YMMV / Mechamato

• And You Thought It Would Fail: While fans were excited to see Mechamato, many of them didn't really expect the show to be as memorable as BoBoiBoy due to it being a prequel series and almost feeling separated from BoBoiBoy since it's rare to mention anything that's connected with it. However, since the show has improved animation, aired on both Cartoon Network and Netflix, and hired a professional cast both in the local dub and international dubs such as English and Japanese, Mechamato quickly became popular among local fans and non-local fans. In 2023, the show won the "Anime Fan Award" at the Tokyo Anime Awards Festival (TAAF), becoming the first non-Japanese animation to win the award.
• Complete Monster: Mechamato Movie: Grakakus is a ruthless, power-hungry Power Sphere hunter who captures and collects armor-type Power Spheres after dooming their owners. After Naut throws MechaBot into outer space to keep him safe, Grakakus kills Naut in cold blood, traumatizing the most dangerous Power Sphere as a result. Grakakus and his soldiers then break into the Space Prison and attack many robots there, causing it to crash-land on Earth, presumably killing all of them except for the bad robots who escape the crash. Grakakus later attacks Hilir City and almost takes many innocent lives. While fighting Maskmana, Grakakus drops his captured hostages from his spaceship after Mechamato beats him up. Grakakus forcefully separates Amato from MechaBot before attempting to throw him off a building.
• Crosses the Line Twice: In The Movie, the scene where Mechabot in "Truth Mode" told a story about how his previous master died and Grakakus reason to kill Amato supposed to seen as terrifying moment. Then when both of them get bombed by bad robot and fell from sky, Mechabot who still in "Truth Mode", calmly said "Prepare to land and become a ghost" toward scared Amato, this scene suddenly comes off as darkly funny by audience.
• Fridge Horror: Janitoor, who reigned champion of the Space Arena for 5 years, says that losers in the arena are destroyed per tradition. How many losing fighters were destroyed in the arena over that amount of time, or even way before?
• Heartwarming Moments: A bittersweet one since it follows learning the Tear Jerker which is Mara's backstory, that being getting paralysed after saving a child from a fire, but Amato, Pian and MechaBot have a newfound and even stronger respect for their friend. Mara's smile by the moonlight makes it all the sweeter as they smile back.
• The Scrappy: Mr. Jamie isn't well liked by most fan's due to his Jerkass attitude, his Fantastic Racism against the robots, and always betrayed Amato to the point that he does not believe that Amato and Mechamato are the same person.
• Squick:
  • Pian has the displeasure of seeing the restroom turn into the Flooded Room challenge, with the toilets spewing so much water that it carries Pian out of the room. Deep is reasonably disgusted.
  • Janitoor literally fighting dirty with two filthy toiletbrushes. Some of the gunk appears to get into MechaBot's mouth when he strikes Mechamato with them.
• Superlative Dubbing: The English Dub provided by Cartoon Network is a lot more improved compared to Disney's dub of BoBoiBoy. A lot of the voices sound more natural and in sync with the character's mouths.
• Tear Jerker: Mara's backstory. She rescued a young kid when her apartment building caught fire, and got paralysed as a result. The incident still haunts her memory as she zones out when she recalls it.
• What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?: The show itself marketed for young children. Compare to BoBoiBoy, both the series and the movie is not shy to show the detailed violence in battle, the titular hero itself has no problem to using a violence to defeat their villain and completely averted Never Say "Die"-rule.

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