" It was also a pioneer in die-cast metal toys such as the Chogokin series in Japan and the Shogun Warriors in the U. S., that were ( and still are ) very popular with children and collectors.

Other licensed works that have been incorporated into the Marvel Universe include Godzilla, 2001: A Space Odyssey ( in the character of Machine Man ), ROM: Spaceknight, the Micronauts, and the Shogun Warriors.

It was produced by Jim Terry and his company American Way, and consisted of five imported Japanese giant robot serials ( originally produced in the mid-1970s by Toei Animation ) in response to the popularity of the Shogun Warriors toy collection ( in fact, Mattel was one of the sponsors ).

The Shogun Warriors were the central characters of a line of toys licensed by Mattel Inc. during the late 1970s that consisted of a series of imported Japanese robots based on the then popular anime shows featuring giant robots.

The Shogun Warriors name was revived by Toynami in 2010 as an all-new toy line.

Like certain other toy lines of the 1970s, the Shogun Warriors came under pressure over safety concerns regarding their spring-loaded weapons.

Combattra of the Shogun Warriors fights alongside the Fantastic Four.

From issue # 20 of the Shogun Warriors comicbook published by Marvel Comics.

In the comic, the Shogun Warriors were created by a mysterious group called the Followers of the Light.

Marvel was only able to license three Shogun Warriors for the comic:

The series took a dramatic turn with issue # 16, as the Shogun Warriors ' mentors were destroyed by the Primal One and his followers.

This alien force decided that Earth's technology had outpaced its morality, and so it was their duty to destroy the Shogun Warriors as well as other powerful humans, including Reed Richards and Tony Stark.

Between February 1979 and July 1979, Marvel had the comic book rights to both Godzilla and the Shogun Warriors.

Mattel Toys ( who had the license to the Shogun Warriors ) also had the licence to produce toys based on Godzilla and Rodan at this time.

In 2010, Toynami revived the Shogun Warriors name with a new toy line, consisting of Jumbo Machinder toys.

* Toynami's official Shogun Warriors page

* Wildtoys Shogun Warriors Fan Page ( English )

: Ninja Love ( a romance option or the player character ), Shogun Warriors, and Throne of Darkness, where he has been spared by Tokugawa Ieyasu on the condition that he would join the onimitsu.

In the USA, Gaiking was part of Mattel's popular Shogun Warriors import toy line of the late 1970s and Jim Terry's Force Five anthology series.

This release featured Esoteric rhyming over beats sampled from Japanese music, TV and films, such as Godzilla, Gaiking, Force 5, Shogun Warriors and Rodan.

The robot's first appearance in the United States was as a part of the Shogun Warriors line of super robot toys imported in the late 1970s by Mattel, then in Jim Terry's Force Five series, both under the title Grandizer.

But, Great Mazinger had already been introduced to millions of American children under the name of Mazinga as one of the imported, 24 " Jumbo Machinder toys released in the US by Mattel as part of their Shogun Warriors line in 1976.

Apart from Gigantors cult-classic status in the United States, the only true impact Super Robot shows made in the States before the 1980s was in the form of the Force Five series, which was a compilation of different Japanese giant robot shows, and with the Mattel Shogun Warriors toyline.

* Shogun Warriors, a line of toys by Mattel

At the top were the Emperor and Court nobles ( kuge ), together with the Shogun and daimyo.

Many specimens were collected with the help of his Japanese collaborators Keisuke Ito ( 1803 – 1901 ), Mizutani Sugeroku ( 1779 – 1833 ), Ohkochi Zonshin ( 1796 – 1882 ) and Katsuragawa Hoken ( 1797 – 1844 ), a physician to the Shogun.

Provinces had a degree of sovereignty and were allowed an independent administration of the Han in exchange for loyalty to the Shogun, who was responsible for foreign relations and national security.

The men were shot after their armoured Mitsubishi Pajero / Shogun was hit and stopped by RPGs.

Succession disputes were prevalent here, just as in most of the later periods, and the Nara period also saw the first Shogun, Sakanoue no Tamuramaro.

In 1701 ( by the Western calendar ), two daimyo, Asano Takumi-no-Kami Naganori, the young daimyo of the Akō Domain ( a small fiefdom in western Honshū ), and Lord Kamei of the Tsuwano Domain, were ordered to arrange a fitting reception for the envoys of the Emperor in Edo, during their sankin kōtai service to the Shogun.

As expected, the ronin were sentenced to death for the murder of Kira ; but the Shogun had finally resolved the quandary by ordering them to honorably commit seppuku, instead of having them executed as criminals.

However, it is indeed true that the feudal Daimyo, other than the Shogun himself, were forbidden from manufacturing or stockpiling firearms.

Shogun Yoshimochi presented the envoy with a formal diplomatic letter ; and presents were given for the envoy to convey to the Joseon court.

Some daimyo, especially those whose ancestors had served the ancestors of the Shogun, were lords of the han and also bureaucrats of the bakufu.

After the capitulation of the Shogunate and the Meiji Restoration, the inhabitants, including the Shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu, were required to vacate the premises of the Edo Castle.

The other children of the late Shogun Ienobu were too young to rule, thus it was decided by the shogunate to select the next shogun from one of the cadet lines.

Sadler in The Life of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu there were 3, 170 heads collected by the Oda camp.

Construction of the gates and the Sannomaru moat were completed in July, and in November of that year the Shogun Tokugawa Hidetada came for an inspection.

During the Edo period, several small domains were created witin the borders of Kazusa, most of which continued to retained as tenryō territory owned directly by the Shogun and administered by various hatamoto.

At the same time, the forces of Chōshū, together with xenophobic ronin, raised the Hamaguri rebellion trying to seize the city of Kyoto, where the Emperor's court was held, but were repelled by Shogunate forces under the future Shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu.

This was regarded by the Ashikaga Shogun as an act of rebellion, and thus the Ashikaga and their supporters were forced to try to stop it.

Jeong Mong-ju secured assistance from the Japanese Shogun to eliminate these pirates, but the Japanese were of little help.

* Shogunzords: The Aquitian Rangers also had access to the original Power Rangers ' Shogunzords and were able to form the Shogun Megazord ( most of the monsters they fought were eliminated this way ).

During the Edo period, it was nominally part of Odawara Domain, although large portions were tenryō territory controlled by the Shogun in Edo through various hatamoto.

During the Edo period, it was nominally part of Odawara Domain, although large portions were tenryō territory controlled by the Shogun in Edo through various hatamoto.

The ultimate resolution of any questions about shogunal succession were probably influenced most effectively by the fact that Ienobu was the expressed preference of the late Shogun Tsunayoshi's wife.

After the talks were over, it was decided that younger sons of emperors do not have to enter priesthood and can form new branches of the imperial throne and that their daughters can marry ( in fact, one of the younger daughters of Emperor Nakamikado married one of Shogun Ienobu's younger sons ) and that the bakufu would offer financial grants to the court.