Hello there Netflix and fans and I guess you could say Avatar fans while I did watch a lot of season one and bits of seasons two and three i've never seen a full season for did a I even watch season 4 of Voltron but i've seen enough to get what the story is so here is my review of Voltron: Legendary Defender Season 5.
Even tho I just said i've seen enough to get the story for the show I still found the story for this season very hard to follow the closest thing to to a story that this season has involves something called the Kral Zera which I won't get into detail about and it only lasts about four episodes and there's no real story after episode four but at the same time the more I watched it the more I came to realise that the show is pretty episodic and i'm not sure if that works for something like Voltron or not.
Returning to the series we have Josh Keaton , Glenn From The Walking Dead , Finn The Human , Bex Taylor-Klaus , Tyler Labine , Kimberly Brooks , Rhys Darby , Neil Kaplan , The Great Cree Summer and A.J. Locascio. I think that not only was this season well cast but the show overall was cast really well since all of the characters sound really well and the actors do a good job pulling of this sci-fi heavy show and make it sound interesting.
Now I mentioned Avatar in my intro and that's because alot of the crew from Avatar and Korra work on this show and those people include co-showrunners Joaquim Dos Santos and Lauren Montgomery Joaquin directed episodes from both Avatar amd Korra while Lauren served as a storyboard artist for Avatar Season 3 but it doesn't stop there because Ki Hyun Ryu who's a producer and director on Voltron also directed episodes of Korra and writer Tim Hedrick who was a staff writer on Avatar and korra is the lead writer on Voltron so in a way this is an Avatar reunion.
Continuing this little Avatar / Korra reunion doing the animation for Voltron is Studio Mir do did the animation for Korra and I have to say that the quality of animation seen in the Avatar franchise does carry on to this series which does make sense since alot of the same crew worked on Avatar and Korra and like both of those shows this show does take it's look from anime and as an anime fan I like that alot of mainstream shows are looking towards the east for inspiration but that said I don't think Voltron needed to be one of them.
The animation for this season was well done with the characters having some great fluid movements and facial expressions. The great animation also carries over to the more emotional scenes which I won't get into since this season has just aired but to me and unlike Avatar I didn't notice any animation errors in this season of the show.
Now people say that Hanna-Barbera is bad at reusing animation and rightfully so however they reuse the Voltron transformation scene alot both in the show and in this season so people if your going to have a go at Hanna-Barbera for doing it then you need to have a go at Disney and at this show because they both do it and i'm willing to bet your favorite show reuses alot of animation as well.
I will say that while this show and season doesn't relay to much on action scenes when they do show up they are pretty nice to look at and that's honestly the best thing I can say about those scenes because they are pretty forgettable as of this writing i've just finished season 5 and I can't remember a single action scene so I do wish they would have put more effort into making the action scenes more memorable instead of just giving them pretty animation.
I will give this season this it did have some funny moments but again since this season just aired on Netflix I won't go into to much detail but I will say that I think that the animation really did help sell those moments due to how good the facial expressions were as well as how funny the joke it self actually was and yes there are no fart jokes thank the heavens.
The opening theme for the show was done by Alex Geringas and I have to say that I really liked the opening theme it makes the show feel more epic then I think it really is plus i'm a sucker for a good electric guitar which that song does make good use of and I wouldn't be surprised if you saw heard his music in movies one day he's that good.
Overall I kinda found this season to be a bit boring and that's not something I want to say because I do really want to like it but after watching that is Avatar it now makes me want more from Voltron and I believe it can be better heck the ending to this season does hint at bigger things and we'll have to wait until June 15th for season 6 and yes the poster does indeed main i'll be reviewing the second season of Trolls: The Beat Goes On! next week but as for Voltron season 5 it gets a 8 out of 10.