I liked the comic series quite a good deal, so this cartoon interests me. There are a few things I note, though:
First is that the promo image seems to suggest that Olivetti has been thinned out from the comic character’s design.
The prosthetic is a neat touch (and Netflix should take the next step and cast a disabled voice actor), but there was no reason to make the character thin too when it’s rare enough to have chubby characters who aren’t played as jokes.
One thing this series could possibly do better is get into the origins of the Sharg and the Robos. For whatever reason, the comic raises the mystery of where they came from and who’s building them, but just never bothers to answer it. So hopefully we get an answer this time. Maybe it’s a Pacific Rim kind of deal with competing creators, or maybe the Sharg’s creators also built the Robos who then rebelled.
Lastly, I’m not sure how to feel about the Robo design. The designs in the comic were more based on tokusatsu with touches of Mazinger Z and Evangelion. While inversely here I’ve heard at least one response that the Netflix promo’s Robo looks like out of a “generic mobile game”. Hopefully the Robos as a whole will look good in their own right when we see them all.
Edited by Tuckerscreator on May 20th 2021 at 5:04:27 AM
I thought some of their shows looked good, like Transformers Prime and Still Water.
The Polygon Pictures hatedom still alludes me note , as their recent outings with Pacific Rim: The Black and Stillwater was generally well-received. (An interview on their specific involvement on the former here
.)
I'm pretty out of the loop on the original comic, so I'm hoping this adaptation does a good job on that.
Edited by XMenMutant22 on May 20th 2021 at 8:57:16 AM
Polygon is the sort of studio that really accents notable weaknesses of their productions. The Netflix Godzilla Trilogy is a great example of their rather bland, bleh visuals making a dull, pretentious story feel duller and more pretentious to the point when Netflix and Toho decided to try again, they got a completely different studio and creative team and seem to be getting a much more positive reception. (Comparing the director who specifically said no Mechagodzilla to one who makes one of the main characters Jet Jaguar will do that admittedly).
And now here we have bland, bleh visual designs from the studio looking like its about to advertise an ad-supported mobile puzzle game. This is the sort of thing Polygon fumbles all the time.
The first trailer has finally been released!
Per Deadline
, featuring the voice cast:

https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/stephen-chow-monkey-king-netflix-1234977665/
Coming to Netflix in 2023 is an animated series called Mech Cadets.
“Mech Cadets” is an animated series based on the Boom! Studios series “Mech Cadet Yu” from Greg Pak and Takeshi Miyazawa, executive produced by Boom! Studios, Japanese studio Polygon Pictures Inc. and Aaron Lam, who also serves as the writer and an executive producer.
"Set 50 years in the future, after a terrifying alien species attack, “teenager Stanford Yu works as a janitor at the Sky Corps Military Academy. But he’s only dreamed of one thing his entire life — to pilot a Robo Mech, giant robots from outer-space who came to our aid. When he finally gets his shot, Stanford and his classmates must put aside all personal differences and work together as a team in order to defend humanity against a new invasion of aliens.”