Sonic Soldier Borgman

Sonic Soldier Borgman (超音戦士ボーグマン), or simply Borgman (ボーグマン), is a futuristic science fiction hero anime television series produced by Nippon TV, Yomiko Advertising, Toho and Ashi Productions.[1] It was directed by Hiroshi Negishi, with Hideki Sonoda handling series scripts, Kia Asamiya designing the characters and Hiromoto Tobisawa composing the music. The TV series aired on Nippon TV and its affiliate stations on Wednesday evenings from April 13 to December 21, 1988, and was followed up by a video game, two movies, and an OVA miniseries released in 1988, 1989, 1990 and 1993, respectively.[2][3]

Plot

In 1999, four meteorites, the "demon stones," fell on Tokyo, destroying the capital city. Thirty-one years later, in 2030, invaders from another dimension, calling themselves demons, suddenly attacked Megalo City, a new city built on Tokyo Bay.

Characters

Sonic Team

🇯🇵 Ryō Hibiki (響リョウ)
The protagonist of the series. He is 16 years old, born on September 22, 2013. He is 177 cm tall, weighs 65 kg, and was born in Chiba. He is a passionate man with a strong sense of justice and loves motorcycles. He participated in the Borgman Project dreaming of becoming an astronaut, but the project was aborted when he was attacked by a demon, so he has been working as an apprentice Japanese language teacher at the CySonic Academy since then.
When fighting as Borgman, he wears a blue Baltector for speed and close combat and his weapon is a Battle Machine Gun. His artificial intelligence and self-aware motorcycle Road/Super Thunder is his exclusive machine and partner, and is his last resort special weapon.
In Borgman: The Last Battle, the de facto conclusion of the series, which was later released as an OVA, he went to the U.S. to fulfill his dream and became a staff member of NASA.

🇺🇸 Chuck Sweager (チャック・スェーガー)
He is 17 years old, born in the U.S. on October 20, 2012. He is 185 cm tall and weighs 80 kg. His family consists of his parents and younger sister. He is a physical education teacher at CySonic Academy. Although he is often seen by others as a smug lady-killer, like Ryō, he also has a strong sense of justice and is a sincere and good-natured young man. He and Ryō have been best friends since they were trainees, and they are highly capable as a team. He possesses superhuman strength that does not match his slender frame, but he has a weakness: he hates natto.
When fighting as Borgman, he wears a green Baltector for wide-area attacks. His weapon of choice is a Battle Launcher. In the early half of the series, he used to ride a modified buggy, but later on, he switches to a combat vehicle, Beaglehead, and also falls in love with Miki of Phantom Swat (see below).
In The Last Battle, he and Miki work for the Megalo City Police Department, where they investigate a number of mysterious incidents. In the sequel OVA Sonic Soldier Borgman II: New Century 2058, he is the director of the Katsura Research Institute, where he commands the second generation of Borgman who fight the revived demons.

🇺🇸 Anise Farm (アニス・ファーム)
She is 16 years old, born in the U.S. on February 5, 2014. She is 164 cm tall and weighs 47 kg. Her family consists of her parents and her brother Anton, who lives in Los Angeles. She is the lone woman of the Borgman trio and loves children. She is also the daughter of a major restaurant chain, but unlike Ryō and Chuck, she came to Japan as an aspiring singer and encountered a demon attack while touring the space block, and when she was mortally wounded, the Borgman system was urgently installed in her by Memory, saving her life (the Borgman system incorporated into her was not originally intended for her exclusive use, but was a miraculous match). As a result, her power is inferior to that of Ryō and Chuck. She is usually a music and math teacher at CySonic Academy.
When fighting as Borgman, she wears a red Baltector for electronic warfare. Her weapon of choice is a Battle Saucer. She often pilots Gun Warrior, a combat robot, to compensate for her lack of power, and either rides with the other two mechs or borrows Chuck's buggy for transportation.
In The Last Battle, she accompanies Ryō to the U.S., where she runs a cafe stand near the space center where he works, but a minor fight causes her to "run away" to Megalo City herself.

