As a kid I was lucky enough to see this series in syndicated U.S. release on television. This was also the first time as a child I witnessed the concept of self sacrifice for a greater good. It hit hard. And even now today 40 + years later it still gets me in the feels. Like a gods damned hammer.

@Diablue13

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the comment 😊

@PixelLingoMultimedia

Жыл бұрын

100% the same here. I never thought I would see this again. Thank you for posting, Diablue Show.

@douglaskrusell8058

Жыл бұрын

@@PixelLingoMultimedia I bought the DVD when came out

@Skandawin78

Жыл бұрын

Johnny sakko actor is no more

@EarlSkakel

Жыл бұрын

I’m really surprised someone like Tarantino hasn’t made this into a movie, outside the bad guys doing the Nazi Salute I think it would do pretty well at the box office.

I am 59 years old Japanese. I am surprised that many people outside of Japan watched and dropped tears at the final episode of Giant Robo, and I am glad that they felt the same way as me. Even now, when I watch this scene, tears fill my eyes.

@moubhattacharyya1141

8 ай бұрын

during the 80 it was the most popular series for kids and adults alike. I am from Eastern India. It was prime time show and everyone loved the robo and his friend

@raulnovoa6098

4 ай бұрын

As. A 53 year old man. The. Magic. Has. Never. Left. Giantrobot. The ultimate. Classic

@tyrantgregcagkaiju71

3 ай бұрын

In the West, the show was broadcasted very frequently throughout the 1970s and 1980s. And, yes, the ending shattered the hearts of at least two generations of young audiences across two hemispheres of the globe 😢.

@prasadmainkar8855

26 күн бұрын

I am from India, 47 age

@Secretstab-th9uk

8 күн бұрын

I'm a young kid RN and I love that show and I know its origins of the 1967 manga

Today is my 57th birthday. And just like the first time I saw this, some time during the early 1970's, I cry. I cry, because Giant Robot is my friend. Has been since I was that child. When a friend dies, it hurts. So, I hurt. I salute you, Giant Robot! You showed what the greatest heroes do, when there is only one way to stop the evil.

@Pedroism

Жыл бұрын

Here here I'm 55, saw this in los a

I am 50 years old and this ending still makes me tear up like it did when i was a kid.

@johncooper4780

Жыл бұрын

Not me it was very funny and still is haha!

@julioalcaraz5417

11 ай бұрын

For me, when Johnny was shot made me cry. I remember the upper class mates making fun of us, obviously they knew better than us little kids. The ending of course made us cry 😢

@tyronetate3874

8 ай бұрын

Same here I just teared up watching it now lol 😅😂

@user-mc7bh9yg9k

7 ай бұрын

Oh man...ur not kidding. Teared up right now too. LMAO!

This was the first and only time a TV show ever made me cry. When I went to my elementary school the next day all of my friends were so sad.

@MarioLopez-ml8uw

5 жыл бұрын

Same here.

@alpomoreno7156

4 жыл бұрын

I remember I cried, too!! Always kept that last episode in my memory

@mightyblack1

3 жыл бұрын

Me too.

@ogbongjr3436

3 жыл бұрын

I ran home from school to watch it.. channel 56

@RaphaelPolanco

3 жыл бұрын

I wait for years to see it again, it never came back on.

One of the greatest after school shows ever in my childhood and YES I did shed a tear!!

WOW. I'm 52. and I clearly remember me and my younger brother crying at the end of this movie when we were kids.. Rip. pony boy

@davidbann8388

3 жыл бұрын

Im the same and I remember it as well.

@kcorpora1

2 жыл бұрын

I am 59...I cry everytime...There was a human emotion inside to disobey to save the earth!

I can remember watching this episode a few years back..I was already going thru a deep depression and I just cried and cried hard and when I was asked what's wrong I just kept screaming giant robot is dead..I'm tearing up now thinking about that day..I hope my bonus son is still enjoying this show..he fell in love with it ..I have him on video acting out the opening scenes..I love and miss him and his mom so much..

I cried when I watched this ending. Thumbs up for the good memories 👍👍

@mightyblack1

3 жыл бұрын

I was mad as hell.

@mrviikaas

3 жыл бұрын

Same here

@waldosordo5743

3 жыл бұрын

Still makes me sad.

@jackkitchen737

3 жыл бұрын

Same here

@metaldad1967

3 жыл бұрын

Cried like a baby! Robot went out like a boss!

