BEST MECHA ANIME EVER? - Armored Trooper VOTOMS (1983) | TitanGoji Anime Review (PATREON COMMISSION) 

That would be Tetsuya Tsurugi from Great Mazinger

@@frankjaeger2565 Wouldn't exactly call Tetsuya "stoic". He's more like "Older, mature version of Koji who at the very least keeps his hot bloodedness in check."

Chirico might be stoic for the most part but he certainly has more character than alot of stoic heroes you see nowadays. That said its funny seeing characters like Chirico, Setsuna, Heero and Sousuke meet eachother in SRW, their first words are usually just ".....". Can't say it isn't accurate! XD

@@frankjaeger2565 or Duke Fleed.

Hopefully we eventually get all the OVAs in HD as well with any potential rerelease.

The overarching story in Votoms is...grand to say the least. There is a lot of stuff which enhances and builds on the original TV anime. I think getting the complete collection is worth it for the TV series alone, especially since the ending of the TV Anime is very self contained. I also wouldn't describe it as sad, still a bit bittersweet though.

Thank you so much! And wow, didn't expect r/anime to be so picky

@@TitanGoji idk. They don't even let you say "kissanime" on it. Your comment gets deleted immediately. I've spoken to a mod and its like they don't want people to know it exists. I'm starting to wonder if Crunchyroll and/or Funimation is paying them to silence anyone talking about pirate sites.

@@whiskeycorridor90 Probably so, considering how big of a community it is. Pretty ironic, considering that lots of anime are popular solely because of pirating.

@MadMatt it just jumped the shark for me

I agree. I did appreciate the change in status quo at that point though.

I agree with you. With Ypsilon who I think was kept longer around than was necessary, just constantly obsessing about Chirico an Fyana. And Fyana whose only role after the Kummen arc was to worry about Chirico most of the time. I felt that Chirico had some positive character development in the Kummen arc before becoming a d*** again. Maybe this is a Japanese thing, that this makes a strong man. The opening track had to grow on me but now I rather like listening to it from time to time even if I can not understand a single word without the translation. I think the series could have been a bit tighter by removing some unnecessary plot. I also think that the AT's influenced the design of Metal Gear though both mechs serve such different roles. The AT are basically mechanized Infantry while the Metal Gears are more highly mobile artillery with anti vehicle and some ant Infantry weapons attached to it. Heh, now that you mention the similarities between the Death Egg robot and the ATs such as that piece of animation I also see it, though I had to watch Votoms to learn about it.

The company behind heavy gear took huge inspiration from this anime series. They even admitted in an interview which I think is still on the original website dreampod 9

I believe it's on HiDive

Honestly I feel like panzer dragoon saga has a similar set up. Edge is the last survivor member of a group of mercenaries that were killed by Crayman in his search for Azel. Azel is a genetic modified human like Fyana, and edge is the first to find her like Cherico. Crayman also has Azel try to kill Edge, but over time they both fall in love. There's also a focus on religion, but it starts much earlier on, and I think it was better developed than Votoms. Then again PDS had the gift of hindsight compared to Votoms. And this is obvious, but there's little Mecha in PDS, Edge rides a dragon and only the Exterminator Boss really resembles a Mecha.