I generally don't butt in when you all are talking smack about 00 like it's the worst thing since Victory but when you go on to actually talk positively about Victory then I just have to say you're insane.
This is me when watching Victory. The show that literally introduced a squad of hot girl pilots who were shot down each episode after opening their mouths for the first time just to praise Uso and give him a boner.
It's a show with ugly animation and the most disgusting mech and mobile armor designs in the whole franchise. You think AGE's dinosaurs are bad? Wait until you see The Grand Hubba Bubba Separating Serpent, piloted by Mr. "I will show those women and children what fear is!"
The entire cast is full of idiots, pedophiles and other scum. Shakti is little more than an annoying carriage for Karlmann, the source of neverending shrieking. The Char shoe-in is some high ranking imbecile wearing a surgical mask who fails to shoot down a suicidal 12 year old bowlcut wearing countrygrown stalker nerd. And then there's Katejina Loos. Ohhh I don't even know where to start. That's because I really don't know where to start because neither did anyone working on that wreck of a show.
You have to be taking some serious shit to enjoy Victory. It's very likely that all of you calling it "grim" and "dark" and "depressing" watched it on wikipedia. That show makes a mockery of the whole concept of life and death because not only does the watcher not give a shit about anyone dying in this show since they're only introduced five minutes before their tits go flying into the vacuum of space but because the characters are not even remembered by the main cast by the next episode.
Victory Gundam is the second anime I had to stop watching because it made my body and spirit react in a way that made me want to kill someone responsible for this dreck.