Art of UFO Robot Grendizer
/UFO Robot Grendizer is an animation movie produced by Toei Doga and Dynamic Planning, and directed by Tomoharu Katsumata in 1975. The anime was based on the homonym manga written and illustrated by Go Nagai. The pictures on this page are a collection of artworks created for this series.
THE STORY
The Vega home world has become unstable due to the exploiting of Vegatron, a powerful radioactive ore. Seeking to expand his militaristic empire and find a substitute planet to settle upon, the ruthless King Vega unleashes his armies, composed of flying saucers and giant robotic monsters, and turns first against neighbours such as Fleed, a highly advanced but peaceful world. In a tragically ironic twist, the invaders' blitzkrieg turns against them: the once verdant, idyllic Fleed is turned into a radioactive wasteland. Too late, the only known survivor of the royal family, the Crown Prince Duke Fleed, manages to steal the Grendizer, the robotic embodiment of the Fleedian God of War, from the Vegan invaders who plan to use it to spearhead their invasion fleet. Grendizer is a giant monster robot that interfaces with Spacer, a flying saucer that enables the robot to fly..
