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Salrite posted...

I just have a real hard time with shonen anime tropes and that one was filled with them. Otherwise would have probably loved it.

I feel like it almost managed to transcend the shounen tropes to enough of an extent as to make them more ironic than played straight, but it didn't quite achieve that. Broadly, you can look at it and say that the fact that it goes from a robot in a hole in the ground to robots kicking galaxies at each other is so absurd as to be poking fun at shounen power creep, but plenty of other tropes are played pretty straight and that makes it hard to call it a deconstruction or anything like that.

In general, though, the theme of "if you don't have enough confidence in yourself, trust in the confidence I have in you" and supporting Simon's character growth with that was enjoyable.