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)

Producers: Dentsu, Tokyo MX, Level-5

Licensors: None found, add some

Studios: OLM

Source: Mixed media

Genres: Action, Sci-Fi

Themes: Mecha, School

Duration: 25 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

Statistics

Score: 6.32¹ (scored by 2,567 users)

¹ indicates a weighted score.

Ranked: #8039²

² based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.

Popularity: #5438

Members: 14,862

Favorites: 62

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Synopsis

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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Alternative version:	Megaton-kyuu Musashi Pilot
Sequel:	Megaton-kyuu Musashi 2nd Season

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Characters & Voice Actors

Ichidaiji, Yamato

Main

Masuda, Toshiki
Japanese

Kindaichi, Takumi

Main

Kaji, Yuuki
Japanese

Akutagawa, Kouta

Main

Murase, Ayumu
Japanese

Saotome, Momoka

Main

Han, Megumi
Japanese

Amemiya, Reiji

Main

Uchiyama, Kouki
Japanese

Asami, Teru

Main

Saitou, Souma
Japanese

Hijikata, Ryuugo

Main

Takeuchi, Shunsuke
Japanese

Kirishima, Jun

Main

Morohoshi, Sumire
Japanese

Laia, Arshem

Supporting

Kurosawa, Tomoyo
Japanese

Kanzaki, Asuna

Supporting

Kurosawa, Tomoyo
Japanese

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Inoue, Takashi

Producer

Hino, Akihiro

Director, Script, Theme Song Lyrics, Planning, Original Creator, Series Composition

Takahashi, Shigeharu

Director

Tanaka, Ryou

Sound Director

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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)

Reviews

Dec 27, 2021

Spirit_Chaser

Recommended

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 27, 2021

robert788

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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 ...

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Oct 17, 2021

i-like-this

Not Recommended

Preliminary (3/13 eps)

Megaton-Megaflop.

Megaton-kyuu Musashi is a very unspectacular giant robots vs aliens show. Set in a world where 99.9% of humans have been wiped out leaving the remaining survivors to live hiding in a false, peaceful town, certain people get chosen to learn the truth and man giant robots called Rouges to beat back the alien forces and stop them from terraforming the earth.
Granted the premise is interesting. The fact that all of the citizens have had their memories wiped gave the show a suspenseful and tense start which I enjoyed, but after the big reveal the show gets more and more predictable and less and ...

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