Getter, also known as Mighty Atom. However, the three aircraft before Cheng Tian were more accurately called Getter ARC. If OVA works were included, Getter ARC was the newest Getter anime in twenty-one years.
Since it was a new work created from an unfinished manga, its plot no longer had any direct connection to the previous generation of Getter. At most, it was a parallel timeline that shared the same underlying Background Setting.
Besides Getter ARC, the parallel-timeline stories derived from Getter's underlying Background Setting included the earliest Getter Robo/G/Go, the wildest, darkest, and most hype installment of all, Armageddon, the OVA short Shin Getter vs. Neo Getter, where Getters fought other Getters, Shin Getter, also known as Demon Getter because its pilots could go berserk in the flesh, and finally the latest work, Getter ARC.
Many people were not very familiar with this work, including Cheng Tian himself a few years ago.
As everyone knew, markets across the board had visibly shrunk in recent years. Naturally, the anime market could not escape that trend either. Compared to products of the old golden age, Getter ARC's overall animation quality was visibly underfunded as well.
A particularly famous example was this year's One-Punch Man Season 3. Garou's grass-sliding animation was practically a PowerPoint presentation, so awful it was unbearable to watch, and it sparked a fierce online flame war.
And that was far from an isolated case.
Yet even in such a cash-strapped state, Getter ARC still produced a dark meme that even veteran anime fans who had never watched the series had more or less come across—
The scene in episode ten of Getter ARC: "Quick, activate the backup Commander Musashi!"
Even among the various timelines derived from Getter, the man named Basu Musashi had, all things considered, died the