"Fansub" (vosta) vu sur YouTube.
En dépit d'un démarrage intéressant laissant se dessinner les contours d'un mystère prometteur, ces frictions entre des cultures relativement proches et entre individus (souffrant d'une animation TV et de dessins individuels de qualité particulièrement basse) révèlent malheureusement très rapidement leur ADN de série super robot épisodique par l'excessive lenteur de la série. La première fournée d'épisodes (12~13) est bien trop étirée: bien que l'on assiste à des choses intéressantes, celles-ci sont noyées dans les obligatoires escarmouches hebdomadaires. On the other hand, you can exploit this part to grow accustomed to the characters. For the mechas, despite the toy aspect of the titular robot, everything else is well done: be some alien machines evocating War of the Worlds or the fact the Buff Clan's style is easy to discern.
After that the story finally develops a little and tries to retain your attention by speeding up (a bit), while the drawings get slightly better. It all becomes good once the series reaches its last third, culminating in the last three or four episodes (despite the very fast pace it takes then) who offer improvements everywere. Within the later parts even the mandatory repetitive action scenes start to look good (even appealing despite the impression of a human squashing flies).
The conclusion is too abrupt but still works. It is also supposedly detailed in the last bit of A Contact, the compilation movie, and the theatrical finale Be Invoked.
Some might also like the multiple references to scifi cinema or Mobile Suit Gundam.
Score: 6.5/10
The drama due to the runaway/outcast nature of the heroes is probably the best part here.
About the fansub (by Shin-getter):
Imaginary translations at times, giving birth to dialogues even more awkward than the traditional Tomino dialogues. Some grammar mistakes.