Megaton-kyuu Musashi

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Japanese: メガトン級ムサシ

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Type: TV

Episodes: 13

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Oct 1, 2021 to Dec 24, 2021

Premiered: Fall 2021

Broadcast: Fridays at 22:00 (JST)

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Studios: OLM

Source: Mixed media

Genres: Action, Sci-Fi

Themes: Mecha, School

Duration: 25 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 6.19¹ (scored by 1,116 users)

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Ranked: #7754²

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Popularity: #5162

Members: 11,142

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In an ordinary town, there are people who live a peaceful and fulfilling life. But they don't know that it is a false peace. The untold truth... The earth has already been destroyed...

99.9% of the human race has been wiped out by a mysterious alien force from outer space. The enemy is named "Dracters." Eventually, a large hole was drilled in the earth and terraformed into a suitable environment for the aliens to live. Humans have no choice but to hide in shelters to escape their eyes. Waiting for the day of resurrection, which they do not know when it will come...

The inhabitants of the shelter Ixia have had their memories of the day of destruction erased, and live a normal life without knowing anything about it. However, some of them, the "chosen ones," have become pilots, driving giant robots called "Rogue" and fighting against aliens. Today, another new pilot is selected...

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Sequel:	Megaton-kyuu Musashi 2nd Season

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Staff

Hino, Akihiro

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Takahashi, Shigeharu

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Tanaka, Ryou

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Nagano, Takuzou

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Opening Theme

"MUSASHI" by Zuma from Nijiirozamurai (ずま（虹色侍）)

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Ending Theme

"Metsubou Sekai no Ballad (滅亡世界のバラッド) " by Mana (マナ)

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Dec 27, 2021

13 of 13 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 9

Spirit_Chaser (All reviews)

7 people found this review helpful

Megaton-kyuu Musashi came out from a little dark corner in the Fall season. Fortunately, the series is on YouTube, though no official English subtitles exist. As a result, it's among the most obscure that aired. A shame, because it among the strongest of the season, and the mecha series I enjoyed the most. It stayed consistently good throughout it's 13 episodes for the first cour, seeing as though it will return in Fall of 2022. Level 5 put out all the works, decent animation, and played out a chaotic story of apocalyptic proportions while also making a large cast of characters; all developed and meaningful in their own ways. It can play out emotionally driven scenes really well, and many times the opening and ending were skipped for more story. There is lots of great music and vocal tracks that play throughout. The hard effort and passion is definitely felt.

One of the best parts of Megaton-kyuu Musashi is the protagonist Yamato. Unlike the majority of cowardly and bland protagonists that came out this season, he is very different from them. The story involves a war between humans and aliens. Yes, it can feel like a played out story, but at least it tries to push lots of character development and drama in between, and both sides have elements that desire coexistence. Hilariously but understandably, Yamato's solution to this is alien genocide, and he is very blunt and serious about it. He's hot headed but with good heart, an oblivious romantic, and among the best pilots for the humans. What makes him stand out in the battlefield is his improvised and unorthodox method of driving Megaton. Much of the focus is on him doing this while the staff panic for dear life out of how dangerous a situation he keeps putting everyone in. If he wants to use a move that might blow Megaton up, it makes him feel excited at the thrill of it all. Curiously enough, he is similar to Yabuki Joe, and his voice actor often sounds just like him. There is staff working on this that has worked on anime by the same author of Ashita no Joe, so it's not surprising. But he's not all hot steam in the head as he begins to see things clearer and develops as a character with the help of others.

The alien race had their home planet destroyed, and the details about this have been kept vague and hidden. As a result, they had to venture out into space in order to survive. Earth happened to be the planet they ran into, and decided to take it over. On one hand, they need to take over the planet to survive, but in the other, they could have tried to coexist. The queen has no desire to break bread with humans and would rather have them destroyed. Her daughter Arshem the princess is conflicted about this, as she herself has been sent down to earth on a mission. The aliens want to learn about the secret of evolution about the humans. Thus, they don't destroy them, but keep them in check with infiltration, secret assassinations and little pushes here and there with their forces.

The humans, after having their home planet ravaged, eventually moved out to live in secrecy. To keep the people happy, they have resorted to some somewhat disturbing methods to keep the moral up, but it's all crumbling apart as the series goes on. Their main focus is to expand their military might so as to survive and fight off the waves.

The fights are brutal, chunky, chaotic, and done well. For being CGI it's impressive compared to a lot of the terrible CGI out there.

It's tragic that where I am this feels nonexistent, but Megaton-kyuu Mushashi is definitely a highlight of the season.

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Dec 30, 2021

13 of 13 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 8

Wosee (All reviews)

3 people found this review helpful

The story is as you see it in the description,jumps straight to the plot and moves at a pretty fast pace but not fast to the point you cannot keep up and even has small moments of breathing in between so don't you get too overwhelmed by the pacing.

The characters that the show focus on are developed enough to care but some side characters end up suffering a little due to the fast pace i mentioned.

The animation,music and voice acting are above average and while CGI exists its pretty well done and mixes very well with the animaton.

Overall i believe most things this show attempts read more

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Dec 27, 2021

13 of 13 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 5

robert788 (All reviews)

3 people found this review helpful

Megaton-kyuu Musashi (2021)

At first, I considered since it was based on a game that it may not be great and the mechs look sort of stupid plus the Darling in the Franxx shelter on a wasteland situation. I didn't have high hopes and even dropped it halfway through to then finish it off out of pride. I have to say the start is dull and over the top but it actually isn't too bad a show as it goes on.

The art used is not bad, I hate the mecha design I think it looks stupid. The enemy is very Ace Combat styled with the read more

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Oct 28, 2021

4 of 13 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 8

Pyro81300 (All reviews)

14 people found this review helpful

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Aight, I'm only making this review, cuz I'm not allowed to let this show go overlooked cuz of a couple of reviews. Megaton is sick, and easily one of the best mecha shows this season. Story is fairly predictable so far, but it doesn't matter cuz this show has such a good style to it. Like it's nothing crazy, but it makes you interested in seeing how things will go. Characters so far don't have too much development, but I sense some great potential here. Both 2D art and 3D cgi is pretty consistently great, and I adore the thicker black outlines and shadows used read more

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