Boy, this makes Victory seem like Gone with the Wind; I had to fast-forward to certain scenes as I had little patience with the idiotic script. The art design is bad; the colors and textures are drained of life and vitality and the robots lack presence and look like huge piles of fertilizer. When the Japanese were solely working as animators for the original show, it was alright, but working also as writers, they show no respect for the source material or the concept of what the show is about.
In anime, why is it that when it's all about giant robots piloted by humans, we are presented with mature stories as in Armored Trooper Votoms or Mobile Suit Gundam but when it's about sentient, giant mecha, it should be treated as a children's show? For the people who made Headmasters, it seems autonomous, independent thinking robots are a license and an excuse to make the shows as stupid as possible and unfit for anyone's consumption. Robots lifting weights, using a treadmill or drinking lemonade? Really? Even children are sophisticated enough to know that robots as a concept are machines, as opposed to organic beings, the writers should work within certain fictional parameters and limits with regard to this concept. Unless it is a cartoony type of show like Ren and Stimpy but this is Transformers we're talking about here. There is no serious treatment of the characters or the story; it's just one big string of retarded, moronic nonsense. If Japanese kids are bombarded daily with this mental hogwash, I wouldn't be surprised if they grow up to become serial killers and mass murderers. The people responsible for this atrocity should be tortured or anally raped by members of the Taliban. Producing this garbage is a heinous crime for Christ's sake.
If I have to mention one episode for sheer levels of stupidity, there's "The Death of Ultra Magnus". The rest I cannot remember; and there's that fight between Soundwave and Blaster; the two masters of espionage kill each other and are later rebuilt: Soundwave as "Soundblaster" and Blaster as "Twincast" or whatever. There are ideas floating around here that are later fully developed in Power Rangers, err, Super God Masterforce and Victory like Fortress wielding a sword and such.
Headmasters is a C-rate show and campy as f—k like Beast King Golion, probably much worse. It is recommended only for those with sado-masochistic tendencies.
In anime, why is it that when it's all about giant robots piloted by humans, we are presented with mature stories as in Armored Trooper Votoms or Mobile Suit Gundam but when it's about sentient, giant mecha, it should be treated as a children's show? For the people who made Headmasters, it seems autonomous, independent thinking robots are a license and an excuse to make the shows as stupid as possible and unfit for anyone's consumption. Robots lifting weights, using a treadmill or drinking lemonade? Really? Even children are sophisticated enough to know that robots as a concept are machines, as opposed to organic beings, the writers should work within certain fictional parameters and limits with regard to this concept. Unless it is a cartoony type of show like Ren and Stimpy but this is Transformers we're talking about here. There is no serious treatment of the characters or the story; it's just one big string of retarded, moronic nonsense. If Japanese kids are bombarded daily with this mental hogwash, I wouldn't be surprised if they grow up to become serial killers and mass murderers. The people responsible for this atrocity should be tortured or anally raped by members of the Taliban. Producing this garbage is a heinous crime for Christ's sake.
If I have to mention one episode for sheer levels of stupidity, there's "The Death of Ultra Magnus". The rest I cannot remember; and there's that fight between Soundwave and Blaster; the two masters of espionage kill each other and are later rebuilt: Soundwave as "Soundblaster" and Blaster as "Twincast" or whatever. There are ideas floating around here that are later fully developed in Power Rangers, err, Super God Masterforce and Victory like Fortress wielding a sword and such.
Headmasters is a C-rate show and campy as f—k like Beast King Golion, probably much worse. It is recommended only for those with sado-masochistic tendencies.