Obsolete

This story is very basic : aliens come to Earth and trade blocks of rocks for Exosekeleton robot suits. Humans soon use them for war.

The story never goes much deeper. We get glimpses of different countries and the conflicts depicted here and there.

I enjoyed the series for what it was : a combat, action-packed short series of 12 min for each episode. The weapons were cool, same for how the machines were animated. I liked it a lot because that's what I wanted.

But the human characters aren't moving naturally at all and the frame per second is quite low. You don't see them outside of ... their suits so often so it's not that bad.

Overall 7/10 for me

*** Updating after second season , Jan 2021***

3/10. What a troll story. The last episode is an insult to all viewers. Instead of giving us a conclusion, the studio put some loli fighting in space for 12 minutes to troll us. I wish I were lying.

If you don't believe me, skip directly to the 12 episode. Do NOT WASTE YOUR TIME with this one

Pt 1:

So Gen Urobuchi came back to anime for a YouTube anime and it's one of the laziest things I've seen from a show this year. Maybe that's why he named it "Obsolete".

What if in Kado, Aldnoah Zero or the netflix godzilla, the aliens just dropped off Knightmares for some MGS4 PMCs and war refugees from Jormungand, FMP or the Psycho Pass movie to run through half rendered Expelled from Paradise fights with an 08th MS Team theme? All while preaching about the profit of war in a way that feels like both an anti-war PSA and a recruitment video?

Forget characters. Forget story. Just straight-up ... contradictory preaching amidst poorly put together CG mech fights with uninspired designs and tactics. What a mess. The laziest thing Gen Urobuchi has ever written, blatantly ripping off himself and others without putting any work into developing the ideas he's throwing around. Also it looks like shit.

Pt 2:

Ep 10 was an ok "jump the border" story, Ep 11 had some underwater lighting, and Ep 12 just abandons the whole show to go full anime. Overall, more enjoyable than the 1st half.

Do not watch the English dubbed version! The voice acting is just bad. The actor's cadence is just unnatural most of the time, with many weird gaps in sentences. I understand that one of the main goals is to match the lip flaps, but there were soooo many times where characters mouths weren't even visible and the cadence was still off. Even the inflections and sounds of the voice actors were bad. If it weren't for the fact that this started airing in 2019, I'd seriously think the voice acting was actually A.I. generated.

I think the other reviews have adequately addressed the plot, so ... I'll just say I'm disappointed in it. I think the core of the plot was really interesting, but after episode 8 the studio just gave up on it and decided to start telling short stories that were almost entirely disconnected from the core story-line.

The only positive for me is the visual design of the show. I actually like the CGI in this. It was clean and consistent throughout the show. I also really like the designs of the suits.

First of all this is not an anime, this is a commercial to sell some model kits. It act like very serious, know all about world politics anime but its just extremely one sided, 80's b movie type anime where our hero can shot down all of his enemies from his mecha without dying and he just learn to use mecha 10 minutes ago I am not kidding. And they try to show anime is very realistic but it is not, you will feel like you are watching rambo with a mecha. Such a disapointment for me I thought this would be the best Real ... Robot anime but I was wrong. Go watch something else your time worth much more than this.