Getter Robo Armageddon

Getter Robo Armageddon
Japanese DVD cover art of the first volume
真（チェンジ!!）ゲッターロボ 世界最後の日 (Chenji!! Gettā Robo Sekai Saigo no Hi)
Genre	Mecha
Manga
True Getter Robo!!
Written by	Go Nagai
Illustrated by	Ken Ishikawa
Published by	Futabasha
Demographic	Seinen
Magazine	Manga Action
Original run	1997 – 1998
Volumes	2
Original video animation
Change!! Getter Robo: The Last Day of the World
Directed by	Yasuhiro Imagawa (1-3) Jun Kawagoe (4-13)
Produced by	Shigeru Watanabe Tatsuo Ozawa
Music by	Yasunori Iwasaki
Studio	Brain's Base Dynamic Planning
Licensed by	US A.D. Vision (former) Discotek Media (current)
Released	1998 – 2000
Runtime	30 minutes (each)
Episodes	13
Manga
True Getter Robo: Try to Remember
Written by	Yasuhiro Imagawa
Illustrated by	Hisashi Matsumoto
Published by	Kodansha
Demographic	Seinen
Magazine	Monthly Magazine Z
Original run	July, 2001 – December, 2001
Volumes	1

Getter Robo Armageddon, known in Japan as Change!! Getter Robo: The Last Day of the World (真（チェンジ!!）ゲッターロボ 世界最後の日, Chenji Gettā Robo!! Sekai Saigo no Hi^?, anime title) and True Getter Robo (真ゲッターロボ, Shin Gettā Robo^?, manga title), is a manga and original video animation released in 1998 by Bandai Visual, based on the manga and anime series Getter Robo, created by Ken Ishikawa and Go Nagai. The series, however, owes more to the manga than the 1970s animated adaptation, with designs closer to those of Ishikawa's original art, and a darker, more serious tone than the anime. It is a direct sequel to the audio drama 'Getter Robo: The Moon Wars'. Aside from the main characters and titular mecha, Getter Robo Armageddon and The Moon Wars have no relation whatsoever to previous Getter Robo stories, instead taking place in their own continuity.

The plot opens some time after the Moon Wars, where things for the original cast have taken a turn for the worse. the main character and pilot of Getter-1, Ryouma Nagare, has been framed for the murder of the Getter Machine builder Dr. Saotome after the death of Saotome's daughter, Michiru. However, he is released from jail and is reunited on Earth—unhappily—with his old allies, Hayato Jin (who set up then testified against Ryouma) and Musashi Tomoe, to fight none other than Dr. Saotome himself, who has seemingly risen from the grave to threaten humanity with his ultimate creation—and most dangerous weapon—Shin Getter Dragon, a massive weapon powered by the same cosmic Getter Rays which gave life to their old weapons. However, their efforts to stop Dr. Saotome, not to mention an overzealous Japanese Defense Force, are in vain, as nuclear weapons are used on Shin Dragon.