I have watched a few older super robot shows from the 1970’s, like Gai King, and GoShogun is a lot more grounded then those. I think this show was created around the time that the original Mobile Suit Gundam has taken its hold on the mecha genre. It’s just a lot of fun.īefore I dig into characters, I wanted to dig in on a few things. In the beginning of the show, the Good Thunder teleports around the world from place to place and deals with Docooga in a large variety of locations and scenarios. All those people ride on the white spaceship the Good Thunder. Fortunately, Kenta is taken in by an older, bald, and mysterious man named Captain Sabarath with his small crew of three misfits from society, who pilot the GoShogun, and Kenta’s robot mother/teacher named OVA. Kind of a dark start, right? Well Immediately afterward, Docooga targets his son Kenta Sanada.

Instead of working for Docouga, he commits suicide with a bomb. After a science convention where Doctor Sanada discusses the concept of Beamler energy, which is important to the show, he is chased down and captured by Docooga forces.

The plot itself starts with the death of the father of our main protagonist, Doctor Sanada. I don’t just mean offices, businesses, and countries, but also amusement parks, fast food chains, national parks, and I could keep going. On the surface, everything may seem normal, but deep underneath that a group called Docooga controls everything. GoShogun centers around a world where that has already been taken over. At least, not completely because it got me to watch it, right? I don’t think the box on this show really sells the show as much as it could. Partially because of its insane and ridiculous nature and partially because most of the characters are fun and interesting.

Was buying and watching it worth it you may ask? Hell yes. It was a cheap blind buy for something that may only interest a few people, myself included. The reason I watched this at all was a combination of Righstuff’s sales and the way the show was described on their website. Circles that I am barely a part of myself. Those aren’t really the talk of the town anymore except in certain anime circles. I mean, this is a super robot anime from the early 1980’s. Like many people of my age who started watching anime with Toonami, I have never heard about GoShogun.

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