Shin Getter Robo vs Neo Getter Robo

Episode 1

After watching the first episode of Dunbine, this was a very different show to watch. Both are cheesy in good ways, but this appeals more to my childish sensibilities. Shouting attack names, loads of HASHIN, and motherfucking dinosaurs piloting giant mecha dinosaurs, what's not to love?
 
Episode 1:

Man, this was a good palette cleanser after watching the latest FranXX episode. This was straight-to-the-point, no muss, no fuss cheesy mecha goodness. Something that is very lacking these days.

No philosophy, no politics. Just good old giant robots beating the shit out of evil dinosaurs.

This incarnation of Gou is my favorite. I like Armageddon's Gou but this one is more wild and fun and not to mention closer to the source material. Plus, he's voiced by the then rookie Takahiro Sakurai before he was cursed to voice pretty boys forever.
 
Episode 1:

I like how this show rolls. Fuck pussy shit like setup just jump right into the action. After about a minute of awesome fighting a villain is kind enough to scream an exposition dump at me to explain the plot. In point of fact for the first five minutes every character is screaming out their identity and motives before more fighting happens.

Hold up:
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Is that mech holding its wound as if it's in pain?

Then the mech is like "fuck all these dinosaurs" then it tears out its own heart to making an explosion to kill the dinos because this anime is metal as fuck.

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This asshole just has a nail driven into his head. Okay.

Then the episode does its version of slowing down to introduce the main character and by that I mean a bunch of shady looking dudes find Gou fighting a giant black man in a diaper. How they found Gou or know that he's the one that they need is never explained because this anime just wants to have its robot fights.

Gou doesn't seem too smart to me or maybe the dinos are stupid too. I mean the dinobot punches at Gou. If Gou doesn't dodge he would have been smear on the ground and Gou's response is "wow, you must really want to capture me."

Then we get more over the top mech action to end the episode as Gou takes over piloting the giant fuck you mech.

In summation this episode was equal parts stupid and awesome. I loved it for that. This was just what I needed. The animation is good, the action is over the top, physics don't exist and the art is retro fun.
 
Episode 2

Slightly slower pace for the first half, but kicks into the same ridiculous action in the second, any giant American robot called TexMex is fine with me, particularly if it wears a poncho and fires giant revolvers.

Holy shit just how good do those explosions look? I can't say I'm particularly interested in our main pilot, but Shou is cool, and fuck man, it bears repeating that this is just giant robots fighting dinosaurs in giant robot dinosaurs.
 
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Episode America Fuck yeah!

Nothing about this episode makes one lick of sense because this show doesn't give a fuck about anything but shit exploding. I don't give a fuck about sense either when the destruction porn is this hardcore. Watching all those famous landmarks explode was awesome.

The episode starts off with what I will loosely describe as characterization and plot, but it quickly gets bored with that. Instead it's time to introduce America's true heroes Jack and Mary King. Japan's got it right cowboys are cool and cowboys in giant cowboy robots are even cooler. Really the rest of America is a waste of space surrounding Texas so it's machismo doesn't leak out and infect the rest of the world. Also, six shoots are just so much cooler than other handguns. Sure their mech is named after a particularly mess type of food, but Texas is proud of their bastardization of Mexican cuisine.

Oh no! The dinosaurs stole a satellite and somehow converted it into a cannon with unlimited meteors to throw at the White House. Time for Jack and Mary to get into action. Booom! Bang! Bam! On shit they are destroying just as much stuff as the meteors! They crush like 5 cars every time they reload, but that's a small price to pay for FREEDOM! They run out of bullets though because revolvers aren't really know for being high capacity and TexMex's cool poncho probably should have been replaced with a bandoleer for more ammunition, but whatever this gives Getter Robo a chance to get in there for the save. After all Gou argued with Jack for five seconds so they are totally bros now. However, even the powerful Getter Bot can't stop a cannon satellite so America has to teach them the most important lesson. If your guns aren't working you just need a bigger one. Luckily it's American and guns are just buried under the ground. TexMex takes down the satellite with his FREEDOM cannon. Sure, he probably destroyed the rest of Washington ripping it out of the ground, but that place sucks anyway because it's not sacred Texas.

Oh no! Now Dinosaurs are wrecking up Japan. Luckily, Getter Robo can travel around the globe in a matter of minutes. They jet back to Japan just in time for the Dinos to pull out their super ultra mega fuck you mech because they knew the episode was about to end and we needed a cliffhanger.

I wish there were more ridiculous fun anime like this. Animation has unlimited potential to tell all kinds of stories, but it seems like it gets caught in the rut of telling the same handful of stories over and over again.
 
Episode 3:

There's not much to say about this one. It was twenty minutes of rad action junk food. All the good guys got a chance to shine and we finally get to see Getter Robo classic in action. We also get to see Norio Dinomoto beaten like a redhead stepchild. so the episode was pretty much everything I could have asked for.

The hand to hand combat and gunplay weren't as thrilling to watch as the mecha action, but I still had fun with it. I like that Jin is the only one to use cover. Gou just runs out into the open and starts blasting away. Meanwhile, Ryou's spin kicks apparently make him mostly impossible to hit at point blank range. The Dino Empire probably should have spent more time training as they're even worse than Storm Troopers.

