Would you recommend any of those for someone like me who isn't particularily into giant robots, or any other similarily-themed series for that matter?
I guess I was probably misjudging mecha shows since I thought they were a lot more focused on the robots, but IBO has shown me that there's still room for politics and interesting situations and characters outside of that. For example, gearing the rebels complain about Gallarhorn spending so much expensive ammo to attack them at the start was really interesting for me since I haven't seen too many shows where the parts involved in a confrontation actually have to think about resource management. Too bad the plot then proceeded to feed them whatever they needed right when they needed it, because I would've liked to see Mika having to conserve thruster fuel or having to fight for a while without the bit of armor he had to shed during his battle with Turbine's mechas.
