Choujuu Kishin Dancougar: Hakunetsu no Shuushou

No spoilers apart from vaguely mentioning things like character derailment / who the main characters are. -- Behold, the poorly planned, shockingly mean end of a fantastic mecha series. An OVA that feels entirely pointless compared to the two OVA before it, and makes you feel like you somehow traveled back in time and to an alternate universe where every character is worse. Dancougar was a fantastic mecha anime for its time, the animation of the original TV show was definitely more limited in comparisson to something like Zeta Gundam, but it didn't matter that it was a slideshow a lot of the time because ... the characters were real, they had soul! This epilogue is a complete mess of character degradation and trying to retread ideas from previous entries. Prior to this anime being made, there was several other OVA epilogues to Dancougar, including Dancougar: Requiem for Victims (a much better OVA than this), and the utterly fantastic God Bless Dancougar, which felt like a movie at times, and had a true feeling of finality, conclusion and passing the torch to new generations.
So, for some reason after making those fantastic OVAs, they decided to make this, Dancougar: The Blazing Epilogue. This OVA is such a complete and utter character derailment, after the OVAs that came before it. In the previous installments, we saw the heroes Shinobu, Sara, Masato and Ryo, come together to save the earth with mecha (not any groundbreaking premise, but the likability of the characters and the twists made it great!) Yet for some reason in this OVA, Masato isn't allowed to come along. Yep, they just took him out.
On top of this, the main focus of this OVA is trying to develop Shapiro (the villain character) more, but they achieved this by literally backpedalling and implying he still has romantic feelings for someone who he didn't have any feelings for during the end of the TV show, which this is supposed to take place after...
The bizarre writing with Shapiro, the insulting of Masato, and just the utter writing messiness of this OVA is... really something. Like this was a show (and two OVAs) that was about this team of 4, is now about a team of 3, because the writers of this hated Masato... Don't believe me? It gets worse. The writers for this OVA go out of their way to add as many insulting character traits to Masato as possible that he never had before, making him into a cheater and emotional abuser. The utter confusion of this, when he was previously one of the most hopeful characters in the original show (he was basically like the little brother of the team, and many fans have predicted that he was originally intended to be a younger character, until the writers realized it wouldn't make sense for him to be in the military if they made his age too young. Which, the fact that they made him an a young adult, did make it admittedly a little awkward that his love interest was younger than him... But listen, it was the 80s and Masato was a gentleman and did everything right in terms of the relationship, waiting till they were both adults to pursue it further.) Anyway, I better stop before I ramble too hard.
The animation is fine but a bit too satured in greens and gross looking colors for my liking (God Bless Dancougar was an OVA too, but it looked better and had better shading).
I would say Dancougar fans may enjoy some of the fights, but I really am disappointed with this. God Bless was the better ending.