Armor Hunter Mellowlink | Retcon_404 (Anime Retrospective)

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Armor Hunter Mellowlink tells the story of a man, a gun, and his quest to destroy everyone involved in a deadly conspiracy. As a standalone OVA sequel to Armored Trooper VOTOMS, Mellowlink provides enough heart-pumping action to stand on its own. But does the show still hold up 25 years later?
- THIS VIDEO CONTAINS MAJOR SPOILERS FOR ARMOR HUNTER MELLOWLINK-
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@kliffundersen2130 Месяц назад

the power of the pile bunker

@twelfthknight Месяц назад

This really was the peak period of American action movies influence on anime/manga. Shades of Commando, First Blood, Predator, and so many more. Which reminds me, Desert Punk (2004) also does the "SF action hero who wins through planning and guile" quite well.

@jacobhamilton2473 25 дней назад

Desert Punk has one of my favorite endings. That I will not discuss because it's a great twist.

@fattiger6957 Месяц назад

Mellowlink is the perfect spinoff of Votoms. It melds very well with the world established in Votoms, but Mellowlink isn't just a copy of Churico and the series is built around a unique premise. Too many spinoffs and sequels are just retreads of what the original already did.

@Joseph----- Месяц назад

unironically one of my favorite mech series. I've struggled to get into Votoms proper yet Mellowlink is my jam

@fattiger6957 Месяц назад

Votoms starts off slow, but it is a great series. IMO, the epitome of Real Robot mecha.

@jackp492 28 дней назад

I watched this first too, votoms has peaks and troughs, but the highs are high

@DomVonDoom Месяц назад

The bloody face tiger swipe is the equivalent to the police putting their gloves on, you know shit's gonna get real!!!

@hawkticus_history_corner Месяц назад

I remember watching a review of this OVA a long time ago that described the animation as "Mechanical pron" because of the immense detail they went into with his gun and its functionality. I just love that sort of stuff.

@HuckleisMyHoney 28 дней назад

Kenny Lauderdale's video! I remember it, good times.

@DamplyDoo Месяц назад

For some reason I've gotten several clips of this show suggested to me on RU-vid. I really enjoyed watching them!

@sylvarogre5469 Месяц назад

Mellow reminds me of Crinn from Dougram with that poncho.

@DomVonDoom Месяц назад

I love Arity Mellowlink! This show is criminally underrated!

@michaellewis1545 Месяц назад

This looks like a fine addition to the man with big gun shows.

@andrewowens4421 Месяц назад

The next retrospective you should do is _Crusher Joe._ It's obscure, but a really good OVA series.

@Cro-EYE Месяц назад

the movie by Yasuhiko has some of the best animation i've ever seen

@TK-_-421 Месяц назад

I think the obscureness depends. Western mecha fans who know about it probably know it as the other show besides Macross where a bunch of Battletech designs originate from.

@Bill-uw1oo Месяц назад

Merrowrink & Rurucy make an awesome 80's anime couple. Chef's kiss tier representation of the action theme in that era.

@KOLOPCorps Месяц назад

Finally! Only found the show last year but was very happy with it and made and AMV. I should check out the rest of the actual series however; Mellowlink is where I started

@fattiger6957 Месяц назад

Votoms is great. IMO, one of the best series in the post-Gundam mecha boom of the 80s.

@GutsOfRivia 7 дней назад

Mellowlink is such a bad ass mecha protagnist that he dosent even use a mecha in his show.

@ZappaSlave Месяц назад

Mellowlink is still the only piece of VOTOMS I've watched thus far

@ZappaSlave Месяц назад

Ahh finally, at the bottom of the list where I belong

@Holesale00 Месяц назад

This is one of my top OVAs to just watch on a whim, there's little filler and tons of action.

@exturkconner Месяц назад

There are actually two other Votoms stories that don't follow Chirico. There's "Case : Irvine" and "Votoms Finder" which are both pretty excellent. Irvine is one of the later main universe titles to come out but didn't use CGI which is cool to see. Finder is an alternative universe but also entirely worth a watch.

