Product Details

• Actors: Annemarie Zola, David Collins (IV), Alan Marsh, Alice Barrty, Jocelyn Cunningham
• Format: Animated, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo), English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: Unrated
• Studio: Manga Video
• DVD Release Date: January 28, 2003
• Run Time: 70 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00007KK3J
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #106,796 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Dangaioh - Hyper-Combat Unit: The Ultimate Transformers" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Initially released as a three-part OAV (1987), Dangaioh has been substantially recut and re-edited for this release. Four Earthlings--Mia, Pai, Lambda, and Roll--have been trained by Professor Tarsan to be "Espers," warriors with psychic abilities. They become the Dangaioh Team (their mecha combine to form the title robot, the most powerful weapon in the universe), battling the evil Galimos. The character designs have a dated look that recalls Robotech (1985) and American Saturday-morning TV. The reworked story line makes very little sense, even with long exposition scenes and a voice-over narration to fill in missing plot points. The English dub is often unintentionally comic: as one of Galimos's minions prepares to incinerate the Dangaioh Team, she declares, "They'll look like French fries when I'm through with them!" Dangaioh reveals the enormous strides Japanese animation made in the years that followed. (Rated 13 and older: violence, minor profanity) --Charles Solomon

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Why release this DVD in this condition?, February 27, 2003

By A Customer

I don't know why such a great company would release such a terrible product! This DVD is missing the first episode of the original three volume mini-series. The first episode is depicted as a mere prologue to the remaining two episodes. The original Japanese language track is non-existant. As a good fan of the series, I was highly disappointed. Dangaioh fans stay away!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Oh no they DID not!, June 28, 2003

By	tamiko (Waipahu, HI USA) - See all my reviews

what was the point of releasing this piece of... well you know what i mean. why bother if you aren't going to show the first episode?! then there wouldn't be any need for a prologue that was just way to long and boring to begin with. i thought i would fall asleep before the damn thing even started. i am seriously disappointed, since i watched it a very long time ago and have been waiting forever for them to finally re-release this title. that they would do so little justice to it is just pitiful.
not to mention the fact that you can't even watch it in japanese with english subtitles. although it was fun to watch it with the english dub... i don't think i can remember the last time i heard so much swearing.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars This has nothing to do with the Transformers movie/DVD's.., February 16, 2003

By A Customer

The Ultimate Transformers. An Inter-Stellar Sci-Fi Adventure Of Mecha Androids And Transformers.

When four psychic warriors discover that evil invaders have destroyed their planets, they are brought together byia mysterious doctor, Tarsanito unite andiform Dangaioh, theimost powerful weaponiin theiuniverse. Using their full collective cyonic powers, they alone can stop theibloody tyranny of captain Garimoth andihis wicked henchmanito prevent theiend of theiuniverse. But isitheir psychogenic wave strong enough ito destroy theinotorious cyborg Gil Birg, or will theiwarriors fall victimito Garimoth's trickery that finds weaknessiin their forgotten pasts?

This exciting inter-stellar sci-fi adventure of mecha androids anditransformers features mechanic designs byiShoji Kawamori (Macross Plus) andiproduction direction byiMasami Obari (Virus / Fatal Fury: The Motion Picture).