mrsatan

Totally generic, forgettable trash. Boring story and terrible animation (typical of Hanna Barbera). Not much different than the equally forgettable TV series, except with this they got "celebrity" voices. Hanna Barbera should never have been hired to make a robot cartoon. There was a reason Transformers is remembered and loved and Gobots gone and forgotten-- the difference in quality of their respective television shows. Both were good toys, but Transformers had fun stories and great animation (for its time). Gobots was standard Saturday Morning schlock. I strongly suggest get the DVDs of "Machine Robo: Revenge of Cronos" (currently out on Region 1) instead and see how the Gobots & Rock Lords should have been done.

All the comments here so far are describing the wrong video. This "HEN" was the live action version that preceded the forgettable anime. It was a lot better than the anime and also more accurate to the manga. The VHS version was more explicit than the TV broadcast version. There were two parts to this story, both dealing with same-sex romantic relationships. Part 1 featured the macho Suzuki (Aoki) suddenly falling in love with a bishonen boy Yuki Sato (actress Aiko Sato). Part 2 was the more popular version with loose schoolgirl Chizuru (former adult video star Asami Jo) suddenly falling for the innocent transfer student from Kyushu, Azumi Yamada (Miho Kiuchi). I don't think this was ever released outside Japan, unfortunately.

I just thought it should be pointed out that in the original Japanese version, all of the characters (except Gas Skunk) had different names. They were NOT intended to be new versions of old characters like Optimus Prime, Megatron, Prowl, etc. The Americans decided to rename them to trick people into thinking it was the return of the '80s Transformers. This was supposed to be a story of a different group of Autobots that are based in Japan. So when you watch it, keep that in mind. The Americans also changed the background music for some reason; the new music is terrible. The voice acting isn't anything to write home about either. If you can, watch the Japanese version, "Car Robot", instead.