Before reading any further, please understand that
Pacific Rim is a perfect movie. I simply will not hear any contrarian blasphemy suggesting otherwise. Guillermo del Toro takes a frankly dumb premise (giant robots punching giant monsters) and executes it with so much care and passion that it becomes transcendent cinema. It builds on established genre tropes and transforms them into something new and distinct. It is, in part, a live-action anime, and yet it’s not really surprising that the new
Pacific Rim anime on Netflix falls far short of the 2013 movie’s perfection.
Pacific Rim anime. It just very much is indeed an anime.