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Dancougar

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Dancougar	comment	Dancougar is a 1985 Super Robot anime by Ashi Productions which tells the story of the Cyber Beast Force (Juusenkitai). The Earth is under attack by the Muge Empire, and they slowly take over the Earth as they were able to acquire information about Earth's resources and strategies thanks to a traitor named Shapiro Keats. The last line of defense for the Earth is the Cyber Beast Force, a squad of soldiers operating machines programmed with the instincts of wild animals, and who are able to unleash the full potential of that bestial rage. The Juusenkitai pilots are: Shinobu Fujiwara, the hot shot, Hot-Blooded leader, who tends to act before thinking. Pilots the Eagle Fighter. That quote above is his Catchphrase. Sara Yuuki. A Fiery Redhead who once loved Shapiro, now heartbroken at his betrayal, but seems to open up with Shinobu. Pilots the Land Cougar. Masato Shikibu. The youngest member of the team, he tends to lighten the situation by cracking jokes, but is smart and skilled enough to be a valued member. Pilots the Land Liger. Ryou Shiba. Calm, cool, mostly solitary member of the team. Knows Kung Fu and will use it often. Pilots the Big Moth.Eventually, as the story advances, their machines are able to combine into one giant robot known as Dancougar. Together, they must defeat the Muge Empire and liberate Earth.Notable for having strong Real Robot elements, despite ostensibly being a Super Robot show - it's either a Super show with Real tendencies, or vice-versa. Unusually for a mecha show, the main voice cast also got the chance to sing a few songs.The TV series was followed by an OVA finale in the form of "Requiem for the Victims", then two further OVAs - the one-shot "God Bless Dancougar", and the four-episode "Blazing Epilogue".This series also got a sort-of sequel/Spiritual Successor in the form of Dancougar Nova, though a common complaint is that it's "Gravion Drei". There was also a manga called Dancougar BURN from 1997-8, which borrowed some of the same elements but was more of a remake.After decades of being relegated to out of print subtitled VHS tapes, the series was eventually licensed by Discotek Media.
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Dancougar / int_113480b7	type	Canon Foreigner
Dancougar / int_113480b7	comment	Canon Foreigner: Dancougar's Mid-Season Upgrade, Final Dancougar in the Super Robot Wars games. (Technically, being able to fire the Dankuuhou while equipping the original booster as well.)
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Dancougar / int_20b593e9	type	In the Name of the Moon
Dancougar / int_20b593e9	comment	In the Name of the Moon: "The love in our hearts will slice through evil's darkness! DANKUUKOUGAKEN! YATTE YARUZE!!"
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Dancougar / int_22569655	type	We ARE Struggling Together
Dancougar / int_22569655	comment	We ARE Struggling Together: Usually averted. The humans typically have the good sense to cooperate in the face of the Muge invasion.
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Dancougar / int_2b706ca	type	More Dakka
Dancougar / int_2b706ca	comment	The full payload: 4 pulse lasers on its chest, two missile launchers/energy cannons located on the hips and two located behind and above the shoulders in the booster. There's also the large "DankuuHou" cannon located on its back. The DankuuHou Formation attack fires all of these at once. It also has a hand-held cannon that is built from the hand-held guns of its component units. The non-canon Final Dancougar gets another cannon by using Alan's craft. (Worth noting that, in-show, it's only referred to as the DankuuHou; as an attack name, the DankuuHou Formation is something that's only in the Super Robot Wars series. Originally, the booster got in the way of Big Moth's main guns, but the upgrade in God Bless Dancougar fixed this.)
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Dancougar / int_2f253c94	type	Glass Cannon
Dancougar / int_2f253c94	comment	Glass Cannon: Gil Dorom's plans. They involve tricking people and causing in-fighting - defeating the enemy from within, without a massive mobilization of force. But he only uses about a hand-full of fighters or a weak monster so the actual physical problem is solved very easily once the ruse is uncovered.
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Dancougar / int_30c40e9a	type	Deconstructor Fleet
Dancougar / int_30c40e9a	comment	Deconstructor Fleet: Of the classic Super Robot plot line. Only unlike many other deconstructions, this one manages to be interesting and entertaining enough on its own that you hardly notice the deconstructing. Points addressed in particular: "Why does the evil alien empire fool around with the Monster of the Week trying to take down a lone mecha instead of launching a full-scale invasion right away?" - Show premise. (They're still used but are frequently customized from existing units.) "How would a hot-blooded pilot actually fit and cooperate with a military" - see Nice Job Breaking It, Hero, which happens on more than one other occasion. "How would a Martial Pacifist perform in a real, full-scale War ?" - Ryo in one episode. Also touches on how hard it would be for four people, each one Hot-Blooded to some degree and confident in their individual piloting skills, to control a Combining Mecha which requires all its pilots to operate in sync. The first transformation took place after a quarter of the show had passed (after the pilots got the hang of the transforming mechanics and their Beast forms), and it actually failed since they have yet to learn how suppress their ego and work effectively as a team. Or, more like they did not trust Shinobu enough and a case of Poor Communication Kills. Also a deconstruction of the Super Robot anime that have The Team. It's functionally a Real Robot take on a Super Robot plotline.
