Brave Exkaiser

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Brave Exkaiser

勇者エクスカイザー (Yuusha Exkaiser)
Genre	Adventure, Mecha, Science Fiction
TV anime
Directed by	Katsuyoshi Yatabe
Studio	Sunrise
Network	Nagoya TV
Original run	February 3, 1990 – January 26, 1991
No. of episodes	48

Illustration of Exkaiser from the DVD box set: the first Brave robot

Brave Exkaiser (Yuusha Exkaiser, 勇者エクスカイザー) was a Japanese animated television series that began in 1990, created by Sunrise under the direction of Katsuyoshi Yatabe, and was the first of the long running Yuusha or "Brave" metaseries funded by Takara and produced by Sunrise. The story takes place on a present day Earth that was secretly visited by a group of space police led by Exkaiser who were chasing after an evil gang of energy beings called The Geisters (led by Dino Geist). Upon arriving on Earth, Exkaiser and his team called the "Kaisers" put their spirits (Similar to Sparks of the Transformers mythos) into vehicles all over Japan so that they could convert them into transformable bodies for themselves.

[edit] Mecha

Great Exkaiser: Super robot formed by Exkaiser with both of his auxiliary mecha.
- King Exkaiser: Super robot union of Exkaiser an the King Roader. This is the series initial primary robot.
  - Exkaiser: Space police robot that transforms into a car form. His powered up transformation exchanges the normal appearance of his chestplate for a lion's head motif.
  - King Roader: A carrier vehicle that transforms into a flight mode or into a trailer mode that can be pulled by Exkaiser's car mode.
- Dragon Jet/Dragon: A large jet that can transform into a trailer that may be pulled by Exkaiser's car mode, or into a large seldomly used face-less robot known as Dragon. Exkaiser can combine with it in similar fashion as he combines with the King Roader, to form Dragon Kaiser, which gives the super robot form it's complete face.

God Max: A super robot formed when three of the space police robots combine.
- Sky Max: Space police robot that transforms into a jet form. His powered up transformation exchanges the normal appearance of his chestplate for an eagle's head motif.
- Dash Max: Space police robot that transforms into a car form. His powered up transformation exchanges the normal appearance of his chestplate for a turbine.
- Drill Max: Space police robot that transforms into a twin-drill tank. His powered up transformation exchanges the normal appearance of his chestplate for a pair of protruding gatling cannons.

Ultra Raker: A super robot formed when the Raker Brothers perform a Symmetrical Docking (called a "Parallel Combination" within the series), wherein each Brother forms a full half of the combined robot.
- Blue Raker: Space police robot that transforms into a bullet train. He is the younger Raker Brother.
- Green Raker: Space police robot that transforms into a bullet train. He is the elder Raker Brother.

[edit] Geisters

The antagonist characters of Exkaiser who pit their fused monsters of the day against the space police. They are, themselves, living robots of the same type.

Dinogeist: Leader of the Geisters. He transforms from a giant robot, to an allosaurus-like dinosaur form, to a jet mode.
Mad Geister: The fused form of the four other Geisters. It is a humanoid super robot.
- Hormor: The fused humanoid form of two separate Geisters.
  - Horngeist: Robot that transforms into a triceratops-like dinosaur form.
  - Armorgeist: Robot that transforms into a stegosaurus-like dinosaur form.
- Pteder: A fused form of two of the geisters that resembles a winged centaur.
  - Pterageist: Robot that transforms into a pteranodon-like form.
  - Thundergeist: Robot that transforms into a brontosaurus-like dinosaur form.