Proof that you can’t keep a good robot down for too long, Shotaro Ishinomori’s Robocon returned to Japanese television screens in 1999 in a brand new reboot. Moero!! Robocon (燃えろ!!ロボコン) occupies a particularly interesting place in the tokusatsu timeline, bridging the gap between the end of Robotack (the last of the Metal Heroes series) and […]
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Ganbare!! Robocon (がんばれ!!ロボコン) is a 1974 comedy series by Shotaro Ishinomori and by all accounts must have been pretty popular, given that it ran for a whopping 118 episodes and was rebooted in 1999 as Moero!! Robocon. Both of these series have been released on the Toei Tokusatsu World channel, but just to make things […]