Ganoh
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- Ganoh is an Autobot Swordbot from the Go! portion of the Aligned continuity family.
Ganoh (ガンオウ Gan'ō) is an Autobot fire truck and part of the Swordbot Samurai Team. He can combine with Kenzan and Jinbu in various configurations. With Ganoh as the top, the combined form is GoGanoh (ゴウガンオウ Gōgan'ō).
Fiction
Go! cartoon
- Voice actor: Hiroki Yasumoto (Japanese)
Triple Combination! Swordbot - Samurai! Pursue! The Legendiscs!
Toys
Go!
- A roughly Voyager-sized toy, Ganoh transforms from a boxy crash-style firetruck into a robot resembling a sōhei or warrior monk. He can also form the top, middle or bottom of the Swordbot Samurai Team's three combined robot forms. His primary weapon is a large, rubbery, folding drill-tipped staff which he can wield (via 5mm post) in a number of ways, none of which really convey "wielding a staff". It forms his vehicle mode's ladder and foam sprayer. Ganoh is notable for having by far the most convincing torso of his team.
- His kabuto helmet is worn in GoGanoh form to form the super-robot's head, and combines with those of Kenzan and Jinbu to form large shields for GoKenzan and GoJinbu. It can also attach to the front of his truck mode, or be used by the robot as either a backpack or an incredibly terrible-looking hand-held...thing.
- In GoGanoh form, Ganoh's kabuto activates phrases from his voice actor in Kenzan's electronics, and switches the multi-colored LED display to red.
- Upon his initial release, Ganoh included his Mini-Con partner Gan when purchased from a large number of retailers (including Amazon Japan).
Notes
- The Japanese word "Ganoh" can be translated many ways. "Gan" means "face," "expression," "honor," and "prayer/wish/vow" (among many other things—including a meatball), and "ō" can mean "king/ruler," "merge," or "venerable old man" (among other things).
- The Japanese word "Gō" (used in GoGanoh) means "strong" or "manly".