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Dancougar / int_4063acfd	type	Woman Scorned
Dancougar / int_4063acfd	comment	Woman Scorned: Sara, actually a heroic example, because the one who dumps her is evil.
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Dancougar / int_41dd77d	type	Zerg Rush
Dancougar / int_41dd77d	comment	Zerg Rush: Death Gaia's main tactic, really noticeable when Gil Dorom takes over using minimum warriors.
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Dancougar / int_4583a262	type	Shirtless Scene
Dancougar / int_4583a262	comment	Shirtless Scene: Ryou, anytime he decides to kick butt with Kung Fu, inside a mecha.
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Dancougar / int_4856ac40	type	Stock Footage
Dancougar / int_4856ac40	comment	Stock Footage: Among other things, you'll notice that the Land Cougar A likes to bite its/her enemies in the same area.
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Dancougar / int_4b220918	type	Godhood Seeker
Dancougar / int_4b220918	comment	Godhood Seeker: Shapiro is initially motivated by his desire to rule the world, but eventually becomes this.
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Dancougar / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
Dancougar / int_4f84cdef	comment	Smug Snake: Shapiro. Like you would not believe.
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Dancougar / int_519f108a	type	Throwing Your Sword Always Works
Dancougar / int_519f108a	comment	Throwing Your Sword Always Works: Done in an epic fashion in Requiem For Victims - In their final showdown with the Big Bad Muge Zolbados, (a Physical God and Dimension Lord) on his home turf, the team manages to beat him by throwing the DanKuuKen several miles, straight through boulders and thick castle walls; it still has enough momentum to deliver a One-Hit Kill by impaling him. Granted, it was imbued with the energy of all those who had died as a result of the war against Muge, but still... wow.
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Dancougar / int_5369968f	type	Super Robot Genre
Dancougar / int_5369968f	comment	Super Robot Genre: Four piloted machines, all animals, with their own humanoid forms, that combine, and grow stronger with their pilot's rage, that's four checks right there. And yet it's very difficult to not call this a Real Robot show. Between the cynicism, the heavy emphasis on military logistics and planning, and even the simple fact that the individual machines are not useless, the show is more of a Real Robot approach to a Super Robot plotline.
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Dancougar / int_54f38833	type	PostScriptSeason
Dancougar / int_54f38833	comment	Post-Script Season: "God Bless Dancougar" and ''Dancougar: Blazing Climax"
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Dancougar / int_61ff365d	type	Deflector Shields
Dancougar / int_61ff365d	comment	Deflector Shields: Eagle Fighter gets one in its Aggressive Beast mode, but it's used more to crash through enemies rather than in any defensive capability. One also forms around the Juusenki as they combine into Dancougar. (This use predates the V-MAX by six months real-time.)
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Dancougar / int_62b4f327	type	RealRobot
Dancougar / int_62b4f327	comment	And yet it's very difficult to not call this a Real Robot show. Between the cynicism, the heavy emphasis on military logistics and planning, and even the simple fact that the individual machines are not useless, the show is more of a Real Robot approach to a Super Robot plotline.
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Dancougar / int_62cbb836	type	Mid-Season Upgrade
Dancougar / int_62cbb836	comment	Mid-Season Upgrade: The Humanoid transformations for the Juusenki in episode 11, followed by Dancougar itself. The show is notorious for how long it took the titular Super Robot to show up. There's also the Flight Booster late in the series and Gundor, their flying mecha-dragon base. The Dancougar that shows up from God Bless Dancougar onwards is technically the "Rebuilt Strengthened Type" Dancougar; it's not just an Animation Bump. (This is the version used in Super Robot Wars Alpha 3 - the booster is built into Big Moth, and it can fire the Dankuuhou without hindrance.)
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Dancougar / int_6375f746	type	Drill Sergeant Nasty
Dancougar / int_6375f746	comment	Drill Sergeant Nasty General Ross Igor Ryo in God Bless Dancouga.
