And now, I am watching Super Robot Taisen: Divine Wars.
What happens when you take roughly 80 episodes worth of plot and politics, and try to cram it into a 26 episode show? Divine Wars, that's what.
In order to understand the show, one really has to have played the games. because in the rush to put things on screen, a great deal of valuable context goes right out the window.
The show is unadulterated fan service, but not of the semi-naked women kind. It throws any attempts to make sense out the window, and instead focuses on showing us gorgeous 3D animations of the series mecha beating the snot out of each other - Which is what everyone came here to see.
It also does orchestral versions of many of the game's best pieces of music. The special rendition of "Trombe!" is a personal favourite of mine.
Divine Wars is for the Die-Hard mecha fan or SRT fan ONLY. The appeal lies in the fact that we already know all of these characters, and watching a show about them is awesome, not in the show's merits as a show itself. It is a video game anime, after all.
One odd thing is watching all of the playable characters who were originally in the DC fight the protagonists. Because while the Earth Federation Army isn't perfect, the Divine Crusaders have some straight-up evil people among them.