@ashharkausar413 Месяц назад

This show looks so cool. It reminds of me of Trigun without the super powers.

@boxfoxscoot1614 Месяц назад

votoms mentioned video upvoted

@danthelowblood2653 Месяц назад

A mecha to surpass metal gear......

@TheLotusEater725 Месяц назад

whoa, deep Ryosuke Takahashi cut

@negawan Месяц назад

yess. I really enjoyed this seeries. Glad you made a vid on it.

@bartome7o Месяц назад

Mellow don’t care about the high ground 👌

@Rrgr5 Месяц назад

For me, Mellowlink Armor Hunter is even better than the OG VOTOMS, the premise itself of a armor hunter is already unique enough to sets it as it's own thing, is also well done for the most part, most of his tactics feels real for the circumstances, the only other show I saw doing a similar stuff was the glorious 08 MS team in two episodes which Shiro went down to hunt MBS in a similar manner.

@chriswriter9087 Месяц назад

I never managed to get into Votoms but this looks like an easier entry point into the series. I might check this out.

@GutsOfRivia 7 дней назад

I hope you will cover the Macross: Do You Remember Love Movie. It just had its 40th anniversery

@Cheapstall Месяц назад

You should check out Gundam Thunderbolt

@Kurotaisa Месяц назад

Ah the Votoms spinoff, nice

@jehoiakimelidoronila5450 20 дней назад

Once thing I'm disappointed of is that mellow didn't go after the mastermind that lead to decimation of his squad. But hey, how is he able to do it if the mastermind is off-planet? And at least he took out almost all responsible for the scandal so, there's that

@spikmaster18 Месяц назад

Hey can you please do Fafner Dead Agressor 404 Retrospective video please ?

@johnnygutierrez41 Месяц назад

Never knew of this show looks I need to check it out

@RedJoeTramp 12 дней назад

Would you ever consider doing a Retrospective of Mad Bull 34? Its pure 80s/90s grindhouse anime and a perfect example of that "be the American thay Japanese think you are" meme. Failing that, Aura Battler Dunbine

@bombomos Месяц назад

Mellowlink, if Rambo was in a mech universe

@elbraymundo Месяц назад

A guy bare-handing a fucking PILE BUNKER is insane.

@SemiLobster Месяц назад

Aw man! If you got an original Xbox PLEASE PLEASE play Metal Wolf Chaos if you want just the most insane parody of America ever written!

@lemniscatelogos7917 Месяц назад

P I L E B U N K E R

@JohnnyBurnes Месяц назад

This needs a toy set.

@justincholos.balisang6884 Месяц назад

Solid Snake

@MK384 Месяц назад

Metal Gear of mecha anime.

@jamespaguip5913 Месяц назад

Retcon_404 I have a question what are your thoughts on tekkaman blade?

@ZannacrossG1 Месяц назад

Did this series ever get a Blu Ray release? Also...this reminds me of the recent Ninja Kaumi, but shows how to do a revenge focused lead better...maybe having the fights not devolve into bland CGI ninja's helped to.

@fakesmile172 Месяц назад

I think it just got a Blu-ray release in Japan a year or two ago, as the film masters were luckily found fairly recently.

@JustAnotherPest Месяц назад

There was a big rerelease of the entirety of VOTOMS called the Perfect Soldier Collection but it was unholy expensive.

@ZannacrossG1 Месяц назад

@@JustAnotherPest I have that, I think, and it seems to have everything besides this...was it suppose to be in it?

@fakesmile172 Месяц назад

@@ZannacrossG1 Nah I think the collection the above poster is talking about is Japan-only for now, I saw it on a Japanese website. There was a VOTOMS collection released in English-speaking countries but it didn't include Mellowlink, and all the older entries were on DVD, though it looks like that's also true in Japan. I'd post a link, but comments with links get auto-deleted.