Robodog Day Afternoon...

From JAKQ in 1977 to SUNVULCAN in 1981, the Sentai/Super Sentai series was plagued by one annoying trend - robot talking animals. For some reason, each show had to have a talking animal annoying the heck out of the team and the audience - with the exception of DENZIMAN, in which the talking animal was the leader!

IC the Denzidog accompanied a floating island from Denzi Star to Earth, and was awakened when the evil Vader Clan attacked the Earth. He differed from the other sentai animal 'bots by being A) the leader, and B) not completely lame.

IC with Naoya Uchida (Midorikawa Tetsuya/Denzi Green) and Oba "Gavan" Kenji (Oome Daigoro/Denzi Blue)

IC sacrificed himself by becoming a circuit for the giant robot Daidenjin in order for it to defeat the nearly invincible Omnipotent Monse. At the end of the series, the heroes, after defeating the Monse's fat, drunken leader Omnipotent Demon King and having the Vader leader Queen Hedrian put herself on ice temporarily have a soccer tournament in his honor. Yeesh, talk about a lame memorial.

IC was succeeded as talking animal in SUNVULCAN by Shishi the Shih Tzu, who wasn't nearly as cool. Like all the other animals besides IC, he was only a mascot, and probably the most annoying one.


I have family members who are dog trainers, and they can't figure out what breed of dog IC is. He vaguely looks like a Chow, but not as fluffy. The "memorial" resembles a Chow far more than the original "canine actor". A family member said that he looks like an Akita, but the coat is too fluffy and the tail doesn't curl up.

Is he a mix, an "off-breed" Chow, or something else entirely?


Yes, I wonder about sentai dog breeds. I have a weird family, okay? Not that I'm anywhere near normal myself...