Kerblomboさんのイラストまとめ

And the Nirvash Type Zero has the Satori Program to unlock its full potential. If it were just these two refs, it would basically be window dressing for unlocking any vanilla magical power-up.

@Richmond_Lee I think it qualifies as an actual religious text at this point.

@HokutoAndy Arma died for our Bahamut SINs.

So the good guys all combine to bring back the god that defeated it, Argama.

...No, not that one, either.

Towards the end, Ryu's blue-haired sister gets kidnapped and brainwashed to help resurrect the evil god Drago.

Aside from having one of the most Go Nagai faces ever, Ryu's fleshbot could transform into a dragon. I always thought the original Kaiser/Rudra looked similar to it, with the spines and overly defined dragon pecs.

The protagonist was named Ken, and his blonde rival was named Ryu, because not all Capcom comparisons have to be intentional. They had the mark of a liger and a dragon, repsectively.

This by itself isn't much, but there is that dragon mark on the first BOF Ryu's forehead.

In '89, Go Nagai and Sunrise put together Jushin Liger, a biomechanical giant robot show. A certain wrestler's identity was themed around it, going through the same power-ups into Fire and Thunder Liger.

Masato Hayase, the designer behind Heisei Riders, is currently drawing Genma Taisen Rebirth.

I think the monsters were designed by the Phantasy Star guy, which is why the first boss is a Dark Falz. But along with a Cthulhu, it had some neat sci-fi fatnasy monsters. And the fighting had animations on both sides.