- The Music is legitimately good, and the cast is doing their best with a really bad script.
- People talk about how brutal the deaths are in this show but they really aren't. Like, there's nothing visceral in most of the deaths in this show (except maybe three or four, and most of those are confusing in just how much more violent they are that it doesn't work, it just shocks), and almost every death is telegraphed to shit and played up for maximum emotional effect. The problem is the characters just aren't written strongly enough or given enough time to live, so most of their deaths just do not matter to me, even some really major cast memebers.
- Katejina's arc makes not a lick of sense and is by far the worst thing about this show.
- Really wishy-washy characterization and many characters just make random ass decisions to give the plot a little extra zazz which makes many of them seem stupid or delusional and while there are good characters in this show, almost all of them get a turn to be massively unlikable or brainmeltingly stupid. While Katejina is probably the worst character here, Shakti is easily the biggest victim of this writing tendency.
- The show can't make up it's mind about what is and isn't necessary in war, what its function is, why people sacrifice so much for it. The themes are really screwy here.
- The show has a massive fucking woman problem and not to be that guy but like seriously there is so much gross shit in here it's wild.
- Why do grown women wanna fuck Uso can we cut that out.
- The show does not touch on earlier UC events like nearly at all so its inclusion in the UC is baffling considering Tomino and Sunrise would start doing AUs immediately after.
- The characters and MS designs are all just kinda eh for the most part (though I do like the design of the V2), and while the animators stay on model like 95% of the time, they also use a lot of obvious shortcuts that make it look cheap even in comparison to earlier full-length series.
Honestly if I wasn't trying to get through all of the series I would not have stuck with this one. If you're not a completionist, skip it. 4/10: Ass.