Saw this as a kid back early 70s wow brings back memories

@robertmitchell9529

3 жыл бұрын

It first aired here in the US around 1971 or 1972. I remember back then it would come on for the whole week. My brother and I watched it all 5 days. Even though I knew how it would end, I still would cry. And that music at the end which was slowed up didn't help any.

@will6996

3 жыл бұрын

As a kid watched voyage into space very early 70s and shortly afterward discovered the series.loved watching sci-fi

@suds5214

2 жыл бұрын

Same here. Except I can't help but laugh at this and Ultraman these days

I grew up watching Giant Robot,still love the old shows today..Love them.

Still awaiting the return of Giant Robot some day...

@renahudson2941

5 жыл бұрын

You need help

@parassomeshwar3342

5 жыл бұрын

@@renahudson2941 thank you for your thoughts.

@JohnDoe-yi4xd

4 жыл бұрын

Hollywood should do this shit! It would kill in USA and Asia!

@robertmitchell9529

3 жыл бұрын

You too!!? Man!

@Christophiel

2 жыл бұрын

This and the original death of Optimus Prime traumatized us....

I loved this show in the 70's. I cried harder the day I saw this than at any other time I could remember. But it did serve a purpose that was positive. After this, I always knew the good guy might die. Had this not happened, I would have always known in the back of my mind that the ending would be happy. So there would be less suspense. Incredible ending.

@robertmitchell9529

3 жыл бұрын

Man I soaked out my pajama top with tears! If you were a kid back then watching that scene it was basically impossible to hold back your tears.

My childhood essentially ended with this episode. Therapy has helped some, but depression and insomnia are part of my daily life.

@alexiscarrington-colby733

4 жыл бұрын

YES!, I CAN HONESTLY RELATE! LMFAO!!!!

Not long after this episode aired I fell into a deep depression and started smoking weed and whisling that song!!!

Jamais esqueceremos esse clássico Robô Gigante. Tenho 53 anos e sinto-me criança ao ver novamente esse Herói de nossa infância. Jamais sairá de nossos corações.

Someone's cutting the onions here?? Me eyes...

This show is the first and only one that made me cry when I was a kid in regards to the ending. Throughout the show, I had many fond memories with my twin brother watching it with me.

Man this part right here had me doing my damndest to stay strong as a 6 year old in 1972, but it was too heavy on my heart and I couldn't hold it and started crying. I instantly fell in love with Giant Robot and my brother who was 9 years old at the time was trying to explain to me that it was just a movie. I wasn't trying to hear it cause I had just witnessed my super hero dying. Still my all-time favorite monster movie of all monster movies.

Cried my eyes out when he died. It doesn't help that Giant Robot's face looks very similar to my dad's face.

@williamwu6513

3 жыл бұрын

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The saddest day as a shorty in my life, it still bring a little tear 😢

I cried for a whole day when I first saw this as a kid. This ending certainly inspired the ending of The Iron Giant.

I am a 58 year old man and I am balling my eyes out. Growing up, Giant Robot was my friend. He still is, and his death always hits me hard. RIP Giant Robot.

This still makes me cry

Yeah, I'm a 58-year-old crybaby. This clip still makes me weep a little, just like back in '75.

I remember watching this on tv back in the 70s. The eye monster in this final episode really freaked me out as a kid!

@matthennagersguitarlessons

4 жыл бұрын

Me too!

A great movie to bring back Giant Robot would be..... The grandson of Johnny finds the watch in an attic or basement in one of his grandfathers storage chests. After hearing stories of his grandfathers adventures with Giant Robot, he ponders trying it out, but is skeptical. But before he does, a new monster appears ready to destroy anything in its path. The military can’t destroy it. All hope is lost. In an act of desperation, the grandson of Johnny Sokko pleas into the watch for Giant Robot. And, out of the sky, the legendary Robot flys in to save the world. A new era of Giant Robot begins.......

@jonathankidd7215

2 жыл бұрын

Who can we get to make this remake

@axel4196

Жыл бұрын

Hmmm very intriguing!

Thanks for sharing this unforgettable moment. I owe you a debt of gratitude. God bless you!

Giant Robot was awesome.

The saddest day in my childhood 😢

I hope someone does a big screen adaptation. This vid brings back so many memories. I’ll never forget the theme music.

@kentvesser9484

3 жыл бұрын

Sadly it would probably be Michael Bay and he would just ruin it. Some things are better left in the past than to let modern filmmakers get a hold of it.

i think i'm still crying. good stuff.

