Characters 3/10
Aki is the president of the Robot Research Club and her dream is to build a fully functional real life giant robot. Aki has a lot of energy and passion for robots and she's determined to make her dream come true despite what anyone tells her. Unfortunately, this makes her seem annoying and childish, partly because Aki's motivation for building a giant robot is to prove her older sister wrong that she isn't mediocre. Seriously, every time Aki mentions her sister, I just want to grab her by the shoulders and scream "stop caring what your sister thinks of you!"
Kai is also a member of the club and Aki's childhood best friend. Overall, I just found Kai boring. He almost never does anything except play some robot fighting game on his phone and it really makes me angry when he says thing like "we built this robot together." What's all this "we" stuff about? What did you do to help build this robot? Did you even pick up a wrench once?
Subaru is another member of the club and the pessimist to Aki, the optimist. The only problem I have with Subaru is that I agree with him. When he argues with Aki, he doesn't say things like "you aren't smart enough or determined enough to build a giant robot" instead he says "it's scientifically impossible for robot with a body that heavy to move." Subaru is part of the reason I found Aki childish.
Kona is definitely my favorite character. It's so funny how she's such a pervert and I love how she talks like she's sending a text message with a lot of acronyms.
Story 4/10
For the most part, this anime is a slice of life story, but the problem with that is in order to tell a good slice of life story you need good characters which this anime doesn't for the reasons above.
Something that would make this anime better is if I had more reason to root for Aki and to want to see her succeed, but I hate how her motivation is only to prove her sister wrong abut her.
Also, throughout the story, there are hints that some larger conspiracy involving the end of the world is going on, but we don't get the full picture until the last 4 episodes. Until then this anime is just a slice of life anime about the members of the Robotics Research Club.
There's a plot twist when it's revealed who the real villain is which I liked, but the anime also ends with some unanswered questions. What happened to Kona's mom? Where did the monopoles come from?
Art 4/10
Something else that would make this anime better would be if they sensationalized robots more and gave a reason for the audience to get excited. There's an episode where the characters enter a robot fighting tournament and at first I was excited because I imagined this would be like Gundam Build Fighters, but then I was very disappointed. It was so lame watching these toy robots push each other over like school kids on the playground.
Some things I did like, however, were the giant spider robot the villain uses at the end was cool looking and Airi, the AI, had a really cute design with her silver hair, black dress, and the big bow on top of her head.
Overall 4/10
I just found this anime boring and I wouldn't recommend it.
