Why Betterman is Misunderstood & Under Appreciated - Spoiler Free Anime Series Review 340
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- Опубліковано 27 сер 2024
- Today's spoiler free anime review covers Betterman, an anime often misunderstood due to its association with GaoGaiGar and the Yuusha franchise. While the connection exists, Betterman has so much more to offer and provides a totally different psychological mystery/horror type of experience with mechs and kaiju.
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Betterman is such a unique anime experience, I mean the opening alone is one of the most bizarre things I've ever seen in an anime. It's very trippy and I think everyone should watch it, not because it's particularly good, but because it's just so weird, there's really nothing else like it. It is kinda sad but also really true that people only talk about it because of its connection with GaoGaiGar.
Rest In Peace TechTv. Put me on to many classics
I still don't understand why you don't have over a million subs, with your passion, hardworking and dedication 😕
I remember watching bits & pieces of this late at night on TV & never getting the chance to watch the whole show from start to finish which captivated me even more. It’s been years since I’ve even thought about it but I definitely want to see it nowadays
To say the Betterman and GaoGaiGar connection was due to low sales is just plain wrong as it was always connected from the start, the whole franchise was just Yonetani’s glorified fanfic once sunrise handed it to him partway through GaoGaiGar’s airing. While it is easily missable, it is shown from the very beginning they use reoccurring, albeit background, characters multiple times throughout with some minor details also. The connection is made more obvious in Grand Glorious Gathering but they leave a ton of the explaining in the sequel LN GaoGaiGar vs Betterman. It originally had anime plans immediately following FINAL but were cancelled and then the story finally came into fruition in the form of a LN a few years back.
I get that, but there's nothing substantial linking them since their main experiences are so far apart. It's about the same as Leiji Matsumoto or Go Nagai's work being linked through a reoccurring character, but to say they're all canonically connected is a stretch that's nonrelevent to their primary experience and only serves to confuse the viewer. Not that it's what's intended, but it's how they're received by the average modern viewer when they hear they're in the same universe. "so that means I have to watch GaoGaiGar to watch Betterman" and vice verse, I'd say no, their experiences stand alone and don't add much to the understanding of the other. There are connections, but the greatest and most obvious connection feels tacked on last minute in both shows, even more in GaoGaiGar
I understood little about this series, but I couldn't help watching the whole thing.
Sakura (the pink haired girl who spends most of her time in a special chair) is a national treasure, but I'd be lying if her existence is haunting.
I love Betterman. It was one of the first anime's I watched and I was hooked. I know the protagonist could be annoying but his presence helped to lighten things up a bit when it came to a very serious and creepy anime. 👍
Betterman made me wanna watch more horror anime. It's something about it I haven't really seen elsewhere.
I been going through your videos now for a couple weeks and I really do have to thank you for putting me onto some older and more obscure stuff.
Thanks, what will you watch first?
@@bobsamurai Just checked out Millennium Actress after watching your review and that was really great. Trying to tackle Macross next after I watch this newer series called The Vampire Dies In No Time.
this has been one of my "always-on-my-watch-list-might-get-around-to" shows for a while now
Betterman was one of my favorite anime right out of high school. It was one of me and my late HS best friend’s favorite ones to watch together and I still think about it fondly on a pretty regular basis.
Heck, I even had a fairly cringey OC on some Dragon Ball fan wiki I wrote for who was “Quarter Betterman”. 😂
I really want to watch it again some day.
Great video. Despite myself not liking horror anime most of the time, Betterman is still one of my favorite anime.
yea i think horror elements are often best as just an atmosphere or backdrop to another predominent genre, similar to romance
I can't believe how much I just laughed at that "it deserves better, man" joke! 😂
The thing that I liked most about this anime, is that it came out and had a giant Mech in it, but it was really a secondary thing and used almost as if it were a somewhat higher tiered version of the suit at the end of Aliens. I agree with you on basically every level, and I've actually had it since there was a Suncoast in the mall that was near me almost 20 years ago. I lost that copy and bought a new one because that's how much I enjoy it. I think it is 100% worth watching, and I think it has a lot of heavy themes that are really well done in a way in which a younger audience as well as older audience will appreciate and be able to watch it. However, there are moments that are quite unnerving and they do such a good job because for the most part that doesn't happen throughout segments of the series. Then of course you have the Animus flower and all the meaning behind it.
Great review! Happy to see this series getting some love, it has a very unique blend of genre tropes and was a pleasant mind boggling experience. Near the end quarter, Infinite Ryvius offers a similar sort of experience as Betterman , but it's a type of anime I hope to see more of over time
I loved this show and all the other Tech TV anime like Gatekeepers 21, Lain, etc.
Not the least of which because I crushed on Hinoki immediately. 😅
Same
I watched it years ago but was confused by it. I would say I liked the better man much more than the human cast
anime on CRT is an experience
Can't wait to rewatch this!
Have you watched "Brigadoon: Marin and Melan"? It's also directed by Yonetani and I read some rumor about it being betterman and gaogaigar's prequel???
