Before I start digging the hole,let me name the two things I did like about it. One: The soundtracks "Nicopol" and "Roh roh" (rap version) were awesome. Two: At the start of the second half of the series, there was some pretty nice political debate between the characters. This barely lasted for 2-3 episodes though, apparently it wasn't "over-the-top" enough for the series.
Now to grab the shovel; for some reason I dislike drills right now. The anime is WAAAAY too over-the-top, to a level where it becomes downright retarded. And I'm not just talking about people shouting with all of their lungs. I'm talking about robots combining (god I hate mechas), galaxies being LITERALLY grabbed and thrown like baseballs, and other equally stupid 2-year-old fantasies. On the bright side, if there is a physics teacher or a scientist you dislike you can simple show them this anime and they will commit suicide.
And then there is the anime's theme. No I don't mean the f@cking mechas, but basically the main ideology that the whole anime revolves around. "If you have the will, you can do anything."... Well that is true, so long as you have the power to do that... For example, say you're headmaster in a school, ,can you expel every student? Yes, because you have the POWER to do so, those annoying little brats! Now say you're a homeless guy who wastes his money on drinking. Can you still expell those students? No because you're a miserable failure with no power over them. For another example lets say you want to change the way a country works. Can you do it as an average day-to-day employee? No because you have no political power whatsoever. But if you were a politician? You can make a worthwhile effort because you have the POWER to do so. If you don't like the amount of power you currently have just work your way to increasing it. The show just straight up ignores this, allowing for stupidities like a squirell becoming human through sheer force of will and fighting an alien head-on, or robots with no compability whatsoever combining. Oh and keep in mind that noone EVER works on becoming more powerful. The closest we get to training is when our stupid protagonist called Simon and the even stupider former protagonist Kamina try to make their robot union technique look cooler in a pathetic attempt by the animators to offer us humor. They NEVER EVER try to imrpover by pretty logical things such as gadget upgrades or perhaps learning their opponents' weaknesses. Force of will people. When someone aims a gun at your head just shout "who the hell do you think I am?" and cross your arms. The rest will work itself out. Either that or you will die and the average IQ level of the planet will go up.
To make the hole larger... Lets talk about that "oh my god" awful animation. I'll not say that I can animate better, but I can easily say that I would animate more... Maturely. The animation reminds waaaaaay too much of a manga for its own good, seeming fake by most anime standards. Hell, Yamishibai's animation is more realistic compared to this. In case the anime itself wasn't immature enough on its own, the animators decided to add the names of attacks or transformations with BIG BRIGHT RED LETTERS that cover half the screen. To me it just made already-rediculous things appear even stupider.
Unsurprisingly I found myself siding with the anti-spirals most of the time, hoping that they would get those apes to shut up. And to those who say "you don't get it"...Yes, I don't get it, at all! This isn't entertaining or smart, it's a tribute to 2 year-old fantasies, where the big robot goes " vroom vroom!" and then "pewh pewh!", and the worst part is, it doesn't recognize itself as such, but instead takes itself seriously. How does this even have fans?!
