Random TV Season Review - Pacific Rim: The Black (Season 1)

Pacific Rim remains to this day as one of my all-time favourite films even though I admit now that it's not entirely perfect. What I found interesting about it was that Guillermo del Toro had no idea that so many giant robot vs kaiju franchises such as Neon Genesis Evangelion existed when he made it and that he unintentionally created a homage to many of them. Since the first film, a sequel which wasn't quite as good was made, and now we have an anime series which I guess is the first time a franchise embraces what it's unintentionally paying tribute to. I suspect this will be an interesting series should it have more than one season so let's take a look:

So the Kaiju that arrived from the Pacific Rim manage to overrun the continent of Australia. The giant Jaeger robots are made to fight back, but ultimately fail and thus Australia is abandoned with only isolated pockets of survivors left. The parents of Taylor (voiced by Calum Worthy) and Hayley Travis (voiced by Gideon Adlon) left their children behind to help fight the Kaiju with the promise of one day returning. But as five years go by, Hayley accepts that they may not come back while Taylor is still hopeful which puts the pair at odds while they stay at a self-sustaining community that had been built in the desert. Hayley later stumbles across an abandoned Jaeger called Atlas Destroyer and together with Taylor, they venture out to find their parents while dealing with Kaiju and other survivors who want the Jaeger for their own purposes.

I'm not really that keen on anime that has its animation go a bit slow. But sometimes with these 3D anime shows, it's OK as its balanced out with faster action packed moments. The show is a worthy entry in the franchise which gives us some great characters, lots of action and some funny tongue in cheek moments too (something that both films lacked a fair bit of aside from the two scientists). Hoping for another series. 9/10