"Betterman" - First Impressions

Bushido Philosopher · Post by **Bushido Philosopher** » Thu Feb 06, 2003 12:35 am

Since TECHTV will be airing this series this monday (Feb. 9), I was wondering if it's good or not...

So those who have seen it can you please give your impressions??
NO SPOILERS though please

Bushido Philosopher · Post by **Bushido Philosopher** » Thu Feb 06, 2003 12:37 am

darn midnight confusion....

it will technically air Feb 10 (10:00 pm) for those on the west coast and Feb 11 (1:00 AM) on east coast.

KLin · Post by **KLin** » Thu Feb 06, 2003 3:06 pm

Well from the trailer, it looks to be a creepy mecha-related horror-ish series. Also seems to have a mysterious super-powerful mutant/psychic person called Betterman. (Like in SoulTaker, Genocyber, Guyver, Generator Gawl, etc.) The character designs are certainly different. Appears that among the main characters there is a nerdy-looking boy who gets to pilot a squat mecha, and a depressed looking girl with red and green spiky hair that resembles Betterman.

I generally enjoy Sunrise's series, people have told me it's not a good series because it's so confusing. But there was a lot of complaint like that about Gasaraki, and I thoroughly enjoyed Gasaraki.

I'm planning on checking it out when the prices for it drop a bit more, or maybe just wait for the box set. TechTV could be a good way to preview it first though, thanks for the heads up.

mexicanjunior · Post by **mexicanjunior** » Thu Feb 06, 2003 3:42 pm

Betterman = Carlos's downfall in Ushicon Iron Chef

KLin · Post by **KLin** » Thu Feb 06, 2003 3:54 pm

If by Carlos you mean Machine, he's got pretty good taste in dark anime as evidenced by his Butterfly video, so I guess it must be pretty good then.

Senta · Post by **Senta** » Thu Feb 06, 2003 5:27 pm

I've only seen the first volume, but it looks pretty good so far. My main problem with it is the main character, who's rather comical and obnoxious. He doesn't fit well into the story since everything else is serious and at times dark.
Still, I enjoyed what I saw and will probably get the other volumes later.

mexicanjunior · Post by **mexicanjunior** » Thu Feb 06, 2003 8:13 pm

KLin wrote:If by Carlos you mean Machine, he's got pretty good taste in dark anime as evidenced by his Butterfly video, so I guess it must be pretty good then.

When we did Ushicon Iron Chef, he used Betterman as his source and later blamed it as the reason he lost to Fluxmeister. Good times...

The Non-Professional · Post by **The Non-Professional** » Thu Feb 06, 2003 9:23 pm

damn, I knew I should have stayed the rest of saturday and gone back sunday...

Genjo_Sanzo · Post by **Genjo_Sanzo** » Fri Feb 07, 2003 2:59 pm

betterman...hmmm Ill just put it this way. The trailer looked really good so I bought the first volume....I will not be buying the seconed.

KLin · Post by **KLin** » Tue Feb 11, 2003 1:34 am

Just watched some of the first episode on Tech TV. The voice actors didn't sound too off, but they didn't emote too well, making the dubs kinda bleah. The story itself isn't too bad though. Sooo many dead people. 0_0 I think I will buy the DVDs now.