The music was great this episode. I'm not sure how you couldn't feel hype when the music cues up when Getter Robo is first activated. He then rocket punches the shit out of Dinomoto.

I guess Gou has magic chosen one powers or something since he got Getter Robo to start through sheer willpower or something. Not to mention he was bathed in Getter energy and survived when the same energy turns the Dinos into soup.

Now it's time for the main even. Getter Robo and vs derp king Dino and the UFO he just happened to find and turn into a super weapon.

I've enjoyed the art in this animation, but I'm not find of King Derp's design. He looks a bit silly and not in a way that's fun.

The only regret I have with this episode is I feel like the first minute would have had some impact if I were more familiar with the franchise. The scene of Ryou visiting the dead pilots grave was fine, but didn't mean much to me. Kind of wish Dinomoto had been the final boss because I'd love to hear him ham it up someone while encouraging all his dino buds to die for the cause.

Kind of sad the next one is the last episode. I could watch more of this.
 
I've been dead on this the last few days but couldn't resist watching a few minutes before bed last night and its immediately awesome. Better animation than most shit today.
 
MythicalTurkey said:
I've been dead on this the last few days but couldn't resist watching a few minutes before bed last night and its immediately awesome. Better animation than most shit today.
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The action really shows where Golden Kamuy is badly failing. The action in Shin Getter might be mecha, but both show are trying to be as over the top as possible. Golden Kamuy just looks like a bad joke in comparison to this. It's not just the lack of animation quality in Kamuy. Kamuy's direction is bland and the action scenes lack any form of excitement.
 
Episode 1
We get explosions right off the bat? And combining mecha, evil space dinosaurs and weird professors? YES! Take that, overly verbose shit mecha shows!

The guy holding up the nuclear reactor was fucking awesome. Much hot-bloodedness, even for this type of show.

I often gripe about anime ideas of "coolness", or to be more precise, what anime and manga creators either think is cool or what their intended audience thinks is cool, but this is fucking it. Mecha coolness incarnate. So fucking obnoxious and silly. I am loving every second.

"If he can't save himself from this shapechanging hell-beast, it's better for him to die right now." lol. Jin is the best. Especially since he keeps putting the shit kid in his place.

Ahahahahaha voice command attacks fucking genius ahahahahaha. Ahem. At least there are no Alexa/Cortana/Siri voice input recognition problems.
 
Episode 3:

Wakamoto hamming it up. Classic Getter team reuniting. Numerous call-backs. And lotsa dead dinosaurs. This is perfect as it gets for me.

ZetsubouKaiji said:
I guess Gou has magic chosen one powers or something since he got Getter Robo to start through sheer willpower or something. Not to mention he was bathed in Getter energy and survived when the same energy turns the Dinos into soup.
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Getter rays is not harmful to humans. Only to dinosaurs and certain aliens. In Getter lore, it was the Getter Rays that helped evolve mammals during prehistoric time.
 
Episode 2
The professor is awfully spry for a man of his age and girth. There is also some politicking going on here, but it's barely windowdressing and I don't give two shits about it. I am just here for the explosions.

Cowboy mechs are the best mechs. Ever since I was a wee bairn and drove my parents crazy from watching Saber Rider on VHS at the tender age of six I have known this truth to be self-evident. They usually have revolvers, and cool capes. Can you get cooler than that? Yes, a sniper rifle with a revolver magazine that you store in a giant coffin between the White House and the Washington Monument. Coolness incarnate.

The cowboy pilots were the greatest. I love Japangrish almost as much as I love Engrish, and they delivered in spades.
 
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The voice acting and directing are all very of this time but the action is some next level stuff. It even looks good right now as I mentioned earlier, and @HasseRovdjur is right about the japangrish. It is the best. Almost as good as aforementioned cowboy mechs with revolvers, and- oh what's this

Kyoji Kasshu and the Super Sentai preparing for war, Colorized, 2000
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I mean seriously does this guy not look like kyoji, is it just me
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And with the help of kyoji we have many lizardmen down, several cows blasted to hell, and more explosions than independence day. THAT CANNON HAS VERY HIGH TOO MUCH POWER MAN.

This is good shit.

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MythicalTurkey said:
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The voice acting and directing are all very of this time but the action is some next level stuff. It even looks good right now as I mentioned earlier, and @HasseRovdjur is right about the japangrish. It is the best. Almost as good as aforementioned cowboy mechs with revolvers, and- oh what's this

Kyoji Kasshu and the Super Sentai preparing for war, Colorized, 2000
070GEIS.png


I mean seriously does this guy not look like kyoji, is it just me
kyoji-kasshu-dynasty-warriors-gundam-2-2.36.jpg


And with the help of kyoji we have many lizardmen down, several cows blasted to hell, and more explosions than independence day. THAT CANNON HAS VERY HIGH TOO MUCH POWER MAN.

This is good shit.

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They do look alike, but that's because that character design was almost a trope in itself, if you look at the original Devilman manga, Akira looks similar, as does the MC from Blazing Transfer Student, Tenjou Tenge, countless others, it's the standard 70s hot blooded character trope.
 
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