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Dangaioh

Hyper Combat Unit Dangaioh (破邪大星ダンガイオー, Haja Taisei Dangaiō) is a Japanese anime OVA series produced and animated by AIC and Artmic and released in Japan in 1987. Dangaioh featured character designs by creator Toshiki Hirano, mechanical designs by Shoji Kawamori, and animation direction by Masami Ōbari.

Brought together by the mysterious Dr. Tarsan, four powerful psychic warriors Mia Alice, Lamba Nom, Pai Thunder, and Roll Kran can unite four powerful planes to form Dangaioh (ダンガイオー/彈劾凰, Dangaiō)—the most powerful weapon in the universe. Using their combined psionic force, the Dangaioh team alone can stop the bloody tyranny of Captain Galimos and Gil Berg.

The team hopes their psychogenic wave will be strong enough to destroy Galimos's evil henchman, the notorious Gil Berg, who has sworn by the taking of his right eye to utterly destroy the Dangaioh Team. Along with the threat of Gil Berg, the Dangaioh Team must also avoid falling foul of Galimos's trickery, which finds weakness in their forgotten pasts.

The score was composed by Chumei Watanabe, with additional music for episode 3 by Kaoru Mizutani. The soundtrack for episode 1 was released by Nippon Columbia on CD on April 21, 1987, and on LP and cassette on August 21, 1987. It was reissued on March 21, 2007, as No. 169 of Nippon Columbia's "Animex 1200" series. The soundtrack for episodes 2 and 3 was released by Platz on CD on July 21, 1989.

The first opening and ending themes were released as a 7" vinyl single on July 21, 1987.

Dangaioh was reissued in a two-LaserDisc set by Bandai Visual in 1998. The OVA was released on DVD on January 25, 2002. It was reissued on September 24, 2010, as part of the "Emotion the Best" DVD line.

Dangaioh was released on Blu-ray by King Records on April 27, 2016. For this release, episodes 1–2 were remastered in 1080p HD from the original 35mm negatives, while episode 3 was upconverted from the DVD source to 1080i using Q-tec's FORS (Faithful Original Source) system.

Episode 1 of Dangaioh was first released in North America on subtitled VHS format by U.S. Renditions in 1990 as Dangaio. It was infamously known for a subtitling error towards the end of the episode. Dangaioh's final attacks "Psychic Wave" and "Psychic Sword" were misspelled as "Side-kick Wave" and "Side-kick Sword." Episodes 2 and 3 were released in 1992 with a different translation staff behind the subtitling production.

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