Space Warrior Baldios: Complete Tv Series

Discotek licensing Baldios was a very nice surprise! This one was lost in the ether until now. Baldios often gets compared to Ideon and it's easy to see why, while it looks like a 70's super robot show on paper, it plays much more like the darker and more serious real robot genre that Sunrise produced a lot of in the 80's. It even takes four episodes to see the main iconic Baldios mecha itself here! So you can tell this series wants to be a space drama first and it's excellent at it. I was very impressed with the production as well, it's a step up from the norm for its time. I got some Leiji Matsumoto vibes at times and it's just a blast all around. Only thing to note is that like Ideon and the original 0079 Gundam, this TV series got cancelled early, so you will want to grab the movie as well for the main conclusion and an awesome one at that, if a bit depressing and grimdark! I believe fans of Ideon, classic Gundam, Votoms, Dunbine, etc would really enjoy this one!

will I like it is like a superman series is filled with action and amazon joint robots new ways of syfy and cool ships only the main character can be hopeless I mean is like a one target pony but you need to get the movie version to find out

The broadcast ending of the series was the most shocking of all. In the final scene of Prelude to Earth Destruction part 1, it ends with the tidal waves destroying the world with the theme song from the closing credits. It was actually not the final episode, because the show Baldios was cancelled before the next part of the show was broadcast.

First off, this particular anime series ends with a movie and the series itself leaves you in a cliffhanger. If you want to see the whole story, you need to include the movie as well. I am a long time anime fan having been able to watch the robot shows when I was a kid in the 70's and was surprised to see it an Amazon Prime. Before investing much time into this it needs to be realized that this story was originally slotted for 39 episodes, they only made 34, only broadcast 31 originally, and there is a very good reason for this. As before mentioned, Baldios did have a movie, but this is traditional marketing fare for any scifi anime at the time and not an indication of any following the series may have had. The stories end is in the movie because the series got cancelled. The characters are very two dimensional and as the series progressed things just happen to suit the show's environmental message as opposed to a natural progression of character development or narrative. For instance, the main protagonist Marin goes onto the enemy base ship solo, where there are thousands of soldiers, and manages to escape single handed like a super man. However, when it comes to his big heroic moment at the story's climax he horribly chokes to suit agenda. Also a missed opportunity for a possible love triangle between earth girl Jamie, Marin, and alien commander Aphrodia because the series lost its way long before then. The animation is subpar even considering the time it was produced. The series was produced at the time of the original Gundam and Ideon so Baldios did have the opportunity and a studio's willingness to make some different and special. Unfortunately, it ends up in a ditch.