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 less interesting to watch.
The animation holds back it's mediocre story. The CGI robot/alien fights are okay, but feel somewhat out of place next to the hand drawn animation which is a bit too clumsy and unnatural to watch. The character designs are very 90's cartoon-like which I enjoyed, but as characters theres not really a lot going on to keep me invested in them. Yamamoto started off as an interesting delinquent with an interesting back story, but after his backstory is revealed he becomes a bland mc with a chip on his shoulder.
I think it's a shame that I don't like this show. Despite my negative review I did enjoy it for a bit and I think theres a good skeleton for a show here. However there are much better mech v monsters shows that came before and are currently coming this season so Megaton-kyuu Musashi just falls short of being mediocre enough to be background noise.
4/10 Disappointment.
