| Nekketsu Saikyō Go-Saurer | |
| Ja Kanji: | 熱血最強ゴウザウラー |
| Ja Romaji: | Nekketsu Saikyō Gōzaurā |
| Genre: | Adventure, Mecha, School |
| Type: | tv series |
| Director: | Toshifumi Kawase |
| Music: | Tomoki Hasegawa |
| Studio: | Sunrise |
| Network: | TV Tokyo |
| First: | March 3, 1993 |
| Last: | February 23, 1994 |
| Episodes: | 51 |
(this series is also sometimes titled as "Matchless Passion Gozaurer") is a 51-episode animated television series, and third generation Eldran franchise funded by Tomy after Genki Bakuhatsu Ganbaruger and produced by Sunrise. It aired in Japan from March 3, 1993, to February 23, 1994. The story for this entry is that a group of elementary school children are given command of the series' title mecha and their efforts to defend the Earth from the hands of the Mechanization Empire (Named the "Machine Empire" in the Filipino dubbed version) which was led by Kikaishin, the boss of this organization himself. It firstly introduces a female pilot, additional pilots who pilot auxiliary mecha and jet mode. In addition, it is the first season to start with four pilots, having all members having the same bracelet and introduce a super robot piloted by multiple pilots.
A year has passed after the Three Great Demons are successfully defeated by Great Ganbaruger as well as Gokudo being defeated by God Raijin-oh and Jaku Satan. Jin Hyuga and the Earth Defense Class are now in the first year of middle school, and Kotaro and the members of the Ganba Team are now in the fifth grade of Aozora Elementary. But it is not long that a month has passed when the Mechanization Empire invades the solar system in space, and in a matter of moments they take over and convert Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars into mechanical forms, and now, the next planet they seek to mechanize is Earth. However, Earth's only ancient protector and soldier of light, Eldran, stands in their progress. To fight this new menace he gives the third generation of Eldran pilots - Kenichi Minezaki, Hiromi Tachibana and Shinobu Asaoka - a dinosaur-themed mecha each:
...the three components of the series' title protagonist mecha, Gosaurer. Eventually, as this entry progresses, two auxiliary mecha - each assigned a pilot - later appear:
Kenichi Minezaki is the sixth-grade pilot of Mach Ptera and main pilot of Gosaurer. His parents run a sports store named "Minezaki Sports". He is an active and cheerful boy who likes to skateboard and is good at sports, but like his two Eldran predecessors, he is having academic problem issues. He is friends with Saneyasu and Kazutaka with whom he always plays soccer. However, he is the most annoying troublemaker who always causes lots of fights with Shinobu, Goro, Taro, or anyone else in school. He dreamed that a giant gear crashed onto his home which converted him very strangely after Great Ganbaruger saved Earth months prior. It was at this very one time that he was cursed by the Mechanical Empire into a mechanical cyborg for a few days temporarily for some time, but after a brief and bruised battle with the combined lifeforces and powers of the Four Great Machine Kings' new forme, the Machine Great King, he almost died and did return to being his human self with General Takeda's Matter Restoration Device, made by the Defense Force. After a harsher battle between themselves and the Emperor, the most powerful Kikaishin, he graduated from Harukaze Elementary along with the Saurers.
Hiromi Tachibana is the pilot of Land Stego who has a hobby for writing and drawing manga. His mother‘s name is Sayoko Tachibana, a klutzy doctor. His father is never revealed in this series and it could be possible he married Sayoko before Hiromi himself was born. It is revealed that he is good at cooking and it is believed that he has feelings for Kumiko Tanabe, whom he stalks as a subject for his manga drawing.
The first female Eldran pilot who operates Thunder Brachio. A tomboyish sixth-grade girl who often argues with Kenichi. She is learning kendo, and often spars with her grandmother (who is also an arcade gamer). Like with the case of Hiromi, her father is also never seen in this series.
The very angry sixth-grade class president of class 6-2 who has a serious demeanor and a very dangerous and explosive temper, which causes him to go on a rampage at school and cause lots of fights with Kenichi and/or anyone else. At this time, his behavior seems to be quite rougher than a child could have in his lifestyle. Once, he was absolutely mad and made Taro, Yoji and Kenichi return to their usual robots by piloting all three by himself due to the three piloting the wrong robots (which was the case when Taro pilots Gosaurer, Yoji pilots Magnasaurer and Kenichi pilots Gransaurer because of an argument and strategy). He is the pilot of Kenichi's, Hiromi's and Shinobu's mecha's special vehicle transportation formation, Saurer Jet. In addition, he is the artilleryman of Thunder Brachio and is in the command room in charge of weapons.
