Eldran series


The Eldran series is a toy and Japanese anime franchise begun by toy company Tomy in Japan. Tomy struck a cooperative deal with the animation studio Sunrise to develop the new franchise to sell their toys.

Series overview

  • Matchless Raijin-Oh
  • Genki Bakuhatsu Ganbaruger
  • Nekketsu Saikyō Go-Saurer
  • Kanzen Shouri Daiteioh
Kanzen Shouri Daiteioh was planned to be made into a TV series, but instead only a pilot episode OVA and a manga based on the pilot was made. However, this series appears in Super Robot Wars NEO''.

Series summaries and context

Every year, whenever kinds of evil attempt world domination, the patron saint "Eldran" entrusts main robots and auxiliary robots to only elementary school children regardless of grade, class and how many of the children in the class should there be if in the case, 18 children, 19 children, or 100 or more children. This is because adults cannot fight the evil alone and are incapable of piloting the Eldran Robots. They control the robots by co-operating, and confront different types of evil organizations who attempt to take over the Earth.
The idea was that a school could house the large transforming robots and their base would be the school that the kids would go to.

Similarities with Yūsha

When the Eldran series was conceived by Tomy, Takara had begun making the Brave series. The robots in each series would combine in certain ways to become a powerful robot and later new robots would be introduced that could combine with the title robot. When Takara and Tomy merged into TakaraTomy, the similarities between the two franchises led to Raijin-Oh being featured in the PlayStation 2 video game Brave Wars alongside several Brave characters.