Reviews

Space opera anime is nearly a sacred cow. Poor one who decide to say something but praise about LoGH. But LoGH is not the only one. Crest/Banner of the Stars, Mobile Suit Gundam, Battleship Space Yamato, even Cowboy Bebop is considered by some space opera...all of them are titles that the self-proclaimed anime reviewers has in a high-esteem. But, it's actually possible to exist an anime genre that every title is a masterpiece? Well, unfortunetly, no. Anime is made by men, so sooner or later you'll find some bad title. And here is, Odin.

Odin is, from the starst, forgettable. Your typical story about a human crew in a spaceship travelling around the space. Every character is forgettable, from your typical hot-blooded main character that gets away with a lot of stuff because, despite putting constamtly im danger the spaceship and the crew, he "has guts", according to the rest of the cast, but i prefer to say "he has no brain, or common sense"; to the boring stereotypical passive heroine, who appears when the plot needs her and automatically dissapears when not, to appears again if the plot says it so.
Like i said, if someone in real life attemps to do the same things the main characters do here, they would have get rid of him, pretty soon. Here, he's not only easily forgiven, he's also praised for it. For acting like an inmature brat, that didn't consider risk to himself or the people who surronded him, and never face any consequence. That's not a character, that's a wish fullfillment really awfully written in the worst way possible. Because it's possible that some people who like hot blooded main characters that "weren't pussies like in the good old days when anime was good" would relate to him. But characters needs to grow, and made us grow as persons, not just satisfy our self-insert fantasies.

Well, after this reflexive moment, let me get this straight: Imagine every possible cliché on space sci-fi stories you ever thought. There would be here.
I'm not kidding, it would. The evil machine that takes over humanity? Check.
The extraterrestrail advanced lifeforms visit earth and manipulated species genetics? Check. The lost princess from the extraterrestrial civilization? Check.

I must give special attention to the music. Even the soundtrack is boring here. Your cheesy typical 8'0s hair metal, played in scenes it doesn't fit, at all. Or i should said never ending montages instead of scenes? Yeah, never ending montages are a more accurate term to describe it.

So, for its low quality, Odin is the space anime's black sheep. Extremely boring, full of cliches, with unidimensional, forgettable characters, and without any depth.