You ever notice in the end credits for this show, the music is sounding all emotional and epic, and they have the little Universal Animated plane flying around being goofy?
@saberbasir I think it was a little ahead of its time. Kind of like Gargoyles you had major storylines, that could get seriously heavy with real consequences. I mean in ExoSquad they had deaths of major characters, a budding romanace and cliffhangers. In Gargoyles Elisa was shot, Goliath went on the warpath looking for those he thought responsible, the two had romance starting up when the series ended. If you're lucky you'll get ES on DVD
Exosquad is proof that American animation can still be just as good as Japanese animation when it comes to having a show with a good plot, important themes, realistic emotions in the characters, and dramatic scenes.
These are the kind of cartoons I grew up with and modeled my imagination. Too bad they only do crap nowadays. But lets keep it real, american anime will never be as good as japanese anime.
Proof that American Anime can be alot better than Japanese Anime when it wants to be, no fighting prepubescent kids and stupid mysterious characters with ridiculous powers who never smile here. Just death, love and the grittiness of war. Too bad at the time it was looked at as a "cartoon" because it was anything but that. the Neosapians were right to hate humans and thats the sign of a great drama.
There was actually supposed to be a crossover between Exosquad and Robotech. It might have worked if the Neos had been green skinned, but the writers could never get a decent story together.
A kickass series with a awesome intro. The only downside is the show seemed to have been canceled on a cliffhanger. Even if some company made a TV movie that takes place after the last episode, it will most likely lack the charm of the original show. Never the less, follow up would be awesome.
I watched the series on Hulu, I never realized it when I watched as a kid but I can't believe how much of an idiot Admiral Winfield is. One of his men (a jerk) disobeyed his orders and he still let him keep his job! Then the jerk mutinied and the whole fleet ended up getting destroyed as a result! Winfield is the worst.
Just bought it today. This was one of the cartoons I wished they'd never killed. What I really loved about this toon, was they took elements from Gundam and let people die on this show. Great story, great artwork, excellent soundtrack. One of the better cartoons that should have been allowed to continue.
Yea. Japanese animation had and still does have more realistic personalities! Even when it is oriented to children. The best animated series of all time Dragon Ball Z is about (if not older) than I am is a good example. In american cartoons they never say "kill." They say destroy. More often than not if the bad guy wants to kill somebody, they simply kill the fools. Remember how they brought back Opt. Prime in Transformers? GI Joe Movie where Duke was killed off, they changed it?
True but remember, in Transformers, they did kill off 2/3rds of the pre-movie Autobots in the movie and they never came back except for Optimus of course. It also goes back to the notion that here in the States, toons historically have been for kids while in Japan, it's taken more seriously.
True, that's also true the Batman: TAS witch ran back then.
Unfortunately the current adult swim cartoons (and similar) are just kid's stuff with some adult extras, but they lack the dept of old cartoons such as Exo Squad, Batman: TAS, Gargoyles.
very true...in the 90's it seems like they really tried a lot of serious cartoons....i don't know why they stopped...those are still the shows i remember....
@morbidanjel44 This was awesome when it aired & its still awesome today. I only have 2 complaints, the 1st that this show was canceled on a cliffhanger & the 2nd, is that the 2nd season was not released on DVD. Fortunately you can find the 2nd season on IMDB.com & Hulu.com.
the bad thing is all the offical ones are on VHS. Universal is being stupid, they can easily do this series justice and bring it out on DVD with a few extras, (like all the trading cards, what the direction the new season was heading and so on) i say your more likey to get better quality in torrenting the series.
It was my brothers favourite cartoon then i started watching it...I liked the starting of the season 2 rather then season 1.... I hope they make another cartoon like this...
Most of my friends don't remember this but I loooved this cartoon I downloaded just about all episodes off limewire about 2 years ago got a virus and had to delete them all :) But this cartoon was the truth the first one where main characters where actually killed!!
