The animation here moves like nothing else from 1987, every frame of combat designed to make you feel the weight of four warriors crashing into one body. Dangaioh doesn't bother building a universe; it just throws you into the chaos and trusts the visuals to carry you through. The story collapses under its own plot holes, but by then you're already locked in watching the most fluid mecha sequences of that entire decade flatten alien warlords across three perfect hours.

Four psychic teenagers, Mia Alice, Roll Kran, Lamba Nom and Pai Thunder, learn that invaders have wiped out their home planets. A mysterious scientist, Dr. Tarsan, gathers them and brainwashes them into piloting his greatest creation, the giant robot Dangaioh. Joined through their combined psychic powers, they form a weapon of unmatched strength. As their memories gradually come back, the four turn their abilities and Dangaioh against Captain Garimoth, his cruel henchman and the Bunker Space Pirates, whose brutal rule threatens to bring about the end of the universe. The result is a three-episode science fiction mecha adventure built around psychic pilots and large-scale robot battles.