History Anime / DairuggerXV

** The aliens' home planet, which is undergoing a deadly disaster, is called "Galveston."

Dairugger is a peacekeeping and exploration robot during the days of space exploration. The Terran League decides to explore beyond the galaxy. But the first mission runs into the Galbeston Empire, who decide to attack Earth. Dairugger is sent to defend, but eventually learns that the Galbeston are actually desperate for a new home, as their planet is doomed.

* TransformationIsAFreeAction: Often averted or subverted, most notably the time when one of the ships that formed Dairugger's right leg was hit mid-assembly. Rather than stop the whole process, however, Dairugger was able to finish combining without the leg, though that made the robot clumsy in combat until the pilot recovered and was able to rejoin Dairugger.

** The alien's home planet, which is undergoing a deadly disaster, is called "Galveston."

* WhatDidYouExpectWhenYouNamedIt: The peace-loving Galveston leaders come from the "Socrat" family. The scheming power-hungry Galveston leader is named Al Caponero.

Like ''Anime/GoLion'', ''Dairugger XV'' has been released in its original form on DVD in R1, as ''Armored Fleet Dairugger XV". It was released in 3 "collections" (consisting of 3 DVDs each), but as of mid-2018, only the first collection is easily available.

Like ''Anime/GoLion'', ''Dairugger XV'' has been released in its original form on DVD in R1, as ''Armored Fleet Dairugger XV"

See also ''Anime/GoLion'', ''Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross'', and ''SuperSentai''.

CombiningMecha from Creator/{{Toei}} that aired on Creator/TVTokyo in 1982. Since shows like this were a dime a dozen in Japan, it unfortunately got overlooked. But elsewhere, including America, where HumongousMecha shows were still practically unheard of, it got recognition as the vehicle robot of ''Anime/{{Voltron}}''.

* OldSchoolDogFight: the air team vehicles got to do a bit of this before the need to form Dairugger arose.

* WagonTrainToTheStars: The Rugger Guard's mission is to explore the galaxy and map all of it out. (This is different from the Voltron version, where they were specifically searching for worlds to colonize)

* TheBattlestar: The Rugger Guard, the space carrier from which the vehicles launched before combining

* CombiningMecha: Two ways! 15 small vehicles could combine into three larger ones, and then if that didn't get the job done, could re-combine into the titular [[SuperRobot super robot]].

* FighterLaunchingSequence
* HumongousMecha
* IfItSwimsItFlies
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters

* StockFootage
* SuperRobot
* TransformationIsAFreeAction: Often averted or subverted.
* WagonTrainToTheStars

* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: One episode had Galveston try to stop the pilots from forming Dairugger. Of course, they were able to combine anyway...

CombiningMecha from Creator/{{Toei}} that aired on Creator/TVTokyo in 1982. Since shows like this were a dime a dozen in Japan, it unfortunately got overlooked. But elsewhere, including America, where HumongousMecha shows were still practically unheard of, it got recognition as the vehicle robot of ''{{Voltron}}''.

* GenreBlindness -- At least two of the Galveston captains tried to ram Dairugger instead of retreating. Guess how both played out...

CombiningMecha from {{Toei}} that aired in 1982. Since shows like this were a dime a dozen in Japan, it unfortunately got overlooked. But elsewhere, including America, where HumongousMecha shows were still practically unheard of, it got recognition as the vehicle robot of ''{{Voltron}}''.

Like ''GoLion'', ''Dairugger XV'' has been released in its original form on DVD in R1, as ''Armored Fleet Dairugger XV"

See also ''GoLion'', ''Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross'', and ''SuperSentai''.

Like ''GoLion'', ''DairuggerXV'' has been released in its original form on DVD in R1, as ''Armored Fleet Dairugger XV"

!!This show provides examples of:

See also ''GoLion'', ''SuperDimensionFortressMacross'', and ''SuperSentai''.

Like ''GoLion'', ''DairuggerXV'' has been released in its original form on DVD in R1, as ''Armored Fleet Dairugger''.

* TheBattlestar -- The Rugger Guard, the space carrier from which the vehicles launched before combining
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder - Virtually every single commander working under Teles (Hazar) immediately and laughingly disregards his orders to seek peace with the Earth Fleet; also a case of TooDumbToLive, as basically every last one of them meets Dairugger's sword. They do this with some sanction, but the viewscreen has barely clicked off when they give the order to attack anyway, usually to some incredulous soldier who basically says "Dude?!"
* CombiningMecha -- Two ways! 15 small vehicles could combine into three larger ones, and then if that didn't get the job done, could re-combine into the titular [[SuperRobot super robot]].
* DangerouslyGenreSavvy -- One episode had Galveston try to stop the pilots from forming Dairugger. Of course, they were able to combine anyway...

* HeyItsThatVoice: Walter Jack is [[Anime/SpeedRacer Go Mifune]] (as he was called in the Japanese version). To say nothing of Kazuto Nagano, who happens to be [[MazingerZ Boss]].

* TheShortGuyWithGlasses -- Yasuo

* TransformationIsAFreeAction -- Often averted or subverted.

* DangerouslyGenreSavvy -- One episode hade Galveston try to stop the pilots from forming Dairugger. Of course, they were able to combine anyway...

Like ''GoLion'', ''DairuggerXV'' has been released in it's original form on DVD in R1, as ''Armored Fleet Dairugger''.

* OldSchoolDogFighting: the air team vehicles got to do a bit of this before the need to form Dairugger arose.

* HeyItsThatVoice: Walter Jack is [[Anime/SpeedRacer Go Mifune]] (as he was called in the Japanese version)

* HeyItsThatVoice: Walter Jack is [[SpeedRacer Go Mifune]] (as he was called in the Japanese version)