OK so obviously one can't watch anime in the 1970's without finally watching a Super-Robot show...right? Right! Go go let's go fighto fighto. Yeah!
This is your a-typical super robot show where a giant robot must protect the land from invasion and total destruction. In Yuusha Raideen, a boy named Akira is a descendent of some race "senses" a demon invasion and hears the calls of a robot to defeat said demons. The robot is called Reideen and get used it because this word is said constantly. Not to mention the "interesting" transformation sequence.... yeah interesting.
Not really much else to the show other than it is a monster-of-the-week where each episode pretty much starts exactly the same (at least how much I watched): Demons make "fossil-beast", monster goes after Reideen, Reideen defeats monster with a slew of weapons and attacks that rinse and repeat the same animated sequence over and over again. But who cares, it's a super robot show and it knows it. What did you expect? A plot, story, character development? This has none of those things, but it does have robot fighting, a robot that morphs (first of its time), robot not made by science (also first), and sweet 70's Japanese music during those epic repetitive robot fights.
On one last note, each monster looks like a re-hashed Godzilla monster with the same Godzilla monster roars. I guess all of the studios in Japan shared the same soundboard.
Hey, if you like super robot shows, Go for it! I got through 12 episodes and got exactly what I expected.
