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Anime about mechas from Earth and Mars fighting each other over Earths air, water and other resources, and of course the Martian mechas are ridiculously overpowered, because of magical power and beat the crap out of all the ordinary Earth mechas, until the MC comes and beats them with his beat-up, training mecha.

The set-up is fine, first couple of episodes introduce the setting and characters, and sets the anime in motion. Plot is pretty minimalistic, in every episode the MC faces another overpowered Martian mecha, which just chews through every ordinary, well-trained mecha pilot with their mechas like they were paper ... and then comes the MC to save the day with his orange training mecha. All the martian mechas have different abilities with which they fight the Earth mechas and the MC always figures out their weaknesses and just beats the crap out of them. And of course, in the last episode the "Final Boss" has the most epic Martian mecha seen in this season, which has all the abilities the previous mechas had and the MC of course beats him without even breaking a sweat.

The characters are pretty shallow. The MC goes the whole season with his "Iceman" face in every episode. The martian princess goes on and on about friendship and magic and in the end blames herself for all that's happened although she was just a victim. The support characters are pretty bland are generic, not much to say. And then there's the boy from Earth, who somehow ended up on Mars, who was saved by the martian princess when they were little and who has a crush on her. The character itself seems fine, of course he wants to save the princess, but he is just so illogical and dumb in almost every episode he's featured in, it infuriates me. He's betrayed by the martians and still he fights by their side all the while sometimes aiding the MC and his gang. And in the end, he ends up shooting the MC for no reason whatsoever, just because he feels like doing so, or maybe it's because he's jealous of the MC, who has helped the princess throughout the season, while he's just sided with the people who tried to kill her, I don't know.

The soundtrack is nice, most of the tracks are great and go with the action very nicely.

The artwork is good, mechas and ships etc have lots of details to them and the action is good-looking and fun to watch.

So at the end of the day, it's a good anime, with some flaws (mostly the one guy, who just makes no sense at all and makes you want the MC to just bash the he** out of him) but I'd still recommend it.