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Jet Icarus






For a mecha made out of jets, Jet Icarus looks kinda blocky. You would expect him to look more aerodynamic than other mechas given his theme, instead he has a lot of 90° degree angles which just doesn't look right. It's kind of a shame becuase Jet Icarus isn't all too bad. He's very balanced colour wise and the bird design on the chest looks pretty cool especially with how it spreads to his shoulders. Don't entirely care about the head though. Aside from the wings on the side, it doesn't really envoke a jet or bird theme.

Icarus Haken

Unlike say Five Trailer from Fiveman which looked liked a design they came up with on the whim, Icarus Haken actually looks good and thematically fits with Jetman's bird and jet motif. While it is rather simple in design, it still works and is quite clean in its shape aside from abit of undercarriage from Jet Hawk.

Jet Garuda/Bird Garuda


Aside from one from one or two element, Jet Garuda is pretty alright. His overall shape and silhouette is quite nice. I especially like the rounded parts of his body like the limbs, gives him quite a diffefent look from Jet Icarus. Also pretty nice in the colours, going for mostly black with large areas of red and small hints yellow to break it up. The Bird Garuda mode is also cool but its pretty obvious that the entirety of the robot mode is hanging as the undercarriage. The head is where I start taking issues. As Bird Garuda, its fine; Helps add to the bird motif. As Jet Garuda however, its an interesting idea but ultimately it just looks plain ridiculous. The claw hands are also pushing it abit.

Great Icarus

Probaly the best combination we had since Super Live Robo. Similarly to Super Live Robo, I like that you can see elements of both mechas. Helps to sell Great Icarus as a combination of the two. That being said, they probably could of change them a bit more as aside from the torso, the limbs look exactly like how they look on both mechas. As for the torso, while it's a bit busy in the design, the bird chest I think helps seal everything together. Still not impressed with the head. The trigular shape helmet just sort of looks dumb.

Hyper Haken

A fairly simple combination but once again like Icarus Haken itself, it kinda works. The position of Bird Garuda's head in this combination gives the impression that it is suppose to be the bridge, which helps sell Hyper Haken as this massive airship.

Tetraboy


I like Tetraboy. Solid colours, solid shape, just good looking all around. Compared to Titan Boy who is his most direct predecessor (according to Akibaranger anyway), Tetraboy is clearly the better looking mecha. Plus he is a Targetmaster. That's kinda awesome.

Next week, the one most are probably familiar with, Zyuranger.