Dinosaur War Izenborg
{{Short description|Japanese anime television series}}
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{{Infobox animanga/Header
| name = Dinosaur Great War Izenborg
| image = IzenborgVol8.jpg
| caption = Vol. 8 DVD cover
| ja_kanji = 恐竜大戦争アイゼンボーグ
| ja_romaji = Kyōryū Daisensō Aizenbōgu
| genre = Tokusatsu
Science fiction
Superhero
Kyodai Hero
}}
{{Infobox animanga/Video
| type = tv series
| director = Kanji Otsuka
| producer = Takao Niimi
Hiroshi Ishikawa (TV Tokyo)
Tadashi Matsushima (Tokyu Agency)
Akira Tsuburaya
Junkichi Oki (Tsuburaya Productions)
| writer = Keiichi Abe
| music = Toshiaki Tsushima
| studio = Tsuburaya Productions (live action)
Oka Studios (animation)
| network = TV Tokyo
| first = {{Start date|1977|10|17|df=y}}
| last = {{End date|1978|06|30|df=y}}
| episodes = 39
| episode_list =
}}
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{{nihongo|Dinosaur War Izenborg|恐竜大戦争アイゼンボーグ|Kyōryū Daisensō Aizenbōgu}} is a Japanese television program produced by Tsuburaya Productions. It is the second installment of the Tsuburaya Dinosaur Trilogy, which included Dinosaur Expedition Born Free and Dinosaur Corps Koseidon. It aired on TV Tokyo from October 17, 1977 to June 30, 1978, running for 39 episodes. It combined Tsuburaya's tokusatsu techniques with anime.
The first four episodes were released to VHS in the United States in the form of a compilation film titled Attack of the Super Monsters.{{fact|date=September 2024}}
Comedy podcast RiffTrax (Michael J. Nelson, Bill Corbett and Kevin Murphy) recorded and released a riff in 2019.{{Cite web|url=https://www.rifftrax.com/attack-of-the-super-monsters |title =Attack of the Super Dinosaurs|date = 30 December 2024}}
Premise
In 2000, it has been discovered that dinosaurs have survived past their supposed extinction and reside in a vast underground environment where they have gained an intelligence on par with that of the human race.
They are led by a hyper-intelligent tyrannosaurus named Ururu (known as Emperor Tyrannus in the English dub) who plans to eradicate humanity and reinstate dinosaurs as the dominant life-forms on Earth by using his powers to brainwash his subjects into destructive monsters that obey his every command, sending them out on to the surface world to wreak havoc on human civilization. The special OPs unit D-Force is founded to combat the monstrous dinosaurs with specialized combat vehicles and cybernetic implants given to its members.
The Return of Izenborg
{{nihongo|The Return of Izenborg|帰ってきたアイゼンボーグ|Kaettekita Aizenbōgu}} is a Japanese-Arabic documentary produced as a collaboration between the Japanese company Tsuburaya Productions, Mr. Jarrah Alfurih from Saudi Arabia and Cultures Factory (an NLC company). It is the first Arabic-Japanese production in the art of Japanese tokusatsu, which is a special live action effects category. This documentary was filmed in 2016 and aired on Friday 15 December 2017 on the Arabic block program on Spacetoon is Space Power at 8:30p.m. local Saudi time.[https://www.tsuburaya-prod.co.jp/en/news/documentary-of-izenborg/ Tsuburaya official page announces the Arabic broadcast of the film in the Middle East] The documentary was translated back to Japanese by Tsubaraya and officially streamed on YouTube on 29 December 2017.{{Cite web|url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2018-01-27/japanese-version-of-saudi-arabian-kyoryu-daisenso-aizenborg-documentary-streamed/.126754|title=Japanese Version of Saudi Arabian Kyoryu Daisenso Aizenborg Documentary Streamed}}
References
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External links
- {{IMDb title|0292813| Kyōryū Daisensō Aizenbōgu}}
- {{IMDb title|0202250| Attack of the Super Monsters}}
- {{ann|anime|1768|Kyoryu Daisenso Aizenborg}}
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Category:1977 anime television series debuts
Category:1977 Japanese television series debuts
Category:1978 Japanese television series endings
Category:Dinosaurs in anime and manga
Category:Mecha anime and manga
Category:Animated television series about dinosaurs
Category:Tokusatsu television series
Category:Tsuburaya Productions
Category:TV Tokyo original programming
Category:Ultra television series
Category:Television series set in 2000
Category:Japanese television series with live action and animation
Category:Comics about anthropomorphic dinosaurs
Category:Comics about talking animals
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