| Well, here is the first stage of Votoms. Judging by the lack of customer reviews here, this series has obviously been painfully ignored. Too bad. CPM has the whole series out for our enjoyment, and it's subtitled only, too! First, the bad. This series is old, and looks it. The animation is creaky, the drawings are pretty ugly, and the mecha do not have the flash and pose of other mecha series, like the Gundam series. On the other hand, this is one of the, if not THE BEST plotted mecha series I have ever seen. The ATs (mecha) have a rugged realism that tops other mecha because they actually look like they were made to fight. The story is heavy, but great. Chirico Cuvie is betrayed by his comrades while on a secret mission, but he lives to journey on to find out why. What follows is a sweeping space opera across an alien galaxy filled with great characters, strange romance, and gritty military action. Get it. |