Dinosaur War Izenborg

Dinosaur War Izenborg (恐竜大戦争アイゼンボーグ, Kyōryū Daisensō Aizenbōgu) is a Japanese television program produced by Tsuburaya Productions that aired from 1977 to 1978 on TV Tokyo. It combined Tsuburaya's trademark suitmation tokusatsu techniques with Japanese animation, so this program can be categorized as either anime or daikaiju tokusatsu. The show ran for about 39 episodes.

Dinosaur Great War Izenborg
Cover of the Eight DVD Volume.
恐竜大戦争アイゼンボーグ (Kyōryū Daisensō Aizenbōgu)
Genre	Tokusatsu, Mecha, Superhero
Anime television series
Directed by	Kanji Otsuka
Produced by	Takao Niimi, Hiroshi Ishikawa (TV Tokyo), Tadashi Matsushima (Tokyu Agency), Akira Tsuburaya, Junkichi Oki (Tsuburaya Productions)
Written by	Keiichi Abe
Music by	Toshiaki Tsushima
Studio	Tsuburaya Productions (tokusatsu part) Oka Studios (anime part)
Original network	TV Tokyo
Original run	October 17, 1977 – June 30, 1978
Episodes	39

Rifftrax did a riff on the compilation film Attack of the Super Monsters in 2019.[1]

Plot

Dinosaurs reappear on Earth, stronger and more intelligent than before, led by Dinosaur Satan Gottes, and this time they are trying to rule Earth once more and wipe out humankind. They are alive and even thriving in an underground empire that they have built. In 1986, Ururu, the leader of the dinosaurs, declares war against humanity. In an attempt to reclaim Earth's surface, some of the dinosaurs evolve into deadly monsters and start wreaking havoc on human population centers around the globe. The story revolves around the D-Force (D戦隊 D Sentai), and its two members, a brother and sister team of Tachibana Ai (立花 愛) and Tachibana Zen (立花 善), the Special OPs force, whose mission is to combat monsterized dinosaurs and protect humanity. But early in the series, the siblings suffer a near-fatal injury from the massive explosion during the test of a prototype super-tank, "predecessor to Izenborg". In order to keep them alive, they receive cybernetic body parts and other implants, which synchronize with their combat vehicle and form Aizenborg (Ai + Zen + Cy"borg"; called Gemini in the U.S. movie) to fight the dino-army. Halfway through the show their bodies are altered again, and the two are able to combine into a robotic giant that can fight the dinosaurs in close combat.

In 1982, the first four episodes were released to VHS in the United States in the form of a movie edit titled Attack of the Super Monsters.

The Return of Izenborg

The Return of Izenborg (帰ってきたアイゼンボーグ, Kaettekita Aizenbōgu) is a Japanese-Arabic documentary produced as a collaboration between the Japanese company Tsuburaya Productions, Mr. Jarrah Alfurih from Saudi Arabia and Cultures Factory (an NLC company). It is the first Arabic-Japanese production in the art of Japanese tokusatsu, which is a special live action effects category. This documentary was filmed in 2016 and aired on Friday December 15, 2017 on the Arabic channel Spacetoon at 8:30pm local Saudi time.[2] The documentary was translated back to Japanese by Tsubaraya and officially streamed on YouTube in December 29, 2017.[3]

References

1. https://www.rifftrax.com/attack-of-the-super-monsters
2. https://www.tsuburaya-prod.co.jp/en/news/documentary-of-izenborg/ Tsuburaya official page announces the Arabic broadcast of the film in the Middle East
3. https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2018-01-27/japanese-version-of-saudi-arabian-kyoryu-daisenso-aizenborg-documentary-streamed/.126754

External links

• Kyōryū Daisensō Aizenbōgu on IMDb
• Attack of the Super Monsters on IMDb
• Kyoryu Daisenso Aizenborg (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia