Johnny Sokko and His Flying Robot- The Complete Series

Product Description "Robot, attack! Robot, destroy!" These commands launched a thousand sci-fi fantasies for budding fans of the genre, just as they brought Johnny Sokko's Giant Robot into imminent battle action! Under the voice control of young Johnny Sokko, the massive, flying metal behemoth would bring his fiery breath, laser eyes, finger-launched missiles and, above all, his physical strength into battle with countless menacing monsters bent on destroying the Earth! This epic fantasy series from Toei Studios aired from 1967–1968 and garnered even more fans in after-school reruns throughout the 70s. Collected here for the first time on DVD are all 26 episodes of explosive kaiju battles, nefarious alien takeover plots and mind-blowing heroics from jet-packed Johnny Sokko and his equally airborne friend and protector: Giant Robot! Bonus Content: Includes: 24 Page Booklet Featuring In-Depth Essay by Author August Ragone Amazon.com A megaton punch of metal-plated, missile-shooting, monster-bashing retro nostalgia awaits former '70s kidvid fans and new viewers alike in Johnny Sokko and His Flying Robot, which compiles all 26 episodes of the tokusatsu classic's presentation on American TV. Conceived by Toei Company producer Toru Hirayama ( Kamen Rider, Super Sentai Series) and manga artist Mitsuteru Yokoyama, Giant Robo, as the series was known in Japan during its 1967-1968 network run, offered an appealing spin on the premise of Yokoyama's previous creation, Tetsujin 28-go/ Gigantor, via a loophole clause that granted complete control over the titular, pharaoh-esque robot to the first person to speak into its remote-control device. That duty falls to young Daisaku Kusama/Johnny Sokko (Mitsunobu Kaneko), who is subsequently inducted into the secret peacekeeping organization Unicorn in order to thwart the Lovecraftian alien Emperor Guillotine, who employs an army of monsters in his plans for world domination. What follows is a heady pop-culture sugar rush that combines Ultraman-style giant monster brawls with Bondian spy thrills and a massive dose of adolescent wish fulfillment as Johnny and Giant Robot take on not only Guillotine's human henchmen, the Gargoyle Gang, but also an increasingly bizarre (even by tokusatsu standards) menagerie of creatures, from the colossal eyeball known as Opticon to acid-spouting starfish Scalion, a huge metal claw, an over