Yes you are so f*cken right. When I was a kid; I remember thinking about the characters being killed and was like wow! I have never seen this before. It was something new to me...I agree with you; great cartoon, in the top 10 of all time. But it has been forgotten.
There is a LEGO (Danish plastic bricks) toy of this xDDD
benutzer29915022 6 months ago
łoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo :DDDDD
kubisiak1 11 months ago
You ever notice in the end credits for this show, the music is sounding all emotional and epic, and they have the little Universal Animated plane flying around being goofy?
Raguleader 1 year ago
FUCK IGN Top 100 Best Animated TV Shows
super00su 1 year ago
I had several of these figures and I LOVED this show!
SuperMike82 1 year ago
I've never seen this cartoon before, but seeing this, wished I had.
rkttkr 1 year ago
this show was a really good war series that could get violent a little sophisticated considering it was an early morning kids show :D
saberbasir 1 year ago
@saberbasir I think it was a little ahead of its time. Kind of like Gargoyles you had major storylines, that could get seriously heavy with real consequences. I mean in ExoSquad they had deaths of major characters, a budding romanace and cliffhangers. In Gargoyles Elisa was shot, Goliath went on the warpath looking for those he thought responsible, the two had romance starting up when the series ended. If you're lucky you'll get ES on DVD
Cavillier1970 11 months ago
greatest cartoon of all time..this and x-men
pathorne1 1 year ago
The hell? This is AWESOME!
GreenDragonFilms 1 year ago
Your not a child anymore. Cartoons stink.
bradmhendrickson 1 year ago
this takes me Back
BlueBeast1123 1 year ago
good question ancalites.
kertaspaper94 1 year ago
this shit was soooo goood
cerebrateone 1 year ago 3
it is on dvd now go buy it
spacexploder 1 year ago
Great cartoon!
TheNewEmphinix 1 year ago
Exosquad is proof that American animation can still be just as good as Japanese animation when it comes to having a show with a good plot, important themes, realistic emotions in the characters, and dramatic scenes.
AGT619 2 years ago 2
@AGT619 and lots of flashy lasers
mwells219 1 year ago
@AGT619 Aww man, one of the best shows ever!!!!!!!!!!!I still wanna exoframe!!
bigdaddy9247 1 year ago
The toys for this cartoon were the best!
perfectclone25 2 years ago 5
I just said pretty much the same thing on another video!
superchief86 1 year ago
Netflix finally has the DVD's available! YES!
tailgunner2 2 years ago
These are the kind of cartoons I grew up with and modeled my imagination. Too bad they only do crap nowadays. But lets keep it real, american anime will never be as good as japanese anime.
lifeincolour09 2 years ago 2
good quality nice upload
clustro 2 years ago
hot. what ever happened that we can't have cartoons of this quality anymore?
ancalites 2 years ago 3
legit
oldforgereviews 2 years ago
American cartoons have way better storylines than those unwatchable except for the animation japanese cartoons.
swissbeats2k 2 years ago
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Japanese anime will always be superior! Having said that I still think Exo-Squad was cool.
GothikOrk 2 years ago
Proof that American Anime can be alot better than Japanese Anime when it wants to be, no fighting prepubescent kids and stupid mysterious characters with ridiculous powers who never smile here. Just death, love and the grittiness of war. Too bad at the time it was looked at as a "cartoon" because it was anything but that. the Neosapians were right to hate humans and thats the sign of a great drama.
TeamFortressKilla 2 years ago 4
Very well said. It had great drama and amazing voice acting. Very well written show, it was definetly not for kids.
Gassem32 2 years ago
greatest morning line-up ever: Botsmaster, Exosquad, and Mighty Max.....i was late for school all the time.
silentthawk 2 years ago 5
great cartoon. brings back memories
evotime24 2 years ago 3
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Wow they did kind of rip-off BattleTech.
