Steel Jeeg

Steel Jeeg (鋼鉄ジーグ, Kōtetsu Jīgu) is a Japanese super robot anime series produced by manga artists Go Nagai and Tatsuya Yasuda, and Toei Doga (Toei Animation), and first broadcasted in 1975. The manga series was created in several children's publications. A sequel called Kotetsushin Jeeg aired on the satellite network WOWOW, beginning April 5, 2007.

Plot
Hiroshi Shiba is an outstanding car racer whose father is assassinated upon the discovery of the Bronze Bell from an ancient civilization. This Bronze Bell is coveted by Queen Himika who comes from that ancient era; the Yamatai Kingdom, and whose ambitions are to seize the Bell and dominate earth.

Hiroshi is left with a few items from his father which would enable him to morph into a full sized mecha warrior, the Steel Jeeg. With these abilities and the help of his father's brain implanted in a computer and his assistance Miwa "Micchi" Uzuki, they set out to neutralize Himika's plans of world dominion.

Kotetsushin Jeeg
50 years after the original series, Kenji Kusanagi, a high school student who becomes Kotetsushin Jeeg to fight the sudden reappearance of "Haniwa Genjin" from the Jamada Empire ruled by Queen Himika.