Sonic Soldier Borgman


Sonic Soldier Borgman, or simply Borgman, is a futuristic science fiction hero anime television series produced by Nippon TV, Yomiko Advertising, Toho and Ashi Productions. It was directed by Hiroshi Negishi, with Hideki Sonoda handling series scripts, Kia Asamiya designing the characters and Hiromoto Tobisawa composing the music. The TV series aired on Nippon TV and its affiliate stations on Wednesday evenings from April 13 to December 21, 1988, and was followed up by a video game, two movies, and an OVA miniseries released in 1988, 1989, 1990 and 1993, respectively.

Plot

In 1999, four meteorites, the "demon stones," fell on Tokyo, destroying the capital city. Thirty-one years later, in 2030, invaders from another dimension, calling themselves demons, suddenly attacked Megalo City, a new city built on Tokyo Bay. Their goal is to complete the magic square with the fifth demon stone, revive the Demon King, and conquer the world. Just when everyone thought that the human race had no choice but to perish, a group of young people wearing battle suits called "Baltectors" rose up and challenged GIL, an army of demons and crime syndicate, to a battle. They were the cyborg warriors known as Borgman.

Characters

Sonic Team

;Ryō Hibiki
;Chuck Sweager
;Anise Pharm
;Memory Gene

Other characters

;Miki Katsura
;Charlie Burger
;Shinji Oda
;Molly Rangwald
;Randō Gōda
;Tōru Momoki
;Fritz K. Liddell

GIL Crime Syndicate

An evil organization that worships the Demon King and seeks to rule the real world with the power of demons. It is composed of former human cadres enchanted by demons and demon warriors under their command. It has no particular army of low-ranking soldiers like combatants, and each operation is carried out by one of the cadres and the demons under their command. It is unclear whether the name of the organization itself was known to the Borgman side, as it was referred to simply as "demons."
;Gilbert Mesh
;Dust Gead
;Felmina
;Wongotto
;Kerberus
;Vader
;Demons

Release

In 2004, both the Lover's Rain and the Last Battle movies were released on DVD in the U.S. by ADV.

Other media

In 1988, a video game was produced based on the series for the Master System. This game was only released as a tie-in for the Japanese market, and for the US and European territories it was marketed as Cyborg Hunter, with references to Borgman removed.