First of all I'd have you known something really important. The genres presented by MAL aren't accurate. They forgot to add Military, Romance, School, Slice-of-Life, Vampires. And possibly all of this jumbled up in its midst makes it a parody too. I did find it hilarious, myself. I mean, space, military, vampire, slice-of-life? Gotta love that.
First I'll start because I wanna get to the good stuff faster by saying that the art and sound of the anime is nothing impressive in of itself, it's completely generic. The soundtrack is nothing which I'd listen to outside of the anime, so it probably wouldn't bother you or impress you.
Let me tell you what the good stuff is. The good stuff is how hilariously bad the anime was so far. No, no, wait, I mean. It's so bad, it's actually entertaining. Like, with a couple more self referencing jokes added to it, it could've been a bitching parody. Now let me tell you about the story.
So you have this country that is attacked by another country because, well, they have no army. Now, call me stupid, but isn't the whole reason we, humans, stopped warring each other, is because we have mass destructive weapons that could wipe as out and we have devastating tragedies due to shit like this? Shouldn't Japan out of everyone on the planet know the consequences of that? Like, it's not peace everywhere because we grew into being peaceful and loving and we did it for the sake of love and peace. We did it to protect our fucking selves. So, this country in space, we should believe, that there can be a country so incompetent that they won't even build themselves some army or any sort of defense? Yes, because they are incredibly incompetent. I'll get on that later.
So what's the first thing you think of when you see the tags, action, mecha, space? Is it a school slice-of-life setting? Yeah, me too. So the story follows the life of a school student Horuto which I have to mention because the character is absolutely appaling. I'm gonna give some details about his arc a bit further than the synopsis, so spoiler alert, but they won't ruin the story for you, at least I don't see how, so if you wanna avoid them, continue reading after I finish this paragraph and write SPOILERS OVER. Horuto is basically a shy high school pussy whipped kid who, listen to this, finally decided to tell his love interest, which is pretty much another clutzy sorta tomboyish tropy girl, that he's been in love with her. He almost tells her but everything changed when the Space Nazi attacked. (I forgot the name of the nation and I'm gonna call them that because their salute is Blitzendegen and they love war) Then Horuto was interrupted and then Girl dies. Horuto sees a giant fucking mech. Horuto goes inside giant mech who has him give up his humanity and then starts killing Space Nazis. The people of his country go nuts on Spacebook. Then he gets out of his mech and is killed by a character called Rrgh-Rrghffffu. BUT NO WAIT PLOT TWIST HE BECOMES A BODY SWITCHING VAMPIRE AND THEN STEALS RRGH-RRGHFFFFU's BODY NO WAY! (His name is L-Elf, sometimes the characters rush its spelling and that's how it ends up sounding) More things happen, he gets his body back. He finds out that Girl is still alive. He meets with Girl again. He's been through a war where he could've lost his life, he thought he lost her, he's probably filled with hormones and adrenaline due to being through a life threatening situation and going through a rollercoaster of emotions. Now's the chance, he asked to continue THAT discussion with her. THEN HE DOESN'T DO IT. Then cries. 10/10 character. Then also he comments on Spacebook that he's safe and the spacenews channel is like "BREAKING NEWS, THIS JUST IN, THE HIGH SCHOOL BOY COMMENTED ON SPACE BOOK". And I'm not exaggerating, that is literally what happens.
SPOILERS OVER
So to sum up everything I said in a non-spoilery way, the story goes in a bunch of ridiculously bad turns, but still somehow remains impressive due to how actually ridiculously and silly it ends up due to it. The characters are completely illogical, the story's logic is also illogical. As an example, there will be characters who get harmed badly by someone, they fucking go ape shit hating them for that, then out of fucking nowhere they will be like. "ugh, I'm sure they had a good reason. They're a decent person." Or there will be security unable to stop a guy while he's freefalling, somehow, space buildings can't have automated weapons or anything like that because reasons. Like, you don't have an army, you could at least have some automated security in your goddamned buildings. I could go all day with stuff like this, but I really don't want to spoil the anime for you.
So the only people I could actually suggest this series too, is someone looking for some series that takes itself somewhat seriously but ends up as incredibly ridiculous, this is what you want. This would be exactly what you want. The reason I dropped it is because I got bored, I didn't see how this could improve, but maybe someday I'll continue this if I'll have someone to watch this with so we would experience this ridiculousness together. Watch it with a friend (Read my edit), it could end up as a good time. But watch it fully knowing that the series will make no sense, most of it will be illogical, none of the characters will actually be appealing and it just will feel as a "cash money cash dolla' dolla' look at this pile of money we threw in this anime ain't it beautiful this is what you wanted right, IS IT?" and everything will be ridiculous. If you take this anime seriously, you will fail to enjoy it, so just kick back and prepare for laughter. I'm kinda dissapointed it wasn't satirical, because if it would've been, it would've been really good.
Slight edit: I've watched more of this series and I don't have a lot to add. The series will have an episode in which it will become a musical. It seems to be getting worse. Pretty much everything I've said stays unchanged, but things seem to be getting progressively worse. I don't plan to continue it and at the time I first wrote this I expected this to be good for a laugh due to how bad it is, but it actually becomes annoyingly bad after a while. I pretty much got forced by a friend to watch it because I forced them to watch it too. Then I couldn't handle it anymore. I can't detail exactly what happens that makes what's bad even worse, but I'll give you a hint which is "school." If you think that the school setting for this is already bad, it gets worse. Trust me. If you can't handle worse than what's in the first 3 episodes, then you can't handle this at all. So after you watch the first 3 episodes and you still dislike it, you should abandon ship right then and there.
