Armored Fleet Dairugger XV (1982)
Armored Fleet Dairugger XV was an anime series aired in Japan from 1982 to 1983. It is also referred to as Dairugger 15, Dairugger XV, Armored Armada Dairugger XV, Armored Squadron Dairugger XV, or Machine Platoon Dairugger. In the United States, it was heavily edited to become part of the Voltron series. The Dairugger footage was the primary source for the "Vehicle Voltron" episodes, though various footage was also inserted into the more commonly known "Lion Voltron" episodes.
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Episode 1 - Galactic Clash
Release Date: 1982-03-03“Once, people staked their youth on the seas. On the Seven Seas, the flames of romanticism, ambition, adventure, and aspiration burned and clashed. Now, young people of the year AD 2200 challenge the sea of stars. What awaits them there is a world beyond our imagination.”
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Episode 2 - The Isolated Regiment
Release Date: 1982-03-10"Having used teamwork to barely ward-off the enemy’s attack, the Rugger Team sets about exploring the planet. But the shadow of fear still lies in wait."
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Episode 3 - Farewell, Achilles
Release Date: 1982-03-17"The Galactic Survey Team has found an inhabitable planet, and the enemy persistently attacks them. Will they really be able to fully protect this planet?"
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Episode 4 - Rescue Mission To Hell
Release Date: 1982-03-24"The Rugger Guard picks-up a distress call from an electrically unstable space region and sends Keats Team to the rescue. But there, they find a Galveston trap."
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Episode 5 - Battle For the Experiment Planet
Release Date: 1982-03-31"The Rugger Guard arrives at a planet where no creatures seem likely to live. But while exploring there, Walther Team discovers a strange group of plants."
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Episode 6 - Fall To the Meteor Shower
Release Date: 1982-04-07"A Galveston fleet mercilessly attacks the Rugger Guard, which was damaged in a meteor shower. Can Aki and the others overcome this crisis?”
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Episode 7 - Annihilation Of the Reinforcement Fleet
Release Date: 1982-04-14"It will be three weeks until the reinforcement fleet from Earth rendezvous with the Rugger Guard. Will Galveston just sit-back and watch?"
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Episode 8 - Specters Of the Binary System
Release Date: 1982-04-21"Yin and Yang, two worlds that make-up a tandem system. There we encounter a ghost fleet, eerily cruising along. Are they friend or foe?"
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Episode 9 - The Glorious Suicide Corps
Release Date: 1982-04-28"At space time 6:00, the Earth support fleet that is to rendezvous with the Rugger Guard is attacked by a Galveston fleet. Aki and team hear of it, and their anger explodes."
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Episode 10 - Sneak Attack On the Space Fortress
Release Date: 1982-05-05“Planet Six: an eerie swarm of bats and a city of ruins. What did Chakker see there, and why is his fever so high?”
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Episode 11 - A Momentary Truce
Release Date: 1982-05-12“A Galveston fighter crashes nearby as the Rugger Team investigates the ruined city. The young pilot’s pride clashes violently with the team.”
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Episode 12 - Legend Of the Space Forest
Release Date: 1982-05-19“Kreuz spends a short time on a planet with a long history of slow death. Here, he’s reminded of his childhood days.”
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Episode 13 - The Enemy Within the Mind
Release Date: 1982-05-26“It’s been eight months since they left Earth. Galveston has attacked them again and again. What’s the suspicion within the mind of the exhausted Commander Ise?”
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Episode 14 - The Earth Fleet’s Counterattack
Release Date: 1982-06-02“The Galveston Empire has caused a lot of trouble for the Rugger Guard. Earth’s government decides to send an allied fleet equipped with new weapons against them.”
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Episode 15 - Breakdown Of the Space Talks
Release Date: 1982-06-09“A hail of bombs falls on the fifth planet. Will the opportunity for dialogue between the Earth Federation and the Galveston Empire be destroyed in the darkness of space?”
