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Originally Posted by TheRaizin

Yes! I think XDU was the mobile app game! Does a lot of crossovers every once in a while. One was SSSS Gridman and recently Saint Seiya!

Yep, yep! We did get an English release around March of 2020, sadly that was poorly timed given well, everything that happened so I think that might've impacted how it did since well... it shut down like in May or June of 2020. Which is a shame because briefly skimming there's all these cool stories that are left untranslated.

It's also how I got into Symphogear because they did a special promotion deal with Crunchyroll. Crunchyroll put up Season's 1, G, and GX on Youtube so you could marathon it. It was neat. And then I watched AXZ and XV on Crunchyroll after I was done with those.

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Originally Posted by dreamcastegirl

Oh, thank you to both you and DreamSword for mentioning this! I super liked Giant Robo, so I should have found this on my own, and it's a crime I didn't! I'm on it now though!

Big O is honestly one of my favorite anime's of all time, up there with Cowboy Bebop too. There was something so charming and enamoring about it when I first saw it on Cartoon Network. Also got to see the second half like dozens of times since Adult Swim would re-run that half constantly.

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Originally Posted by dreamcastegirl

Is this the stuff that became Voltron? I remember having a friend from HK who used to talk about those shows... oh, actually maybe that was Machine Robo that he was into.

I'm honestly not sure, but Exkaiser if I recall ended up being born from a canned Transformers series. Heck the main villain force, the Geisters, are basically repurposed Dinobots from what I remember.

It just has that fun old Toku Feel where you've got this alien Exkaiser learning about various things about Earth and that ties into the plot of the episode. And usually that plot is the villains be going after various objects that make themselves known to them. Whether it be stuff like Super Fire Trucks, a high tech plane to stuff like... stealing anything that helps you cool off in summer like ice cream and beer... or even, at one point... cigarettes. It's a real fun show and it has a great Opening that's a bop that I'm required to link.