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Raiza is a major antagonist of the anime series Tōshō Daimos. She is Richter's beautiful, green-haired scientist who is secretly in love with him, and a loyal subject of the Baam Empire. She dislikes Erika due to considering her a traitor.
She was voiced by the late Kazuko Yanaga.
Personality[]
Raiza is a sinister woman who is absolutely loyal to Richter, having provided many sinister schemes for him to fight against Kazuya. Unbeknownst to Richter, she is in love with him and is desperate to see him return her feelings. She also dislikes Erika because she considers her a traitor. When Richter is determined to assassinate Olban to avenge his father, she helps him and even wounds him so she can do it for him while ensuring his safety. This eventually gets her killed by Olban himself.
Biography[]
Not much is known about Raiza's past, but based on what's shown so far, it can be inferred that she was born on Planet Baam. At some point in the past, Raiza became versed in military strategies, science and the skill of using whips. Promotional material and imagery implies that Raiza was a childhood friend of Richter and Erika. At some point, Raiza gained an unrequited affection for Richter.
When the sun of Planet Baam, Algol, overheated itself the point Planet Baam was rendered uninhabitable, it can be presumed that Raiza took refuge on Small Baam, though unlike most of them, she wasn't frozen into cryostatis.
Hoping for a planet where the Baam culture could flourish, the Baam King, Leon chose Planet Earth. He travelled from a mighty distance to attend negotiations with the Earthern delegates on the topic of housing a billion Baam-seijin refugees.
At the meeting, Leon, accompanied by Erika, Richter, Georiya and a few Baam soldiers, explained the plight of the Baams to the Earthlings, asking that they allow in their people as refugees. Though most of the human delegates were shocked at the idea of allowing such a large population, the head, Dr. Isamu Ryuzaki, stated that he approved of it and said he would pass on Leon's request to the UN. Leon was overjoyed and stated that he knew that coming to Earth was the right idea. He then declared that as long as everyone chose to come to terms, everlasting peace was possible.
All of a sudden, Leon collapsed after drinking from his cup. Erika was shocked and begged him to get up, while Richter dumped the cup into the nearby fishtank and watched the fish die, confirming his suspicsions that the drink was laced with poison. Richter's expression turned to rage and he accused the humans of taking advantage of his father's will for peace. To avenge him, Richter took a gun off one of the Baam soldiers and tried to shoot the human delegates, even though Leon ordered him not to. Knowing that peace would never be possible if Richter killed innocent people, he used his last words to beg Erika to stop her brother before succumbing to the poison. Erika attempted to wrangle the gun out of Richter's hands, but she was ultimately unsuccessful and he managed to shoot Isamu in the chest. Richter, Erika, Georiya and the Baam soldiers then left the meeting to Small Baam, the makeshift planet where the remaining Baam were.
Since Richter, the true heir to the throne, was too young to rule, Small Balm was headed by Olban, Leon's former advisor and second-in-command. Olban gave Richter the rank of Admiral and ordered him to annihilate the Earthlings as revenge for the demise of King Leon. He told Richter of his plan, to wipe out the Earth so that the Baam-seijin had a new living space after their old planet was destroyed. He also ordered Erika to help him, and she did so by becoming a medic for the army. Richter was aided by Balbas and Raiza, who would concoct plans to sabotage the Earth using Mecha Warriors. However, they were mostly unsuccessful, as Kazuya Ryuzaki would repeal them using his Super Robot Daimos. Richter was furious at their incompetence and took out most of his anger on Raiza, constantly physically abusing her through slaps and blows and calling her a failure.
Fed up with repeated defeats against Daimos, Richter approached Gurney Halleck. Richter promised Gurney a position as his right hand if he succeeded in killing Kazuya Ryūzak, the pilot of Daimos, but Gurney refused this reward, saying that he only desired the happiness of the Baam-seijin. However, he asked Richter to allow him to choose the method of killing Kazuya, which Richter agreed to.
