Apologies, I might have been a bit too straightforward with my opinion. I tend to get like that. Since you asked, here's a few points. It actually started off pretty good. The characters were mostly interesting and the mc wasn't a total tool like in most animes. It's actually pretty watchable till the island episode. After that it just gets cringe worthy. Yui transitioned from a bad ass lieutenant to a high school girl. The animation quality took a nose dive. It's just atrocious in some points. Seems like they poured all their money to the CGI mechas. Yuuya turned out to be a totally generic main character of a mecha harem that's totally clueless around women. I was surprised when they argued about the Shiranui in the earlier episodes. Bridges actually made good points on how to make it better. Showed that he had some spine. I hear the original visual novels are better, so rather use your time on them. Sure, it's watchable, but there are a lot better mecha shows out there. Edit. I'd still recommend watching NGE + EoE first and then the rebuild ones. They're different stories after all. Heh reminds me that a dislike HSOTU more than bad animes due to the fact it could have been so good but ended so bad(trading story and high octane action for TITS TITS AND MORE TITS). While i actually wrote something similar in my original review "Yui transitioned from a bad ass lieutenant to a high school girl." I think its intentional due to the fact she is technically still a kid and never got a chance to grow up and was forced into the position shes in today(best i can ssay without spoilers). However they did implement it poorly. But yeah the rest of your point are so true yet i still like Muv for some reason, probably the really nice action set pieces. @ clavus your pretty right about that, it is a problem with japans culture in general not just the industry. But when you say that i look at our Tv and just face-palm so your screwed either way. From your statement i would recommend Psycho-Pass to you as people are already calling it the next GITS.The statement is ahead of its self but its not entirely unwarranted.