This bait is so fucking boring

>>23503573
Bait made by a retarded faggot nigger.

>>23503573
its so kino it convinced everyone into thinking the rest of the shitter robo franchise wasn't complete trash

new getter robo is better

>>23503573
you're completely right OP
Ryoma is gone after 1 episode, and Go fucking sucks the life out of the rest of the show to the points it's unrecoverable

>>23503697
It gets saved by Kei being the de facto protagonist while Ryouma is gone and Go is acting like a retard, she only gets cucked out of piloting Getter-1 which sucks

>>23503690
>>23503573
Trying too hard

>>23503573
I know this is bait but I actually really don't like Armageddon much and enjoyed most of the other Getter anime more.
It had great mecha scenes but everything outside of those didn't do much for me and it is probably my least favorite Imagawa mecha project.

>>23505101
I think it best encapsulated the ideal of what Getter and its experience is (although the same could be argued about New, I like both), I'm going to assume that by least-favourite you did still slightly like it, and that it's just ranked the lowest.
>Giant Robo, Tetsujin, Shin Mazinger, G Gundam
Aside from anyone taking issue with no follow-up to Giant Robo and Shin Mazinger, these are all really heavy hitters in their own right, so I could definitely see that. I genuinely don't know how I'd rank these from 1-5 even if you held me up at gunpoint.
Giant Robo, Shin Mazinger, G Gundam, Getter, Tetsujin? But I really fucking liked Tetsujin as well. Maybe Getter > G Gundam if it was really bothersome having so many wonderful randos and being stuck in the highlands, but I guess Tetsujin doesn't pack as much punch due to it having a lovely series of anthologies that often hammered in the same point.
It's actually a happy annoyance that you worded things that way, because I have absolutely no idea how to rank Imagawa's works.

>>23503573
I started Getter recently with this series and had no clue what was happening but I thought I was awesome. What's the direct prequel to this so I know what happened to Michiru?
Also, I didn't realize how much later mecha ripped this off (not that it didn't rip off other 90s titles)

>>23505540
There is a prequel but it was an audio drama only

>>23503697
>>23503734
Ryoma is gone after 3rd episode. Kei is the mc, and it seems that the problem with Go might be bc the series is clearly rushed and has too little episodes.

>>23505290
>>23505101
Imagawa only made 3eps, the show is not better bc of dev problems.

>>23505540
>I didn't realize how much later mecha ripped this off (
Like...what? Besides TTGL? But that's the whole getter franchise.

>>23505614
Khara Evangelion

>>23505625
Huh?

>>23505540
>What's the direct prequel to this so I know what happened to Michiru?
There's no real "prequel" to it aside from an audio drama as mentioned previously. There's an one-shot taking place during the Moon Wars (that's the event that took place before the series, a war between humans and invaders. The humans won, but the invaders infiltrated them as Cohen and Stinger) but it doesn't really explain anything or lead into the OVAs. It's just mostly an action sequence. But:
What happened to Michiru was that she was infected by invaders, realized this, and intentionally botched the combination sequence to kill herself and the invader with her; for one reason or another she never told anyone about this, leading Ryoma and Hayato to believe it was an accident and Prof. Saotome going insane and blaming it on Ryoma and Hayato. The invaders in Michiru's corpse survived and in turn infected Saotome, who asked Hayato to kill him and frame Ryoma to keep him at bay in fear he might interfere. But, the invaders resurrected Saotome's corpse and that's where the OVA plot begins.

Finally I decided to watch Getter Robo G made by Toei in the '70.
Was it published by some label? Any good subtitles around?
It seems it's a very rare series

>>23505598
If you belive in getter you shall witness kino of inhuman proportions

>>23503573
It is cool

i know this is more of an argument thread but hurry up dreams is a cool song, but nobody really talks about it

>>23506167
What actually were the Invaders? It looked like they could just suddenly pop out of anybody and were just unstoppable blob demons. NGL, they scared the hell out of me.

>>23513140
You know John Carpenter's The Thing? Pretty much the same concept, shapeshifting aliens who can take over people's bodies. Except way more bigger and durable.