Memory Jeanne (メモリー・ジーン)
She is 22 years old, born on November 19, 2007. She is the central figure in the Borgman Project and a female scientific genius. Her family consists of her parents back home and her older brother. She lost her younger brother Reminisce in an accident during an experiment.
She commands and supports Borgman in the state-of-the-art base she had built underground at the CySonic Academy in preparation for the battle against demons. She is always calm and collected, but in reality she is a cheerful and gentle soul, and is usually respected by teachers and students as the principal of the CySonic Academy. Her trademark is her glasses, which she has been wearing since the early stages of her career.

Other characters

🇯🇵 Miki Katsura (桂美姫)
The daughter of the Katsura Conglomerate and leader of the World Police and Phantom Swat, an anti-demon special forces unit. She is of a male lineage, with parents, two older brothers, and a younger brother. She is competitive and determined. She wears a special protector in battle, but because she is a flesh-and-blood human being, her fighting ability is inferior to that of Borgman. Toward the end of the story, she falls in love with Chuck.

🇺🇸 Charlie Burger (チャーリー・バーガー)
Chief of the Megalo City Police Department (since Megalo City is an immigrant town, there appears to be no nationality regulations for public office). He is involved in cases involving demons. Toward the end of the story, he learns Borgman's true identity and becomes their good friend.

🇯🇵 Shinji Oda (織田シンジ)
Age 10. He is a curious troublemaker who is a student at CySonic Academy. He seems to like Molly, but he bullies her. He is not very good at studying and did not know about the abandoned old Tokyo or the background of the construction of Megalo City. He is the first among the students to learn the true identity of Borgman. His dream is to become an astronaut in the future.

GIL Crime Syndicate

An evil organization that worships the Demon King and seeks to rule the real world with the power of demons. It is composed of former human cadres enchanted by demons and demon warriors under their command. It has no particular army of low-ranking soldiers like combatants, and each operation is carried out by one of the cadres and the demons under their command. It is unclear whether the name of the organization itself was known to the Borgman side, as it was referred to simply as "demons."

Gilbert Mesh (ギルバート・メッシュ)
The head of GIL. He is 30 years old. He used to be one of the scientists involved in the Borgman Project, but was fascinated by the power of demons and formed GIL. At the end of the story, he himself becomes a sacrifice for the revival of the Demon King, but he still has his own personality, and in the final episode, he calls himself the demon king Mesh and begins to take action to change the whole world into a demon world. However, through a plan to reverse the transfer system devised by Memory, he was disintegrated into particle form and thrown into subspace, where he died completely, along with his demon king body. He has been obsessed with Memory ever since he was a human, and has repeatedly persuaded her to join his organization.

Dust Gead (ダストジード)
Age unknown. He is the strongest demon warrior, and is a proud perfectionist. He wears a black Baltector and controls the demons under his command to challenge Borgman in battle. His true identity is a combat Borgman (the original owner of this Borgman's body is unknown) implanted with the brain of Reminisce Jeanne, Memory's brother who died in an accident, and whose memory has been erased by Mesh. He uses a sword and a whip as weapons, and can shoot red energy bullets from his hands. He can also deploy a "GIL Field" that interferes with Borgman's Baltectors and Sonic Weapon transfers.

type	ova
title	Sonic Soldier Borgman II: New Century 2058
director	Kiyoshi Murayama
producer	Machiu Hattori Akifumi Shirogawa Yukinao Shimoji
writer	Kiyoshi Murayama
music	Hiromoto Tobisawa
studio	Studio Giants
first	October 1, 1993
last	December 1, 1993
runtime	30 minutes (each)
episodes	3

Sonic Soldier Borgman

Plot

Characters

Sonic Team

Other characters

GIL Crime Syndicate

Release

Other media

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