Call it a clip show if you want, but this is the cut that turned a Sunday robot cartoon into a heartbreak that Japanese fandom never got over. It strips the TV run down to the only thing that ever mattered: Takeru Myojin, raised on Earth as a Crasher pilot, is a Gishin weapon, and Gaia carries the bomb that makes him a walking countdown on the planet he's defending. Every Six God Combination sequence, Gaia, Sphinx, Titan, Shin and Uranus locking into GodMars, is really just a stay of execution against Emperor Zul. Then there is Marg, the twin left behind on the other side, and the movie knows exactly why you bought a ticket. The recap format actually helps here, because compression turns a year of episodes into one long walk toward a brother's goodbye. 1982 super robot spectacle that ends with you wrecked over a boy who was never allowed to come home.
In 1982, a catastrophic planetary alignment shakes Earth to its core. A mysterious light crashes into the Myojinsho reef, and four more bursts of luminescence scatter across the globe. Seventeen years later, humanity has colonized the solar system and launched an ambitious space exploration program. The elite military unit Crasher stands ready to handle any crisis that emerges from humanity's cosmic expansion. Takeru, a decorated member of Crasher, carries no memory of his origins before the reef incident. What he doesn't know is that he's actually Mars, an alien being sent from the planet Gishin to prevent human advancement into space. As his true identity awakens, Takeru receives a haunting directive: sabotage human civilization and trigger Earth's destruction. Caught between his human identity and his alien nature, Takeru must confront the competing loyalties tearing him apart. The fate of two worlds now rests on which side of himself ultimately wins out. This film compiles the epic struggle between duty and self, duty and conscience, in a race against time.