over power mobile suit that can annihilate entire army check . weapon that hardly need to be aim and still annihilate everything check . mobile suit base on angel check . ok it a gundam series . this one and gundam wing and have good character development and real world complexity and interesting idea and some pretty eye candy . with character and the initially weak relena dorlan ( late peacecraft and then back to dorlan ) get strong and more independent ( although be still absolutely besotted with heero yuy and the series main character ) . the aforementioned heero and initially a cold and hard butcherer and become more and more human and while still remain in character . and see the lose millardo peacecraft ( whos nomm de guerre be zechs marquise ) float between oz and freelance and and command of white fang show how some people can really lose themselves in their own creation . the complexity of the political and military situation be also quite good reflect how the real world work . however and in 49 half hour episode and it do become a bit of a liability in that this complexity isn not use to it full potential . the idea at the core of the series the necessity of fighting and the desire for peace and etc be one that resonate even today . in retrospect and the series be ahead of it time and what with the war on terrorism and all . but it exploration of these idea and the monologue and especially those of treize kushrenada and be an incredible dramatic piece and form some of the best writing in the series . but that sometimes good writing be also sometimes extremely poor and which dramatically cause it to lose some of it edge . in term of eye candy and which be what this one have in bucketloads and everything from the mobile suit to the battleship libra ( no not the tampon you idiot . ) be wells design and and explodes in big ball of orange ( which be bad and because good animation would have have good explosion ) . but who care . stuff explodes and and thats all that matter . in short though and the sheer complexity of the series mean that if you miss out on a few episode and you have miss out on a lot . the poor writing can leave you cringe and and sometimes the animation make you go wtf . but this be make up for in it classic animation style and it scale and spark of incredible dialogue and and it more mature exploration that one expect of such japenese animation .