Terra Formars: Revenge

Terra formars is an interesting little gem that I skipped because it sounded like sci-fi gibberish.
Well, it's not wrong to say that it is. However, the focus of the story is not to make you, the reader or viewer, to believe the sci-fi that gets mentioned over and over in the story. but rather, the result, which is a sci-fi survival story set in mars. In a way, the enemy reminds me of the titans in AoT. Numerous, with many abilities, and with so much information unknown about them that it brings about a sense of terror.
Yet, it also reminds me of something like ... Jojo's bizzare adventure, where every individual has a unique power to themselves, each with their random quirks and uses. The gist of the story is ridiculous, but sets up a simple premise and foundation for the actual meat of the story to flourish: people possessing powerful abilities of animals to a superhuman degree, fighting equally superhuman cockroaches that are as big as humans.
It's definitely satisfying to watch the 6 crews struggle against cockroaches, and how the cockroaches always seem to one up their strategies despite being more primitive and less cunning.
Yet, even amidst this battle for survival, there are betrayals due to political allegiances, and a crew that had a good chance of fighting the cockroaches fall apart due to infighting, providing a good contrast to the bee-like hivemind that the cockroaches have, to the politically driven crews of Annex 1. Despite the story being ridiculous and the powers questionable, filled with plot holes, the political schemes on earth and the proxy wars on Mars definitely are built good enough to feel realistic, yet not too complicated that the action packed story feels dragged down by it.
Overall, a good story. Characters definitely could use some work, and showing the backstory of every other character is kind of unnecessary. There's definitely a formula of a character getting beat up in a life or death situation, them awakening their latent potential through a series of flashback sequences, and powering up and killing the cockroach enemy. I would have liked some more organic development and better chemistry amongst characters. Adolf's arc especially excruciatingly slow and painful to go through.
People say that the second season sucks compared to the first, but as a person that just watched both seasons consecutively, I've got to say, the animation definitely is better. By no means is the second season a masterpiece, but the first season had little to no good action sequences, and a lot of the fights are extremely unsatisfying to watch, the show utilizing a lot of tricks to abstract the fights. Compared to the second season, where yes, some fights are poorly made, but there are a decent number of fight choreography's that aren't choppy at all, and much better than the first season's. I liked the first season's cockroach CGI a lot better, and the details in the cockroach models in the second season only accentuate the poor CGI, as compared to the first, where it was simple, but served its purpose, and there was less of a contrast to the hand-animated characters. The story definitely takes a turn from survival to the aforementioned political proxy war, but that's also part of the manga, so if you don't like the plot, you also just don't like the original story, which is fine, but it's a faithful adaptation, to say the least.

PROS:
-Not bad animations.
-Interresting lore and main story.
-Cool and badass super powers for both foes and allies.

CONS:
-The momemtum is always cut by generics backstories that got little to nothing to do with the main lore that got us watching.
-The dark esthetic of the first season is now replaced with a more colorful/power rangers kindda look that remove a lot of originality and charms. It's good to mention that this make the Terraformars FAR LESS odd and scary.
-Would need some work in the pacing department. Things either happens way to fast or sometime not much seem to happen at all.

... PERSONNAL NOTE:
Like mentionned in the synopsis, humans traitors are the main antagonists of the 2nd season and, in my opinion, they made humans go against humans way too fast.
Humans are boring.
I'm far more interested in the Terraformars's weird and terrifying lore and culture.
It's sad that they went for the usual "humans are the worst animal" before we even got a proper look at the nightmarish Terraformars society...

Just like the first season of Terra Formars, this anime is deathly lacking in every aspect that makes any show enjoyable. If you want an anime that is just mindless fighting that is poorly animated, special "abilities" that are lackluster and have nothing unique about them, 0 story line that you will forget about 13 seconds after they explain it, then I guess this anime is for you. But honestly, If any of those things interest you then I am sorry for the shows that you are watching and I am internally confused.

This anime could have been cool but there is nothing here that ... gives it any type of sustenance. They don't even offer you cool villains, they're literal bottom of the barrel character designs when it comes to the enemies.

Honestly, If you thoroughly enjoyed this anime and can give me a logical reason as to why you liked it, please explain it to me because I would like to understand.