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I'll admit the first half is a very different tone from 0079 and Zeta Gundam, ZZ Gundam is a lot more lighthearted and comedy focused. I'm not really a fan of older comedy anime but trust me when I say the second half of the series more than makes up for the beginning. Around episode 20 or so the tone becomes a little more serious and the major overarching plot of Gundam starts moving forward again. Some of the best moments moments in Gundam are there in my opinion.

People often write off ZZ Gundam but I fully recommend it and if you're still skeptical it's ... worth to go through so you can watch the amazing Chars Counter Attack movie and finish up the Universal Century timeline!

Idk why this has such a low score, the idea of this show is so great, follow Zeon soldiers being hunted down by the recently deployed Gundams. The horror at how much stronger this one mobile suit is than whole platoons of Zakus, the helplessness of a war so quickly being turned around, it's a borderline horror anime. The animation is also incredibly amazing, it's CG but the mech and millitary fights are some of the best looking and directed in the entire Gundam franchise. This show deserves more than a 6.5 average.

That said it's not perfect, while the mech animation is stunning, the character ... animation is sub par and very janky at times. Also aside from the amazing premise, the actual story line and character writing is nothing special and sadly predictable, that is to say, not very good. This had the potential to be an all timer great Gundam series. So while there's some giant flaws I gave it an 8/10 to boost the overall score a bit and to say its 100% worth watching if you like really good looking mech fights.

Sadly this series is doomed to be a super niche underrated modern Gundam series, but don't sleep on it. And don't just take my word for it, Hideo Kojima gave it high praises on twitter too! lol

Lackluster adaptation of a great book series. This anime adapts it's source material at such a fast pace that all the nuance and character moments are lost. The first Boogiepop book was full of inner dialogue and had 6 different narrators that saw a central event through different lenses. The beauty of Boogiepop is learning about these narrators and how they view life and what they think is "normal" and then seeing how they react to supernatural occurrences. The anime adapts this first book in 3 episodes and completely lacks inner dialogue. So, the anime feels pretentious with characters spouting out haughty lines with little ... to no context. Because of this the first episode was kinda boring and up it's own ass. Not to mention the anime literally cuts out the most interesting narrator completely, essentially leaving one of my favorite characters in the first book, Kamikishiro, a husk of her book counterpart.

Then there's the production. It looks bad. Animation is lackluster and not very plentiful while characters look bland. They completely changed the character designs from the light novels. Even the light novel and manga adaptation artist went on twitter to complain about these character designs. Characters are also often drawn with no face which really bothers me.

The action animation is sometimes decent and sometimes laughably bad. The rotoscope looking fight scene of episode 3 was so just weird looking I couldnt help but laugh. However, The music from Kensuke Ushio (Liz Blue Bird, Devilman Crybaby), the op/ed, and Yuuki Aoi's voice acting is probably the best part of the show. Also there's weird directing with a lot of cutting from a scene with swelling music straight to silence in another scene which throws me off and annoys me every time it happens.

I wouldn't recommend watching this as all it'll do is spoil the amazing novels in an unsatisfactory way. I'm not saying you can't enjoy the show, I'm sure plenty of people who like a nonlinear mystery story could find it interesting, but as a reader of the light novels I just can't see this as anything but an uninspired butchering of a classic series. I usually dislike the whole "read the manga" stereotype but for real, the difference is night and day when it comes to the Boogiepop Anime vs Light Novels.