Gurendaizâ U

I was so looking forward to this. I knew they weren't retelling the original story, and that makes sense to me. If you want the 70s original, with all its 70s vibes, just watch that.

This one pulls most of its ideas from that series, so far as I can tell, but mashes everything up. I just watched the full original series this year, and the few times Daisuke had to watch someone he knew or even loved die, or when he had to fight child soldiers and watch one of them get shot and the rest die at the hands of the Vegans...I was near tears each time despite all the cheesiness of that series.*

With this one, they've taken many of those meaningful stories and thrown them in like it was a salad spinner.

Even the Vegans are devoid of almost any personality. I felt like Ding/Blacki and Bellicose/Gandal actually had a bizarre kind of friendship going on as they tried to impress Vega the Strong in the original. Same with Gandal and Zuril.

Anyways, I will watch it to the end. But I was hoping for something on the level of the Dreamworks/Netflix Voltron reboot. Unfortunately, this isn't it. I agree with pretty much all the points the other reviewer made, but I will say I find the graphics okay, and I like the songs for the opening and closing themes.

*Corrected some incorrect facts about the original series.