How I dream to have a Robot 🤖 like this when I was a kid . Thank you Japan 🇯🇵 for good time good memories in my childhood , love ❤️ Japanese cartoons 👍🥳

This was a must watch as a kid in the day and age. But as older, I get a kick out of the kids drinking up and getting drunk for New Years. We were not so up tight then.

For some reason i still remember this ending after so many years.

Great memories. I loved this show as a kid and I too remember being quite sad when giant robot died. Hard to believe the show only lasted one year but it was a memorable one

When this episode was telecasted i remember me and my friends crying like anything. This series had more impact on children back then as compared to cartoons

I was crushed by this ending. Ultraman ending was sad too, but at least he didn't die.

This made me so sad! I had a crush on Johnny!

I remember watching this as a kid, and crying when Giant Robot died. As a tribute, a made a styrofoam Giant Robot, I guess in some ways it helped me deal with my loss. :(

I seen this show many times and I never got tired of it ,🤗

Still a sad ending all these decades later. It could have ended differently~!

THIS IS OUR FAVORITE TV SHOW IN CHILDHOOD

Childhood memories rekindled once again. Love from India 💗✉✉💗✉✉💗

My childhood memories

This movie is awesome! The ending is sad.

@odisbrown6590

3 жыл бұрын

They need to run these episodes on TV again

@spookylibrary

3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely! Sometimes they are on Saturday mornings on comet tv.

@GangstaMojo

3 жыл бұрын

This wasn't a movie this was a TV show bro

@spookylibrary

3 жыл бұрын

The movie version was called voyage into space. It was a condensed version of the tv episodes.

@robertmitchell9529

3 жыл бұрын

I cried the first time I saw this movie. At the ripe old age of 55, this is STILL my all-time favorite monster movie!

I loved this movie back in 1972 when it came on KTLA CH. 5 and cried like all the other kids. LoL It then appeared on T..V. again on UHF CH. 52 by 1977 as a series with 25 episodes. Last month i went to Amoeba Music in DTLA and picked up a boxed set of the series on DVD for $35.

The dubbed voice of Guillotine sounds like veteran actor Keye Luke. Mr. Luke did a lot of voice over acting at the time, he had a distinctive voice fitting for wise men and villians.

I also cried when Giant Robot sacrificed himself to save earth from Emperor Guillotine. Back in the day.

They should make a new remake of Giant Robot with more powers and weapons fully at his disposal to save the earth once again:)!

@tsm688

3 жыл бұрын

I can't tell if you're being sarcastic

With Ultraman, he goes back to his planet after his blinker is destroyed. Here Giant Robot inspires the Iron Giant movie.

I never missed any episode. I was so sad that day.

But who knows when Jonny desperately needs him again perhaps like a miracle he will come back out of the sky.

@punchline43

2 жыл бұрын

Careful, that's how religions get started😊

We used to run back home like crazy to watch giant robot which was filmed only during summer vacations in afternoons in a program called fun time specially aired for small kids to keep them inside homes during afternoon. This was in eighties. Miss those days

Love this series Johnny Sokko along with Ultraman.... should've made more episodes though, thank you Comet TV for bringing this back to TV.

This still gets me today.

This is genuinely more heart wrenching than Ironman or recent Bond "deaths" by creating a genuine lump in the throat. Also was "predator or yajuta" inspired by "Guillotene"?

The original robot to sacrifice themselves. Sad as shit.

I ran home from school to watch this show every day. I absolutely loved it in 1969 as a 6 yr old. This final episode was the first time I cried watching a show. At 60 I still mist up partly from the nostalgia of youth and the innocence of that time. I would think this could be Spielberged into a great movie. But he would hopefully keep Giant robots appearence the same but with modern effects and keep the heart of the original. Hey, they did transformers.

1965 I was born Japanese people are the most kindest people I ever met they made good not Bad 😔

I'm 55 years old. I want this theme playing when they dump in the hole. 😭😭😭

Johhny Sokko's Giant Robot deserved to make a cameo in the 1974 Gojira(Godzilla) movie 'The Terror of Mechagodzilla' .This would have been the best of motivating fans of Giant Robot who became sad after the protagonist die in the very last episode of the late 60s series.

Cried then and cried now as well…love you Giant Robo…❤❤

I remember as a kid, every year on the Family Film Festival with Tom Hatten. I remember he would start his film reel and this movie would play. Good times!

