![]() The anime adaptation of Getter Robo Arc is posed to conclude the franchise and I really like how the production team is treating it as such. Under Hayato’s guidance, this new Getter Team would pilot Getter Robo Arc as humanity’s last hope against the Andromeda Stellaration. ![]() He’s a Human-Dinosaur hybrid and son of Emperor Gore, the leader of the Dinosaur Empire from the original series. Adding complexity to this situation is the first pilot of this new Getter Team, Sho Kamui. We are then reintroduced to another previous Getter Robo pilot, Hayato Jin, who now leads the Saotome Institute and built Getter Robo Arc to face this threat. Along the way he meets Baku Yamagishi and they eventually get pulled into the conflict between humanity and an entity known as the Andromeda Stellaration. He’s on a quest to find and take revenge on the people who killed his mother. Getter Robo Arc takes place 10 years following the events of Getter Robo Go as we are introduced to Takuma Nagare, son of original Getter team member Ryoma Nagare. And with Getter Robo Arc being the first animated production since 2004’s New Getter Robo, and the first series on televison since 1991’s Getter Robo Go, much is resting on its shoulders. But with the anime adaptation, it gave fans hope of finally giving the saga it’s much deserved end. Unfortunately, due to Ken Ishikawa’s untimely passing, the story was never finished and left the first part on a cliffhanger that will never have a conclusion. ![]() To those unfamiliar, Getter Robo Arc is a manga that ran from 2001 to 2003 and was intended to be the climactic ending to the whole saga. That said, I admit to previously being a casual fan of and not really interested in delving deeper until I heard of Getter Robo Arc getting an anime adaptation. From his signature art style to the cosmic horror elements of the later entries, Getter Robo is quite the experience. Many credit Getter Robo to Go Nagai, who most people know thanks to Mazinger Z, but it’s Ken Ishikawa who’s the brains behind this franchise. To the point of inspiring works years after, most notable being Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. The Getter Robo franchise has cemented itself as one of the foundations of the mecha genre, with the original being the first combining robot and paved the way to literally a wave of many many more combining robots. Screenplay / Tadashi Hayakawa (based on Ken Ishikawa’s Getter Robo Arc manga) The following may contain spoilers for Getter Robo Arc.
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