冥王計画ゼオライマー

MEI OU PROJECT ZEORYMER

OVA

STATUS
COMPLETE
EPISODES
4
RELEASE
February 21, 1990
LENGTH
28 min

DESCRIPTION

A young man named Akitsu Masato is captured by a secret govt. project known as "Last Guardian". He is told that his life as a normal student was all a lie, and that his real destiny is to be the pilot of a great robot called "Zeorymer of the Heavens". The truth of this is hammered in when Masato sees his parents accept payment for raising him. The Last Guardian is preparing for the resurrection of "Hau Dragon", an organization bent on world conquest. 15 years ago, Hau Dragon built 8 great robots. Each of the mecha represents a force of nature. However, before any of the robots could be used, their creater Kihara Masaki destroyed the robots except for the leader: Zeorymer. He took Zeorymer and an embryo to the government. The embryo became the boy Masato. Now, Hau Dragon has rebuilt the other 7 mecha and wants the 8th. It will be up to Masato and Himuro to pilot Zeorymer and fight against the Hau Dragon, but neither Masato or Himuro are all that they seem.

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CAST

Masato Akitsu
Toshihiko Seki
Miku Himuro
Chieko Honda
Yuratei
Mayumi Shou
Narrator
Issei Masamune
Isao Ooki
Hideyuki Tanaka
Ritsu
Shou Hayami
Aen Shi
Rei Sakuma
Gisou
Tesshou Genda
Rokfel
Masako Katsuki
Tau Shi
Yuko Sasaki
Saiga
Kaneto Shiozawa
Lurahn
Mahito Tsujimura
Taiha
Hirotaka Suzuoki

EPISODES

Dubbed

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REVIEWS

Reldio
61/100
A short, odd series helped along by some great mecha designs and attacks, and an extreme sense of drama.
Zeorymer takes itself very seriously. There are no jokes, no light hearted moments, and barely a smile amongst the whole cast. Everything is dramatic, tense and deadly. Yet I ended up having a solid time watching it despite it's lack general praise.

The very existence of this show is somewhat odd. It's based on a short, very adult manga with lots of nudity/sexual content yet here it's all toned down to just basic 90s-style gratuitous nudity, and a shift in plot/setting. Why an anime was made for such an odd manga is anyone's guess, but it happened and it's something else.

First I want to touch on what I like best about Zeorymer. The designs in this show are great. They feel powerful, regal and commanding. Mecha like this show are what I think when I think of super robots. Giant creations of pure power that you could see destroying or saving a world, and I think this anime does a fantastic job of carrying that feeling on throughout all four episodes. Every attack used by the titular Zeorymer just oozes power and it's signature is very distinctive and memorable and each of the other mecha in the series has a consistent design scheme whilst being unique in it's powers, even those that don't show up for long. All of this helped carry the show for me. When you're watching something this short you want it to deliver on it's primary genre, and in my eyes Zeorymer succeeds as a mecha, as a piece of animation featuring fun to watch robot fights.

The story and characters, on the other hand, are where it starts to fall apart for most people. It's all quite simplistic and takes itself just a bit too seriously. Only two of the characters have any kind of depth and even then it's quite simple, everyone else is a simple cardboard cut-out with a singular purpose. Their designs are decent at least, very 90s and suitable for the atmosphere. The story itself suffers similar issues. There are one or two interesting moments/themes towards the end, but overall it's a very simple story of yet another teenage boy having to pilot the mecha to stop the world ending. It's something we've seen far too often. The plot does pick up a bit towards the end but at that point, it's basically over.

Sound design is pretty decent throughout but nothing special. None of the voice actors stood out to me as particularly good or bad and the music suited everything, but only the credits song stood out to me as a nice piece of music. Sound effects do a great job though at helping carry that sense of powerful robots that could destroy the world.

Overall Zeorymer is a show that receives just a bit too much hate. If you look at it with a critical eye it all falls apart, but as a way to spend an hour and a half watching good powerful mecha designs cause crazy explosions, you could do far, far worse.
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