Detonator Orgun

Introduction

Fleeing from his own race, Orgun—an alien being with superhuman abilities and unearthly weapons—travels to Earth to find an answer to his origin. There, he bonds with a young man named Tomoru to defend Earth against the Evoluders, who seek nothing but destruction of other civilizations. (Source: ANN)

Audience ratings

MyAnimeList / Tenrai : 6.43/10 · 3102

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SufferingMeguca

Was always intrigued by the crazed potential promised in the title of this OVA, was initially very disappointed when it struggled to keep my attention during the first episode. There are some decent action scenes and the mechanical designs are cool enough (love the enemy mechs having menacing teeth, capes on a mecha are always dope) but the characters are fairly rote from the start. Eventually the plot develops an interesting twist but without strong thematic resonance the impact of the events that play out is diminished. Gets more engaging with each episode and honestly the finale is pretty satisfying but I'd be hesitant to say that it's worth most people's time unless you're really into early 90s mecha anime stuff. The music is pretty average and at times weirdly orthogonal to the on s…

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OtaMonk

The 3-episode OVA Detonator Orgun released from 1991 to 1992 is one of the most unusual mecha/scifi I have seen. In a far far future where you can turn on/off the tv or the lights by snapping your fingers (wow), a young man named Tomoru is having some disturbing dreams in the last days. In one of these dreams he encounters a robot named Orgun and other mechanical aliens. The dreams would turn out premonition given that an alien robot is attacking the city. Meanwhile, in a military lab, we see a robot that was rescued on the moon and that was rebuilt by Professor Kanzaki, a smart young woman, who is trying to find out what it actually is, when it breaks out from the lab and sets out to stop the other alien. This Robot, who is actually Orgun from Tomoru's dreams finds and asks to merge wit…