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Appears in the anime The King of Braves GaoGaiGar (Yūsha GaoGaiGā or abbreviated GaoGaigar) which was released in 1997. Z-Master is a combination form of the Zonder Master Program created by the people of Purple Planet (Murasaki no Hoshi). Its size reaches 40,000,000 meters!

The first television series to stem from the combined Takara/Sunrise Brave concept was Brave Exkaiser, whose premise and basic concept are very similar to the original Transformers series: the intergalactic "cops" chase space pirates called Geisters as they descend to Earth to steal everything." his treasure”, did not know what the “treasure” was for mankind. When he arrives on Earth, Exkaiser and the "Space Police Force" possess various vehicles in spirit form, turning them into humanoid robots. The relationship between Exkaiser and a boy named Kouta Hoshikawa, the son of a family whose car he owns, serves to forge a human-robot friendship not quite the same as Transformers once described it, and will lead to the formation of a recurring theme that many believe to be the driving force behind. early pull for the Brave Series in Japan. Exkaiser was much more popular than anticipated, and in some ways sparked a renewed desire for Super Robot style mecha production among Japanese audiences.

The next show in the series—The Brave Warrior Sun Fighbird—uses a similar concept, focusing more on self-parodic humor by asking the robot leader to have a humanoid simulated android instead (which interacts with the Fire Jets to form the robot Fight Bird). This forced him to coexist with humanity on their terms, causing a lot of trouble. The concept of the "Space Police Force'' remains intact (though not connected to the previous series), the main difference being that the mecha that Fight Bird and one of the merging teams use was developed earlier by the human scientist, Hiroshi Amano, whose grandson Kenta accompanies the Space Police in their battles.

The Brave Fighter from the Legend of Da-Garn marks the first serious thematic turning point in the Brave Series. In the previous two shows, the "boy" was a supporting character, not allowed to put himself in danger; Da-Garn centers on an older teenager, Seiji Takasugi: a "latch lock" from whom the robot takes orders — forcing the boy to command them in the field. The spirit of the owner of the robot itself is no longer an "alien", but a force created by planet Earth to protect itself from invaders — especially aliens who attack antagonists from pawns.

Villains, although all nominally part of one faction, are usually at odds with one another and have separate armies and troops. modus operandi, including the person being the turncoat; this theme will be developed in later Brave series. Da-Garn is best known for being the only Brave series to tell a story as it progresses through its episodes, rather than focusing on 'finish in one' episodic adventures, until GaoGaiGar is produced. Unsurprisingly, these two series share one author. Likewise, Da Garn foresees more violent themes to emerge in the Brave series and GaoGaiGar itself, featuring a Tomino-Style ending where many of the main characters die.

The Brave Express Might Gaine brings this newly created theme to its logical conclusion. Here the robot is no longer a "spirit", but has the personality given by the Artificial Intelligence expert. These robots were designed and built from the ground up by the late father of the main characters: crime-fighting billionaire teenager and railroad tycoon Senpuuji Maito. He acts as a Bruce Wayne character of sorts, taking command of the Brave Express robot in the field and fighting crime himself on the front lines. The antagonists are separated into several criminal factions, some at odds with each other, extending the basic criminal structure used in Da Garn. Some Japanese fans consider Might Gaine to be the best of the Brave series, and is often cited as one of the most expressive of Brave's "formula" ideas.

The main exception is the series' controversial ending, which is often interpreted by critics as a sign of a deteriorating relationship between Sunrise and Takara. At the end of Might Gaine, the characters learn that they are just fictional characters whose conflicts are artificially created so that evil masterminds in other dimensions can sell toys and merchandise. Maito reacted to this with a speech that was interpreted by Japanese critics as a defense of Da Garn's character-based storytelling style, which Takara was generally believed to dislike. After the speech, Maito crushes the enemy, thereby asserting his own "reality" as a true character and not a trading tool. Analysis of the series often regards many plot elements throughout the series as Sunrise effectively "backlashing" at Takara as it forced them to create shows with less plot to cram in more toy designs and action sequences. For example, many of the robots in Might Gaine appear without explanation, or arbitrarily turn into absurd alternate modes.

J-Decker Police Brave returns to a much lighter tone, focusing more on Maybe Gaine's concept of "robots as man-made AI constructs." Elementary school student Yuuta Tomonaga stumbles upon Deckerd, a humanoid robot under construction by the Japanese police, created to fight an advanced form of crime. Yuuta's constant contact with Deckerd gives the robot a "heart", or personality; when Yuuta is recruited as the "boss" of the "Brave Cop" as a result, a true human/robot partnership occurs. It has been claimed that one of Da Garn's main villains, Redlone, appeared on J-Decker; This is not true. Due to Redlone's immense popularity (compared to other Da Garn villains), it's become rather traditional to have the first villain of the Brave series look like him (there is a similar character in Might Gaine). The character that appeared in J-Decker wasn't named Redlone, nor was he supposed to be Redlone. Some confuse the two characters and then claim that Da Garn and J-Decker are connected somehow, which is not true.

