History Anime / DairuggerXV

** In episode 37, it's revealed that the continents on the planet-with-the-Red-Moon fell into the ocean because its inhabitants conducted underground nuclear tests.

* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: When Aki is attacked by queen Xuneau's guards on planet Eldora, he evades scores of shots by doing a couple of backflips. Similarly, in episode 44, Aki's team is ambushed in the crossfire of over a dozen Galveston soldiers with automatic weapons, and none of them get hit.

* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: When Aki is attacked by queen Xuneau's guards on planet Eldora, he evades scores of shots by doing a couple of backflips.

** The name "Rugger" is a reference to rugby. There are 15 players on a rugby team.

** In episode 37, it's revealed that the planet with the Red Moon fell apart because its inhabitants conducted underground nuclear tests.

** Inepisode 37, it's revealed that the planet with the Red Moon fell apart because its inhabitants conducted underground nuclear tests.

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* GreenAesop: Some of the planets they encounter are dying because Galveston or its inhabitants "didn't respect nature."

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* TheBattlestar: The Rugger Guard, the space carrier from which the vehicles launch before combining. It looks suspiciously like a 20th century aircraft carrier. It also, despite having a primary mission of exploration, only sustains minor damage in firefights that utterly destroy its military escort fleets.

* ShoutOut: Some of the Dairugger vehicles- particularly the head and chestplate- look a lot like the [[Series/{{Thunderbirds}} Thunderbird craft]].

* TheBattlestar: The Rugger Guard, the space carrier from which the vehicles launch before combining. It looks suspiciously like a 20th century aircraft carrier.

* IfItSwimsItFlies: The Sea Team, whose ships could fly through the air and even through space as easily as they operated as submarines. However, all fifteen ships could fly, even the Land Team.

* TransformationIsAFreeAction: Often averted or subverted, most notably in Episode 25 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.

* CombiningMecha: Two ways! 15 small vehicles could combine into three larger ones (Kurugger, Kairugger, and Rikurugger[[note]]called "air rugger," "land rugger," and "sea rugger" in the English dub[[/note]]), and then if that didn't get the job done, could re-combine into the titular [[SuperRobot super robot]]. It's unusual in that Dairugger can combine and act even if some pieces are missing (once it combined without its right leg, once without the head), but it doesn't seem to operate at peak efficiency in those cases.

* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: Distances are reckoned in units of "space kilometers," and there's no consistency in how they're used. One episode, an Earthlike planet filling half the window of Aki's vehicle will be "ten thousand space kilometers" away; the next, an invading Galveston fleet at Mars will be "2.5 space kilometers" away from Earth.

* HumongousMecha / SuperRobot: Dairugger itself, but also the Galveston battle machines it's called upon to fight.

* HumongousMecha / SuperRobot: Dairugger itself, but also the robotic monsters it's called upon to fight.

* NuclearWeaponsTaboo: In episode 3, the Galveston fleet devastates the surface of a planet with "photon missiles," whose blast radii were eerily similar to thermonuclear weapons.

* CombiningMecha: Two ways! 15 small vehicles could combine into three larger ones (Kurugger, Kairugger, and Rikurugger), and then if that didn't get the job done, could re-combine into the titular [[SuperRobot super robot]]. It's unusual in that Dairugger can combine and act even if some pieces are missing (once it combined without its right leg, once without the head), but it doesn't seem to operate at peak efficiency in those cases.

Dairugger is a peacekeeping and exploration robot during the days of space exploration. The Terran League decides to survey the galaxy, so that they can make a galactic star map. 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.

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