First of all, I don't think Gridman is underrated. As I was watching Guriddoman I felt a sense of emptiness in the show and I started wondering about what others thought about this show. So I thought I would write my honest review of this show.
Story: The story revolves around this yung redhead lad who has amnesia. This dude goes on trip and talks to a computer and they fight together against Godzillas. This is simplified episode synopsis for the initial 5 episodes. This made it feel like I was watching some pokemon episodes where main characters are doing their thing until obnoxious antagonist arrives and the protagonist defeats em. It felt like watching same episode over and over again. What was able to keep me watching was big bob the builder (referring to boobs) girl and the dark gurren lagann looking thing. The plot never had anything else interesting in it to keep me hooked for the first 4 episodes. In general Gridman felt like I was watching some lame ass mecha PG-7 anime for children(minus the parts where Akane ordered to kill someone).
Characters: We have a MC with amnesia. This is a good start since it fucking destroys his whole personality(not like there was any in the beginning because of amnesia). We have MC's friend who doesn't neither show almost any personality aside from drooling for Akane (big bob girl). Main heroine is a tsundere bait that in reality just doesn't give a fuck. She doesn't show much of emotions aside from time to time some cute behavior so that she doesn't seem like to be just dead inside (She also learns to smile towards the end). Then we have team Gridman support group. This consist some forgettable characters and their only reason is to be Gridman's augementations. So the cast is Optimus Prime's sonic wing and super mode (Transformers: Cybertron), Gurren Lagann drill mode and sword mode (couldn't think any reference but sword is pretty generic). Not too original. To me only interesting characters are the antagonists Akane and Alexis echo. Akane's motives are lacking so Alexis is probably controlling her for it's own purpose.
Art and Animation: I won't tackle on this too hard but the fighting animations are orgasmic and on par with Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. High Quality CG.
Sounds: Musics are good too but nothing ground breaking.
Enjoyment and conclusion: I cant really enjoy anything in this show except
for animation and sounds. It's just overall a mediocre mecha anime in my opinion. Be sure to give me some (constructive) criticism if you feel like it, I would really appreciate it.
