Wakusei Robo Danguard Ace Episode Guide |
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Force Five Episodes |
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Episode Synopsis |
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Take Flight! Pioneers of Star Travel |
Earth's depletion of natural resources and overpopulation inspires the exploration and colonization of Promete, the 10th planet in our solar system.The 1st Promete rocket takes off! A terrible accident happens and Colonel Ichimonji (Blackstar) and the rest of the project are lost. 10 years later his son Takuma (Winstar), during a fight with Mecha-Satan "Jetlar" meets a mysterious masked man... But who is he? |
Enter Captain Mask |
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The Masked Man: Captain Dan |
The myterious masked man, Mr. X, is an extraordinary pilot who has managed to escape the Doppler Corps. He is brought in by Dr. Oedo (Cmdr. Cross) to train 3 young pilots for the Danguard Ace after defeating Mecha-Satan "Robotras". He is now known as "Captain Dan." (a.k.a. Captain Mask) |
Down From Mach 2 |
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The Crimson Sunset Vow |
The rigorous training by Captain Dan is enough to make the most promising pilot take up basket weaving. However, Takuma vows to someday pilot the Danguard Ace in spite of the brutal training. Especially after Captain Dan backs up what he preaches from his own flight training methods by single handedly taking out Mecha-Satan "Hell Sparrow" using conventional weapons considered obsolete by the cadets. |
Calling Captain Mask |
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Captain Dan is needed again... This time, to fight off Mecha-Satan "Death Tanker." When the unthinkable happens and he gets in trouble, Takuma goes against grounding orders and saves his life. Captain Dan was pleased with the end result but not the means. Takuma feels that Captain Dan has a special grudge against him. Is Takuma right in his assumption? | |
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Emergency Takeoff! Satelizer! |
The relentless training of Captain Dan's continues. Captain Dan feels Takuma is slipping in the training and grounds him again as Kanaya and Kubo are taken up in the Sky Arrow to practice the "D" formation (an effective combat manuever). However, traing is cut short when Mecha-Satan "Grenadar" attacks the base. Takuma takes off in the Satelizer and rams down Grenadar (which also damaged Satelizer). Another case of the ends not justifying the means as Captain Dan did not take a liking to an unauthorized take off in an unready Satelizer... |
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Fly Onward To Face Tomorrow |
Kanaya and Kubo are put through the ringer again in another exhausting training exercise for the "D" formation. Takuma is still in the "dog house" because of the Satelizer stunt he pulled in the previous episode. When Mecha-Satan "The Gil" attacks, Captain Dan is at a loss with both Kubo and Kanaya hospitalized and the fact that he refuses to take an insubordinate like Takuma with him. Captain Dan desides to go it alone in the Sky Arrow, but is stopped by Takuma at gun-point! Captain Dan stands him off and then lets him come along. Takuma is a lot more sucessful in manuevering the "D" formation than Kanaya or Kubo and succeeds in destroying The Gil. Does this victory restore Captain Dan's faith in Takuma's ability? |
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Everyone on the base is congratulating
Takuma in his victory and much improved flying skills.
Unfortunatly, this does not bode well with Kanaya and
Kubo as they feel Takuma has become a "teacher's
pet" in spite of constantly breaking protocal.
Captain Dan is displeased that Kanaya and Kubo are behind
in their training. Takuma secretly takes in upon himself
to train Kanaya and Kubo himself in the D and U
formations. This pleases Captain Dan who watches on from
the base. The training pays off as they take on
Mecha-Satan "Planetar" in the Sky Arrow.
