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Aug 27, 2018
Preliminary (9/12 eps)
Total junk. This is the anime equivalent of a Roland Emmerich film. Cheap shallow drama conducted by utterly substanceless, one dimensional characters, wrapped up in a big budget high concept story so as to pull the wool over your eyes. Not a single character has an arc; none of them have any motives beyond nothing relationships that you're expected to just go with; none of the events contain a modicum of tension. The only way to enjoy this is to entirely ignore the events on screen and treat it like a music video or something.

The protagonist has no motive or personality. He's a quiet, hyper intelligent nerd who just knows how to beat everyone and all the girls love him. He's kind of like the protagonist of a lot of young adult fiction, a self insert wish fulfillment guy for little boys. The other male lead does nothing but look kind of sad and get his ass whooped - he likes the princess. That's it. That's all there is to him. The princess herself is one of the most insufferably trite characters I've seen in anime. She's a pure peacemaker with not an ounce of malice in her body. Someone tries to kill her and she weepily apologises to her attempted murderer. Oh my gosh isn't she so sweet? Stop putting these characters in military science fiction for god's sake.. Basically every female character in this show with the exception of the ship captain feels like a disgusting fabrication to sell toys and be eye candy. None of them do anything. They're just there to go oh my god! when Inaho perfectly destroys an opponent without batting an eye.

There's no attempt at developing a world. Mars has insane, super advanced technology while earth just looks like contemporary earth. But then 10 episodes in one of the Martians says actually despite the technology Mars is really impoverished and spartan in its society. What? This is a guy in a gigantic space palace dressed up like a 19th century Baron. All the Martian characters are like feudal lords. But Mars is poor? WHAT? Early on you think "oh interesting, the earth people have inferior technology - but look at the way the Martians act, they're all headstrong rivals. So surely they will invade and find themselves beaten due to the superior training and discipline of the earth soldiers, perhaps lead by our charismatic main character."

Nah. They just slap everyone around like ragdolls. Until Inaho shows up and he like does some stupid physics trick that entirely removes tension and neuters the drama. Over and over. The characters constantly go "grrr this is a war! this is a battlefield!" but is it? Because you just see the one ship sort of meander while Big Bads fly in and get owned by a 14 year old redditor. Are there battles? Who's winning? Surely it should be over since Inaho is the only one with an IQ high enough to even contest the Martians? But if it's not does that mean the earth army is actually winning? Then why do I care about this one specific ship? Oh because it has the horrible waifu bait princess character onboard, right!

They repeatedly make these embarrassing PTSD asides as if to try and trick you into thinking this is an intelligent or mature show. It's not. It's trash. Avoid, or if you can't, watch on 3x speed and spare yourself.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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