Galactic Gale Baxingar

Galactic Gale Baxingar
Screenshot from the anime depicting the robot Baxingar
銀河烈風バクシンガー
(Ginga Reppuu Baxinga)
GenreMecha
Anime television series
Directed byYoshikata Nitta
Produced byKazuo Komatsubara
Shigeo Tsubota
Written byYu Yamamoto
StudioKokusai Eiga-sha
Licensed by
Original networkTV Tokyo
Original run July 6, 1982 – March 29, 1983
Episodes39

Galactic Gale Baxingar (銀河烈風バクシンガー, Ginga Reppū Bakushingā) is a mecha anime series that aired from July 6, 1982 to March 29, 1983 in Japan on TV Tokyo. There were 39 episodes released. Other loosely translated names include Baxinger, Galaxy Gale Baxingar, Galactic Stormwind Baxingar and Cosmo Rangers. In addition, it was known as "Mustanger" while sold as a knock-off toy in the United States during the early 1980s. It is the second entry of the J9 Series, serving as a sequel to Galaxy Cyclone Braiger and followed by Galactic Whirlwind Sasuraiger. Its plot was based on the Japanese late Tokugawa period and the story of the Shinsengumi samurai.

Original story

The story is set 600 years after the destruction of Jupiter where the Solar System was in a state of peace under the Bakufu government. However, the lawlessness of this new Solar System prompts a man named Dan Condor to organize a new J9 team to fight against injustice. Equipped with Cosmobikes, they merge into a super robot named Baxingar.

Concept

The main robot, Baxingar, is assembled from five motorbikes and stands at 48 meters tall.

Cast

Video games

Baxingar has been featured in the video game below:

  1. Super Robot Wars Taisen GC
  2. Super Robo Wars Taisen XO

Baxingar has been featured in the video game Super Robot Wars GC alongside the other titular robots Braiger and Sasuraiger. The only enemy units from the series to appear in the game are the Shin Wakusei Rengu Battleship and the Krauwanka.

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