Goldran's Brave Gold was intended as a throwback to the carefree and whimsical tone that pervaded the original three Brave titles, which have settled somewhat under the direction of the creative team that oversees Might Gaine and J-Decker. Goldran follows the adventures of three boys tasked with finding alien robot warriors, or Braves, who are sleeping in crystal form. Their main antagonist is the flamboyant and grossly incompetent Walter, and the villains that follow are often hilarious too. The entire show is heavily focused on comedy and silliness almost to the exclusion of many ways of storytelling, although the series does develop a few storylines that run towards the end. In terms of television ratings, Goldran is the pinnacle of popularity of the Brave series.

Of the Brave Series, Dagwon's Commando Brave is the most distinct from the theme set throughout the rest of the show. That said, it was the result of Sunrise seeing the immense success of the Army of Samurai series and wanting to duplicate the basic formula, five beautiful, thinly written young men going on an episodic adventure, in another major franchise. If this origin is correct, then both Gundam Wing's New Mobile Report and Dagwon are direct results, and are meant to appeal to both traditional male audiences and female audiences attracted by an attractive male protagonist.

The premise involves five teenage boys who are recruited by foreign police to prevent Earth's destruction by convicts released from an intergalactic prison. Using transformation items, these teens can transform into "Dagwon", a sentai-like team of action heroes who can "merge" with their vehicles to achieve humanoid robot form, similar to the "Principles of Juniors" and "Godmasters" ("Powermasters" in another country) in Transformers: Super God Power. Although the "card" robots that assist Shadow Rei are thought to have some sort of basic AI, there doesn't seem to be any human-robot relationship in this show at all. Instead, it plays with the idea of boys "becoming" robots through a kind of mystical fusion, a theme later explored in the very similar Sunrise series by Dagwon's creative team, called Chouja Reideen. While nominally a reimagining of Sunrise and Tohokushinsha daring Raideen, developed by the staff who would later become Sunrise members, Chouja Reideen is much more like Dagwon than the original Brave Reideen.

Brave King GaoGaiGar was the last television series to be produced, and arguably the most popular of them all. Created by Sunrise's in-house "Studio 7" under the guidance of Yoshitomo Yonetani, the show combines elements of the previous Brave Series with an ambitious throwback to the 1970s Super Robot mentality, providing sharp contrast and commentary to the harsher and more violent anime television series. complex that appeared after Evangelion. Focusing on the concepts of "courage" and "boldness" in a cheerful atmosphere, the show would gain a large fan base once it aired in Japan, and eventually resulted in many non-animated projects and a sequel OVA, FINAL The Brave King GaoGaiGar.

After the end of GaoGaiGar, a new major project called The King of Braves GaoGaiGar Project Z was announced, which will link the event with another Studio 7 series, Better. Like most other Studio 7 anime and GaoGaiGar sequels, it appears to be designed to appeal to a much older audience than the traditional Brave demographic. However, Project Z has been cancelled, leaving GaoGaiGar as the final installment of the Brave Series. GaoGaiGar also experienced poor television ratings compared to the huge DVD sales, which supports the idea that kids don't listen to GaoGaiGar while older fans are increasingly drawn to the show's incredibly complex epic cosmology. This idea was revisited by Sunrise, and was revised into a novel series called King of Destruction: GaoGaiGar vs Betterman in 2016.

Originally a show called The Saint of Braves Baan Gaan was going to be a show to follow GaoGaiGar but the toy's fledgling ratings and sales prompted Sunrise to produce a show with big name talent and a superior budget to reignite interest in the franchise. Baan Gaan ended up seeing life in two forms, it was used in the video game Brave Saga as well as the concept for a future show titled Gear Fighter Dendoh. Before GaoGaiGar ended, another show, Photogrizer (フ ), was planned to continue the franchise but was postponed. Fully titled Brave of Light Photogrizer, the event would involve designs that at the time were based on the new technologies of modern digital cameras and cell phones. Cameras, binoculars and weapons will turn into deformed robots. Cameras will be combined with dinosaurs and birds to form a Photogrizer, and binoculars will be combined with fire trucks.

The events and influences of the Post-Brave series

Thanks to the unusual popularity Baan Gaan achieved with Yūsha through the game's Intrepid Saga, the slated creative team (including character designer Hirokazu Hisayuki and possible director Mitsuo Fukuda) was allowed to create an independent Super Robot series for Sunrise a few years later, called Gear Fighter Dendoh. The plot and concept Dendoh and Baan Gaan have in common very much, including the mechanics of how the machines combine with their animal robot helpers, the emphasis on the ongoing conflict between two specific Super Robots (one blue and one red), the structure of multiple protagonists, and the idea of a child pilot. fight with the support of a group of older pilots and technicians (VARS in Baan Gaan, and GEAR in Dendoh). While Dendoh was only a modest commercial success, the show was warmly received by critics, and the team has since been responsible for lucrative series such as My-HiME and Gundam SEED.

Following Dendoh, Sunrise took the final step to resurrect the style of the Brave television series by having some Dendoh staff back to work on Robo Rescue Machine, based on a modern rework from Bandai and PLEX's own Robo Machine toy line. Rescue combines all of the basic storytelling tropes from the original six kid-friendly Brave series with a very wide range of toys and Sunrise's early attempts to blend 2D animation (characters) with 3D animation (robots). While the toys were popular and the anime did well with older audiences, 3D animation was widely criticized, and overall the attempt failed to reclaim the original popularity of the Brave Series. Sunrise won't try another 2D/3D series until 2006, with the well-received Zegapain series.