- amazing animation and aesthetics. - gay subtext between the two main characters is interesting and fun, especially if you're rooting for it. - it feels like a piece of art that tries to be creative or interesting with basically almost everything it does, which might be exhausting to some people, especially since some of those things don't necessarily work, but i thought it was a delight - very delightfully campy and stupid. i know that's not everyone's thing, but i thought it was fantastic. a short list: - the fucking gun that the robots get shot out of - the stupid throne sit lio does when he first comes on screen - "deus x machina" - stupid names and lampshading of stupid names - stupid villian that says his own name like a pokemon - everything is just insanely overanimated - the fucking kiss + "i can't believe i lit a fire" - villain overanimation - given the loudness of the gay subtext, it's hard not to see the story as reminiscent of LGBTQ persecution. - here are some of the big parallels for me: - persecuted people that are just trying to live their life - narratives around the persecuted people being dangerous to the world or others, but mostly lack of actual harm - any time there is actual harm done by the persecuted people, it's a product of the system that persecuted them to begin with - any one could secretly be a member of the persecuted people - moralization around the persecution that's always held up as a front, but ultimately proven to be wrong - "it's not fair but it's necessary for us to survive" - moralization around the people - "why don't they just choose to live normal lives?" - this connection is disappointingly unmade at the end, where the burnish are just "fixed" at the end.