Micro Teukgongdae Diatron 5

A masterpiece of anime. You've heard of Evangelion, Berserk, Chainsaw Man, Gundam, well all of these awful titles are nothing compared to this gem. You will have amazing characters like the Green Goblin, Bald Man, and Protagonist Guy who will all blow you away with their depth. The action is amazing, I was always on the edge of my seat throughout every fight. Each time you see a rocket fly or a gun being fired you will literally cry from pure amazement. The audio is incredible, the sound effects were masterfully created and the voice acting could annihilate any other anime's. I personally watched it ... on a DvD, which used the best system of chopping the movie up into five 11 minute segments which is the definitive way to watch this. A certified must watch in this day and age.

This movie is bad. Really bad. But, as bad as it is, that's what makes it so good.
The art is old, not the worst ever, but what makes it horrible is the dreadful animation, which is extremely choppy and sometimes has things just randomly appear, thus making some things confusing, and others, laugh-out-loud hilarious. The writing is very, very bad, and the story is almost, not quite, but almost incomprehensible, and what can be comprehended involves essentially that an entire universe of space lies within in dying girl. And it has grass. And streams of water. And castles filled with dumb soldiers who invite people ... with guns into the castle to see their king because they are enemies. Did I mention that when main characters had to enter this dying girl's body to fight diseases (Yes. It has THAT as a storyline) they say in the body when they come across a garden that it's so wonderful that they should stay there and never return to the real world. Despite the fact that they were in a dying girl's body. And there are giant robots in the girl's body that look like badly drawn Transformers. The English dub is awful, and I think that you could get people to work free nowadays and have a better dub. Overall, a terrible show. But at least it has decent 80s background music. Anyways, this show though, is so bad, that it's one of the most hilarious things ever, so I recomend watching it.

Man, so, Diatron 5... Just... what a hilarious trainwreck. I don't even know where to start.

The script is just terrible. For some clarification, I watched the Hosca Home Video English Dub. Everybody just says a bunch of stupid crap in every scene, and while a lot of it is really funny, I feel like none of it was intentional. It unintentionally becomes some pretty funny satire, but it also seems to take itself too seriously, which kind of kills the mood at certain points. Still, if there's any saving grace to this anime, it's the funny moments in the script.

As for the actual storyline, it's ... just nonsensical garbage. It makes even less sense than your average Saturday morning cartoon, and I've seen some pretty dumbfounded plots before. Scenes are strung together by loose threads and the story just seems to be there in service of giving the viewer some cool visuals.

However, they also fail in that respect. The visuals they actually give you to look are so poorly animated that it's just a disgrace to even suggest it could possibly be good. I realize this was made in the 80's... but even by those standards, I've seen much more nicely animated things. Hell, I've seen better animated stuff in the 60's! This just looks super low-budget.

The art style isn't horrible, but it's not very good, either. Again, that apparent super low-budget rears it's ugly head. Character designs are at least a little varied, and the backgrounds don't look terrible for something from the 80's, but the linework is all super rough, and the color palette is really poor.

Finally, we get down to sound design. The soundtrack ranges between annoying and forgettable, aside from the main theme. However, I'm still not actually sure about what the lyrics to the theme actually are... There's a "Diatron" in there... and then some mumbling... and then another "Diatron"... and then some more mumbling... and some trumpets, I think?
As for the sound effects, they're pretty low quality, and sound more like what you'd hear out of a mid-70's production than something from the 80's.

Overall, this is a pretty piss-poor production, but it has some redeeming qualities in it's humor value, and the art isn't entirely bad, even if the animation is. It's not something I'd recommend if somebody was looking for something good to watch. However, if they're looking for a movie to put on in the background while they're drunk and bored, this seems well suited to that.