Raiza overheard this conversation and was upset that Richter was choosing a new right hand. Being in love with him, Raiza wanted to be by his side, but he reprimanded her for her losses against the titular robot and punished her by smacking her with the end of his staff. As a result, Raiza convinced Balbas to help her sabotage Gurney, saying that if he didn't, there would be a chance that Gurney would overtake his position as well. Together, Raiza and Balbas conspire against him. Gurney sent a message to the Daimovic base saying that Kazuya must spar with him on Mount Eternity, or Erika is as good as dead. Kyoshiro warns Kazuya that this may be a trap, but Kazuya goes there anyway. Upon arriving, Gurney compliments him for coming alone, and the two spar. Though it ends with a draw, the two are amazed at the other's prowess, silently shocked that they managed to avoid the other's attacks.
Suddenly, a laser beam is shot from the bush, narrowly missing Kazuya. Kazuya accuses Gurney of lying and setting up a trap, but Gurney swears he has nothing to do with this. Another beam is shot, and Gurney protects Kazuya with his body. Soon, the two are surrounded by soldiers of the Baam Empire, and they manage to defeat them all. Kyoshiro then arrives at the island, assuming that Kazuya needed help. He accuses Gurney of setting up a trap (similar to how Kazuya did earlier) but Kazuya defends Gurney. Knowing that Gurney became injured from protecting him, Kazuya tells him to run, but promises a rematch. Gurney nods and flies away. Kyoshiro tries to throw a sword at him, but it hits a tree since Gurney is already in the air.
At Baam, Gurney begs Richter to call off the war and enter peace negotiations with the Earthlings. He tells him Kazuya is a good man and he can see why Erika finds him appealing. Angered, Richter says that negotiations got his father killed, and beats Gurney, before daring him to say that again. Gurney does, and as a result Richter deems him a traitor and orders his execution. Raiza smirks as Richter abuses Gurney, happy that her plan worked and she is in his good graces again.
That night, Erika and Margarete free Gurney from his prison cell and arrange a ship for him to go to Earth. Erika asks Gurney to tell Kazuya that she prays for peace between Baam and Earth, and he promises to deliver her message.
Raiza and Balbas send another mecha to terrorize Earth, which locks Daimos in its grasp while detonating a bomb. Gurney arrives in his ship and enters the mecha, freeing Daimos. Kazuya asks Gurney why he is helping him, and Gurney says that for peace to exist between Earth and Baam, good men like Kazuya must niot die. He then informs him that Erika prays for peace between Earth and Baam. Gurney then flies the mecha to space so it won't destroy the Earth. As he flies farther and farther away from Earth, Gurney remarks to himself "piercing this universe, into the starry sky, this vast and infinite universe is my home", before the bomb explodes, annihilating him in the process. Kazuya bursts into tears upon seeing him die.
While Erika is at the Undersea Castle, she tries to escape to Kazuya, who she loves, with the help of Cindy and Margarete. Unbeknownst to Erika and Cindy, Raiza saw them depart, and sends Balbas to retrieve them.
As Erika and Kazuya reunite, Balbas arrives in a mecha, injuring Kazuya. Erika orders Cindy to help him to the Tryper. Though Kazuya forms Daimos and defeats the mecha, he is unable to save Erika and Cindy, who fall to Balbas' clutches. Raiza forces Erika into piloting a mecha that kills the pilot (as revenge for "causing Richter to worry"). She threatens to have Margarete and Cindy tortured if she doesn't comply. Knowing it will kill her, Erika pilots the mecha near the Daimovic base area, confesses to Kazuya that she killed Isamu, and then attempts suicide by attempting to abandon the robot. However, it turns out that there is an escape pod in the mecha that sends Erika back to the Undersea Castle. Once Richter finds out Erika is in love with a human, he orders her to face capital punishment for "betraying" the Baam Empire.
On the day of Erika's scheduled execution, some rebels interrupt the process and stage a diversion. Margarete then injects Erika with a serum that causes her to faint, tricking Richter and his goons into thinking she's dead. Margarete lies to Richter and states that she killed her, and while Richter is enraged, Raiza defends Margarete, saying that she did it for Erika's honour. While Raiza was lying in the hopes of buying Margarete's loyalty, Richter believes it.