WolfSnake77 2 years ago
does anyone know where i can download the seasons for this show??
s3v3np01nt62 2 years ago
No, but you can watch both seasons on hulu for free.
emp0rizzle 2 years ago
This show and Botsmaster were so good.
abce246 2 years ago
they tried to play off the fame of robotech
hoewingchan 2 years ago
how so? i dont think exo squad has any similarities to robotech
newmusicsukscock 2 years ago
There was actually supposed to be a crossover between Exosquad and Robotech. It might have worked if the Neos had been green skinned, but the writers could never get a decent story together.
zuluagent 2 years ago
@zuluagent actually Exosquad toyline had release Robotech toys.
Neoguest 1 year ago
This show rocked! I miss it.
punkboi2007 2 years ago 4
A kickass series with a awesome intro. The only downside is the show seemed to have been canceled on a cliffhanger. Even if some company made a TV movie that takes place after the last episode, it will most likely lack the charm of the original show. Never the less, follow up would be awesome.
jagarcia0705 2 years ago
If they could get the original voice actors that would rock! EXOSQUAD FOREVER!
unytcommsys 2 years ago 2
I have the first season on DVD. Exosquad was the best sci-fi animated series I've watch since as a kid. I loved it. Exosquad Rocks!!!
mrkingofkings 2 years ago 2
I loved this show! Some aspects reminded me of Wing Commander. There was a lot of depth to the show, the music in this opening, and the show rocked.
Tigerman1138 2 years ago
Man watching this now I realize how the whole show is a set up to sell toys. I counted 4 that I had just in the opening!
grimwallace 2 years ago
Freakin loved dis show! I hate cartoons now!!!!
raventakayama 2 years ago 6
I watched the series on Hulu, I never realized it when I watched as a kid but I can't believe how much of an idiot Admiral Winfield is. One of his men (a jerk) disobeyed his orders and he still let him keep his job! Then the jerk mutinied and the whole fleet ended up getting destroyed as a result! Winfield is the worst.
42underscore 2 years ago
exo squad was the first cartoon equally fair 2 hispanic and aliens hahah lol!!!
koolphill 2 years ago 2
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Exo fag, fashionably late.
Early on Gay.
TheOldNihilist 2 years ago
Just bought it today. This was one of the cartoons I wished they'd never killed. What I really loved about this toon, was they took elements from Gundam and let people die on this show. Great story, great artwork, excellent soundtrack. One of the better cartoons that should have been allowed to continue.
morbidanjel44 2 years ago 21
Exo Squad showed that cartoons back in da day had balls. Toons nowadays are so castrated.
greatrey 2 years ago 44
Yea. Japanese animation had and still does have more realistic personalities! Even when it is oriented to children. The best animated series of all time Dragon Ball Z is about (if not older) than I am is a good example. In american cartoons they never say "kill." They say destroy. More often than not if the bad guy wants to kill somebody, they simply kill the fools. Remember how they brought back Opt. Prime in Transformers? GI Joe Movie where Duke was killed off, they changed it?
unytcommsys 2 years ago
True but remember, in Transformers, they did kill off 2/3rds of the pre-movie Autobots in the movie and they never came back except for Optimus of course. It also goes back to the notion that here in the States, toons historically have been for kids while in Japan, it's taken more seriously.
greatrey 2 years ago
True, that's also true the Batman: TAS witch ran back then.
Unfortunately the current adult swim cartoons (and similar) are just kid's stuff with some adult extras, but they lack the dept of old cartoons such as Exo Squad, Batman: TAS, Gargoyles.
darkoneforce2 2 years ago
very true...in the 90's it seems like they really tried a lot of serious cartoons....i don't know why they stopped...those are still the shows i remember....
rgda3rd 2 years ago
@greatrey Hot diggity damn, what a use of a word!
erik4727 1 year ago
@morbidanjel44 This was awesome when it aired & its still awesome today. I only have 2 complaints, the 1st that this show was canceled on a cliffhanger & the 2nd, is that the 2nd season was not released on DVD. Fortunately you can find the 2nd season on IMDB.com & Hulu.com.
jagarcia0705 3 months ago
I can't believe you can't find ANY of the episodes here. WTFO?!
vhamp 3 years ago 3
Greatest american cartoon ever.
specterkev 3 years ago 8
this show had the greatest toys. I remember they even had stickers for fake bullet holes lol.
