Gordian Warrior

Gordian Warrior (闘士ゴーディアン) is a Japanese anime television series that aired in 1979 to 1981. There were 73 episodes. It is also referred to as Champion of Gordian or Gardian.

Original story
The Earth had become a wasteland of deserts as the survivors work to rebuild communities. Daigo Otaki is a young orphan raised by his uncle. Becoming an adult, Daigo discovers that Victor City was in fact planned by his father who was a genius scientist. Daigo's sister Saori had been managing it. She pleaded with Daigo to take on the inheritance that Daigo's father left him, a super robot system known as Gordian. Daigo would join the Mechacon mechanic combat 18th regiment unit, an organization of law enforcers that defend Victor City against attacks from the Madokuta organization.

Concept
The pilot Daigo Otaki controls a small almost human-sized robot container named Protteser. Each time Protteser is in trouble, he jumps into the next biggest robot container named Delinger. Then finally the largest container is Garbin.

Staff

 * Series directors  Masamune Ochiai Kunihiko Okazaki
 * Series composition  Yu Yamamoto
 * Design  Ippei Kuri
 * Animator  Kazuhiko Udagawa
 * Music  Masaaki Jinbo Masayuki Yamamoto

Merchandise
The original released toy set comes with all 3 robots and the human pilot. The 3 robots ranking from biggest to smallest, Garbin, Delinger, Protteser were respectively released as GB-11, GB-10, GB-09 by Popy pleasure. Their upper sternum is also numbered 3, 2, 1, though these numbers do not appear in the cartoon at all. It was sold in the US as "Gardian" under the Godaikin line. Gordian was later reappropriated as Baikanfū in Machine Robo: Revenge of Cronos.

Availability outside Japan
Anime Sols funded the legal streaming of the show.