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.
Mobile Suit Gundam 0079 and the Fang of the Sun: Dougram pilot are the first anime I've watched in years. I fucking love mechs. Dougram fucks hard, I can just tell. 0079 is on and off but it's worth it for Char.
oh shit you're watching dougram? i've been meaning to get to that for a while now, have fun! i saw a great video essay on it that totally sold me on it but i'm gonna save it for when i've got a LOT of free time
My wife came at me like "ASH WE SHOULD WATCH THIS I FOUND IT" and I looked at it for two seconds and concluded: "Mecha fucks, Battletech fucks. What if they kissed?"
Was it the Pyramid Inu video essay? I was gonna post about their What Does Turn A Gundam Say About Identity Anyway? video here cause Idk, thoughts.
hell yeah. i assume you know that the mechs in dougram got stolen for battletech?
yeah it was! i liked the turn a gundam essay, i'm curious about your thoughts
Literally as soon as it came up onscreen, I started poking wifey all
LOOK!!! SHADOWHAWK!!! IT'S A MOTHERFU*KING BATTLETECH REFERENCE!!!
Uh Turn A seems kinda funny but I dunno how much I'm into its character designs stylewise, they're kinda weird. Video was not enough about the protagonist which is mostly why I clicked. Maybe there's not much to note but like ?????? I'm prolly gonna watch Turn A sometime, I think I have to now.
yeah lmao. battletech got sued over that, just really blatant ripoffs. but they were good designs to steal!
turn a has a unique aesthetic, the characters were designed by akiman, who did a lot of work on like, street fighter and darkstalkers and those 90s capcom games. the mecha were all done by syd mead who did all the technology in blade runner and alien and tron. it's very different from basically anything else out there. i personally love it, it's just a gorgeous show. late 90s sunrise at their best
That shit's so rude too, the whole Unseen thing, like they got sued and then Sunrise never even bothered issuing a Dougram bluray, fuck em =)
I thought I recognised the character art from somewhere!! Did not know Syd Mead was involved though, that's rad as fuck.
Why did you give me the giant robot brainworm =)
i think they lost the masters? though that might be bullshit like it was for mellowlink
yeah he does great work. the mecha are so cool in turn a
i'm sorry, but they can only be satiated by spreading them to others
I bet you they probably just didn't feel like doing a new transfer, since the DVD was made from broadcast tapes =) Maybe didn't think it was worth it, lol
yeah maybe. i bet dougram probably isn't a big seller on home video, very dry (from what i understand) 75 episode anime from 1981 that isn't part of a franchise or anything. suing battletech might be the most money it ever made them
I don't know about video sales, but I found surprising amounts of Dougram merch during my trip to Japan earlier this year. It and VOTOMS had even more than Code Geass lol.
huh! the more you know
though code geass probably doesn't have that much merch being sold these days, it's old enough to vote and recent entries haven't exactly been big hits
True, even if it was basically the last mechanime that got big.
That sounds amazing hahaha
The last hurrah of classical anime animation, alongside The Big O (season 1)
anime has never looked better than it did in the late 90s
i mean, specific anime from other times may look as good or better (millennium actress and maybe masaaki yuasa's stuff come to mind immediately), but as a trend that was the peak
The high-budget 80s stuff is my personal favorite, but I don't disagree.
yeah that stuff looks great too, lots of very strong entries from the 70s too! and like, there's a lot of good looking shows in the digital era as well, but the overall aesthetic hasn't been as good
I really really need to get around to Dougram. I love Armored Trooper Votoms, so I've been meaning to dig into other Ryosuke Takahashi directed series.
Giant robot cartoons have become my "weird 30-something year old" obsession after ages of not watching anime lol.
Dougram fucks, watch it nerd.
I'm so far past having the Gundam bug, I got the gundam brainrot. My next targets would be 0080, Zeta and like, Turn A yeah. This is a Turn A forum apparently!!
Giant robots is kind of a personal weakness too, I become a standard-issue "DUDES ROCK" person for big robots blowing shit up. Thank you Unjust Depths...