I watched this for a rec exchange thing and over a year later but I finally finished it lol. The tl;dr is that I didn't enjoy it. I thought visually it was a gorgeous show but just watching it I often found myself just very bored and uninterested. Also the score at the bottom is not a real score, just the default anilist puts. I don't number value my experiences.

So the crux of my issue with this show, at least for the first 30 or so episodes, is just all the episodic plots are so boring and feel undercooked. And I don't mean this in a way to hate on episodic content. I just think the motws of those episodes aren't much of a focus other than having a thing to fight. There's not much of a care to delve into any charaacter or problem of the week to invest in. But then it also doesnt try to use much of those episodes to develop or explore the many many characters this show has. Maybe get a short unrelated scene or two but nothing feeling concrete. Nor do they try to develop some grand overarching narrative in this. It's all just background stuff. So it all ends up leaving each episode feeling kinda like this monster shows up and they beat it but nothing more substantial in that episode for me to grab onto. Like most shows that are most similar to this that I could compare to aren't anime but rather toku. So maybe there's some nuances there that I'm unfairly innately comparing. but in those shows often times even the episodic content will try to bring in a guest character and have them have an issue that they try tor esolve. this leaves the episodic content feeling like it has some weight and then maybe even the flesh some of the characterisation for the main cast in conjunction with the episodic stuff. I guess that's more of what I enjoy and I didn't feel like I got any of that here.

Then when it takes the big turn in the 30s I'm just kind of checked out. Like there's lots of big events going on and it start to be more continuous rather than episodic. But it's kind of still to me just felt like things were happening. i didn't really have a connection to care about the characters or threats. just felt like set piece after set piece. And don't get me wrong some of it looked really good. I'm not above hurrahing cool giant robo action. But it wasn't actually enough to keep my interest. I still never felt like I got a good sense of any of the characters. There were some vague notions pointed towards but nothing it ever actually delved into. And this is the end of the show too so I'm pretty much just checked out and a lot of it was just me going through the motions. I know a lot of people love this part but without having at all found anything to care about in the first part this second does not have much for me. It felt like something I would much more enjoy if the show had already done the legwork in getting me invested.

Anyways this is a bit more rambly and I've got some more nitpicks that I won't delve into as I think a lot of those just felt worse with my major concerns with the show and I probably wouldn't have cared as much in a show I was otherwise enjoying. But hey it looked cool. And it feels like I keep saying this but legit the only thing I liked lol. Didn't have a lot of "epic sakuga" moments but the way everything was framed, colours, and everything was just very pleasing. Really loved the goldion hammer attack especially. (Just the mech action part, I hated the command centre exaggerated summon). LIke it's very repetitive in how it looks and performs each time, but I didn't mind. Cause goddamn the visuals and framing they chose for it was sick as hell.