[Getter Robo] ...honestly i'm glad i watched new first since i'm looking over other series and i have, like, significantly less interest in the premise of any of these EXCEPT armageddon, which you kinda need some previous GR experience to fully enjoy anyways from the looks of it

it's both its own thing and desperately still needs context

but also, like, damn. new getter robo was EXTREMELY good.

such a perfect little package

kinda sad that benkei apparently only shows up in ngr he was *so fun

it like, balanced the cosmic horror/lurking dread with incredible super robot antics in such a great way

and did a BUNCH of really interesting, and also batshit, things

love how the first proper arc after the team is together is "time travel into alternate history heian period and spend like, two thirds of all fights on foot"

yeah ngr benkei is a neat mashup of getter 3 pilots

my general stance on the OVAs

or the animes in general

- New is the best

- Armageddon is very good

- Shin VS Neo is the most accessible source of two main things

1. Musashi's Last Stand, which is one of the most pivotal moments in the Getter canon

2. JACK KING

- Everything else is skippable. Read Devolution

Jack King's mecha has an ultimate weapon with the drawback that it can only be fired on American soil

3.

SSSSRW.D180223 #SRW on Twitter

ah yes

the reason Raven's username is punchesdinosaurs on some platforms

despicable that I had to find it on Twitter because they took it off Youtube

ryouma punches dinosaurs
dinosaurs with guns

also Storm IS like. one of the best mecha OPs of all time? so there's that