Empress Janera is the overarching antagonist of the anime series Chōdenji Robo Combattler V, serving as the overarching antagonist of the first half and the main antagonist of the second half. She is the tyrannical ruler of the Campbellians and a powerful sorceress able to transform from a beautiful woman to a snakelike creature.
She was voiced by Noriko Tsukase.
Personality[]
Janera initially appears to be affable, praising Garuda as the best general Campbell ever has, showing disdain for Oreana for wasting his potential, and ordering Warchimedes and Dungele to lead the invasion on Earth to honor his name. However, even then, she is shown to have a low tolerance for failure, torturing Warchimedes and Dungele for arguing in front of her.
She is later revealed to be a tyrant who is cruel even by Super Robot standards, oppressing not only the Earth but also her own people, which inspires their true leader, Deus, to return and lead a revolt against her and her cronies. Originally wanting to take over Earth, upon hearing about a revolt on Campbell, she decides to personally lead an attack on it and deploy an "Earth Bomb" to destroy it instead.
Biography[]
Thousands of years ago, Janera and her cronies took advantage of the absence of Deus, the true king of the Campbellians, to take over with her as the Empress. Under Janera's reign, she oppressed even her own people. When the Campbellians were leaving their homeworld to find a new one, she ordered Oreana to find one for them to colonize.
In the 21st century, Oreana and her group finally reawaken and begin to conquer Earth. The group, led by her son Garuda, attack cities. As a result, five pilots are summoned to pilot the super-electromagnetic robot Combattler V and fight against the Campbellians. Oreana is eventually killed by a vengeful Garuda, who then fights the Battle team for one last time, and is defeated and killed, but not before complimenting the fight and saying that now he and his android assistant Miia can be together in death.
After Oreana's death, Janera decides to take the center stage in the invasion. She first sends a letter to the Battle team before having her two subordinates, Warchimedes and General Dungele, attack them. After Dungele's numerous defeats at the hands of Combattler V, Janera kills him by detonating a bomb inside his helmet. Afterwards, Warchimedes pilots a Magma Beast to attack Combattler V and allows Janera the opportunity to destroy the Nanbara Connection. When he is defeated, Janera transfers his brain into a robot body.
Janera attempts to destroy Combattler V with a bomb attached to its foot, but Professor Yotsuya discovers the bomb in time to separate the foot and raise the Choudenji Barrier, sacrificing the Connection. Upon hearing about a revolt on Campbell, Janera makes a final attack on Earth and is defeated, but not before revealing that she has decided to deploy an "Earth Bomb" to destroy Earth. An injured Janera then tries to escape, only to be confronted by Warchimedes, who self-destructs to kill her. Deus would then appear, inform the Battle team of the defeat of Janera's cronies and stop the bomb, saving the Earth, leaving Janera's goals for conquest and power in vain.
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