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Dancougar / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
Dancougar / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: Ross, and later his son Alan. Captain Gerald.
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Dancougar / int_680bb6b1	type	Hot-Blooded
Dancougar / int_680bb6b1	comment	Hot-Blooded: Shinobu. All the pilots, actually, as that's what their machines require to operate properly, but Shinobu stands out as being so straightforwardly hot-blooded among mecha anime pilots.
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Dancougar / int_6b6556ee	type	Mentor Occupational Hazard
Dancougar / int_6b6556ee	comment	Mentor Occupational Hazard: Ross Igor. Surprisingly Alan Igor is this as well.
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Dancougar / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Dancougar / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Dancougar's sword was named by Ryou as "A sword that severs (evil) space" - [DanKuuKen].
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Dancougar / int_73641290	type	The Strategist
Dancougar / int_73641290	comment	The Strategist: Shapiro on the Muge side (which just adds fuel to the factional friction fire as that's Gildrome's hat as well).
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Dancougar / int_75d6bf40	type	Belligerent Sexual Tension
Dancougar / int_75d6bf40	comment	Belligerent Sexual Tension: Shinobu and Sara.
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Dancougar / int_7a3dd888	type	Real Men Wear Pink
Dancougar / int_7a3dd888	comment	Real Men Wear Pink: Shinobu seems to like wearing a long pink shirt when out of uniform. It's the Eighties - whaddya want?
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Dancougar / int_7ea2a915	type	Animation Bump
Dancougar / int_7ea2a915	comment	The Dancougar that shows up from God Bless Dancougar onwards is technically the "Rebuilt Strengthened Type" Dancougar; it's not just an Animation Bump. (This is the version used in Super Robot Wars Alpha 3 - the booster is built into Big Moth, and it can fire the Dankuuhou without hindrance.)
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Dancougar / int_7f080f98	type	Vague Age
Dancougar / int_7f080f98	comment	Vague Age: It's never actually clear how old Laura is supposed to be. Most of the series she seems like she's a little girl at around 10 or younger, then by the time of God Bless she seems a lot closer to Masato's age and they're just starting to date, and he started the series at 16. Though her looking younger in the show could be attributed to the dresses she wore and she was clearly suffering from PTSD which made her act more childlike.
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Dancougar / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
Dancougar / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: In episode 3, Shinobu manages to screw over a gigantic weapon stockpile. The Muge pilot seems to have been flying right for the base entrance, plus the base itself was strangely left without major safety measures (like a door). The reason the first combination attempt failed was Ryo messing with the engine specifically to cause the combination to fail. (This leads directly to Captain Gerald doing a suicide run in the CBF carrier, to buy them time to combine properly.) In fairness, none of them knew about the combination until it told Shinobu about it, and they thought he was going nuts.
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Dancougar / int_8344209e	type	BFG
Dancougar / int_8344209e	comment	BFG: Dancougar is pretty much covered in them, and the booster upgrade adds a couple more. The full payload: 4 pulse lasers on its chest, two missile launchers/energy cannons located on the hips and two located behind and above the shoulders in the booster. There's also the large "DankuuHou" cannon located on its back. The DankuuHou Formation attack fires all of these at once. It also has a hand-held cannon that is built from the hand-held guns of its component units. The non-canon Final Dancougar gets another cannon by using Alan's craft. (Worth noting that, in-show, it's only referred to as the DankuuHou; as an attack name, the DankuuHou Formation is something that's only in the Super Robot Wars series. Originally, the booster got in the way of Big Moth's main guns, but the upgrade in God Bless Dancougar fixed this.)
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Dancougar / int_834420aa	type	BFS
Dancougar / int_834420aa	comment	BFS: The Dankuu Kouga Ken, which takes Dancougar's regular Dankuu Ken sword and adds a ridiculously long satellite-transmitted beam blade.
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Dancougar / int_844b6779	type	Super Mode
Dancougar / int_844b6779	comment	Super Mode: What the Aggressive Beast modes essentially are. They function very well in their normal and humanoid forms (as proof, Alan's Black Wing only has these two modes), but the Aggressive mode is what makes them Earth's trump card against the Muge Empire.
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Dancougar / int_8774fb47	type	Eldritch Abomination
Dancougar / int_8774fb47	comment	Eldritch Abomination: Death Gaia's personal mechs Deathgrome and Zan-Gaioh.