日本中の子供達が泣いた最終回。

The world could sure use Giant Robot now. Maybe someday, like a miracle.....

No greater love than to lay down your life for a friend

I grew up watching this 1980 memories

They don't have real heroes like this anymore

Ending still makes me cry.

Long live Giant Robot

@celticwarrior9123

4 жыл бұрын

ALL HAIL EMPEROR GUILLOTINE✊😠

I saw this as a kid and I cried and boo hooed so hard. Great show.

One of my favorite shows whan I was a kid.

WE NEED EVERY EPISODE! ALL OF IT,FIND THEM PLS.

@bobcummings8228

5 жыл бұрын

U can see them on Comet TV each Sunday at 9:30 am. They have reran them to death for over a year now! They get boring after awhile.

@MetronFilms97

3 жыл бұрын

There all on the internet archive(exept 2 episodes)

@DeanAChan

3 жыл бұрын

It's also on DVD just search on Amazon or Ebay.

This is like if the Toy Story 3 cast actually had died in the trash compactor scene! There was no happy ending here! And it was terrible to 7 year old version of myself! Giant Robot was my favorite superhero at that age! But still the best! They should remake it! With the modern CGI, it would be awesome!!

Wow I'm old...this show 1st aired in Japan when I was 2 weeks old....

I want to say don't be sad, because the two actors who played these characters are actually still alive. But then I remember that the actor who played Johnny Sokko really did die in 1997 in a car crash. A cruel irony. Sorry about that 😞

ギロチン大魔王の体が核爆発すると知って、地球に影響の無い宇宙に連れ出して彗星に突っ込むジャイアントロボ。涙の最終回。

O sacrifício do Robô Gigante nunca mais foi esquecido,me lembro,foi emocionante e triste.

My childhood memoris. My favorate tv show. Golden days.

So good memories , i miss these days

Robot was our friend and in many ways, our hero. He taught us the meaning of sacrifice and duty. He showed us that in the light of defeatism to never give up and to never lose hope. Funny how this one show showed us all what a real friend is. John 15:13 tells us that " No Greater Love hath no man than this, that a man would lay down his life for his friends..." Robot became more of a human being than we ever could that sad day and even 53 years later still inspires us to a higher calling to.be better to one another post this Covid pandemic. In closing....Thank You Giant Robot. We the fans mourn you still but are proud of what you stood for. All of us Unicorns Teams AROUND THE WORLD salute you!!!! LONG LIVE GIANT ROBOT!!!!

Yes yes yes, Channel 44 WSNS, Chicago, in the late 70s, early 80s, this was our shit right here!!!! Also on that channel was Spectre-man, Ultra-man, Space Giants👏👏👏👏👏👏👍👍👍👍😃😃😃 Wonderful time to be a kid!

Sad ending. I felt very sad and in school the next morning, all friends were also very sad.

Some of my best childhood memories are of giant robot. The saddest day is when this guy flew off with him. I cry.😢😢😢

I miss my childhood!!!

Yup, I’m 53 years old and this STILL sucks to watch a favorite character die. No closure or childhood loss of something endearing? Who can say, but maybe some day (when Johnny desperately needs him again) Giant Robot will be rebooted and come back out of the sky. 🫣

Good old memories

BEST MOVIE EVER MADE

These older Japanese Monster Movies always had a moral theme or life lessons that taught as you were entertained, Giant Robot came back to life and fought off the Alien Emperor Guillotine and his army of Nazi beatniks who looked really cool, and sacrificed himself to save Humanity from the Grips of an evil Tyrant, as a kid watching this in 1981 i was crushed and bowed my head took a deep breath, i cried inside and had always hoped by some miracle The Giant Robot would come back or somehow miraculously survived, Talk about Nostalgia

This is batter than any anime

You know i watched this as a kid and it made me cry! Can't believe today it still makes me sad i loved giant robot and ultraman💯

Giant Robot died most honorably. The first time I saw this series was in 1972. I thought it was great. Then I saw Ultraman, and, man, loved that too. But, this series ended heroically and possibly influenced the end of "The Iron Giant".

My childhood hero.

My childhood favorite

Okay, who had a tear in their eye admit it. Me? Yeah dammit! I had a tear, okay.

All he had to do is push him towards the sun....LOL

Spaghetti Western + Kaiju Sci-Fi = Awesomeness.

Thank you 😊💗

So cool👍