Ok, so I watched another couple of eps of G-Reco (through ep10 now) and one thing I think people overlook with Tomino is the guy is fucking funny. He's like this old dude who makes the silliest random slapstick and lols to himself as he draws it and it's totally amazing that it's animated and allowed to be released.
Like there is this constant animal joke theme where mechs will fly by sloths and other animals and G-Self will jump in first person and as it jumps a looney-toons style bird nest will flip over, and then the enemy pilot lands in the swamp and his buddies come to get him and their thrusters are pushing him over into the swamp as these looney toons crocodiles swim around him and he's trying to balance not falling.
Tomino's a big fan of the Animaniacs/Looney Toons-era humor that he grew up with and he puts it everywhere in his modern happy Tomino (post Zeta). You have stuff like the main guy running into a wall, people falling and flailing in all kinds of funny ways, etc...
I think that stuff is great and it's funny seeing the juxtaposition between a serious war show that's told in a goofy silly way. Like you have the heads of state and the holy church head having a serious conversation only to pause and go "this tea is delicious!"
Or an army hyping up a cheer only for the commander to butt in and be like STOP CHEERING WTF GO DO YOUR JOB.
Also some of the dialogue is so good. Why Bellri can't launch and the captain asks what he's doing he goes "I'm crying here, it's like I don't have a reason to exist!" (泣いてますよ！存在意義がない!); the over-exaggeration of everything is really funny.
idk, maybe this show isn't
good, but I'm laughing my ass off enjoying every ep, so idk! I also really liked ZZ Gundam for its silliness in the first half. I like Tomino's childish old man sense of humor.
But yeah, the action direction is really bad and hard to follow.