Effective use of the U formation helps to destroy
Planetar. Now, all the jealousy is forgotten and Takuma,
Kanaya, and Kubo function better as a team for it. *This is also Taro the pocket monkey's first appearence as he was found in a forgotten space capsule from an older space program. He became Takuma's pet for the rest of the series, but hung out with Myo-chan and Tamaga most of the time. |
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The "T" Formation |
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Flowers From Takuma's Tears |
Kanaya (Marcus) suffers a career-ending injury as he (already injured) stows away aboard Satelizer. There is a defect in the Satelizer and Sky Arrow's ability to do the "T" Formation. Kanetani finds a way to use the Mecha-Satan "Galagas'" weapon to correct the problem. Unfortunatly, this was his last Satelizer flight as this manuever further injured him... As Kanaya sets sail and leaves Jasdam along with his dreams of being a Danguard pilot, a teary-eyed Takuma flys Satelizer over the ferryboat droping off a bouquet of flowers bidding his friend Kanaya farewell... (hence the episode title name) |
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As the Sun Sets a Friend is Lost |
*Force Five watchers: Have you ever wondered, "what ever happened to Roger?" Well, Kubo (Roger) was killed trying to save Takuma and Captain Dan. Mecha-Satan "Soundar" had the Satelizer in its grasp and focused its deadly sound waves on it. Kubo standard fighter could not withstand the waves as Satelizer could and he Kamikaze'd his fighter into an active volcano below, helping to destroy Soundar. Now Takuma is the lead pilot for Danguard Ace by default.... |
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Captain Dan's True Identity!? |
Another masked slave turns up from the past. Like Captain Dan, he also has no recollection of his past and is a very skilled pilot. Takuma wonders if this could be his father. This has Takuma torn as he has to fight this masked man (pilot of Mecha-Satan "Grandlar"). The masked man is later revealed to be Henry Douglas, an old friend of Takuma's father from the original Promete project! Unfortunatly, he survived only a short while after his Mecha-Satan was defeated... |
Captain Mask Remembers |
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A Father's Mask of Shadows Disappears Into Space |
Captain Dan is given an ultimatum by the Doppler Corps. as they lure him to an island with his masked friends held hostage. The hostages turn out to be fakes and highly explosive ones at that! Captain Dan is believed to have perished in the explosion until he shows up at Dr. Oedo's office (at the end of the episode) with a full recollection of his past and identity. He is also able to remove his mask! Who is he? |
Mission One Remembered |
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Shine! Danguard Ace! |
Captain Dan has now been revealed as the long lost Dantetsu Ichimonji (Col. Blackstar)! Colonel Ichimonji swears Dr. Oedo to secrecy about his true identity as Takuma has enough trouble focusing on his pilot training and the fact that the press would have a field day with Ichimonji's sudden return. So, he continues to wear the mask (now safe of Doppler's control). Now that Col. Ichimonji knows Takuma is his son, this does not change the rigorous flight training. In fact, it becomes all the more intense! Col. Ichimonji will not reveal himself to his son until he becomes a man. |
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Don't Weep Until That Day Takuma |
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SOS! Fly to Mars |
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Practice Makes Perfect |
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A Father's Cloudy Weather Judgement |
Takuma has let his past success go to his head as he tries to leave the base for some goofing off. Captain Dan is getting disappointed at his concetedness and puts Takuma trough some real rigorous simulator training. The skill sharpening training pays though as Mecha-Satan "Gil Dozer" really tests Takuma's sense of battle... |
Splashdown From the Past |
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A space capsule labeled "Promete" splashes down nearby. Captain Dan and Takuma set out in the Satelizer and Sky Arrow to retrieve any data this capsule is carrying on the Promete Project. Unfortunatly, Doppler also detected the capsule's splashdown and sends two Mecha-Satans (Missilus and King Diver) to make sure Jasdam doesn't succeed in retrieving the data. Will Takuma be up for this very challenging mission? | |
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A Cry Out at the Sky's Rainbow |
A small boy; Sutomu, shows up at the base one day looking for help for his ailing father. His father Dr. Shima has developed an energy source and has been rejected by most research facilities. Doppler takes an interest and sends Gudon to capture him. Takuma takes a liking to Sutomu as he can relate as also having lost his father to the Doppler Corps. Dr. Shima, caring only for his research helps in the design of Mecha-Satan "Hell Navaron." How will Takuma deal with fighting a Mecha-Satan with the boy's father co-piloting it with Cmdr. Gudon? |
Captain Mask At Risk |
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Captain Dan In Danger |
Takuma fails an important mission as he let's his individual success go to head when he defeats Mecha-Satan "Marzon." Captain Dan crash lands the Sky Arrow and almost accidently reveals his idenity to his son. Doppler forces succeed in kidnapping more scientists for development of more Mecha-Satans and Doppler's new flagship bound for Promete! Takuma learns a painful lesson, by satifying his personal victory over the Mecha-Satan he failed the mission by not being able to save the scientists that are now in Doppler's clutches... |
