Thirty-one episodes of metal hitting metal, and the grudge from the last war is still warm. Revenge of Chronos handed you a planet of super-robotic lifeforms, Master Kurai's son Rom stepping up after the Gandora armies tore the peace apart, and Battle Hackers is where that story keeps rolling in 1987 with a new roster and the same appetite for transformation sequences. This is the tail end of the Machine Robo line, the toys Western kids knew as Gobots, and there is something great about watching the original show refuse to be a commercial and just commit to the fight. The animation is late-eighties TV budget, which means it saves everything for the moment a chest plate splits open and someone gets thrown through a canyon wall. Track it down in whatever rough fansub exists and you will finish all thirty-one anyway.

A ship carrying a crew from Earth crashes on the planet Chronos. Convinced they have no way home, the humans offer to fight side by side with the Machine Robos. The series is a 1987 TV entry in the Machine Robo franchise, running 31 episodes, and it mixes action and science fiction with giant robot battles.