I remember I had the cop one. and the leader with the MC hammer buzz cut.
hardr0ck 3 years ago
it would be great to see this series live on as a video game!!!
mellyjaz 3 years ago
it was, but it was weak on Sega Genesis. Maybe Wii VC will release it, but I doubt it.
morbidanjel44 2 years ago
pongan videos con audio latino
xr1986 3 years ago
i'm not in the states so i cant watch the episode on hulu, anyone know another site i can watch it off of??
leilomoslomo 3 years ago
Hulu blocks out of US Ips? Hmm that sucks ass! Have you tried using a proxy?
DaScatman 3 years ago
yea it says their video library can only be streamed within the states.
i dont know anything about proxy's haha
is it a program?
leilomoslomo 3 years ago
It masks your IP, just google up proxy, you might find one that'll work for you. they're easy to work :)
DaScatman 3 years ago
lol i got the proxy
now it says javascript is required to play hulu videos
i looked it up on google on how to enable it on firefox and it still doesn't work..
leilomoslomo 3 years ago
Hmm, Rapidsearch could help, maybe.
DaScatman 3 years ago
those exo squad toys were so cool back then
rayramis22 3 years ago 3
Fuck yes!
DaScatman 3 years ago 2
The animation wasn't very good but the story to this show was EPIC!
blastardinc 3 years ago 3
Ruff ruff get a life!
DarkWolfen 3 years ago
They're on Hulu! Go watch!
spidercoz 3 years ago
found episode one on youtube well parts o it realy cool show i wantto see the rst of the season
KIDPHAROH 3 years ago
One of the great cartoons of all time.
silus2000 3 years ago 2
i was born in 1991 and i havent heard of this show till now and it looks really cool.i want to watch episode one but i dont think its on youtube.
KIDPHAROH 3 years ago
Buy all the episodes from Ebay. Its really cheap, and its worth having the greatest cartoon of all time in your collection.
silus2000 3 years ago
the bad thing is all the offical ones are on VHS. Universal is being stupid, they can easily do this series justice and bring it out on DVD with a few extras, (like all the trading cards, what the direction the new season was heading and so on) i say your more likey to get better quality in torrenting the series.
sockmess 3 years ago
second greatest. gargoyles is the first
blackderby80 2 years ago 2
It was my brothers favourite cartoon then i started watching it...I liked the starting of the season 2 rather then season 1.... I hope they make another cartoon like this...
191288ash 3 years ago
Most of my friends don't remember this but I loooved this cartoon I downloaded just about all episodes off limewire about 2 years ago got a virus and had to delete them all :) But this cartoon was the truth the first one where main characters where actually killed!!
gabigboy93 3 years ago 3
Yes you are so f*cken right. When I was a kid; I remember thinking about the characters being killed and was like wow! I have never seen this before. It was something new to me...I agree with you; great cartoon, in the top 10 of all time. But it has been forgotten.
mar10nhernandez 3 years ago
I even bought the fuckin' toys! Hey, where can I watch this?
Asukalover88 3 years ago 2
any1 recommend me some cartoons like these ..
191288ash 3 years ago
theres really no cartoon made like this these days...
191288ash 3 years ago 4
No shit. None of them have this level of pure awesome.
DaScatman 3 years ago
Truly.
I remember it being over my head when I was younger(my dad used to watch it religiously back in the day).
Talthain 3 years ago
On my top 5 favorite cartoons of all time
Boniushimself 4 years ago 3
I remember this. Cool cartoon.
DrIdaho 4 years ago