There are not many online facts I could find with regard of this mecha anime.   Very uncommon mecha show that anyone hardly knows (including myself, which is sad to say the least).

All my googling efforts ended nowhere until I later discovered that they were actually far more popular in Asia, than it was in European, USA, South America and Oceanic countries.

It’s fair to say  the content was more geared to suit Asian audiences.   After searching its material via Google Trends (and reading this link from Wikipedia.org), I could be right.  Here’s the following excerpt from Wikipedia.org

“Brave Exkaiser is a Japanese animated television series that began in 1990, created by Sunrise under the direction of Katsuyoshi Yatabe, and is the first of the long running Yuusha or “Brave” metaseries funded by Takara and produced by Sunrise. The story takes place on a present day Earth that was secretly visited by a group of space police led by Exkaiser who were chasing after an evil gang of energy beings called The Geisters (led by Dino Geist). Upon arriving on Earth, Exkaiser and his team called the “Kaisers” put their spirits (Similar to Sparks of the Transformers mythos) into vehicles all over Japan so that they could convert them into transformable bodies for themselves.”

Here’s the intro theme.

Some pics from the series

Exkaizer Hero Crew

Brave Exkaizer wall poster

Exkaizer

And here’s the list of heroes and villians.

Our Heroes

Exkaizer – Our Hero Intro

King Exkaizer

Dragon Exkaizer

Great Exkaizer

Dash Max

Sky Max

Drill Max

God Max

Blue Raker and Green Raker

Ultra Raker

The Villians

The Four Geists

Dino Geist – Ringleader of Geists

Lots of uncanny resemblances with Transformers G1 animated series. Here and there. In fact, it is said that they’re the new designs of Transformers G1 and they’re meant to showcase the “enhanced” design aspects of Transformers that were superior. Because of this enthused marketing ploy Takara wanted to do so much, that’s why it’s part of that long lineage of super robot series during the 90s.

Very intriguing.

Well, that’s all for now. I’m sure there’s plenty of facts to go I’m keen to find out why the series was only good amongst Asian audiences in the far east.  More will be posted in the future.

If anybody out there who knows better about the Brave series, feel free to guest post here.  I’m looking forward to hear your thoughts on it.

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