#svn getter robo

[sinita-incognita]

Genderbend Go but she got drip

[soupwave]

[no1ryomafan]

Dropping an opinionated getter take in the form of a fucking meme because this is my true communication language. (I’ve been thinking about this fucker again after doing a rewatch)

[megdrawsiguess]

Concept: Kei but she’s in shin vs neo and is taken in by Ryoma as one of his students. This is for a fic I’m taking forever to write lmao but thought I finally dump a color piece here.

[everydaydg]

Been thinking about Shin Vs Neo's soundtrack again.

The entire soundtrack is really strong, alot of fantastic compositions that help emphasize every singular scene.

Its insane how one of the best examples of how good the soundtrack can be... is the first song of the entire OVA/Album release

LEGEND

(Audio Files in 190kbs due to Tumblr file restrictions, converted from FLAC)

Legend makes you feel every emotion in the scene.

The way it changes speed as it goes on is brilliant

Showing a triumphant and hopeful melody every time musashi's fight against the reptilian empire continues and slowing down when introducing gore or seeing how Shin Getter's launch isnt succesful

The Brass coming together when Musashi pulls out the getter ray reactor

The tune changing to trully show Ryoma's pain at the realization of what Musashi is doing

Things like that make the scene special and the score a treat to listen to, the whole scene trully makes Musashi a Legend.

All masterfully done for the first scene in the entire OVA.

and the rest of the soundtrack does not dissapoint! The original compositions are fantastic and the use of STORM as a leitmotif on some mayor tracks is great

(HOPE and TRUTH being exceptional cases of this)

I do have to say one of the things I apreciate about this soundtrack is its reluctance to use STORM at any oportunity

Don't get me wrong, I would have loved it if they did that (I absolutely loved how they used DRAGON in New Getter Robo) but them not using it much makes its appearance much stronger.

The activation of Shin Getter and the appearance of God Getter are 10 times better because of it.

Oh yeah about Shin Getter's activation

Shin Getter's theme, FLAME, being an arrangement of HEATS from "Change! Getter Robo!"/"Getter Robo Armageddon" is great (the track name is the cherry on top)

Ever combat theme in SvN is simply incredible, a few more examples

I could keep going but you get the idea.

The soundtrack is a wonder to listen to and its one of the best parts of the OVA

I dont have a singular complain, trully amazing

also

Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! is the best way to end a OVA like this lmao. A huge shame its not included on the main soundtrack release

[sinita-incognita]

Some silly doodles because im feeling silly and goofy

[sinita-incognita]

I have no idea possessed me last night

Original undercut

[sinita-incognita]

Idk man I'm just spreading racoon ryoma propaganda here

[no1ryomafan]

My brain has gone back and forth on between which anime if arma or new is my favorite. Cause even with all its issues Arma means a lot to me, it’s the reason I got into getter and helped me through one of the worst times of my life- But then new is objectively better written and it drives me nuts compared to arma it’s not talked about ENOUGH despite all the stuff you can poke at from it’s plot and I’m trying to pinpoint that reason since the general consensus is “no one hates new and it gets a lot of fanart in the Japanese community yet it’s never deeply acknowledged so it feels unpopular”

So my standpoint is “do I keep investing into the popular iteration despite its issues or do I invested into the less flawed unpopular iteration when it comes to introducing getter to new people?” cause man as much as I’m a critical person of media I still can forgive some messy writing if I have a good time with it and can clearly tell the staff had fun making it, which is definitely armas case. (Though they absolutely had fun with new too)

[no1ryomafan]

I have said this before but me being self proclaimed number 1 Ryoma fan and that being possibly literal-bc even if this bro had fans before me I might’ve simply done the most for him by talking about him so much + being the first to write fics that are in depth studies on his trauma across canons-I gotta say if there’s one other character I rotate a lot that isn’t him it’s probably Kei. (Shocking it’s not Hayato even if I do think about him too- but it’s usually associated with Ryoma bc gays 🗿)

