Invincible Steel Man Daitarn 3 (無敵鋼人ダイターン3 in kanji, transliterated as Muteki Kojin Daitarn 3 in romaji) is an anime series created by Yoshiyuki Tomino and Hajime Yatate, and produced by Sunrise. It was first broadcast on Japanese TV in 1978. The series lasted for 44 episodes. The opening theme Come Here! Daitarn 3 is sung by Makoto Fujiwara. Japanese writing Kanji 漢字 Kana 仮名 Hiragana 平仮名 Katakana 片仮名 Uses Furigana 振り仮名 Okurigana 送り仮名 Romaji ローマ字 Kanji (漢字, literally characters from Han China; see also Han Chinese) are Chinese characters used in Japanese. ... Japanese writing Kanji 漢字 Kana 仮名 Hiragana 平仮名 Katakana 片仮名 Uses Furigana 振り仮名 Okurigana 送り仮名 Romaji ローマ字 The title given to this article lacks diacritics because of certain technical limitations. ... A scene from Cowboy Bebop (1998) Anime (アニメ) is Japanese animation, sometimes referred to in the Western world by the portmanteau Japanimation. ... Yoshiyuki Tomino (富野 由悠季 Tomino Yoshiyuki) (b. ... Hajime Yatate (矢立 肇 Yatate Hajime), also known as Hajime Yadate, is a pen name for the collective contributions of the Sunrise animation staff. ... Sunrise over the sea Sunrise, also called sunup in some American English dialects, is the time at which the first part of the Sun appears above the horizon in the east. ... 1978 was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ... The theme music of a radio or television program is a melody closely associated with the show, and usually played during the title sequence and/or end credits. ...

Plot

Sozo Haran was a brilliant scientist that was conducting research on Mars. He created a form of cyborg life with the ability to think for itself. These cyborgs, dubbed the Meganoids, soon ran out of control and killed Dr. Haran along with his family...all save his youngest son, Banjo Haran. Banjo escapes from Mars on a rocket with his father's greatest creation: a solar-powered super robot built with the special metals of Mars called Daitarn 3. Now eighteen years old and living on Earth in a luxurious mansion, Banjo fights against the Meganoids with the aid of his faithful butler Garrison and his two gorgeous companions Reika and Beauty. Together they must stop the evil Meganoids which aspire to turn all humans into cyborgs and thus "improve" the human race.

History

Some of the staff fresh from Zambot 3 worked with Tomino on the Daitarn 3 project. The suave nature of the hero Banjo was a direct attempt at capturing some of the spirit of the James Bond movies, which can be seen in the fact almost as much action takes place with Banjo, Reika and Beauty playing superspies as Banjo fighting against Meganoid robots in Daitarn 3. Invincible Super Man Zambot 3 (無敵超人ザンボット3 in kanji, transliterated as Muteki Choujin Zanbot 3 in romaji) is an anime series created by Yoshiyuki Tomino and Yoshitake Suzuki, and produced by Sunrise. ... James Bond is best known from the EON Productions film series. ...

There is a light comedic element running through the whole series and an interesting point to note is that the Meganoid foot soldiers exerted some of their own personality with witty banter, bringing a fresh change to the silent drones which permeated super robot series previously.

The series is also notable for making the titular giant robot the largest Super Robot to date in the mecha anime canon, standing over 140 meters (459 feet) in heigth. Super Robot is a term used in manga and anime to describe a giant robot or mecha, with an arsenal of fantastical super-powered weapons, sometimes transformable or combined from two or more robots and/or vehicles usually piloted by young, daring heroes, and often shrouded by mystical or legendary... The title mecha RX-78-2 Gundam from the popular anime Mobile Suit Gundam In some works of science fiction, mecha (singular or plural) or mechs (singular: mech) are piloted or remote-controlled limbed vehicles. ...