Betterman

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Alternative Titles

Japanese: ベターマン


Information

Type: TV
Episodes: 26
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Apr 2, 1999 to Oct 1, 1999
Premiered: Spring 1999
Broadcast: Fridays at 01:15 (JST)
Studios: Sunrise
Source: Original
Genres: ActionAction, AdventureAdventure, DramaDrama, HorrorHorror, MysteryMystery, Sci-FiSci-Fi
Themes: MechaMecha, PsychologicalPsychological
Duration: 24 min. per ep.
Rating: R - 17+ (violence & profanity)

Statistics

Score: 6.581 (scored by 49314,931 users)
1 indicates a weighted score.
Ranked: #67742
2 based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.
Popularity: #5632
Members: 16,959
Favorites: 84

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Synopsis

Keita Aono is an ordinary high school student who loves to chat with his friends about military technology and the girls in their class. One day, Keita is surprised and delighted by a new transfer student in his class, his childhood friend Hinoki Sai. But when Keita tries to catch up with Hinoki after school, he accidentally wanders into Bottom World—an underground amusement park whose opening was canceled due to an unexplained tragedy.

As Keita explores the area, he eventually finds Hinoki in the cockpit of a strange robot. She is here on behalf of Akamatsu Industries, a company contracted with the secretive international organization Mode Warp to investigate strange cases of violence worldwide. After joining Hinoki in the robot, the pair attempt to defend themselves against the various attractions of Bottom World, which have come to life and become violent. However, they are unable to escape until a man with transforming powers—dubbed "Betterman"—joins their struggle. Faced with an enemy he does not understand and a slew of mysterious new technology, Keita joins Akamatsu Industries in a fight against a force they call "Algernon."

[Written by MAL Rewrite]

Background

Betterman was released on DVD in North America in six volumes by Bandai Entertainment from June 4, 2002, to April 1, 2003.

Characters & Voice Actors


Staff

Kobayashi, Shinichirou
Producer
Kouchiyama, Takashi
Assistant Producer
Yonetani, Yoshitomo
Director, Episode Director, Storyboard, Theme Song Composition, Theme Song Lyrics, Theme Song Performance, Planning, Original Creator
Satou, Ikurou
Episode Director


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Opening Theme

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"Yume No Kakera (ユメノカケラ)" by Wuyontana
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Ending Theme

1: "Chin: Requiem (鎮-requiem-)" by Mai
2: "Dou: Revelation (導-revelation-)" by Mai




Reviews

Apr 14, 2025
Keita Aono is your average teenager. He’s 17, he likes playing video games, he’s a military nut and he’s just crashed his scooter into an abandoned subway terminal. After regaining his composure, he discovers he’s at Bottom World, a brand new underground amusement park that is set to open that very same day. But something is… strange. The lights are off, the place is seemingly abandoned and something is very very wrong with the animatronics. After being chased down by the park’s mascot, Keita comes face to face with a giant bipedal robot called a Neuronoid. As it turns out, the pilot is his childhood ...
Jun 28, 2023
Mixed Feelings
A brainchild of the late 90s, Betterman is a dark sci-fi about a very bleak future engulfed by twisted technology. Like most b-grade anime of that time, the budgets were not the best and the animators were often resorting to simple tricks such as using live action footage instead of bothering to animate something. It’s why the opening looks so weird, combining the actual ocean with generic anime designs. And yes, they are generic despite having weird multi-colored hair like Yugioh characters. It was a trend at the time.

Following the path brought forth by Neon Genesis a few years back, whenever you don’t have the ...
Mar 19, 2022
It is honestly astounding how self-secure and pretentious one anime can be while simultaneously crash-landing so hard as a flaming hot soup of mumbo jumbo. Betterman tries to juggle so many different topics, genres and minor plot lines that all of them fall out of their hands, creating an inconclusive something of a story with more questions than answers.

Possibly the biggest problem for this Anime was in how inefficiently every minute was used as most of the episodes follow a clearly distinguished pattern. First of all, most of the episodes are mini-arcs as they follow certain events. Some of them are only one episode but ...

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