Referenced By / Daimos

Their pilots are going to risk injury by needing to zip-line to their cockpit seats every time, y'know.

Here are the references other works have made of Daimos.

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Anime & Manga

• GoLion:
  • Both Kazuya and the pilots of Beast King GoLion (or as it's known in the U.S., Lion Force Voltron) have to hang on to a zip-line pulley before landing on their respective pilot seats.
  • The way Kazuya's chair is lifted to the cockpit of Transer/Tranzer during Daimos's Transformation Sequence also looks almost the same as the lifting method used inside the mechanical lions of GoLion.
  • Just like the soul of Kazuya Ryūzaki's late father Isamu helped him learn how to form Daimos, the soul of Princess Fala's late father, King Raimon of Altea, guided the pilots of GoLion to learn the secret of how to assemble the legendary mech.
  • Ironically, the evil prince character in GoLion, Prince Sincline (Prince Lotor in Voltron), is voiced by Kazuya's voice actor, Akira Kamiya, as well.
  • The GoLion mech itself resembles the Daimos mech in that they have the same maskless face with shadowy eyes and expressive open mouth.
  • Daimos's Okane is highly reminiscent of the caretaker Hys from GoLion.
  • The ability of the Royal Castle to turn into a spaceship definitely takes cues from both Camp Big Falcon of Voltes V and the Daimovic Base of Daimos.
• Dairugger XV:
  • Al Caponero is the Galveston version of General Miwa Sakamori. They're both war-mongering cowards with a track record of failure who have absolute disdain for the other side, which they've pretty much "dehumanized" in their eyes.
  • Teles is a variant of your typical Super Robot Anti-Villain Commander of the invading alien force cut from the same cloth as Garuda from Combattler V, Prince Heinel from Voltes V, and (of course) Richter from Daimos. He might even be one of the first Char Aznable expies in anime history (sans mask).
  • In turn, Sirk is likely based on Erika from Daimos. Both are alien women whose brotherly mentors want to invade the Earth, but they are kind-hearted and want peace with the humans instead. This goes double for Vehicle Team Voltron because Dorma (Sirk) is Hazar's (Teles's) sister there.
  • How Teles dies is reminiscent of Richter's death in Daimos. After the assassination attempt on him, Teles insists on dying with the doomed planet Galveston the same way Richter insisted on honorable suicide after all the evil he has caused in his invasion of the Earth.
• Dragon Ball:
  • The war-mongering Miwa Sakamori shares the same evil troll hairdo with the royalty of the war-mongering Saiyan race, Prince and King Vegeta. Miwa is practically a prototype of King Vegeta, mustache and all.
  • Personality-wise, the incompetent Miwa seems more like Mister Satan than King Vegeta. Or like a fusion between Miwa's old man face and Kyoshiro's afro hairdo.
• Fist of the North Star: Akira Kamiya also ended up becoming the voice of Kenshiro in the anime adaptation of Hokuto no Ken, another work involving his character using deadly martial arts in order to save the love interest.
• Mobile Fighter G Gundam:
  • Domon Kasshu can be considered the Spiritual Successor to Kazuya and Daimos in the Real Robot Genre, with his Shining Gundam serving as the Gundam version of Daimos thanks to their motion-tracking cockpits with martial artist pilots.
  • Domon, like Kazuya, also ends up saving his beloved and winning through the Power of Love (albeit with the concept taken up to eleven in G Gundam).
• Robot Girls Z parodies Raideen, Combattler V, Daimos, and Voltes V as cute anime girls◊.^note Raideen is the light blue-haired girl at the top, Daimos is the black haired girl at the bottom, Combattler V is the cyan haired girl with the feather in her cap and Voltes V is the one on the left with green hair

Series — Live - Action

• Hikari Sentai Maskman:
  • The main hero's girlfriend is actually the princess of the invaders he fights as in Daimos. Takeru and Kazuya also have a background in martial arts and possess the "God Hand".
  • "Prince" Igam is also like Richter in that she's the royal sibling of the hero's love interest, whom she directly antagonizes. She's also the disgruntled admiral responsible for the Tube Empire's invasion of the earth.
  • The second mecha for the Maskmen, "Galaxy Robo", is also a martial artist type of robot that could transform to and from a large trailer truck (Land Galaxy), just like Daimos. Galaxy Robo's Finishing Move is also a death blow^note known as the Tekken Ōra Gyarakushī (Aura Iron Fist), just like Daimos's Hissatsu Reppuu Seikenzuki (Deadly Gale Holy Fist Thrust).
• Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger: The Dino Tanker mode of Daizyujin is a three-way reference to Robot Romance Trilogy. It's specifically a shout-out to Daimos's wheeled Tranzer mode before it undergoes its Transformation Sequence along with Voltes V's unused tank mode and Combattler's "GranDasher" form.
• Voltes V: Legacy:
  • Voltes V: Legacy referenced Daimos by mentioning Baam/Brahmin as one of the planets that Emperor Zu Zambojil intends to occupy (the others being Tau Cetis, Cephir, Helios, and Gliese).
  • Also in Voltes V: Legacy, the tank mode of Voltes V is also a shout-out to Daimos's wheeled Tranzer mode.^note The tank mode was supposed to also debut in the original anime, but it was ultimately scrapped. It was made available in toy form though.

Music

• Parokya ni Edgar:
  • The lyrics of the 2005 song "Mang Jose" by Parokya ni Edgar directly references Daimos, comparing the titular Mister Jose the Superhero for Hire to the robot, claiming he's just like Daimos.
  • As recently as 2021, Parokya had a batch set of parody t-shirt designs featuring Super Robot anime like Mazinger Z, Voltron, Daimos, and Voltes V.

Toyline

• Shogun Warriors: Although the Shogun Warriors comic book only included "Raydeen", "Combatra", and "Dangard Ace" as part of the series, the Shogun Warriors Mattel toyline itself also includes its version of the Daimos Popy toy design^note (with it being the sole toy with no significant name change) along with "Voltus V", "Poseidon", "Dragun", and "Great Mazinga".

Video Games

• Super Robot Wars:
  • The video game franchise frequently includes the series as part of its multitude of titles.
  • Because of their shared mecha control schemes and status as martial arts masters, Kazuya and Domon Kasshu tend to be shoehorned as rivals whenever both Daimos and Mobile Fighter G Gundam participate in a given game.
  • Though not as frequently as the other Robot Romance Trilogy robots, Daimos did appear with them in Advance, Alpha 2 and 3, the latter of which was noteworthy for giving Daimos a Combination Attack using both Combattler and Voltes.
  • Notable also was Daimos' appearance in Super Robot Wars MX, which for once did not feature the other Nagahama Robots. However, Daimos did receive a Post-Script Season to fit better with the game.

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