To start with the animation is your standard anime animation however the mechs use CGI and its some of the best CGI I have seen and it doesn't stick out like most anime CGI. The music is also very good with a few songs for the action scenes even having lyrics and the songs are just generally quite catchy. The action is also pretty good however that's what most of the show is so its also where the main problems come in. There is so much action that there is no room for character development what so ever and it feels like the characters are just there for the action when really it should be the characters serve the story. From episode 1 when the war breaks out up until the last episode pretty much all of the characters don't seem even the tinniest bit phased by the fact that people are being killed and there usual life is over, they all just act straight faced.
The main character Inaho is the most boring blank slate character i think i have ever seen i cant name a single unique thing about him, he is also a high schooler and we are told at schools you get some military training but somehow this guy is a tactical genius and is the only character in the show to beat mechs with aldnoah, not the soldiers that have been in the military for year, the high schooler who first piloted a mech at the start of the war a few days ago. The one character that could have a arc just goes nowhere and the other blonde haired main character does very little of consequence in the series until the final moments of the last episode and the ending is very questionable as I don't see how the story can continue, i cant really say it was a bad ending until I see season 2 which people say is awful which makes sense considering what I just said about the ending.
I give this show a 7 but if you prefer a good story (which this show had the potential) and characters then this show could honestly be a 6.
