Metal Armor Dragonar
Game developer Banpresto had Dragonar appear in two of its popular franchises, Super Robot Wars and Another Century's Episode; fans responded positively, and Sunrise acknowledged them in 2005 by releasing a memorial DVD collection of the series, a remastered version of the previous two-part laserdisc box set releases years before.
Dragonar takes place in the year 2087 AD, when a military force called the United Lunar Empire Giganos has risen and captured the Moon.
To this end, the Empire uses humanoid battle machines called Metal Armors, as well as a gigantic mass driver cannon.
Originally intended to send lunar material to Earth orbit for later retrieval, the Mass driver is reconfigured to launch small meteorites towards the home world.
Kaine, Tapp and Light, three teenaged friends and EFM trainees, are on the colony during the attack, and find a dying Giganos spy who gives them three disks.
However, he prefers to avoid positions of leadership, showing a natural aptitude for information-gathering and electronic warfare, which makes him the perfect pilot for Dragonar-3 (which he affectionately calls "D3-chan").
Linda Plato (リンダ・プラート, Rinda Purāto) - Meio's younger sister, she becomes an enlisted member of the Alliance after the attack on the Alucard colony.
Combined with her role as a communications officer/operator for the Earth Federation Military, she is very much an homage to Sayla Mass from Mobile Suit Gundam.
She works in the information branch and is active in the 1st and 2nd arc but is later reassigned and only returns in the ending, which shows her marrying Ben Rooney.
Aoi Wakaba - Kaine's mother, who administered the space colony Alucard and was initially presumed dead after a Giganos attack, but later found to be alive but captured by Giganos and used as a threat against Kaine Wakaba as part of their plan to bring down the Federation.
Meio Plato - Giganos' top ace pilot, nicknamed the Blue Hawk (蒼き鷹, Aoki Taka).
His father Lang Plato is the engineer who helped develop the Dragonars, and he has a younger sister, Linda, who opposes the war.
Chephov Giganos Lt. stationed on an abandoned satellite, who captured the three Dragonar but then began to train and befriend them.
Despite his infamy, he respects and values his subordinates Gold, Ganan, Zin and Min to the point of swearing revenge against the Dragonar Team for the death of the first three.
Zin's machine's unique attribute is the ability to generate holograms of itself to confuse the opponent, though it can be negated by D-3's jammers.
The Japanese anime magazine Animec for example, still hailed the title under the working name "Stillevar", not "Dragonar", despite the fact that the mecha and character designs were already approved.
The series would later appear in the 2004 game Super Robot Wars MX,[5] where Giganos took center stage as the primary Real Robot antagonists, even usurping the Titans and Neo-Zeon from the so-called "Holy Trinity of Gundam" (Zeta, Double-Zeta, and Char's Counterattack).
A late 2004 release saw Dragonar in Super Robot Wars GC/XO, using Giganos as an ally to Zeon, with the Dragonar storyline being closely tied in with the original Mobile Suit Gundam; upon being disabled (i.e. having their head and limbs destroyed and their body crippled), mass-produced Giganos units can be captured by the player's mothership, and then be sold for money, broken down for money and parts, or assigned to any pilot from the series.
The year 2006 brings about Another Century's Episode 2, which features the Custom versions of the Dragonars, as well as the ability to use Meio's Falguen MAFFU and Min's Stark Dyne, as well as Gon Jem's Gilgazamune from the first game.
