Hyakujuu-Ou GoLion

Go Lion, localized in English as Voltron, is a bottom tier imitation of Mobile Suit Gundam, Robotech, and Space Battleship Yamato that somehow became a hoot among the science fiction community in North America.

• Every single aspect of this series, seems to be like a Korean bootleg of what should be considered good. There's even the same stereotypes, much like Sayla Mass in the original Gundam (even though her brother is one of the most powerful Newtypes, she can't even pilot a Gundam), there’s the stereotype that women can't pilot robots because, y'know, they're women. Go Lion is definitely a period piece, if you ... want to call it that.

• First, the characters are literally just empty stereotypical husks that talk. The original Saint Seiya isn't a show know for anything more that two-dimensional character writing, but Go Lion makes it look like it's some kind of next-level psychological Neon Genesis Evangelion shit. It stands to reason that my favorite character is this entire series is Buffalon. The giant buffalo alien, hell yeah!

• My love of kaiju aside. The story is forgettable. It's just another tyrannical, alien ruler and his asshole son. You're not going to find a Dessler or Gihran in this series. The story was pretty discombobulated because of the episodic nature, but what was more jarring was that there is little to no continuity, except for multi-parted episodes, and the characters don't grow and aren’t affected by anything at all.

• Even though, on some planets, the bargain bin Zendradi are, I don’t know, mass-murdering and enslaving people. But, hey, who gives a fuck about that, this is a kid's show and we have combining robots.

• With that description out of the way, this series is more of a Power Rangers thing than shows that actually have heavy political messages like Space Battleship Yamato. If you want some silly mecha shows that's retro and aimed at mentally-challenged children, I'm sure you could find a better one. I give this series a super scathing rating of 2/10.