Dai-Guard (anime)

Dai-Guard: Terrestrial Defence Corp. (地球防衛企業 ダイ・ガード, Chikyū Bōei Kigyō Dai Gādo) is a 1999 anime television series produced by XEBEC. It was also serialised in Kadokawa Shoten's Gekkan Ace Next.

Synopsis
On the 24th of February 2018, a Heterodyne, a giant and unknown creature, appears before a research veseel on the Sea of Japan. It destroys the boat, and proceeds to rampage across a city, before being destroyed by an O.E. bomb, which levels the remaining city. In order to prevent the same tragedy from repeating itself, the Anzen Hoshou Army commisions the production of Dai-Guard, a giant humanoid weapon system, from 21st Century Defence Security.

However, the Heterodyne fail to reappear. Eventually, regarding Dai-Guard as a 'useless super thing', the army return it completely to 21st Century Defence Security, where it serves as their mascot for the next 12 years. In 2030, during their annual security show, a Heterodyne emerges. After the poorly prepared Dai-Guard defeats it, more follow in the subsequent months.

The series follows Public Relations Division 2, to whom Dai-Guard was charged. Dai-Guard's pilots are a pair of salarymen and an office lady. Whilst the Heterodyne threat presents the immediate conflict, much of the show concerns the politics of 21st Century Defence Security and the Anzen Hoshou Army. Whilst both organisations nominally strive to protect the peace, the selfish manoueveres of indiviuals ultimately endanger the people.

Public Relations Division 2

 * Shunsuke Akagi


 * Keiichiro Aoyama
 * Hirotaka Ijyuuin
 * Shizuka Irie
 * Tomoyoshi Ishizuka
 * Ibuki Momoi
 * Chiaki Nakahara
 * Noriko Ooyama
 * Haruo Oosgui
 * Tomorou Taguchi
 * Fuuka Tanigawa
 * Shinyu Yokozawa

Technology Division

 * Rika Domeki


 * Younei Sumida

Anzen Hoshou Army

 * Shirou Shirota

21st Century Defence Security

 * Dai-Guard

Anzen Hoshou Army

 * Kokubogar

Opening

 * 1) Back Alley Space Boy by The Cobratwisters (Episodes #2-#25)

Endings

 * 1) Run, Run, by Kyoko Endou (Episodes #1-#25)
 * 2) Back Alley Space Boy by The Cobratwisters (Episode #26)