Robotech
Robotech Episode Ratings Heatmap
| Avg | E1 | E2 | E3 | E4 | E5 | E6 | E7 | E8 | E9 | E10 | E11 | E12 | E13 | E14 | E15 | E16 | E17 | E18 | E19 | E20 | E21 | E22 | E23 | E24 | E25 | E26 | E27 | E28 | E29 | E30 | E31 | E32 | E33 | E34 | E35 | E36 | ||
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| S1 | 7.3 | 7.7 | 7.5 | 7.2 | 6.8 | 6.8 | 7.8 | 7.4 | 7.2 | 6.5 | 7.7 | 6.8 | 8.0 | 7.2 | 6.0 | 6.9 | 6.8 | 6.3 | 8.1 | 7.9 | 6.9 | 7.1 | 7.0 | 6.9 | 8.2 | 6.8 | 6.8 | 8.7 | 7.2 | 6.8 | 6.2 | 6.9 | 6.1 | 7.0 | 6.9 | 7.1 | 8.5 | |
| S2 | 8.3 | 7.9 | 8.4 | 8.2 | 8.0 | 8.5 | 8.3 | 7.6 | 8.7 | 8.5 | 8.2 | 8.6 | 8.2 | 8.4 | 8.6 | 8.7 | 5.7 | 8.7 | 8.7 | 8.2 | 8.5 | 8.7 | 8.6 | 8.7 | 8.8 | |||||||||||||
| S3 | 8.6 | 8.8 | 8.9 | 8.6 | 8.2 | 8.6 | 9.0 | 8.8 | 9.1 | 8.5 | 8.5 | 8.6 | 9.0 | 8.0 | 8.1 | 8.2 | 8.9 | 9.0 | 8.7 | 8.2 | 8.1 | 8.9 | 8.8 | 8.0 | 8.3 | 8.8 |
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"the cartoon that let its heroes actually die"
Robotech splices three separate Japanese mecha anime into one saga about humanity's generations-long war against alien invaders after a crashed alien ship gives Earth transforming fighter jets. It follows different casts across three conflicts, mixing giant-robot dogfights with surprisingly earnest romance and grief. For an 80s syndicated cartoon, the tone swings startlingly dark, with real character deaths and doomed love triangles alongside Saturday-morning action. Pacing is uneven and the animation shows its age, but the emotional ambition and mecha spectacle made it a formative gateway into anime for a generation of American kids.
the surprisingly tragic, generation-spanning war story hidden inside a kids' mecha cartoon.
you need consistent animation quality and can't tolerate three tonally different story arcs stitched together.
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