And frankly, character animation is horrendous unless I were to
believe that this were done in the 80's. It's got the extremely
exaggerated facial expressions, which I hate, as well as jerky
character movements. Note that jerkiness and low-frame count are not
related! Anyway, these are the reasons I hate old robot shows. I
grew out of my boyhood long time ago. That is not to say that I'm all
grown up, as I still consider myself a child at heart, but I'm
definitely not boyish. I don't think I ever were much of a boy,
actually. I did watch a lot of the robot anime, but I don't think I
enjoyed them all that much. I enjoyed shows like Minky Momo and Seri
far more than Mazinger Z and Grandizer.
Admittedly, I do think that the creature (Blue) designs, mecha
designs, and action scene animation are superb, again in the
traditional 80's fashion. Too bad. I don't care much for that.
Blue Gender is a great show. It's just some 20 years too late. I
will watch the last volume one of these days, but I don't know when.
It's on my low-priority list.
P.S. Not really caring for old robot anime doesn't mean that I don't understand them. If I didn't understand them, I wouldn't have put Nadesico on my best of the best list.