| Six God Combination God Mars | |
| 六神合体ゴッドマーズ (Rokushin Gattai Goddomāzu) |
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| Genre | Mecha, Drama |
| TV anime | |
| Directed by | Tetsuo Imazawa |
| Written by | Keisuke Fujikawa |
| Studio | Tokyo Movie Shinsha |
| Network | Nippon TV |
| Original run | October 2, 1981 – December 24, 1982 |
| Episodes | 64 |
| Anime film | |
| Godmars | |
| Directed by | Tetsuo Imazawa |
| Written by | Mitsuteru Yokoyama |
| Studio | Tokyo Movie Shinsha |
| Released | December 18, 1982 |
| Runtime | 95 minutes |
| Anime film | |
| Godmars: The Untold Legend | |
| Directed by | Masakatsu Iijima |
| Written by | Mitsuteru Yokoyama |
| Studio | Tokyo Movie Shinsha |
| Released | June 5, 1988 |
| Runtime | 60 minutes |
Six God Combination God Mars (六神合体ゴッドマーズ Rokushin Gattai Goddomāzu) is a popular anime series that aired from 1981 to 1982 in Japan, Hong Kong, and Italy with 64 episodes. Other loosely translated names are "Hexademon Symbiote God Mars", "Six God Union God Mars", and "Six Gods United As One Being"; sometimes spelling the title mecha as "Godmars".
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In the year 1999, humanity begins to advance beyond the known Solar System. The small planet Gishin, led by the Emperor Zul, who aims to conquer the galaxy, runs into conflict with Earth. He targets Earth for elimination and to do this, he sends a male baby called Mars to live among humanity. Accompanying the baby is a giant robot named Gaia, which utilizes a new power source strong enough to destroy an entire planet. As planned, Mars is expected to grow up, where he will activate the bomb within Gaia to fulfill the mission of destroying the Earth. However, when Mars arrives on Earth he is adopted into a Japanese family and given the name Takeru. Seventeen years later, Takeru grows up with a love for humanity and refuses to detonate the bomb as ordered by Zul. However, if Takeru was to die, the bomb within Gaia would explode destroying the earth.
Takeru possesses psychic powers (ESP). Takeru also can pilot the God Mars robot with his mind. Takeru decides to join the Earth defense forces and becomes a member of the Crasher Squad (an elite space-defense force), where he and his friends take a last stand against the Gishin's attack. The relationship of Takeru with his brother Marg, which as fate would have it, pitted the two against each other in the war.
Unknown to the Gishin, five other robots were created in secrecy alongside Gaia by Takeru's father and sent with Gaia to protect Takeru. Whenever Earth is in danger, Takeru is able to summon the five other robots to combine with Gaia to form the giant robot God Mars. The five other robots are Sphinx, Uranus, Titan, Shin and Ra.
The anime show is loosely based on the 1976 Mars manga from Shōnen Champion magazine by Mitsuteru Yokoyama. God Mars is named as such to represent the mythological Roman God of war.
| Name | Japanese Name | Voices by |
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| Mars/Takeru Myojin | マーズ／明神タケル | Yū Mizushima |
| Kenji Asuka | 飛鳥ケンジ | Hiroya Ishimaru |
| Naoto Ijuin | 伊集院ナオト | Hirotaka Suzuoki (anime) Gô Shinomiya (Super Robot Wars Series) |
| Mika Hyuga | 日向ミカ | Youko Kawanami |
| Akira Kiso | 木曽アキラ | Yoku Shioya |
| Namida Akashi | 明石ナミダ | Eiko Yamada |
| Shigeru Otsuka | 大塚長官 | Kousei Tomita |
| Dr. Myojin | 明神博士 | Takeshi Aono |
| Shizuka Myojin | 明神静子 | Toshiko Maeda |
| Marg | マーグ | Yūji Mitsuya |
| Rose | ロゼ | Rumiko Ukai |
| Flore | フローレ | Yoshiko Sakakibara |
| Gasshu | ガッシュ | Akio Nojima Kazuyuki Sogabe (eps 43-44) |
| Emperor Zuul | ズール皇帝 | Naya Goro |
| Gyron | ギロン総統 | Osamu Kobayashi |
| Rui | ルイ | Kumiko Takizawa |
| Narrator | ナレーター | Eiji Kanie |
| Name | Robot Location | Color | Specialty | Hidden in |
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| Gaia | Body Core Internal | red | Gravitational Beam, Impact Wave | Japanese statue in the reefs |
| Sphinx | Body Shell Middle | blue, red | God of Stones | Egypt between Pyramid and Sphinx |
| Uranus | Right Arm | white | Freezer Beam | Icebergs near Greenland |
| Titan | Left Arm | green | Cyclone Blast | Indian Ocean |
| Shin | Right Foot | black, red | Flare | Among South East Asian Temple |
| Ra | Left Foot | blue, yellow | Pulsar Beam | Among Easter Island Statues |
| God Mars | N/A | All colors mentioned | God Fire, Mars Flash | N/A |
The 64 episodes span 2 DVD collections.
God Mars would go on to make guest appearances in games like Super Robot Wars. In Super Robot Wars Destiny and Super Robot Wars Z2: Hakai-hen, the player gets a "Game Over" whenever God Mars is destroyed, due to the God Mars storyline for the first 25 episodes. In Hakai-hen, there is even a special game-over screen for when this happens.
God Mars came out very early in the super-robot animation era of the 1980s, having been created by Mitsuteru Yokoyama. The show did appear in the U.S., as an edited televised movie in 1982 called "Godmars". Later in 1988, a God Mars OVA was released under the title God Mars: The Untold Legend, where Gaia, God Mars, and the gishin robot Zeron receive redesigns although the OVA mostly focuses on an alternate telling of Marg's life on Gishin up until the events of episode 19. A theatrical feature was to follow called God Mars: The Movie +.
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