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Episode 16 - The Two Rebellions
Release Date: 1982-06-16“Within Galveston, judgment has been passed on the peace-inclined Teles. Meanwhile, the Rugger Guard refuses to follow orders from Earth headquarters.”
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Episode 17 - Orders For Asimov’s Return
Release Date: 1982-06-23“The Rugger Guard’s Captain Asimov has been ordered to return to Earth. Will they have to fight, or is there still a peaceful solution left?”
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Episode 18 - A Touch-and-Go Situation
Release Date: 1982-06-30“Ise and Aki take command on the bridge, carrying-on the will of Captain Asimov. To that end, a joint planetary survey with Galveston is now underway. However....”
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Episode 19 - Red Moon Rising
Release Date: 1982-07-07“Planet K. There Aki and team find signs of an advanced civilization. But will it prove to be meaningless?”
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Episode 20 - Desperate Struggle For Planet K
Release Date: 1982-07-14“Lafitte is furious about the Earth Fleet building a base on Planet K. Drive out the Earth fleet! Lafitte launches his assault!”
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Episode 21 - Arise, Galaxy Garrison
Release Date: 1982-07-21“Their red moon supply base cruelly destroyed, Galaxy Garrison Headquarters chooses to fight to defend Earth’s peace. What will the Rugger Guard do?”
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Episode 22 - Ex-Commander Teles
Release Date: 1982-07-28“The conflict between Earth and Galveston continues to escalate. Now, Commander Teles, a peace sympathizer, is dismissed from his post.”
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Episode 23 - The Mission To Recapture Planet K
Release Date: 1982-08-04“Retake Planet K! Drake dies valiantly in the line of duty. How far will this war escalate?”
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Episode 24 - Riot On Galveston
Release Date: 1982-08-11“Drake is dead. When Teles returns alone to his homeworld he finds a ruined metropolis and a raging populace.”
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Episode 25 - Bitter Struggle On the Planet Of Light
Release Date: 1982-08-18“Aki Team, the galactic survey’s advance party, encounters a planet emitting a mysterious light. The planet’s already in Galveston’s clutches, however.”
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Episode 26 - The Snare Of the Hell Planet
Release Date: 1982-08-25“During its travels, the Rugger Guard discovers a Galveston missile base on Planet L. But what awaits the Rugger Team when they go to investigate?”
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Episode 27 - Storming the Space Fortress
Release Date: 1982-09-01“In the wake of Teles’s dismissal, Galveston is now launching a direct attack on Earth’s space fortress. Will Earth be able to hold-back the fierce attack?”
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Episode 28 - Eldora's Plea
Release Date: 1982-09-08“As the Rugger Guard continues its advance, confronting it is the mysterious planet Eldora. Queen Xuneau suddenly attacks Aki Team.”
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Episode 29 - Uprising At the Space Fort
Release Date: 1982-09-15“The men of Eldora have been working at a Galveston space fort. But when they learn of the death of Queen Xuneau, their anger explodes.”
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Episode 30 - Earth’s State Of Emergency
Release Date: 1982-09-22“On its way to the enemy’s front line base, the Rugger Guard receives word of a crisis on Earth. Aki and the others are powerless to stop the enemy fleet as it invades above the megalopolis.”
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Episode 31 - Locate Enemy Headquarters
Release Date: 1982-09-29“The Rugger Team has survived increasingly violent attacks by Galveston. What do they see when they emerge from the asteroid belt?”
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Episode 32 - Destruction Of the Front Line Base
Release Date: 1982-10-06“After a tough fight, the Rugger Team finally succeeds in destroying the front line base. The price they pay, though, is much too great.”
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Episode 33 - The New Allied Fleet To the Rescue
Release Date: 1982-10-13“The Rugger Guard crushed the enemy front line base. Now, a new allied fleet has been dispatched to her with former Rugger Guard captain Dick Asimov in command.”
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Episode 34 - Planet Of the Burning Cave
Release Date: 1982-10-20“Teles was relieved of his post as Galveston front-line commander. In order to find an inhabitable planet, he and his adjutant, Sirk, have been building a new survey base.”
