Getter Robo G picks up right after the end Getter Robo. With slightly better production qualities and a brand new mech designs and the totally-not-Dinosaur-Empire-2 Hyakki Empire, how does it fare? Find out in my long awaited (said no one) review for Getter Robo G The story, much like the original isn't really there too much. It's usually just monster of the week most of the time, with once or twice being a multi-episode battle. However, the Hyakki Empire seems to be a lot more hardcore than the Dinosaur Empire as they aren't afraid to turn dogs into bombs and sic them on our unsuspecting protagonists,or use a beam that literally cause people to become brain dead. Since it's not exactly an anime with an overarching plot, it's only decent. But, like with Getter Robo, I don't think it matters too much. I had got a lot of enjoyment out of watching the battles, predictable as they could be.

The art and sound is much like the original show, though slightly better. There's fewer reused animations (but there's still understandably a decent amount) and the art is cleaner. The opening is the same "Getter Robo!" as before, but the ED is a new song. It's good, but I like the ED from the original more. Speaking of things I like more in the original, I like the original Getter design and not the new one nearly as much. It just doesn't do it for me.

It's practically the same characters as the last one, but with Benkei replacing Musashi, yet fulfilling a similar role. And of course the new antagonists. One of which who is absolutely not inspired by a certain WW2 era German leader. I don't really have a preference as far as Benkei vs. Musashi. The Hyakki leaders are not super deep or interesting characters but they do what they need to... though if the two generals weren't constantly fighting each other, maybe they'd have the bright idea to send out all their mechs at once instead of one at a time - which they sort of did by the end but still manged to mess up. I know they probably wouldn't want to have an ending where our heroes are defeated and humanity gets replaced by Humans with Horns.

Despite its flaws, I still had a great time with the show, when I decided to watch it. What was also nice was that unlike Getter Robo, where only roughly 2/3s of its episodes have competent English subs, all of G's episodes have subs that were actually written by someone that's fluent in English. If you're looking for a good show by today's standards, this one probably isn't worth your time. However, if you can put up old with cartoons or enjoy something for what it is, maybe consider checking out Getter Robo G. After watching the important episodes of the original if you want, you don't really need to watch it to enjoy G.