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Dancougar / int_87f943a7	type	Holding Back the Phlebotinum
Dancougar / int_87f943a7	comment	Holding Back the Phlebotinum: General Igor held back on telling the CBF about their machines' humanoid forms and Dancougar until he felt the pilots were ready for it. He also had a specific reason for not going into space to strike the enemy: the Gundor can only stay operational for a set amount of time before its power supply burns out, so he waited until the pilots could fulfill their greatest potential, and therefore had their best chance at a victory.
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Dancougar / int_8967e17f	type	Back from the Dead
Dancougar / int_8967e17f	comment	Back from the Dead: Shapiro in the Blazing Epilogue OVA. Muge Zolbados in God Bless Dancougar.
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Dancougar / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
Dancougar / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: Shapiro has an absolutely epic one when Muge abandons him to his fate, going out raving and laughing like a total maniac as only Norio Wakamoto can do.
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Dancougar / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Dancougar / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Emperor Muge Zorbados, who is a nightmarish, Lovecraftion Physical God and Dimension Lord.
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Dancougar / int_9cc7c9fe	type	A Nuclear Error
Dancougar / int_9cc7c9fe	comment	A Nuclear Error: Those nukes in episode 12 would realistically be in no danger whatsoever of going off. They would be within the enemy's easy grasp, so disabling them (ideally through disintegration) would nonetheless be the right thing to do.
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Dancougar / int_a247c4bf	type	A Mech by Any Other Name
Dancougar / int_a247c4bf	comment	A Mech by Any Other Name: The Juusenki ("Beast Battle Machine"), which are technically numbered "AGT-1" through "AGT-4" but are far more often referred to by name. The individual forms are designated N(ormal), A(ggressive), and H(umanoid). Alan's Black Wing is not a Juusenki, and only has N and H modes. The enemy mecha don't really have a designation, surprisingly, and it appears that only the Muge side knows their individual names. (What's weird is that the Earth side doesn't give them reporting names.)
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Dancougar / int_a950584d	type	Combining Mecha
Dancougar / int_a950584d	comment	Combining Mecha: A particularly unusual example, and something of a Deconstruction of how the trope usually plays out. The smaller robots (Eagle Fighter, Land Cougar/Liger) basically form a helmet and boots for the Big Moth (to show that Dancougar is "more than the sum of its parts"). And due to how much mental strength forming and operating Dancougar requires, its first combination is surprisingly late, all the way out in episode 16. On top of that, because of the sort of strong-willed personalities the pilots had, the combination wasn't successfully completed until their second attempt, when it was far more of a do-or-die situation.
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Dancougar / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
Dancougar / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: Shinobu's "YATTE YARUZE!!"
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Dancougar / int_b6ae5569	type	Transforming Mecha
Dancougar / int_b6ae5569	comment	Transforming Mecha: The Juusenki all have vehicle, bestial, and humanoid forms (N, A, and H forms respectively) - except Eagle Fighter, which takes its vehicle form and adds an energy aura for its bestial form.
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Dancougar / int_bb0c0a4d	type	Fiery Redhead
Dancougar / int_bb0c0a4d	comment	Fiery Redhead: Sara, and how.
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Dancougar / int_bce16d24	type	Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?
Dancougar / int_bce16d24	comment	Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: Discussed by one of Death Gaia's generals in Episode 12. The group was in an area defusing nukes, and he suggested that their group set one of them off. Death Gaia didn't want to do that because it meant less territory for him.
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Dancougar / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Dancougar / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Eagle Fighter launches through a hidden hangar door in the dam. Data block THX-1138.
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Dancougar / int_c9c756a8	type	Child Soldiers
Dancougar / int_c9c756a8	comment	Child Soldiers: Played absolutely straight a couple of times - for example, the Juusenkitai are sent in to reinforce a fortress in Appalachia, only to find that the only remaining staff are kids from the military school. Kids can also be seen assisting the resistance in North America, but it's unlikely any of them are soldiers.
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Dancougar / int_ca3ef034	type	Evil Knockoff
Dancougar / int_ca3ef034	comment	Evil Knockoff: Emperor Muge's creation of False Dancougar near the end of God Bless Dancougar.
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Dancougar / int_cd83fa5b	type	Spoiler Opening
Dancougar / int_cd83fa5b	comment	Spoiler Opening: The first opening of the series for quite a while. For example, the Juusenki humanoid forms aren't used until episode 11. And the Dancougar formation itself doesn't appear until three episodes after that. As this intro was done by the same company who designed the Juusenki mecha, it's likely this was just them showing off.
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Dancougar / int_d1cedb73	type	Slap-Slap-Kiss
Dancougar / int_d1cedb73	comment	Slap-Slap-Kiss: The Shinobu-Sara pairing. With literal slaps!