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An old childhood sweetheart of Lisa's shows up from the past. Lisa and Takuma are invited to a party. Takuma ends up making a fool of himself and gets a little jealous of Lisa's old flame. What he doesn't know is that "the old flame" is a Doppler Spy! He also pilots Mecha-Satan "Boomaras" and does battle with Takuma in the Danguard Ace. Will Takuma have to kill Lisa's old friend? | |
Circuts Saves the Day |
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Tamaga's First Credit |
Takuma must stay behind as he is constantly on call in case of a Doppler Corps. attack. So Lisa, Myo-chan, and Tamaga go for alittle R&R on an island trip. Their fun is ruined by Mecha-Satan "Hell Buster." All communications from the isle are out and they are forced to use Tamaga as radio for an SOS! |
The Fourth Dimension |
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Friendship On Ice |
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A Dr. Wyde has discovered an ore (Wyde Ore) that when fired upon with Pulsar-Cosmo Energy, becomes 100 times stronger! His son Rob has taken over the research mining operations. Rob, as well as his father before him, is dead set against the Promete project. So, he refuses the help of Takuma and Co... That is until a Doppler raid steals the Wyde Ore and creates Mecha-Satan "Ganto." After Danguard Ace fired its Pulsar cannon on Ganto, it made the bulky Mecha-Satan's alloy 100 times stronger! What will Takuma do now? Lucky he didn't fire the Pulsar Cannon upon Ganto's backside... :) |
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The Bridging of the Sun and Stars |
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A Narrow Escape |
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A scientist and old friend of Captain Dan; Dr. Warp, escapes from Doppler's grasp. Captain Dan takes off in the 'not quite ready' Sky Arrow to save him as his friend is being hunted down by a Doppler robot squadron. Captain Dan and Dr. Warp's planes are forced down on an island by the Doppler squadron. Takuma and Bunta set off to rescue them. Does Dr. Warp have secret information on Doppler's plans for Promete? | |
Three Pilots for Danguard Part 1 |
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Captain Dan realizes that his age is
catching up with him and he still feels the effects from
wearing the mask while he was in Doppler's clutches, can
no longer be a full time pilot for Danguard Ace. Takuma
needs a younger partner for the Danguard. Aerobatics star
Jet Joe and co-star Hideto Oboshi are recruited by Dan
for Danguard Ace training. Captain Dan hopes that these
two new pilots will keep Takuma competitive and on his
toes. While training in the Danguard, Joe and Hideto are attacked by Mecha-Satan "Yazilar" and find themselves in trouble as they are not fully trained Danguard pilots... |
Three Pilots for Danguard Part 2 |
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Mecha-Satan Yazilar proves to be too much for the new trainees and Jet Joe bails out and runs. Takuma and Bunta arrive at the scene in the Sky Arrow to salvage the Danguard and rescue Hideto. Joe is captured by Doppler's Corps. He joins Tony Harken's elite fighter squadron. However, Joe is no traitor. He steals a fighter and flees to warn Jasdam of Doppler's progress on the new warship "Planestar!" Sadly, Joe is shot down by Gudon (Yazilar pilot)... Gudon has always managed to escape every doomed Mecha-Satan in the past, but not this time as Danguard avenges Joe's death... |
| The Adversary | 28. | After the death of Captain Gudon, Takuma and new partner Hideto now have a new adversary from the Doppler Corps.; Tony Harken. He is the leader of the Harken Elite Squadron. A Pulsar-Cosmo Energy (PCE) center is infiltrated by soldiers of Harken's squad. Danguard Ace must protect the secrets of PCE at all costs! But, Mecha-Satan "Bacroid" makes this a little harder than it sounds... | |
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Winstar Takes a Back Seat |
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Captain Dan is growing impatient at Takuma's lackluster performances during training. Hideto continues to shine and on this mission gets to be chief pilot in the Danguard Ace. Meanwhile Pauru, the new Mecha-Satan commander is insulted by Tony Harken. Pauru demands a shot at the Danguard to redeem the honor of Gudon and the Mecha-Satan team. So, it's Danguard Ace vs. Mecha-Satan "Dytanker." Takuma learns that he must be a team player to be a Danguard pilot... *Fun Fact: Mecha-Satan Dytanker's ability to transform from tank to robot was one of the most obvious inspirations for cartoons like The Transformers. |
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A Cadet Takes Command |
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Takuma is starting to grow jealous of Hideto's rapid progress in his Danguard Ace training. He's also feeling that his position as Danguard's chief pilot is being threatened. Captain Dan has taken a shine to Hideto's progress but realizes that he has no outer space combat experience and assigns Takuma to train him. They are sent to space station RX-2 (the RX-1 successor) with Bunta to begin Hideto's training. Unkown to them, RX-2 is infiltrated by two of Harken's men. They sabatoge the RX-2's engine room and set the station on a collision course with the Jasdam base! Will Takuma be able to make the right military decisions? He'd better hurry as Mecha-Satan "Daelos" is closing in! |
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The Doppler Corps. Takes off! |
