsude
• Summer ED: by Saburō Yatsude
• Winter ED: by Shotaro Ishinomori