Product Details

• Actors: Kappei Yamaguchi, Sumi Shimamoto, Shôzô Îzuka, Kazue Komiya, Norio Wakamoto
• Directors: Yasuhiro Imagawa
• Writers: Yasuhiro Imagawa, Eiichi Yamamoto, Mitsuteru Yokoyama
• Producers: Minoru Nakazawa, Minoru Takanashi, Takashi Ohashi
• Format: Dubbed, Limited Edition, Subtitled, NTSC
• Language: English (Unknown), Japanese (Unknown)
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Rating: Unrated
• Studio: Anime Works
• DVD Release Date: December 13, 2005
• Run Time: 586 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000BDH6EO
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #114,906 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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Studio: Media Blasters Inc. Release Date: 12/13/2005

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An epic tale of fathers, sons and convenient plot lapses, January 22, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Giant Robo 6 (Dub) [VHS] (VHS Tape)

After one of the longest waits in cliffhanger history, Mitsuteru Yokoyama finally binds together the Byzantine plot twists, devious red herrings and artful feints of his magnum opus into a tidy, explosion-studded package of rubber science, revisionist history, lung-busting script exposition, dropped threads, scrubbed pay-offs, unmotivated violence and convenient, Deus-Ex-Machina appearances by characters who were either a) previously unintroduced or b) previously introduced, but dead. If you thought it was weird before, hang on to your dress shorts and radio-control wristwatch. Teen angst-master Daisaku ramps-up the Adolescent Torment Index by becoming hypnotically fixated on the pointless rhetorical question, "Can happiness be achieved without sacrifice?"; while Giant Robo develops the useful but highly suspect ability to become about five times bigger than he was the last time the Eye of Folger kicked his rivet-studded butt, without anyone else appearing to notice. Long time fans, especially, will pay good money to stand in line at the "Bitch-Slap Professor Go for a Dollar" concession, after holding his hand through :60 minutes of blubbering, whining guilt and scenery-chewing self-doubt.

Nonetheless, it's worth the wait. Fabulous animation, soaring orchestral cuts and non-stop action keep the viewer adhesed to the screen, despite the fact that none of what's happening makes a lick of sense. The episode's self-aware humor and infectious, over-the-top brio are excellent compensation for its technical flaws, and even the flintiest critic would have to concede the impossibility of crafting a totally satisfying resolution to the Olympian expectations raised by the first six episodes. In the end, it doesn't matter. Buy it, load it, crank up the Surround-Sound and prepare to have your wires thoroughly tweaked.

Finally, if there is an overarching moral lesson to the two-fold Tragedy at Bastarlle, it seems to be this: If your mortally-wounded/expiring-from-grief father lays an apocalyptic, life-altering death-bed rap on you, remember to ask questions before he cacks up the other lung. Or at least take good notes.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely Amazing Show, October 20, 2001

By	Jim (Brooklyn, NY United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Giant Robo 1 (Dub) [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This anime is just great, one of my personal favorites. Even if you never saw japanese animation before this one you can't pass up on. I own japanese language DVD's, but I hear that for a change the dub is good. Originally a 7 part OVA series somehow turned to 6 parts going over the pacific.

Animation is good, the characters are not very detailed. However for this anime it really didn't bother me since the story is just so very very good.

Enter a world of prosperity. A long research by the world's best scientists has created "Shizuma Drive", which is 100% recycleable
and produces no polution or any other dangers associated with the power. However behind the shadows of such glorious peace lies deception. Dr. Shizuma who created this wounderful energy source was along with Dr. Vogler and 3 other scientists had a failed experiment with huge consequences. And now the crazed Dr. Vogler had recreated the samples that caused that tragedy and is destroying all Shizuma drives in the world sending it into chaos.

Daisaku is a 12 year old boy, who has the ability to command Giant Robo, the mightest robot ever. Together with the international police he will try to stop the "Big Fire" organization. Who's aim is to take control over the world.

Interesting, complex characters reveal their nature as the series progresses. And the plot twists will leave you wanting to know more. This series will not glue you to the screen in the first episode, you must watch it all to really appreciate it. And the final episode is to die for.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Giant Robo is a must see., March 29, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Giant Robo 1 (Dub) [VHS] (VHS Tape)

No one who considers themselves a fan of anime, in other words no true Otaku, should miss this epic series. Dividing its energy equally well between over-the-top action and deeply personal character development, this first volume in a six tape series delivers in every department, capable of winning over even the most jaded animation enthusiast. After seeing the first, you will not want to miss any of the other, equally fantastic, episodes that build cliffhanger after cliffhanger to an explosive conclusion.