Overall: 3.0
Rough animation, a crude translation with a careless dub, and a confusing storyline make this retro-style mecha as happening as disco.
Story: 3.0
Motonage Keitaro's screenplay has a recklessly fast pace, beguiling with an assault of nameless characters and ceaseless action.
Character Development: 1.0
Truckloads of characters ship in and ship out, leaving little time to develop anyone before he disappears or gets dispatched.
Art/Animation: 4.0
Static, erratic, perhaps drug induced. Style certainly prevails over substance. The jagged treatment of a retro-style has a certain level of appeal on an artistic level, but as a story-telling device, the art obscures the plot more than advances it.
Translation: 4.0
A hastily translated script, at times, tears the story apart, while at other times it simply makes amusing mistakes.
Acting: 3.0
The wooden unvarying vocals of the dub in "Getter Robo: Armageddon" make "Super Friends" look good.
MPAA Equivalent: PG-13
Cheesy, but at times graphic, blood and gore.
X-Factors
Mecha Design Factor: 1.0
Ryoma's Getter is a diaper-wearing tin can with limbs.
Dr. Wily Factor: 10.0
Just like the famous "Megaman" villain, Dr. Saotome just won't die.
Cue the wind factor: 10.0
The only time Ryoma's tattered rags ever move is when he's in the cockpit of his Getter, where it seems he has the AC on full blast.
