English Dub Season Review: Sakugan Season One

Overview:

Making sure humanity survives the harsh conditions of the underground, a colony’s citizens can take on a variety of specialized jobs. These include “Workers,” who mine precious ore to fuel the colonies, and “Markers,” who journey into the Labyrinth’s surprisingly lush environment to bring back information that eases navigation. However, humanity also faces a threat to its existence—creatures called “kaiju” whose sizes range from that of a small child to an enormous building, and are hostile to any human they see. Moreover, kaiju that are large enough can force their way into the colonies, further increasing their threat level.

Our Take:

Do you like Gurren Lagann or Kill la Kill? Then you might like Sakugan, while it’s not as crazy or over the top as those shows, it does have that wild and crazy feel to it. I couldn’t help but be reminded of those shows while watching this. It wore those inspirations on its sleeve so much that I kept constantly checking the studio to see if it was Trigger by chance. The studio that handles Sakugan is actually Satelight which I’m not too familiar with but after this and looking at the anime they have made I might have to look into them more.

The voice cast does an excellent job, I really liked Anne Yatco as Memempu even if I didn’t really care for the character all that much. She still did a great job with the voice of Memempu and I think we are supposed to feel that way about the character right now. There are some pretty big names in this like Cristina Vee and Kaiji Tang, plus the up-and-coming Adam McArthur comes in later.

Really one of the only knocks I have about this show is that its last episode is gigantic sequel bait. I mean the final episode is even titled “TO BE CONTINUED”. But so far there hasn’t been any confirmation of a second season. So the ending brings it down a point to me. But having said that I still think Sakugan is worth your time especially if you enjoyed those anime I mentioned at the beginning.