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)

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Score: 6.581 (scored by 49154,915 users)
1 indicates a weighted score.
Ranked: #66672
2 based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.
Popularity: #5589
Members: 16,819
Favorites: 83

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Preliminary Spoiler
Mar 30, 2018
While I will not spoil all the events of the series, I will state the concluding moral of the narrative, including slight reference to some particular events. So, if you want to hear that from the show rather than from here, I'd say end reading here. I have a beef, and I'm going to vent.

Story:
Betterman is a Sci-fi/Horror series set in the Gao-Gai-Gar setting taking place a few years after that series conclusion. From its roots in that franchise it retains the same level of varied and well designed but not well developed characters, heavily detailed but not well researched or internally consistent technobabble, and ...
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 ...