Zoids Wild

I watched this solely for my love of Zoids. If you're trying to introduce a small child to that world, this is perfect. Because that's clearly what this was made for. The few episodes with actual visible damage that isn't just a deactivated zoid with a light scratch and sparking were genuinely enjoyable. It seems to have been reserved for tense moments, and the last two episodes actually did decent here. Seeing the exact same recycled animation for the generic enemy fodder for the 15th+ time, you realize this was just churned out for money with no passion behind it. Seeing the exact same recycled animation for powerups, you welcome a moment when multiple occur rapidly. And if reading "Seeing the exact same" for a 3rd time here has annoyed you in the slightest, avoid Zoids Wild. Were it not for the fighting and very few lightly emotionally engaging parts, this would be rated G, not PG. To summarize: One dimensional characters, Heavily reused filler animations/transformations and an entire filler episode. It's the equivalent of a bad fanfic. 3/10. Because the soundtrack isn't too bad.

I just finished Zoids wild and I'll start this review off by saying I am a fan of the Zoids series and wish we had more anime of it as aside from Gundam no other Mecha series was as big as Zoids, but after Genesis it just seemed to vanish. Then this series appeared in summer of 2018 I was hype, but I originally dropped it as I didn't like it as much as the others, and would come back later. I moved on didn't hear much about it for ages, and forgot about for a time. Then I saw a couple AMV's of and thought it looked epic and that it should be done by now. But when I went to watch it, it was only on 7 episodes with people asking "Where's the next episode?" Or "Where's the rest of the series?" I searched all over for the series but just could not find it, eventually I found it on Daily Motion, now it is in English so keep that in mind when watching. Now for my actual thoughts on this show, it's hard to really compare this to other Zoids anime as it's so different from the others, as in this series the Zoids are living creatures much like our own world except these ones have bodies made of metal and have mechanical parts to them. We follow Arashi as he bonds to the king of Zoids Wild Liger, and they travel the world battling Death Metal and making many friends along the way. Arashi makes many hard choices along his journey and grows as he does so all while searching for the ancient treasure Z and whatever it may hold. Sound wise for this show is great I love how all the zoids sound specially liger as he sound so commanding which fits perfectly. Animation I like as much like the original they mix CG on the Zoids with the 2d characters as fit so well together. The Zoids all look and move really well and have great battles. Character wise we got good and bad, Arash and his friends are fun and the main villain can be quite entertaining with how he pretends to be a goofball but is actually extremly dangerous and sadistic, some of his underlings are kinda weird and had odd names which sound fake imo. Overall I did enjoy this series it just took awhile to get into it, and the changes to Zoids may turn off fans of the franchise, but I do ask that you give it a chance. But I give Zoids Wild a 9/10 it's pretty good.