>>23513741
NTA and it's been a while since I've rewatched Armageddon, but there seemed to be an indeterminate amount of time post-infection and getting taken over, and I remember being confused about to what extent Saotome was still following his plan and staying in control vs absolutely gone towards the invaders

>>23513754
I think Saotome was semi-lucid during Armageddon, at points he's completely so, most notably when he dies; he gives some parting words to the Getter Team asking them to finish his plans and holds back the Invaders when they try to escape from his body and the exploding Getter Robo G. Lambert also appears to be lucid after Benkei's team takes him in but is taken over by the Invaders after he dies, but I wouldn't discard the possibility of them using social stealth since they also disguise themselves as puppies in New York to catch them off guard. Meanwhile Cohen and Stinger are obviously completely taken over and the ones in the Alaskan hostage situation seem to be completely lucid despite being assimilated into the Invader. They're all over the place, I wouldn't think much about it.

>>23513771
Yeah, the other ones I could sort of overlook, but Saotome and the Michiru reveal really confused me as a kid. Is it just intense amounts of willpower, the kind that comes with being a hot-blooded main cast member? I mean, it's sort of crucial to know when he's being lucid and when he's grieving and when he's like, literally possessed by aliens.

>>23513140
Armageddon has more references to Kyomu Senki* than Getter itself and there you find the aliens/invaders among other stuff.
Actually it seems Ishikawa was expanding the main Getter manga with Getter Ark, taking a similar direction of Kyomu Senki, but we'll never know for sure. It's a true pain how the animated Ark series didn't take the opportunity to go further and stopped at a crucial moment of the story.
Back to Armageddon... Imagawa had an approach like he had with Giant Robo and it was amazing. Ryoma like Shinichi Kuruma (Majuu Sensen, same manga where Stinger and Cowen are from) is brilliant, not just fanservice.
When Imagawa was out everything changed; Armageddon is still good after all, but it could have been far better.

* it must have been such a good idea that it was reused for new getter.

It's always weird reading about reception to this series and how people like the three first Imagawa episodes so much, when I honestly feel like they are an aimless mess of weird soap opera twists that contradict themselves within the three episodes themselves, but people shit on the rest of the show, which is the part I actually like.
Shin Getter actually gets to do something besides get it's tomahawk broken by Stinger and Cohen. The OVA version of Black Getter shows up and leaves a giant impression on the franchise that's still felt to this day. The soundtrack introduces those 10/10 jazzy tracks. We get more of a setting resembling the Getter Go manga. Shin Getter 2 gets to do more than it has in pretty much any other Getter media. And while the weird changes made to the Getter Go pilots are definitely a little obtuse, they still manage to feel more stable than how they handled the main cast in the pre time skip episodes.
I'm sure if Imagawa had stuck around, he could have sorted things out in a satisfying way. But as it is, I think his episodes are the weakest.

>>23506167
I never understood this twist. Even if you ignore the lack of communication not really making sense, Saotome got to see Michiru was infected by the invaders. You literally see that within the Imagawa episodes. So he should already be suspicious or clued in on to what actually happened.

It has many problems, but boring isn't one of them

>>23514149
I think in the Imagawa plot the invaders were coming from Getter energy itself, which is why they were just appearing everywhere and taking over people like Michiru and Dr.Saotome, not just aliens that eat Getter.

That explains why they were appearing everywhere and taking over people like Michiru and Saotome. Or the other failed clones unlike Gou that ended up looking monstruous. There's that whole scene with Getter energy -reversing- evolution too, point it's actually taking things to a more primal state, which ends up completely unexplained by the show afterwards since it just doesn't fit with "the invader like eating Getter energy, but are otherwise unrelated to it".

>>23514173
Getter-2 specializes in boring, so you're right

>>23506167
She never told anyone probably because she was y'know dead. Also there's no way Ryoma & Hayato would have gone along with it willingly.

I just love the invaders too much to hate this OVA. Their designs, their function as essentially a militarized version of the monster from The Thing, the way they are animated, the way they keep you guessing as to how much of their victim's psyche is still active post assimilation.
And since they literally aren't from Getter, you can't really get them out of any other Getter content.

>>23503690
leddit ass opinion

>>23514134
I agree, it deserves more credit, I really liked the introduction of Kei and the way she contrasts with the old Getter pilots who are more rugged and ruthless. Its just that Go presents this huge dead weight, he says nothing meaningful and is a completely uninteresting character and yet he keeps wasting screen time by virtue of being the Getter-1 pilot. Its like the new director had no idea what to do with him or what Imagawa had planned for him because the mystery surrounding him is resolved early on and does nothing to change him as a character. I wish they would have had the balls to just make Getter-2 the main form until so Kei got more screentime instead of sharing it with Go.