Even though he considers her a traitor, he decides to hold a funeral for her. He decides that she should be buried on Earth, near the Daimovic area, which grabs Kazuya's attention. Kazuya meets Richter there, and Richter challenges him to a duel. Erika manages to wake up from the serum, shocking Kazuya, Richter and the rest of the spectators. Seeing Richter duel with Kazuya, Erika stands in front of the former, begging Kazuya not to kill her brother. Erika is then abducted by a spaceship, piloted by Olban's frivolous nephew, Melvi. He takes her back to the Undersea Castle, but tells Richter that he will marry Erika. Erika is shocked, but refuses to say anything since Melvi is her only hope at staying alive. Richter wants to oppose him, but knows he cannot since Melvi has a higher position than him.
Melvi then confesses to Erika that he knows of her romance with Kazuya and supports it, as do a lot of Baam-seijin, because King Leon would have wanted peace. He informs her of a resistance movement against Richter in New Zealand lead by peace activist Barandock, and orders her to join it, while giving her a ring full of personal information regarding the rebels. Raiza, angered that Melvi humiliated Richter, manages to kill Melvi and make it look like an accident, but Erika escapes to New Zealand. She eventually she lets Kazuya know she's there but says they cannot reunite yet because they must prioritize ending the war, and he agrees.
While Erika is a free woman, Richter subjects Margerete to extreme abuse and has Raiza torture her because he sees her as complicit in Erika's "betrayal". He has her wings cut off and orders her to live as a slave. Margarete is eventually recused by Barandock's rebels and joins Erika in New Zealand. The two assist Barandock's rebel activities and help in any way they can.
Richter's childhood best friend, Aizam, joins the Undersea Castle and begins issuing orders in his place. It turns out Olban, frustrated with Richter's inability to defeat Daimos, sent Aizam to replace him. Aizam, however, has no interest in taking Richter's position and swears loyalty to him instead. He even tells Richter that he will gladly sacrifice his own life for his sake. Aizam actually has his own reasons for entering the battle - he's dying from a disease and wants to die a warrior's death, but he hides this from Richter as he doesn't want him to worry.
Aizam is one of the few people, apart from Richter and Balbas, that Raiza shows her kind and caring side to. She shows concern over Aizam coughing and catches him when he faints from overworking. The two also bond over their shared love for science.
After Aizam faints from overworking, Richter grows concerned and watches over him as he rests in the hospital bed. Aizam's research and improvement (most notably, his discovery of the Aizaron particles that made the Mecha Warriors more powerful), forced the Daimovic to implement great upgrades to Daimos. Aizam steals a ship and escapes to the battlefield without Richter knowing, but when he's found out, he tells Richter the truth about his illness. After failing to defeat Daimos, Aizam apologizes to Richter for not being able to defeat him and lets the carnage annihilate him. Richter is broken by his best friend's death and orders an assault on Earth to avenge him, worsening human-Baam tensions.
As the stakes of war get higher, Balbas' younger brother Himley, a peace officer on Small Baam, witnesses Georiya's cruelty towards the Baam-seijin civilians. Georiya massacres several of them en masse, including his and Balbas' parents.
When he tries to warn Olban about this, he overhears him bragging about killing Leon and considering killing Richter because he is outliving his usefulness as an Admiral. Himley, angered about what he just learned, tries to escape to the Undersea Castle and tell Richter, putting Balbas at an odds - he doesn't want to kill his own brother, but he also wants to follow his orders as Richter's general. Richter, on the other hand, offers to hear Himley out, bringing Balbas to tears. Hearing Himley's story, Richter initially doesn't believe him, but decides to confront Georiya to get the truth. Knowing he's been found out, Georiya has his spies in the Undersea castle reveal themselves and hold Richter and Balbas at gunpoint, while Himley is shot defending Raiza from them. Having gathered Richter, Raiza and Balbas, Georiya tells them the truth - Olban coveted Leon's position, so he had Georiya pour poison in his cup during the meeting. In addition, while Richter tried to shoot Isamu, the bullet he shot missed and hit the wall - Georiya just took advantage of the ensuing chaos and secretly shot Isamu instead.
Georiya tries to kill the three, but Raiza protests against it and says that she was never loyal to Richter. She states that Richter maltreated her and she has no love for him, and begs to join Georiya's side instead. While Richter and Balbas are shocked, Georiya takes pleasure in this, and makes Raiza prove her loyalty by killing Richter and Balbas. Richter and Balbas are imprisoned in a Mecha Warrior while Raiza takes a command position. She then betrays Georiya and tells Richter that she was on his side all along, lying so that she could rescue him. While the Mecha Warrior explodes, Richter falls into the sea and is rescued by Raiza. Balbas, on the other hand, washes up near the Daimovic base.