I’m not even exaggerating when I say Kei would be my favorite and only isn’t because she doesn’t exist in many other canons yet my brain rotates the endless possibilities of how to incorporate her. I’ve already written a fic where she’s in shin vs neo verse which worked surprisingly well but I’ve been thinking how universally she could appear in other things. (Whether it be fitting her into a idea of a possible Go team in New or just a new canon completely) I think what I’ve narrow it down to is that she could be like- in Michirus role? Like she’s the supporting female who isn’t a pilot but helps out the real occasionally which I think would align very well especially with the original manga role she has of being Hayato’s assistant. And even if Hayato isn’t grandpa mode yet he still very much is in Saotomes position at that point. Not sure if she’d Hayato’s biological kid to further parallel Saotome and Michiru given well Hayato already adopts the Go team and his wife is irrelevant LOL.

I have no idea if I’ll ever write this specific idea but I’m still- rotating it cause this is such a easy way to get around “picking between Sho or Kei as the 2nd pilot” since both of them can still exist even if one doesn’t get to pilot, idm my supporting females. (Granted there could always be like- plot line where Sho gets hurt so Kei is temporary pilot but I can’t remember if Getter ever really did this since “once your hurt your ass is basically replaced” lol)

[no1ryomafan]

New getter brain worms have been so bad and I haven’t even finished a rewatch with my friend or the damn au fic I’m working on but I’m still baffled people said “It LoOkS bAd” and so tempted to do compilation of some of its best chronographic animation even if I’ll be stirring a pot- which I don’t want but man I’m so sick of the art style slander when it has one of the most unique styles I’ve seen in a show. Just because it’s stiff most of the time or can’t be in a higher resolution doesn’t mean it can’t look good or have some great animation every so often because it sure as hell does and I’m sick of pretending it doesn’t!

[no1ryomafan]

Thinking about how everyone talks about how arma always gets so much outside material of all the getter series, like it’s practically most of the merch and whenever getter is repped in crossovers-SRW or not-they always use arma as their iteration but probably due to the fact this a bit of obscure knowledge, I never hear anyone mention the fact arma afaik is the only getter anime to get some side stuff:

<In shin manga there is a singular bonus chapter that is set in armas verse that shows the end of the moon war, written and drawn by ishikawa himself <got its own audio drama cd midway through the shows production that covered events post moon wars but pre show, it also contained two songs that were character songs for go and ryoma, who their vas also sung for <In early 2000s, imagawa, the first director for the anime, in a magazine for a SRW manga he wrote his own three chapter manga that covered some of his ideas that didn’t make it in the final show after he left

Merch and crossover appearances are one thing but it’s kinda crazy how putting aside arc as it’s a full on adaptation, arma is the *only* anime to actually get some manga stuff even if it’s a few chapters, and a audio drama that’s like a hours worth of content on top of that. Like still kinda baffles me that during the whole period of the franchise post-ishikawas death that no one made mangas about any of the OVAs when each of them have potential for a prequel/sequel story that could just be a volume or so long, expect for arma getting a tiny bit of it. It’ll always be so weird to think about it’s the most popular iteration of the franchise despite there being a lot of disinterest for it in the mecha circles nowadays bc of how overused it is yet it’s clearly the one people care about the most and it seems early on it was so apparent it was the money maker.

[no1ryomafan]

So I watched shin vs neo again with my irls for my bday given how short it is and I didn’t have a actual movie for the occasion-bc let’s face it SvN is probably the closest thing will ever get to a getter movie lol-and while I enjoyed it as per usual one of my irls who had it be their first getter exposure was like “I have no idea what’s happening” and while I kept joking “lol if you saw arma you’d be even more lost” it dawned on me why new is probably the better first getter experience overall and it ain’t even because there’s less characters + is the starring cast-well besides Musashibo-to really grasp stuff, it kinda ties back to another issue getter has: The Go team have not gotten a proper accurate adaptation and probably the getter team who’s done the dirtiest despite getting more appearances than arc, because arc team at least got a manga accurate anime.

I’ve realized this for awhile but now I understand the want for a getter go anime even if I’m doubting it’s happening god.

[no1ryomafan]

“If we discount Arc/Toei, New looks the worse out of the three ovas. It was too janky and-“

I could pull up more examples but these frames live more rent free in my head for how janky they are then any fucking new frame 💀