| What
do you get when you cross super robot shows from the 70s
with the animation styles of today? Something akin to Godannar
I would guess. The series pays homage to the super robots
of the past while still creating a atmosphere and layout
all its own.
Five
years ago Goh and Mira were lovers and were partners in
the fight against the Mimetic beasts. The fights take place
inside giant human shaped robots. Goh pilots the Dannar
whilst Mira pilots the Okusaer. One very special function
of these robots and the male/female setup is that these
robots can combine to form a more powerful dually operated
robot called Godannar. In one fateful battle Mira sacrificed
herself to save the man she loved, leaving Goh heartbroken
and lost.
Enter
Anna Aoki, the daughter of Kiriko Aoi who heads the Dannar
base. Anna is a spunky young girl who Goh saved during the
battle in which Mira was lost and eventually becomes his
love interest, and in the first episode, Goh's wife.
The
rest of the show revolves around meeting the different pilots,
from Ekaterina and Kukrachyov who share a "slave/master"
kind of relationship, to Luna and Shadow who are the lesbians
of the series. Essentially every couple has a special bond
of love that ties them to the pilot with whom they combine.
One especially disturbing coupling between brother and sister,
Knight and Ellis also occurs, though it is left as a mostly
platonic, though innuendo laced, love.
One
thing that fans of Mazinger will get a kick out of is the
fact that the Japanese voice actor for Kabuto Kouji makes
an appearance later on in the series, though I'll leave
exactly who he is to wait until you watch through the series
so as to not spoil some of the story.
There
are plenty of twists to keep fans of story interested and
lots of action to keep the action fans glued to the screen.
The show is really well done over all.
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