Hades Project Zeorymer: Separation
Masato, the teen-aged hero of this 1988 sci-fi adventure, discovers he was a  test-tube baby, created to pilot the enormousmechaZeorymer. Fifteen  years earlier, a renegade scientist stole it from the Hau Dragon Corporation.  Yuratei, the head of the company, plans to use it and her other robots to  conquer the world and become "Queen of the Underworld." Although she's apparently  done nothing for 15 years, Yuratei wants Zeorymer back, and dispatches her  henchmen inmechato capture it. Masato immediately bonds with Zeorymer.  Like Shinji inEvangelion, he initially balks at harming the human  robot-pilots--then a sadistic alter-ego takes over who gleefully savages any and all  opponents. As there are only four half-hour episodes ofHades Project,  splitting them between two discs seems a bit chintzy. (Rated 13 and older,  but more appropriate for over 16: violence, nudity, torture, sexual situations)--Charles Solomon