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Tetsujin 28-gou

Tetsujin 28-gou

Introduction

Dr.Haneda was developing experimental giant robot warriors to fight the allies during the Second World War, but before his creations could see action, Allied bombs destroyed the facility and killed him. A decade later criminals discovered two of the surviving prototypes, #26 and 27 in the series, and used the remote controlled robots to commit a number of crimes. Young Shotaro Haneda, the twelve year old son of Dr.Haneda, did some investigating and discovered that the mob were hunting for the twenty-eighth robot in the series, rumoured to be the most powerful of them all. Racing the villains, Shotaro discovers the robot first, along with Dr.Shikashima, a colleague of his father's who was also believed killed by the Allied bombing. Together the two prevent Tetusjin-28 (the robot's official designation) from falling into the hands of the bad guys, and decide to dedicate him to peace rather than war. Shotaro fought crime for a long time, supported by Dr.Shikashima, who would repair Tetsujin-28 when he was damaged, and by police officer Otsuka. Shotaro even battled the alien Magmans, invaders from the planet Magma, who came to Earth late in his career, bringing their own giant robots, Magma X and Gold Wolf, with them. (Source: AniDB)

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Audience ratings

MyAnimeList : 6.65/10 · 1295

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Audience reviews

3 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.

Quad_Shot-

Of the current 3 reviews for this anime, 2 are for the English dub which is not very good and deserves the poor ratings. The 1 other review is for the original Japanese release, and is fully accurate. If you want to watch this anime and enjoy it watch the Japanese version, but at the moment all but 91/96 episodes have no subtitles, so you need to know Japanese to understand it. The dub ruins the entire story and turns it into a episodic series like Astro boy, but as this is not the intended form it is quite poor and leaves you confused at many points as sections are constantly skipped. overall, the dub is a 4/10, and the raws I would put at a solid 8/10. If you want to watch this, learn Japanese or wait until someone subtitles it.

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joemaamah

The third of the Big 3 Japanese animations that aired on American TV back in the 60's and 70's. I've seen however many were released here in the States, but I doubt there were 96 back then. I'm guessing it was likely 24 or 48, but whatever it was, I saw all of them multiple times as a kid. It was not as popular as Kimba or Astroboy. But local TV stations could get the rights really cheap, so someone was usually airing it. The artwork made Rocky and Bullwinkle look like daVinci. The animation quality was the worst of the three, which is saying something. There was no plot and the episodes all seemed to be slapped together on the fly. What will today's world saving adventure be? And the English dub was beyond brutal. Sounded like they had picked some drunks up off skid row to do the VA wor…

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LacrimaMosa666

Tetsujin 28-gou is an production that concluded my journey with 1963 animes. And hell naaaah, I didn't expect dat. It was definitely one of the best animes I've seen in my life. What a great, great work. I'm stunned and truly sad this anime has come to an end. And wondering why I skipped it for so many years. Journey through 1963 was fair, without suprises - well until I finally got to see infamous Gigantor. And as it's quite common - the series is another 'first ever' this time it's first ever super robot anime ever (Laputa or Gurren Lagan are other famous animes in the genre). And definitely the best one. STORY: 10 There's no joke, you'll find further some more heavy praising. One of the best sories I've encoutered in a while. 96 episodes writted over quite amount of time, great arcs;…

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