After school, ten-year-old Wataru doesn't go straight home - instead he slips into an alternate world where he is the pilot of a huge super-deformed comical robot and fights to deliver the world from the oppression of an evil magician.
Source: The Anime Encyclopedia
Note: This series proved so popular in Japan that it was later remade as Chou Majin Eiyuuden Wataru.
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Source: ANN