Dancouga – Super Beast Machine God
| Dancouga - Super Beast Machine God | |
First Blu-ray box set cover | |
| 超獣機神ダンクーガ (Chōjū Kishin Dankūga) | |
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| Genre | Mecha |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Seiji Okuda |
| Produced by | Yoshirō Kataoka Hiroshi Kato Masaru Umehara |
| Written by | Keisuke Fujikawa |
| Music by | Osamu Totsuka Takeshi Ike |
| Studio | Ashi Productions |
| Licensed by | |
| Original network | TBS |
| Original run | 5 April 1985 – 27 December 1985 |
| Episodes | 38 |
| Original video animation | |
| Requiem for Victims | |
| Directed by | Seiji Okuda |
| Produced by | Hiroshi Katō Masaru Umehara Yoshiro Kataoka |
| Written by | Kenji Terada Keisuke Fujikawa Junki Takegami |
| Music by | Osamu Totsuka |
| Studio | Ashi Production |
| Licensed by | |
| Released | April 21, 1986 |
| Runtime | 90 minutes |
| Original video animation | |
| Jūsenkitai Songs | |
| Studio | Ashi Productions |
| Released | 1986 |
| Original video animation | |
| God Bless Dancouga | |
| Directed by | Jutaro Oba |
| Written by | Hideki Sonoda |
| Music by | Osamu Totsuka |
| Studio | Ashi Productions |
| Released | 15 April 1987 |
| Runtime | 80 minutes |
| Original video animation | |
| Blazing Epilogue | |
| Directed by | Tatsuji Yamazaki |
| Produced by | Masaru Umehara |
| Written by | Kenji Terada |
| Music by | Takeshi Ike |
| Studio | Ashi Productions |
| Licensed by | |
| Released | December 1989 – May 1990 |
| Episodes | 4 |
| Manga | |
| Dancouga BURN - Super Beast Machine God | |
| Written by | Yuichi Hasegawa |
| Published by | Kadokawa Shoten |
| Magazine | Monthly Shonen Ace Dash |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Original run | November 1997 – November 1998 |
| Volumes | 2 |
Dancouga - Super Beast Machine God (超獣機神ダンクーガ, Chōjū Kishin Dankūga) is a Super Robot anime television series produced by Ashi Productions, directed by Seiji Okuda and written by Keisuke Fujikawa. It ran on TBS for 38 episodes from 5 April 1985 to 27 December 1985. The TV anime was licensed by Central Park Media under their Software Sculptors label in 1995, and was released on subtitled VHS. The series's license was later picked up by Discotek Media. After the series ended, four original video animations were released between 1986 and 1990. A sequel series, Dancouga Nova – Super God Beast Armor, aired in Japan in 2007.
The series marks the debut of animator and artist Masami Ōbari, who would later become one of the most prolific mecha designers in the anime industry.