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SRW OG Break Down: Sanger Zonvolt

Posted in Super Robot Wars, Super Robots, Uncategorized, Videos with tags , , , , , , , , , , , on 2013/09/23 by doublegomez

That’s right, it’s time for the sword that cleaves evil, Sanger Zonvolt…or Zenger Zonbolt…or whatever other romanization of his name you want.

Sanger is another one of those OG characters everyone should be able to recognize pretty easily. In the context of the story he is an old man, because he’s 29 as opposed to everyone else who is no older than 24. His personality is similar to that of a samurai. Sanger is a tenacious man who values honer and valor above all else. He will not belittle his oponent and always give them an honorable demise.  He is a wise man that can very quickly judge the potential of enemy and friend alike. And what waits for his enemies? Well his trusty Dygenguard awaits them.

The Dygenguard is the robot Sanger is known for using. It was the last gift to him from Bian Zoldark, his former commander. It is a variant of the Grungst type series, and it  has a sword so large it rarely fits on screen. Seriously, the sword only fits on screen when it’s either pointed at the camera or when it’s in a shortened form. One of the cooler aspects of it is that it uses the mobile trace system to control. That means that all of the movements the Dygenguard makes are actually being made by Sanger as well. I don’t know how his intense samurai training allows him to do that, but it does seem to give him some awesome moves.

I just want to make the point that yes, that last move does in fact blow the earth up everytime. I don’t think I really need to tell you how awesome he is after that. It’s pretty self explanatory. I mean, his theme kicks ass, and one of his quotes is “Real men ride each other!” but nothing quite compares to hitting someone with a sword so hard the earth explodes. He’s just always awesome. Here’s hoping that soon he gets announced for Infinite Battle.