Godannar 8/10

The jiggliest mech show ever. Giggady, giggady, giggady

Character designs: 10/10
Some of the best designs ever. Every female has a huge bust and there are butts and busts jiggling all over. The female mech pilots wear VERY revealing outfits and even a bunch of the mechs have jiggle. The overall mech designs are great too I suppose.

Art consistency: 9/10
Very consistent, no complaints.

OP theme 1: 3/10
I've never been a fan of old-school mech themes.

OP theme 2: 3/10
I've never been a fan of old-school mech themes.

ED theme 1: 5/10
Skipped it most of the time but the naked girlies were a nice touch.

ED theme 1: 3/10
Skipped it most of the time.

Musical score: 7/10
Music to have a mech battle to.

Voice acting (Japanese): 8/10
All good, Goh, the main male lead, had a particularly good voice.

Story: 6/10
A girl named Aoi was rescued by Goh and his mech when she was 11 or so. Fast forward 5 years and she's about to marry him. The world is under siege by Mimetic Beasts and they can only be defeated by giant mechs (of course). Goh is struggling to get over the loss of his girlfriend several years earlier while Aoi is trying to become a mech pilot so she can support her man. It eventually turns out that male mech pilots are turning into monsters from a combination of aggression and a virus so Goh has to deal with that while Aoi has to fight without him. It also doesn't help that the Mimetic Beasts are getting stronger all the time.

Verdict: 8/10
Not a horrible plot but it was a bit on the predictable side. The real twist was that Goh and Aoi were married but their marriage doesn't seem to mean much after the first couple of episodes. They live together and it's pretty funny in the beginning but the show eventually becomes rather serious and consists mainly of mech battles in episode after episode. The best part of this show has to be the fan-service. All the females in the show (minus one and even she gets pantie shots) have rather large breasts and junk in the trunk. Any mech battle has to have copious boob jiggle, camel toes, and nipple prints that could cut glass. It's actually a pretty great mech show beyond that.

Jinki: Extend 7/10

A great 24-26 episode mech show crammed into 13 episodes.

Character designs: 7/10
OK but pretty generic. Everyone has freaky eyes, me no likey.

Backgrounds: 8/10
A lot of this show takes place in Tokyo so there are a lot of better looking Tokyo backgrounds out there. These ones look OK though. The part of the show set in Venezuela looks really great.

Art consistency: 6/10
No problems with the mechs but there are a few scenes where the characters look pretty crappy. Only a few though.

OP theme: 3/10
Not bad but i skipped it most of the time.

ED theme 1: 4/10
Skipped it most of the time.

Musical score: 7/10
A couple of cues stood out and none of them bugged me.

Voice acting (Japanese): 7/10
Good but not hard to cast since most of the characters are normal people. No one had a really memorable voice.

Story: 7/10
A girl named Aoba, who lives with her grandmother, is brought to Venezuela to live with her estranged mother after the grandmother dies. It turns out the mother works on a secret mech project whose mission is to battle mysterious mechs known as Jinki with Jinkis of their own. The mother is a bit of a bitch and the girl ends up as a pilot with "special" powers. The mom, it turns out, is a traitor and takes off with the bad guys.

Jump ahead 3 years and the Jinki have now arrived in Japan the threaten the general populace and a whole team of Jinkis piloted by young girls now battle it out over the skies and in the streets of Tokyo. It turns out there's a second girl with "special" powers, named Akao, is discovered and she and Aoba and up battling it out in the finale.

Verdict: 7/10
The worst thing about this show is the disjointed nature of the plot, crammed into too few episodes. The backstory of Akao is revealed as flashbacks during the first 5-6 episodes or so where Aoba is in the 1989 timeline. The flashbacks then stop as Aoba joins the the 1991 timeline. The flashbacks are uneven and sometimes confusing, it's almost jarring losing that plot device so abruptly. Then what's worse is that some things are never even explained. Why did the old man have Akao in his care in one of the flashbacks? When was Unit 1 hidden and why? Where did the Jinki REALLY come from? Why is the main villain so small and how did he create clones? What was Shiva exactly? Why was Akao's mom in Venezuela in the first place as a young girl? Why does the blond girl not button her top? There's a good story buried in there somewhere but it's tough to see through all the flashbacks.