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Dancougar / int_d279adbb	type	Read the Freaking Manual
Dancougar / int_d279adbb	comment	Read the Freaking Manual: The show almost makes it a running gag of how often a problem could've been solved or outright avoided if the team actually knew what their machines would do, Shinobu even going as far as saying he skipped the manual because he'd figured things out better in practice. As one person put it, when combined with the number of suicide missions the team is sent on, Dancouga is an arms race between the team refusing to read the manual and General Igor refusing to tell them what's in it.
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Dancougar / int_d54b9eb3	type	Inter-Service Rivalry
Dancougar / int_d54b9eb3	comment	Interservice Rivalry: Muge's generals are all loyal to him, but not to each other.
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Dancougar / int_d9e946ae	type	Cute Monster Girl
Dancougar / int_d9e946ae	comment	Cute Monster Girl: Luna, the Emperor's servant.
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Dancougar / int_da78e9a0	type	Shinigami
Dancougar / int_da78e9a0	comment	Shinigami: Emperor Muge Zorbados in a nutshell.
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Dancougar / int_dabc7a46	type	Sixth Ranger
Dancougar / int_dabc7a46	comment	Sixth Ranger: Alan Igor, Ross' son.
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Dancougar / int_daef39ee	type	Elaborate Underground Base
Dancougar / int_daef39ee	comment	Elaborate Underground Base: CBF's base of operations is hidden in a dam reservoir, though it's not much more elaborate than a typical military base. Turns into a Cool Ship around halfway through the series.
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Dancougar / int_e034faef	type	Limited Animation
Dancougar / int_e034faef	comment	Limited Animation: Often. Episode 11 is particularly bad, as they apparently couldn't even afford to properly animate the Humanoid mode transformations properly, the scene itself bordering on Deranged Animation just due to the Art Shift to blueprint-style linework with strobing effects between frames alone; while the opening scene mostly consists of still images with character designs reminiscent of a 70s Toei mecha title.
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Dancougar / int_e11bf8dd	type	MechaMook
Dancougar / int_e11bf8dd	comment	Mecha-Mook: The Muge Small Aerial Mecha (the goldenrod fighter craft - that really is the official name) and the humanoid Zey-pha.
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Dancougar / int_e27d59a7	type	Animal-Vehicle Hybrid
Dancougar / int_e27d59a7	comment	Animal-Vehicle Hybrid: the weapons of the Cyber Beast Force can transform between beast, vehicle and humanoid modes, and are programmed with the instincts of the animals they resemble. A sufficiently wild-hearted pilot can bond with their Cyber Beast on a spiritual level, granting it ferocious power. Later in the series this allows all four Beasts to combine into the Super Robot Dancouga.
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Dancougar / int_e431c24c	type	Not Quite Dead
Dancougar / int_e431c24c	comment	Not Quite Dead: Both Muge Zorbados and Shapiro turn out to be this way in the OVA sequels.
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Dancougar / int_e5421161	type	Expy
Dancougar / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: The designs for most of the Juusenkitai's beast forms resemble that of Laserbeak and Ravage, while the Eagle Fighter's humanoid form resembles that of the model used for Starscream and the Seekers. Probably justified as most of the same animators from Ashi Productions and Nakamura Productions (who designed the mecha) worked on The Transformers around the same time.
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Dancougar / int_e6eafde0	type	Battle Aura
Dancougar / int_e6eafde0	comment	Battle Aura: The Juusenki briefly get them when transforming into their Beast forms, as do the pilots.
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Dancougar / int_e9604359	type	Monster of the Week
Dancougar / int_e9604359	comment	"Why does the evil alien empire fool around with the Monster of the Week trying to take down a lone mecha instead of launching a full-scale invasion right away?" - Show premise. (They're still used but are frequently customized from existing units.)
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Dancougar / int_ea08e9	type	The Team
Dancougar / int_ea08e9	comment	Also a deconstruction of the Super Robot anime that have The Team. It's functionally a Real Robot take on a Super Robot plotline.
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Dancougar / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
Dancougar / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: The Juusenkitai tends to be sent off to assist resistance groups, who are very happy to see them.
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Dancougar / int_ed46da54	type	Martial Pacifist
Dancougar / int_ed46da54	comment	"How would a Martial Pacifist perform in a real, full-scale War ?" - Ryo in one episode.
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Dancougar / int_f13a0451	type	Suicide Attack
Dancougar / int_f13a0451	comment	Suicide Attack: Kuzard's role in God Bless Dancougar
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Dancougar / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Dancougar / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Shinobu's about to get into a fistfigh- no, he's just gettin' his ass handed to him.
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