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family robot television series created by

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and produced by Toei. It ran from October 4, 1974, to March 25, 1977, on NET TV. ran from January 31, 1999 (a week after the finale of ''

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'') to January 23, 2000 (a week before the premiere of ''

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''). This series joined ''

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''. The story follows Robocon, a student of Gantz's Robot Academy who lives amongst humans and aids them as part of his studies. Though Robocon is a screw up, he makes efforts to establish a good image for robots in the eyes of humans they cross paths with. On December 10, 1999, Toei released the direct to video movie where the Robocon of the 90s meets the original Robocon from the 70s. In 2006,

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planned to develop a western animated adaptation titled ''Robocon!'' The series would have been set in a futuristic city called Neo-Con City. The series never went beyond an animatic pilot. A new film was released theatrically on July 31, 2020. It is paired with the anime films ''Jintai no Survival'' and ''Sprin' Pan Mae e Susumō!''.''

Robots

Note: The characters listed are from both the original series and the 1999 series, ''Moero!! Robocon''. * Robocon: A robot who lives amongst humans and aids them as part of his studies at Robot Academy. However, Robocon is a screw-up and is afraid of cockroaches. He can transform into the Robocon Car. * Gantsu Sensei: The robot teacher of Robot Academy who built all his student robots, who he accesses via the Scoring Connecter to check their "study" of the week. * Robobin: A snail-like delivery robot who is normal of leisure until he transforms into bike-mode, becoming fast yet impulsive. He always makes sure his deliveries get there on time and takes his job very seriously. Unfortunately, Robocon seems to always be there to mess things up for him somehow getting him a low score in the end. * Robo-P: A policewoman robot who likes to whistle. She has a huge crush on Robocon and is usually distracted from her duties because of it. * Robogeta: Though a weather forecasting robot, his forecast rarely proves right. What he does is throw his slipper into the air and judges the weather from the position it lands in. He always scores low because of this. He later makes friends with Roboboss as the bullies to Robocon. * Robokero: A frog-karaoke robot. He always tries to improve the mood with singing and believes that songs are a good way of cheering people up. He scores decently, but what he does usually isn't sufficient enough to earn a perfect score. * Robomogu: An egg-shaped chef robot who works in a restaurant and serves people delicious food. He's friendly and sociable, but takes his cooking very seriously. * Robodigi: Robodigi is a robot with a large monitor like head with two number digits as eyes (his neutral eyes is the number eight and the line in the middle moves to show sadness/anger) He always speaks politely and is a know it all. He works in a laboratory helping solve complex problems. * Roboboss: He works at a construction site and is physically the most powerful robot in his class. Rash and impulsive, he is always looking for ways to get a perfect score. And once that gets too hard he tries to find ways to ruin everyone else's. * Robina-chan: A robotic ballerina who Robocon has a crush on. Robina-chan played a major role in the film "Robocon Dai Boken" in which she was kidnapped by space pirates when their leader, the elderly warlock Akuma, wants her as his bride. The original actress who played Robina-chan returned for a cameo in the Heisei version of the show, ''Moero!! Robocon''. *Robopu: A robot with a teapot for a head. *Roboinu: A dog-like robot who wears a bucket on his head. *Robopecha: A medic robot with a medical needle in place of his right hand. *Robogari: A teacher robot with a lightbulb-shaped head. He always gets a perfect score, which annoys Robocon. *Roboton: A construction robot with a hammer for a face.

Cast

*Shintaro Oyama: Shigehisa Ōno *Hatsue Oyama:

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*Hajime Oyama: Yoshikazu Yamada *Midori Oyama: Mayumi Sakuma *Makoto Oyama:

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*Robin-chan:

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*Yamamoto-sensei:

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*Officer Machida:

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*Taro Ogawa:

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*Yoshiko Ogawa:

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*Mayumi Ogawa:

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*Susumu Ogawa:

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*Mitsuko Kurihara: Mie *Momoko Kurihara:

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*Osamu Kurihara:

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*Jun Kurihara: Jōtarō Koike *Gotaro Kurihara: Ikkei Watanabe *Robina-chan:

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Voice Cast

*Robocon: Keiko Yamamoto *Robocon:

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*Gantz-sensei:

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*Robogari:

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*Robopar/Robo Mecha: Kōji Yada *Robowal/Robopu/Robobin: Ichirō Nagai *Robodoro/Roboton: Kenichi Ogata *Roboton:

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*Robosho/Robokiwi/Robochoi:

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*Roboton/Robogaki/Robogera: Osamu Katō *Robopecha/Robopyon: Kazuko Sawada *Robowal/Robocar: Yonehiko Kitagawa *Robodeki:

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*Robomero: Junko Hori *Roboinu: Kaneta Kimotsuki/

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*Roboriki: Hiroshi Masuoka *Robopeka: Isamu Tanonaka *Robo-chan: Kazuko Sugiyama *Robobin:

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*Robo-P: Keiko Han *Robogeta: Kaneta Kimotsuki *Robokero:

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*Robomogu: Kōji Yusa *Roboboss: Kazuki Yao

Theme Songs

All songs were sung by Ichirou Mizuki and composed by

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. *OP 1: Ganbare Robocon, written by

*OP 2: by Shotaro Ishinomori *ED 1: written by

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*ED 2: by Saburō Yatsude *Summer ED: by Saburō Yatsude *Winter ED: by Shotaro Ishinomori

References

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