Talk:Agon: Atomic Dragon/@comment-343942-20160427054324

Agon is a bit lackluster, but enjoyable in its own right.

As far as the suit and effects are concerned, though somewhat inferior to the Toho films of the time, they're decent enough for a TV series from the 60's. Agon's design is cool in a simplistic sort of way, though I find it hard to believe the creators of the show didn't intentionally draw SOME inspiration from Godzilla, in both suit design and character origin. There's just too many similarities going on there.

My main complaint, however, is the "musical score" which seems to dominate most of the runtime of each episode, especially the monster rampage scenes. When Agon stomps a building you'll expect s satisfying "CRASH!", but instead you'll just hear the soundtrack's incessant "bloop, bop, blong..." I understand there's two or three versions/releases of the series, so I'm not sure if it just the copy I own, or if this is common to all versions. All I know is it gets really old, really fast.

The story isn't that engaging, and the human characters didn't leave much of an impression, though the same could be said of many of the Godzilla/Gamera films of the time.

In the end, Agon is serviceable as far as kaiju stories go. If you can tolerate it's more frustrating aspects, you'll like it fine.