Balbas is taken prisoner by the Daimovic crew, amd they ask for his co-operation, but he says he would rather die than ally with the humans. Nevertheless, Kazuya treats him with kindness as if he was a fellow human, bringing him food and ensuring he is treated humanely. When Kazuya leaves the prison room, Balbas is brought to tears because of how unflinchingly kind Kazuya is despite him authorizing many attacks on Earth earlier.
Okane's micheivious nephew, Genta, enters Balbas's room out of curiosity. Balbas then takes him hostage and threatens to kill him. Kazuya offers himself as a prisoner in exchange, which Balbas agrees to. He flies to a mountain with Kazuya, but on the way the two are shot by Georiya's forces. They decide to team up, and Balbas even uses his own bandage Kazuya's wound. Balbas then tells Kazuya the truth about Olban and how he betrayed Leon and Richter. Kazuya proposes working together with Richter, which makes Balbas happy. He agrees to fly the boy back to Daimovic. They reach the base but Balbas dies after being shot, and then stabbed multiple times, by Georiya's goons. Though Kazuya is appalled at his bleeding body, Balbas tells him to keep moving forward and forget about him, saying that the fate of a billion Baamites is in his hands. Kazuya is enraged and defeats Georiya's Mecha Warrior.
Raiza takes Richter to a secret base she constructed. While tending to his injuries, she suggests appealing to the humans for help, but Richter disagrees and slaps her, saying there is no way the humans would help them after all the bloodshed they've caused. Raiza tries to appeal to them anyway, asking Kazuya for help. Miwa overhears this and shoots Raiza, causing her to abandon all hope of allying with them. Raiza and Richter escape to Small Balm, where they plan to kill Olban.
Georiya then discovers Erika's base and tells her Olban wants to make her his bride. Erika, worried that the Baam-seijin refugees will die if she doesn't say yes, agrees, to the shock of Kazuya and Margarete. Margarete brings up the fact that Olban killed her father, and Kazuya asks her if their love meant nothing, and Erika lies and says that she loves Olban, and departs to Small Baam to marry him. The two are shocked, but unbeknownst to them, Erika is planning to assassinate Olban to avenge Leon while using the wedding as a cover to get close to him.
Richter and Raiza enter Small Balm through the corpse chute and disguise themselves as priests. While disguised, Richter holds a gun to Georiya's waist and tell him to lead them to control room. Georiya timdly obeys, but once he enters the room, he orders his forces to shoot them. Richter and Raiza shoot them first and Richter manages to corner Georiya, who begs for mercy and claims that he was just following orders. He then tosses a knife at Richter, but Richter grabs the knife and throws it back, killing Georiya for good.
Raiza then alerts Richter to live footage of Olban being led to the wedding. Richter supposedly kills Olban too, but is informed later that it was a body double. Olban discovers Richter and Raiza are on Small Baam and orders his forces to capture them. Raiza, not wanting Richter to die, flies towards Olban's building and tries to kill him. She comes close, having destroyed the window and ready to fire her gun at him, but misses and is then shot at by Olban's forces. She is humiliated by Olban, who steps on her fingers as she clings to the building, before falling to her death. Richter is heartbroken and tells her corpse he will join her soon.
Trivia[]
Raiza's battle armour, which never made it to the anime
- Concept art and promotional material imply that Raiza was originally meant to have a larger part in the story. One art book of Daimos depicts Raiza in similar battle armour to Richter, and another implies that her, Richter and Erika were childhood friends. This change is likely due to the fact that Daimos was originally slated to have 50 episodes, which were forcibly cut down to 44.
- Raiza's name was changed in various dubs of Daimos.
- In the Philippine-English dub, she was known as Laila.
- In the Starbirds dub, she was known as Lisa.
- In the Italian dub, she was known as Laiza/Liza.
- The anime frequently uses Raiza for fanservice. In episode 9, she gets a shower scene as the camera focuses on her large breasts. In a later scene, Raiza plays up her breasts to the viewer. Her default outfit also doesn't cover her legs, and Raiza frequently kneels in front of Richter, showing them off.
External Links[]
- Raiza on the Robot Romance Trilogy Wiki.
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