I haven't seen it yet, but that is interesting, never knew that
When I watched Betterman, I was much more familiar with GaoGaiGar (in fact, I mostly watched it to understand the GGG vs. Betterman web novel). Looking back, I could see the connections were quite there. For instance, GGG was _not_ afraid to dabble in Betterman's brand of horror and dark aesthetics when it wanted to (especially in the early episodes), and Keita and Akamatsu felt a bit like side characters from GGG that had stumbled into a wholly different setting (even if you didn't know Akamatsu was a member of the Shishioh family).
To say it seems the connections between Betterman and GaoGaiGar is tacked on because the world and tone seem so different just seems wrong. When you have a world it doesn’t have to adhere to one show’s tone. So many contrasting tones can exist in a single world because a physical world is gigantic. Connections doesn’t require one to suddenly carry the same tone as the other when it is just another story within the same world. To say the connections are tacked on just seems wrong when they are in there from beginning to end
I watched this as a teenager and I might not have understood everything but I still remember it.
I think this and blue gender are under appropriated.
Gotta give this a watch eventually. Only problem I heard back in the day was it way too many comedic moments that clashed with the tone.
so it's on par with modern anime?
@@bobsamurai Maybe, lol. Granted, this did come from a guy I considered an elitist prick now so who knows how accurate his assessment was.
Oh my gosh I completely forgot about this anime. I remember almost nothing about it other than I had a thing for the female copilot. I'll have to look this one up again.
Why is this at the end of the egghead big ambitions playthrough playlist?
Idk lol maybe he added it to the wrong playlist
MEMORIES BACK WHEN SHE WAS BOLD AND STRONG AND WAITING FOR THE WORLD TO COME ALO- Oh. Not THAT Betterman.
Awesome video man 😎!
i own the whole Laserdics / dvd and even illustration books for this anime lol
That’s awesome. How’s the LD picture quality compare to what’s in this video?
@@bobsamurai i don't even own a laser disc player. i mainly buy laserdiscs because there awesome to display
That "Evangelion clone" comment just makes me cringe hard. That series has been driving me crazy with it's obnoxious fandom for the past 10 years now. Next to other anime with terrible fandoms. It's shit like this that makes me miss the 00s where anime was just that cool thing on TV and not many people knew it was called anime, so much charm back in those days or at least things were simpler.
This show, it seems interesting enough, a mecha themed horror anime actually sounds pretty interesting ngl. The main character sounds like the worst thing about it. All though there is so many mecha anime that it's easy to get lost in it all, but at the same time I am not those "Evangelion, Code Geass and Gurren Lagaan" only watchers that Twitter seems to dislike so much.
I don't get why people live Evangelion, it's easily among the worst things I have watched.
Also the peak of mecha is Cross Ange. Code Geass is a superpower show.
@@janisir4529
Now that is a refreshing change of pace, someone who freaking hates Eva. I think the show is alright, but Shinji Ikari is one of the worst protagonists ever.
Code Geass is a pretty terrible show, it's not even a well written superpower show.
@@civilwarfare101 And what's annoying about Shinji is that he was a pussy from beginning to end, no character development of any sort
people calling things "Eva clones" is such a joke when Eva is such an extremely derivative show. Eva was a throwback. It definitely brought that kind of anime back into prominence, but it was nothing new.
@@TrevRockOne
The only thing noteworthy that show does is how(and badly) it subverts the Hero's Journey.
Well he’s actually related to both the side character, AND the main character from GaoGaiGar. If your referring the chief mustache man as i like to call him
right, he's related to the guys brother and his son, but it's extraneous. only connected by his love of gadgets and goofy personality. not worth confusing new viewers over
@@bobsamurai really is a shame. These two being connected is ripe for potential but even I have to agree that it was hard to really accept that these two were even part of the same continuity say for the art style. They just have so vastly different tones. One is a hot blooded over the top mecha anime with the themes of friendship and teamwork, the other is a horror anime that psychologically fucks with characters, with plenty of violent deaths, and has a bittersweet but depressing as hell ending. Needless to say, Super Robot Wars definitely did a way better job in connecting the two. Which isn’t really high praise because it’s kind of a given that SRW HAS to make do with the crossover idea.
Im gonna start this anime now! ^_^
Planned to watch this for a min probably get to it soon
Make more and more, smell more and more.
Creepy episode.
I loved the India episode
So you're telling me this anime is better man?
anything enhances the experience if you personally enjoy it
The problem whit Betterman is actually trying to watch the series.
There was no re print of the series, and the cd print that actually exsist are expensive as hell. And good luck actually find the series online (which almost everyone had the dub version)cause finding the right site its the biggest quest. If only it was more accessible then the series wouldnt have such problem
Sukebei. There you go.
@@777Electric No
Well this earned you a subscription 😅
Thanks!
I am looking for horror mech anime or manga
hey its me pluhzx
bruh lol you have that as your youtube pfp too?
@@bobsamurai yes
The protagonist is cringe even just from these clips.
Also just watched Gasaraki recently and that was really disappointing
Just finished this show. Did not like it at all. So unfocused. Too long to be so disorienting. In fact Keita's contrasting slapstick was my favorite part of the show.