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A Martian Detour |
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Takuma, still bothered by his father's passing, is on an emotional roller coaster as Hideto tries in vain to cheer him up. Doppler sets up a trap on Mars for the Jasdam Baseship. A spy is sent to an old wrecked Earth expedition ship to be "rescued" and taken back to Jasdam to find out what their power source is. As Doppler knows that it is superior to the Super Uranium fuel in which Planestar runs. The spy fails as Takuma shoots him down. But now they must face Mecha-Satan "Sky Tenticle." Also, a small octopus-like creature (found years earlier by the lost expedition) lends a helping tenticle against the Mecha-Satan. |
Return of Octor |
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The octopus-like space creature Bemu has returned. Only this time he's much larger (due to radiation) and has a power of firing energy from its eyes. Doppler wants this creature to use against the Jasdam Baseship. Harken leads his squadron out to fire an obediance antenna into its head (much like the control of masked men). Now, this once benevelant creature is now working for Doppler (and as a tag-team partner for Mecha-Satan "Manbolt")! Will Takuma figure it out? Of course, he's the good guy! :) |
A Boy From Atlantas |
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A boy named Peter is discovered on a floating continent orbiting Jupiter (hmmm... where have I heard this before...:)). The continent has ruins of the lost city of Atlantas as well as Easter Island type artifacts. An expedition started by Peter's father years ago... Peter was getting help from Doppler as he was not kind to the Jasdam crew when they found him. Peter found out too late that his continent was used by Doppler to trap Jasdam and force it into Jupiter's superior gravity... |
A Planetary Nebula |
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Sixth Sense |
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Dr. Oedo wakes up from a
WW 2 flashback (after he dozed off on the bridge). He
developed a "sixth sense" of knowing an enemy's
position when all conventional radar and computers fail. |
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Tale of the Comet |
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Lisa ventures out in the Sky Arrow to investigate a mysterious comet.This is a huge comet made up of uranium and is on a collision course with Promete! Lisa encounters trouble as the fragments of the comet are drawn magnetically to the Sky Arrow. Satelizer is sent out to the rescue with the help of a special demagnetizing beam (fired from Jasdam) that repells the fragments. However it becomes more difficult as Mecha-Satan "Hell Crane" (the 1st powered by PCE) attacks Jasdam and disrupts the beam protecting Satelizer... Will Takuma get out of the magnetic pull with Lisa? Will Hell Crane succeed in destroying Jasdam? Who will stop the gargantuan comet from its collision course with Promete? |
Grand Illusion |
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A strange planetoid is discovered as everyone on Jasdam has suffered from strange illusions. Planestar's crew is also suffering from realistic illusions forcing them to the brink of insanity. This planetoid projects these images to protect itself from invaders. The unthinkable happens as Harken in Mecha-Satan "Gigantos" and Danguard Ace join forces to get rid of this threat. The planetoid turns out to be a shape-shifting creature and attacks Jasdam. Harken is torn... Does he let the creature destroy Danguard and Jasdam or does he help them out? Hechi advises Harken to leave them, but this is not a direct order from Doppler Soto... A new found respect and bond form between Takuma and Harken, but next time they meet... Well, you know the cliche'. :) |
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Butch to the Rescue |
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Satelizer investigates a planetoid that
seems to feed on Pulsar-Cosmo Energy (PCE). However, this
planetoid turns out to be a living space being that
clutches on to the Satelizer and drains it of its PCE.
Hechi decides to capitalize on this and sends Harken in
Mecha-Satan "Gas Hog" to finish Satelizer off.
Bunta decides to save Takuma and Hideto by swimming out
to them in a space suit with a recharge. Harken bails
from Gas Hog due to its Super Uranium (SU) fuel. He uses
the vacated Mecha-Satan to crash into the planetoid
enriched in PCE. Because when PCE and SU fuse... BaBOOM! *Fun Fact: This was the last Force Five episode of Danguard Ace. A shame (IMO) as the series never had an ending in the US. |
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Harken's mistake at the last raid on Jasdam has angered Doppler. Doppler has lost most of his key men and now he trusts no one. With Promete so close Doppler sends the last of Harken's Elite Corps. in the Beetar V loaded with Super Uranium fuel to Kamikaze into Jasdam to trigger a SU-PCE explosion on impact! Harken tries to stop this as he deserts Doppler. Will the Danguard Ace stop this madness? |
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What was left of Planestar's crew has sabataoged its engine room. Doppler abandons Planestar and leaves the crew for dead. Jasdam arrives after the tragic loss of Harken's men aboard the Beetar V. The remainder of the crew of Planestar are rescued while Doppler heads for Promete in his private shuttle! He enters Promete's atmosphere when... You really didn't think I'd spoil the ending did you?! If you wish to be spoiled, go here. | |
*Please be patient as it is a challenge to translate the Japanese episode titles
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