Why this series is getting great reviews on IMDb?, sure nostalgia is a powerful thing, but c'mon when localizing a very violent anime to younger audience of course a lot of dumbing-down and stupid will come out of it. it's "4kids" stupid levels of censorship here.
i used to watch it during re-runs growing up, the concept was fun and the robots design was pretty cool. similar to shows like "power rangers" and "transformers" it had action, adventure, aliens, giant robots, a bad guy that always loses, mainly focus on selling toys. however many years later re-watching again, wow! it's bad it aged very poorly. i tried giving it a chance after all these years but after 20 mind-numbing episodes it completely made me realize how bad it really is. and after discovering the original series it's based on and made me hate it even more.
the shows biggest problem is how much they butchered the source martial. the main 5 characters "Keith" (red) and maybe "Lance" (blue) being at least OK, "Hunk" (yellow) is bland as a brick, "Pidge" (green) is so annoying and never shut's-up!!! i'm amazed the actor who did the voice wasn't fired, and "Allura" (pink) who is every anime princess trope you can think of. the english voice acting is in general terrible (probably one of the worst), every episode is repetitive, boring, cheesy and even stupid at times, probably the worst offender was the amount of censorship.
trimming down the violence, changing the plot from it's original series almost completely, removing anything related to nuclear war, slavery, cannibalism, killing or even characters death (all from the original source martial). the characters always uses stupid lines of dialogue to cover the obvious death scenes such as "injured" or "wounded". there was even an episode "pidge's home planet" that the american version's team had the nerve to ignore a dramatic plot-point when a whole planet was destroyed they will add "all the people have escaped the planet safely". from the animation alone it shows a shocking reaction with tears, it was clear that people died from a nuclear war. there's a lot of darker themes that was heavily edited or completely removed which also explains the choppy editing which ruins the pacing on this series completely.
the only positive thing i can say about the Voltron series, it has a good music/theme and narration by the awesome peter cullen and it introduce me to the better original japanese series "Beat King Go Lion".
just skip "voltron" and check out the original series it was adapted from "Beast King Go-lion" miles better then this garbage. aside from the lame opening theme, it has better narrative, pacing, character development and it's completely uncut with a lot of violence, very watchable.
i used to watch it during re-runs growing up, the concept was fun and the robots design was pretty cool. similar to shows like "power rangers" and "transformers" it had action, adventure, aliens, giant robots, a bad guy that always loses, mainly focus on selling toys. however many years later re-watching again, wow! it's bad it aged very poorly. i tried giving it a chance after all these years but after 20 mind-numbing episodes it completely made me realize how bad it really is. and after discovering the original series it's based on and made me hate it even more.
the shows biggest problem is how much they butchered the source martial. the main 5 characters "Keith" (red) and maybe "Lance" (blue) being at least OK, "Hunk" (yellow) is bland as a brick, "Pidge" (green) is so annoying and never shut's-up!!! i'm amazed the actor who did the voice wasn't fired, and "Allura" (pink) who is every anime princess trope you can think of. the english voice acting is in general terrible (probably one of the worst), every episode is repetitive, boring, cheesy and even stupid at times, probably the worst offender was the amount of censorship.
trimming down the violence, changing the plot from it's original series almost completely, removing anything related to nuclear war, slavery, cannibalism, killing or even characters death (all from the original source martial). the characters always uses stupid lines of dialogue to cover the obvious death scenes such as "injured" or "wounded". there was even an episode "pidge's home planet" that the american version's team had the nerve to ignore a dramatic plot-point when a whole planet was destroyed they will add "all the people have escaped the planet safely". from the animation alone it shows a shocking reaction with tears, it was clear that people died from a nuclear war. there's a lot of darker themes that was heavily edited or completely removed which also explains the choppy editing which ruins the pacing on this series completely.
the only positive thing i can say about the Voltron series, it has a good music/theme and narration by the awesome peter cullen and it introduce me to the better original japanese series "Beat King Go Lion".
just skip "voltron" and check out the original series it was adapted from "Beast King Go-lion" miles better then this garbage. aside from the lame opening theme, it has better narrative, pacing, character development and it's completely uncut with a lot of violence, very watchable.