Overman King Gainer

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Alternative Titles

Japanese: オーバーマン キングゲイナー


Information

Type: TV
Episodes: 26
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Sep 7, 2002 to Mar 22, 2003
Premiered: Fall 2002
Broadcast: Saturdays at 19:05 (JST)
Producers: Bandai Visual, WOWOW
Studios: Sunrise
Source: Original
Genres: ActionAction, AdventureAdventure, Sci-FiSci-Fi
Theme: MechaMecha
Duration: 25 min. per ep.
Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

Statistics

Score: 6.931 (scored by 45184,518 users)
1 indicates a weighted score.
Ranked: #46462
2 based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.
Popularity: #5704
Members: 14,629
Favorites: 41

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Episodes: /26

Synopsis

Sometime in the distant future, mankind is forced to live in domed cities while the rest of the world is left to recover from years of environmental hardships. In the Siberian Dome-polis, professional gamer Gainer Sanga and mercenary Gain Bijou commandeer an Overman and lead a mass exodus out of the city.

(Source: ANN)

Characters & Voice Actors


Staff

Yukawa, Jun
Producer
Tomino, Yoshiyuki
Director, Episode Director, Storyboard, Theme Song Lyrics, Original Creator
Tsuruoka, Youta
Sound Director
Yamamoto, Yuusuke
Episode Director, Storyboard


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Opening Theme

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"King Gainer Over!" by Yoshiki Fukuyama
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Ending Theme

"Can You Feel My Soul" by Himitsugakudan Maboroshi




Reviews

Jan 22, 2008
Before I begin this review, it needs to be noted that I got into this show because of the opening which is in my opinion the best opening in an anime ever.

Story: While the plot of the show is a good one, the biggest flaw in this show is jumping around in the plot, it leaves you to guess what is going on most of the time, for example missing a key part of a fight, or a new power introduced.

Art: Being the background is just white with snow most of the time the foreground and characters look very good, while a little lazy it ...
Apr 23, 2010
Overman King Gainer can be called a "Happy Tomino" show, meaning that it falls in the same line as L-Gaim, ZZ Gundam and Xabungle rather than his more depressing works like Victory Gundam, The Ideon and Zeta Gundam.

It's also really good fun. The plot doesn't make a great deal of sense but you are OK with this really because it may as well be a series of exciting mecha fights interspersed with comedy moments. There's an overarching arc about a world-destroying monster robot but really it's quite slight and the focus is instead on the awkward main character growing up and becoming a man by ...
Sep 10, 2019
Overman King Gainer is the lesser-known TV anime Yoshiyuki Tomino created and directed between the acclaimed Turn A Gundam and the infamous Reconguista in G. While it's definitely more in line with G-Reco than Turn A and shares a lot of the idiosyncrasies Tomino would be derided for in the former, it's significantly more restrained. You could view this as it being less ambitious, which is true to a certain extent, but the average viewer is likely to find greater enjoyment in King Gainer. If you are a fan of either of the two works I mentioned, Tomino in general, or just a lover of ...

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