Magnos: The Robot

Customer Reviews:

ghetto fabulous anime, poor dvd quality.......2003-09-02

From the back cover:
Evil space creatures retreat from the treacherous Ice Age and hibernate on the ocean floor. They awaken millions of years later to conquer Earth! Only the ingenuity and resources of Sir Miles and his awesome robot creations have a chance at defeating them! He enlists world karate champion Janis to pilot the robot Magnon, and his daughter Lady Ester Nevers, to pilot Magneta. When Janis and Lady Ester unite the two robots, Magnon and Magneta are transformed into MAGNOS, the ultimate power robot! Will the might of the malevolent space aliens defeat Magnos? Or, will Magnos triumph over the evil forces and protect Earth's freedom against future invaders? As suspense mounts, you'll discover what happens in this exciting adventure of humans and machines, good versus evil!

Well that really is the whole plot. So I won't recap that. The anime itself is late 70's, so the quality is not the greatest. However, the DVD transfer does nothing in the way of trying to improve the quality. Constant jumps in picture and black lines running vertically from top to bottom, greatly reduce the enjoyment of this classic. It has to be the worst quality anime I have ever seen: I feel like I am watching a VHS version that was made twenty years ago. The sound doesn't fair any better. The music, which is definitely ghetto, is at many times in the movie louder than the voices of the characters, drowning them out entirely. But if by some miracle you can look past all that, take a chance, the story is definitely a classic.

Customer Reviews:

A cult classic you may never have heard of........2002-10-09

Anime was once a cult thing until today. Early in Anime history there were few titles that spurred. SOme were more succesful such as Akira and Transformers while others faded into obscurity such as Speed Racer and Voltron.

Magnos is more of PG style Anime. Meaning for the sake of argument there is no foul language or sex/nudity. There is adult type situations however involving espionage and plenty of violence. This is almost like a mix between Voltron and Gundam Wing. What I mean by that is that the Heroes fly giant Robots but combat evil giant monsters.

The story is that an evil race of Aliens known as PAliogots have awaken after a 10 million year slumber to conquer earth. To do this they create giant monsters to do their biding. Seemingly ivincible these monsters have destroyed cities like they were nothing. Then Sir NEvers creates Magnos a super powered robot which has the strength to destroy these creatures. IT is piloted by his Daughter Ester and the Worlds MArtial Arts Champion Janus. TOgether this team takes on he Paliogots head on.

The action never lets up as the creatures get bigger and badder. The music fits the film well and overall this is an underrated title. If it wasn't for the fact that I discovered this DVD (I already owned the VHS) I would have thought that I was the only one who had ever seen this movie.

This is not like your typical Anime like I said in which the focus is not on weird humor, loads of Nudity or GOre, and LAnguage. The focus is on the story and it is well told. It has a start middle and finish and over all this is a must buy for any Anime fan, if you can find it.

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