Thanks to the unusual popularity "Baan Gaan" achieved with Yūsha through the "Brave Saga" games, the slated creative team (including character designer Hirokazu Hisayuki and probable director Mitsuo Fukuda) were allowed to make an independent Super Robot series for Sunrise a few years later, called "Gear Fighter Dendoh". The plot and concept similarities between "Dendoh" and "Baan Gaan" are extremely numerous, including the mechanics for how the machines combine with their animal-robot helpers, an emphasis on a running conflict between two particular Super Robots (one blue and one red), the dual-protagonist structure, and the idea of child pilots fighting with the support of a group of older pilots and technicians (VARS in "Baan Gaan", and GEAR in "Dendoh"). While "Dendoh" was only a modest commercial success, the show was received warmly by critics, and the team has since gone on to become responsible for profitable series such as "My-HiME" and "Gundam SEED".