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Genre

Mecha, Comedy, Action

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The show starts off kinda slow, and the premise is pretty confusing at first. Probably only really comparable to Turn-A amongst all Tomino's shows, or at least those I'm familiar with - much of the show follows a monster of the week formula. The characters are engaging enough that I don't actually mind though personally.

In fact, two of the characters really impressed me much more than I ever expected them to. Princess Ana is the annoying child character - only instead of being annoying she's smart, politically savvy and courageous. She never really becomes a nuisance and helps out in several situations. The other is Adette Kistler who I expected to just be a fanservicey character but who doesn't seem to provide much (if any?) of that. Instead she's just a very earnest person who takes a while to find her feet in the show, but is awesome once she does. Most every other character in the show follows in that vein, I don't think there's a single character I disliked. Bonus points for having a ninja character yell out the line: "Shotguns! A ninja's favourite weapon".

The mecha are fantastic as well. There's both super and more grunty suits, and loads of each in the show. The silhouette machines have a very mechanical look, and while they never achieve much they see some nice action. The Overman's are much more biological and have some pretty far out powers, which seem to be RPG inspired and make for some great fight scenes.

The last 6 or so episodes make up the final arc, and while I honestly couldn't have seen how they could make it last that long during the first 2 or so of these episodes it never felt dragged out and I was actually left disappointed that there wasn't more of an epilogue to the show. I cried throughout the final few minutes, and had a huge grin stuck to my face when the monkey dance finally got performed right at the end.

I watched some episodes in dub form, and watched the subs in others and preferred the sub overall for consistency. Some of the actors in the dub sounded bored at times, even the main characters but they performed a great job at other times.

The story itself is as nonsensical as Super robot shows tend to be, enough so that I'm not even sure of the full details after watching it. There's a great catastrophe and humans are pushed in to the Siberian Wilderness and one or two other areas for several hundred years or something. Then some of them decide they want to see if the rest of the earth is habitable again and exodus from their prescribed area. London still seems to be intact though and controlling the rest of the world, and blah, blah, blah.

It doesn't even matter. It's just there as a backdrop for the characters and if you can stand a show with slow pacing but fantastic action and great characters then you should watch this - A/π.

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