I don't think I've seen one of these threads in a minute, so why not?
Here's what I've had going on -
Completed:
Good:
Giant Robo: the Day the Earth Stood Still - Great OVA! I'd recommend this to anyone who enjoys G Gundam since the first few episodes of this essentially helped Imagawa get the job as the first non-Tomino TV Gundam showrunner. From what I know, they didn't license the actual stories from the manga, so Imagawa and crew made shit up whole cloth and use characters from miscellaneous Yokoyama manga. It gives it this really manic energy when guys with random super powers and Romance of the Three Kingdoms characters are all fighting each other like a kid playing with a box of their parents old toys. Very light on actual robot fights, but the animation is gorgeous.
Getter Robo: Armageddon - More 90s super robots. I didn't like it as much as Giant Robo, but this goes pretty hard and was enjoyably edgy as fuck.
Rose of Versailles - Delightful 70s classic. It has me wanting to watch more Dezaki stuff - maybe Space Adventure Cobra will work its way in soon.
OK:
Mobile Suit Gundam 00 Season 2 - Wasn't bad, but it just didn't have enough to interest me.
.hack//Sign - This was a favorite of mine back in the old days. It's good for an advertisement/prelude for the PS2 games, but I don't think I would recommend it otherwise. I also watched the Intermezzo and Unison OVAs - they're eh.
Kill La Kill - I watched this on a whim after watching Cutie Honey (1973). It's not bad, it's just not really my thing.
Musha Knight Commando: SD Gundam Scramble - Probably cool if you were like 10 in Japan in the early 90s.
Bad:
Cross Ange - Please check CWs before considering this, but wow is this an interesting train wreck of a show.
Ongoing:
Legend of the Galactic Heroes - 30/110 so far. Still liking it a lot, but I'm just slowly working my way through this one. I couldn't imagine binging through it.
what a coincidence, i also just finished rose of versailles and gundam 00!
i liked rose of versailles, but i didn't love it. the next dezaki i watch is probably going to be oniisama e because i need more drama than oscar was providing. really disappointed in 00, honestly the fall from the early episodes was massive enough that i really dreaded watching the last few episodes and the movie (which i also didn't like)
i also watched the patlabor early days ova. pretty fun, nothing incredible but a solid way to spend 7 episodes
e: also watching dungeon meshi so i know what's been covered and can talk about it without spoiling my friends, but that's not the same
I kept telling myself that I'd read Romance of the Three Kingdoms before GGP does SD Sangokuden, but uhhh, I've read the first few chapters like 5 times and I have like 2 months for them to finish Unicorn lol.
The best part of 00 was the goofy in-universe movie parody in A Wakening. Just barely aware of what it spent the last however many episodes doing lol.
That Godzilla parody episode is a classic. If you haven't watched the movies, 1 is the fun one, 2 is the Metal Gear Solid cutscene movie, and WXIII is a monster movie in the Patlabor setting. Patlabor TV and the New Files OVA are perpetually on my "need to watch this" list lol.
the best part of 00 is the 1 second trans am. and the first hour of the movie was really good! it brings up a bunch of ideas i like and find interesting! but then the second half either ignores them all or deals with them in ways i find completely unsatisfying. that's the gundam 00 promise i suppose
i haven't watched the patlabor movies, i need to watch more g gundam but it's still such a slog. gonna watch more tonight while doing gunpla and just start skipping episodes if nothing interesting seems to be going on because i cannot be assed to care
That's too true for 00 - following in the tradition of Gundam Wing. Too bad AWotT wasn't as fun as Endless Waltz.
How far are you in G Gundam? Guyana highlands training arc lol? If you're not enjoying it, you can probably just put the dub on and only watch when Mark Gatha (it's so funny to see the anime fanart he has on his doctor website) starts screaming something goofy.
The Patlabor OVA just having one episode where they meet the missing link/godzilla and another where they get reverse double scooby-doo'd right before the finale which is about an incredibly grounded political coup was such amazing tonal whiplash.
yeah it rules. fun show