Also nicknamed at times as "Kinta" (金太). The judo club member who is refined, yet aggressive and the toughest. He lost in the finals to the same opponent for three consecutive years in judo tournaments since he was in the fourth grade when Raijin-Oh was fighting the Jark Empire, but in the last tournament he participated in the fight for the Saurers despite being in the middle of a match. He has feelings for Yuka Mizuhara when he was practising judo everyday in life. Kinta is the pilot of the series' first piloted auxiliary, Magna Tyranno.
An indecisive nerd and teacher's pet, who is a real bookworm and the heir to the elite Hiyama clan, whom all have the same type of hairstyle and glasses. Personally, he has a crush on the Class 6-3's homeroom teacher, Yuri Yayoi. He is the pilot of the Boueigar that soon, on the same episode of its appearance, permanently becomes Grantops, the second piloted auxiliary of the series.
Unlike the previous Eldran series, both Gosaurer and Magnasaurer transform from the school itself, rather than launch under the base of school/street, which means the facilities in school are usable, but also means that the armour are extremely weak.
This form is a special transportation formation of Mach Ptera, Land Stego and Thunder Brachio when the mecha are launched. The only weapons in operation in this formation are the Thunder Cannons and Jet Vulcan which supply only basic defence. Once the Saurer Jet reaches its destination, Goro triggers the Jet's "Saurer Formation" procedure which disassembles the formation into the components - Saurer Jet has served its purpose each time.
The first of Gosaurer's components, it is the only flight-capable component of the three. It mounts a pair of Gatling guns on the wings called the Brit Vulcans and a pair of slicing blades called the Ptera Slicers. It forms the arms and back (and therefore the wings) of Gosaurer.
The second of Gosaurer's components, it can attack with spinning back plates called the Fin Cutters and with missile launchers on the sides of the head called the Stego Launchers. Its support crew is Saneyasu, Erika, Kumiko, Harue, and Taro, until Magnasaurer was found in a volcano. It becomes Gosaurer's main body.
The third of Gosaurer's components, its weapons are the mouth-equipped Brachio Needle gatling cannon and the back-equipped Thunder Cannons. It can also withdraw the legs into the body and ram with hover jets. It becomes Gosaurer's legs.
The of Mach Ptera, Land Stego and Thunder Brachio triggered by Kenichi's Saurer Changer's combination function being initiated. Each component's pilots move to the head-based cockpit, where Kenichi seems to be the main pilot. The components' command centers form a single command center in the middle of Gosaurer's chest.
Weapons and abilities
When the Saurer Jet's Saurer Formation procedure is triggered and Taro's mecha is combined with the Jet at this time, Taro's mecha reshapes into Magna Tyranno. Its attacks are simple: Tyranno Fire fires a blast of fire from its mouth, Tyranno Smasher is a pair of torso mounted laser cannons, and it bodily rams the enemy when performing Tyranno Smash.
The of Magna Tyranno into a robot form. Magnasaurer is the first robot to have white hands.
A special transformation of Magnasaurer into a back-mounted firing weapon used by Gosaurer, instantly forming - this is phase 1 of Magnasaurer's finishing attack, Saurer Big Buster; for phase 2, Taro, upon the Magna Buster being charged to fire, locks his Saurer Changer into a special firing-weapon-similar interface which allows Taro to fire the blast (Note: this finishing attack can be fired even without combining with Gosaurer, but this has been done only once in the anime), firing a huge blast from the cannons. It also is this mode initially during launch, as a part of the Saurer Jet. When it is not engaging in battles, it was the part of the school which the stairs, as well as the cookery located.With the introduction of Magna Tyranno, the Saurer Jet, when being launched, is now formed as the where Magna Tyranno is called as the Magna Buster during transportation.
Yoji Hiyama is the single pilot who controls all of the three forms. This is the Dinosaur mode of Gransaurer, and the initial mode it is gained in. It has several attacks in this mode:
Grantops' transportation mode when launched.
The Hot-Blooded Evolution of Grantops into a robot form.
The of Gosaurer, Magnasaurer and Gransaurer. It requires all the Saurers to be on board. The pilots of all three units are transferred to a head-based single cockpit.
In the last episode it can further combine with the every part of the school which extra amour are placed on King Gosaurer, while the usable armaments are reduced to King Blade. The unit itself is called .
KEEP ON DREAMING
by Seraphim - a special cast-performed "SAURERS Version" is played starting from the midway point onwards of the episodes
READY GO! Hot-Blooded Strongest King Go-Saurer
by SAURERS
Go-Saurer debuted as an entry in the Super Robot Wars series of video games in Super Robot Wars NEO for the Wii along with the other 3 Eldran robots.