Getter Robo G

Getter Robo G picks up right after the end Getter Robo. With slightly better production qualities and a brand new mech designs and the totally-not-Dinosaur-Empire-2 Hyakki Empire, how does it fare? Find out in my long awaited (said no one) review for Getter Robo G

The story, much like the original isn't really there too much. It's usually just monster of the week most of the time, with once or twice being a multi-episode battle. However, the Hyakki Empire seems to be a lot more hardcore than the Dinosaur Empire as they aren't afraid to turn dogs into bombs and sic them on our unsuspecting protagonists, ... or use a beam that literally cause people to become brain dead. Since it's not exactly an anime with an overarching plot, it's only decent. But, like with Getter Robo, I don't think it matters too much. I had got a lot of enjoyment out of watching the battles, predictable as they could be.

The art and sound is much like the original show, though slightly better. There's fewer reused animations (but there's still understandably a decent amount) and the art is cleaner. The opening is the same "Getter Robo!" as before, but the ED is a new song. It's good, but I like the ED from the original more. Speaking of things I like more in the original, I like the original Getter design and not the new one nearly as much. It just doesn't do it for me.

It's practically the same characters as the last one, but with Benkei replacing Musashi, yet fulfilling a similar role. And of course the new antagonists. One of which who is absolutely not inspired by a certain WW2 era German leader. I don't really have a preference as far as Benkei vs. Musashi. The Hyakki leaders are not super deep or interesting characters but they do what they need to... though if the two generals weren't constantly fighting each other, maybe they'd have the bright idea to send out all their mechs at once instead of one at a time - which they sort of did by the end but still manged to mess up. I know they probably wouldn't want to have an ending where our heroes are defeated and humanity gets replaced by Humans with Horns.

Despite its flaws, I still had a great time with the show, when I decided to watch it. What was also nice was that unlike Getter Robo, where only roughly 2/3s of its episodes have competent English subs, all of G's episodes have subs that were actually written by someone that's fluent in English. If you're looking for a good show by today's standards, this one probably isn't worth your time. However, if you can put up old with cartoons or enjoy something for what it is, maybe consider checking out Getter Robo G. After watching the important episodes of the original if you want, you don't really need to watch it to enjoy G.

If the original "Getter Robo" can be affectionately described as "very shit", then "Getter Robo G" can be described as "less shit".

[Note: "Getter Robo G" is largely similar to "Getter Robo", so I won't be repeating most of the things I've already said in the review for "Getter Robo", and will be focusing mostly on the differences instead.]

"Getter Robo G" is essentially more "Getter Robo" with some upgrades.

The most important upgrades are the robots. First of all, the robots now have proper, cooler names: "Getter-1" became "Getter Dragon", "Getter-2" became "Getter Liger" (ok this sounds more crap than cool, I admit), and "Getter-3" became "Getter ... Poseidon". The new robots also look better than the original. For example, Getter-1 had two "horns" sticking out of its head, and Getter Dragon has about five.

More importantly, the robots have a few more moves to play with, so the pilots no longer have to pretend the likes of "Getter Jump" and "Getter Kick" are special moves. Along with the new moves came some lame new names - all the robot attacks are in English, or rather, Engrish, and when the series was adapted into the English version "Force Five: Starvengers", a lot of the more stupid sounding attacks had been renamed. Here, however, you can witness the original names in all their glory. I had a good chuckle at the fact that what I knew to be "Shoulder Missiles" in "Starvengers" was "Strong Missiles" in "Getter Robo G" (and "Getter Robo" I don't think this attack even had a name). Getter Dragon also gained a powerful ultimate attack which was given the unfortunate name of "Shine Spark".

In addition, "Getter G" introduced a new pilot to replace Musashi. His name is Benkei, which literally translates to something like "strong dude". Not sure whether it's due to nostalgia, but I think I slightly prefer him over Musashi. Benkei's personality seems a bit more interesting than Musashi, who was mostly incompetent and only there for comic relief.

Last but not least, there are new enemies! The dino empire is replaced by the Hundred Demon Empire. The main representative this empire is a jackboots-wearing general with a small mustache, who goes by the name "Hidler". It's funny but he kinda looks familiar for some reason...

Despite all the upgrades, I still found "Getter Robo G" tough going. If anything, the better production made things worse as it means the show is not quite as entertainingly bad. It's also a less groundbreaking work, so while it may be less shit than "Getter Robo", I can find even less reason to recommend this - despite the higher score - unless you're into super robots.

Personal rating: -1.0 ("less shit")

Toei Animation Getter Robo G , another classic
example of the Anime being better than the manga , the anime is about the Oni like Empire out to kill all the humans , again its a simple mecha plot, a common basic universal rule of mecha , the non humans are the enemy , the show is great , from both music and voice acting , and action sometimes , the animation is still that 70'S janky mess , Toei Getter Robo G , is a good sequel to The Original Getter Robo , bad animation aside, this show is a ... good step up from its prequel ,Getter Robo G is a classic Gaitai Mecha anime