Aoki Hagane tried a few things and failed at it, like trying to be seinen. This show is not seinen. It tried to introduce complex factors (like psychology and long debates over what constitutes human logic) and frankly, failed terribly. But that's not the reason I started watching this show.
What it does best is what Kantai Collection failed at. Yes, actual ships fighting each other. The reason I upped my rating for this anime from a 6 to a 8 is because the beginning of the final battle left that good of an impression on me.
The characters are clique in a way, but there are some irregularities in their behavior that don't adhere to their cliques that its not really clique. These types of irregularities are what makes a human a human, and actually did it well enough to be the first anime where I liked all of the cast. And I mean all of them, even that basic too-high-for-you nemesis that stalks the main character and his troupe throughout the series. Yes I hated her, but the ending of the show was good enough to make me like her just as much as any of the other cast.
Sadly, the animation is CGI. If it would have been reg 2D I would have been so biased I would have given this show a 10/10. There just would have been so much potential for warping the images just a bit to emphasize immense power. However, the CGI goes well with the ship battles. CGI works well only if it doesn't have to animate people. But at least this anime did it better than Berserk 2016/2017.
In the end, a review is only a review and only so much can be said through words. I will personally recommend it just for the effects when the ships are firing the gravitons. The particle effects are lit.
