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Originally Posted by DaiRiderRX

Okay to sum up Aldnoah.Zero: The main character IS LITERALLY A POTATO, like he has ZERO personality and reacts to LITERALLY NOTHING. The plot is literally recycled from Turn A gundam, Macross, hell someone said this is pretty much a less kiddie version of gundam age, and that is kind of accurate. the animation is jilted because they try to mix cg with 2d and it looks bad, mecha designs are bland because of the cgi looks terrible. This is probably one of the WORST mecha series I have ever seen and the fact it was created by Gen Urobuchi is literally jaw dropping it would end up this bad. DO NOT WATCH THIS SHOW

There are only two episodes out...I don't think you should judge it so harshly this early.

Anyway I just finished Gatchaman Crowds...I wish they hadn't left the ending that open-ended. Like O.D...is he dead? because they just show him bleeding, then falling over, but they make no mention of him dying in the tag. Also, why is it that Hajime still can't see Berg-Katze? Speaking of which, the fight between O.D and Katze was cool in the beginning, but I was disappointed with how fast it went by, especially with how much build up it had. As for the series as a whole...I LOVE this show's art style everything is bright and colorful, and it just looks gorgeous, and the animation is pretty good as well, the suit designs remind me of Tiger & Bunny. The voice acting is very good as well. The standout performance definitely being Mamoru Miyano as Berg-Katze...the voice being just insane Takuto still makes me uncomfortable, but darn it if Mamoru Miyano isn't an amazing voice actor! The characters are quite a bit of fun as well...I LOVE Hajime, the best way I can describe her is a female Gentarou, but she doesn't hit you over the head with friendship. Onto some of the show's negatives...like I said I wish the ending wasn't as open ended, especially since I don't see a season 2 coming anytime soon. I was also disappointed with how little Gatchaman in-suit action there was. I think Hajime only ever transformed like 3 times throughout the entire series. If I had to pick a least favorite character, it'd probably be Joe...I found him to be a bit dull, but that could just be because you have the big wonderful ball of energy that is Hajime. Another negative I have is the length of this series. 12 episodes is really short, and I feel if it were in the 24-ish range it would probably have benefitted the show at least in the character development department...not that these characters don't develop, they all do, save for Hajime, but I feel like Joe's character arc would feel as rushed if this series were longer. I think it would help flesh out the backstories of the other Gatchaman as well. I would love to see more of what happened in Joe, O.D., Paiman, Sugane, Utsutsu, and heck even Hajime's past. I think it also would have helped the show have more action. It's such a shame there wasn't more. It looks like a lot of work was put into those CG models they use for the suits. One thing I found really weird was how Rui still disguised himself as a girl at the end, even though he had revealed his true identity to the whole city via the Gatchannel. Like, did the animators REALLY like him when he was dressed as a gothic Lolita that much? So I'm of two minds about this series, on one hand it was very enjoyable, but on the other I do wish they did more with it. If I had to rate this series on a scale of 1 to 10...I'd probably give it a 7 or an 8.