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Episode 35 - Get Yourself Together, Mutsu
Release Date: 1982-10-27“The Rugger Team gets some long-awaited letters from Earth. But Mutsu is the only one who doesn’t get any, and he can’t bring himself to deploy with the others.”
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Episode 36 - A Desperate Undersea Combining
Release Date: 1982-11-03“Ise goes alone to a primeval planet to negotiate a truce with Galveston. But behind it all lurks Captain Raucher’s devious trap.”
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Episode 37 - Air Rugger Vanishes
Release Date: 1982-11-10“On Planet J, the people have advanced science. Aki and the team try to survey this planet that Galveston considers Evil.”
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Episode 38 - Emma, the Female Captain
Release Date: 1982-11-17“The great pilot Emma sets-out personally with a scouting party. Now begins a counter-offensive to win back the loss at Planet J with her pride on the line.”
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Episode 39 - The Tears Of a Rugby Player
Release Date: 1982-11-24“The Rugger Team enjoys a momentary bond through rugby with captured Galveston soldiers. But then, a Galveston fleet attacks.”
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Episode 40 - The Boy Denon and the Elk
Release Date: 1982-12-01“On a planet brimming over with green, we meet Denon. The Rugger Team enjoys a brief peaceful respite. But the clutches of evil seize this place, too.”
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Episode 41 - Discovery Of the New World
Release Date: 1982-12-08“Galveston nears the time of its collapse. Teles receives word about an inhabitable planet. However, Raucher harbors his own ambitions.”
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Episode 42 - Impending Crisis On the Inhabitable Planet
Release Date: 1982-12-15“The Galveston and Earth fleets continue their survey of the third planet as they keep each other in check. But Teles’s wishes are in vain, as the first shots are fired.”
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Episode 43 - Teles and Asimov
Release Date: 1982-12-22“With the survival of his people depending upon migrating to the third planet, Teles holds peace talks with Asimov. But a report comes in about native people already living there.”
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Episode 44 - Aki Team Gets Caught
Release Date: 1982-12-29“Galveston dismisses Teles for abandoning the third planet. In order to destroy the Earth fleet, the new commander, Raucher, lays a trap for the Rugger Team.”
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Episode 45 - Defend the Third Planet
Release Date: 1983-01-05“The Rugger Team is on its way to the Galveston homeworld, but contact between them and the garrison on the third planet is completely cut-off. Aki goes back there immediately, and what does he find?”
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Episode 46 - The Fall Of the Survey Base
Release Date: 1983-01-12“New commander Raucher won’t abandon his ambition to invade the third planet. The Rugger Team finally launches a general offensive against the Galveston planetary survey base.”
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Episode 47 - The Invisible Super Weapon
Release Date: 1983-01-19“Now that the Earth fleet has located the Galveston homeworld, it prepares for its final battle. Meanwhile, Galveston launches its newest weapon, the Space Impulse.”
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Episode 48 - Get Past the Tenth Planet
Release Date: 1983-01-26“The Rugger Team finally infiltrated the Galveston star system. This encourages Aki, but a fierce Galveston counter-attack is in his way.”
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Episode 49 - Entering the Final Zone Of Defense
Release Date: 1983-02-02“The Earth fleet finally succeeded in getting past the tenth planet. Aki, your target lies beyond the asteroid belt: Planet Galveston!”
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Episode 50 - The Struggle For Galveston
Release Date: 1983-02-09“The Earth fleet finally brings the fight to Galveston itself. In the midst of the fierce battle, Sirk’s group rises-up in an attempt to rescue Teles.”
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Episode 51 - Fierce Battle In the Underground City
Release Date: 1983-02-16“Its back against the wall, Galveston Headquarters vows to go down fighting. But the flames of revolution are ignited by the hands of citizens led by Teles.”
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Episode 52 - Galactic Dawn
Release Date: 1983-02-23“The Galveston Empire has finally collapsed. Who will save the inhabitants of this dying planet? Aki’s left with only one choice.”