Aldnoah Zero 01-08
After being disappointed with every mecha show this season I finally got around to trying this.
Talk about saving the best for last.
Not perfect but miles better than anything else that has been coming on with giant robots. Fights are well done, no filler or "tune in next time to see what happens." Even better the fights feel like "huh... that was pretty smart" and not main character won because he has a super powerful ultra robot that he discovers in a hanger randomly.
Really sold me on the overall world they created as well, so far they are keeping it close to their chest which is good.
Only downside so far is the characters. Villains seem to be coming and going left and right. The main cast is very forgettable. A main character with literally 0 personality is odd, but better than the generic teenager who is hotheaded and what not. All the side characters seem like throwaway going to get killed eventually people as well. All around they are very one sided characters which seems to be a running theme this year.
Enemy design is nice and varied, if not completely weird. The level of technology is all over the place but I let that go because it creates different situations on how the fights have gone so far.
Interested to see where this goes.