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Gah... short and sweet review.

PROS
Animation is better, pretty good in fact.
Character design although generic does give you something to hang on and you're not going "is that A or B?".

CONS
Although it's not got all the problems of Chaos;Head but still has a lot of them - go read that review and come back, cause this ain't much better.
The route cause is the Giglacrappery is just a rubbish tenet to build a story around, which is also poorly implemented.
The pace is slightly better than Chaos;Head, but it's still a problem.
Not sure there's any likeable characters in this, although the main kid is slightly more ... likeable.

Others obviously like it - you may be one.
Go make up your own mind.

Bleak, Harrowing, and little confused.

The big questions here are:
1. Is it exploitative of the subject matter/misery porn? Possibly.
2. Is it able to provide a reasonable resolution? No.

It does an ok job of touching on a lot of common problems, and injects some humour.
There's some worthy observations on human psychology and how they act.
However, the switch is clumsy and you're meant to sympathise with an abusive child - things may explain her actions but it doesn't excuse them, and never will.

... Big shout out to the animation switch for Happy World, it's not perfect but there's a really good bit here.

In writing this I upped a point - there's a lot right here that could in the hands of a master been much better, but you can taste it.
I'm still struggling with whether it's exploitative or not, and leaning into a yes.

Very uneven bag, and really with the talent attached should have been much much better.

1. Plot: Why have they allowed someone to rewrite Gundam79? Really don't see the need for this, it's a less than zero sum.
Is there some idiots out there complaining 79/Zeta/etc are too long for their tiny attention spans?
You're really not off to a good start when you set yourself up to fail like this by taking one of the best anime's that has stood the test of time nearly 50 years later, and then take all of it's depth and throw it away.
1b. The last episode, with the explanation ... - with the central tenet of the entire thing is a really bad Fanfic excuse of Gundam Universe... as others have said "embarrassing grade school" fanfic level of writing.
2. Themes: LGBTIQA+/"Girls Are Best" has become over saturated in industry. It's forced here. Where it worked for Witch from Mercury as that was independent, here they're dragging the corpse of 79 with it and totally ignore all that juicy psychologically damaging grown up crap that happens to poor Amuro Ray. Where Amuro is undoubtably a hero who's forced into a situation, her "Super Girl and Co" magically are just instantly so much better than any of the characters.
2b. Wish-fulfilment of the LCD stupid be damned we're gonna do it anyway!!!!
Awful, and have we not, as an entire species, learnt after the Star Wars Sequels completely train-crashed the greatest franchise on the planet? No... seems not.
Get ready to trawl through some ere, at least at the beginning, it looks like the sort of crap that comes out of the US, and worse really invalidates everything else.
2c. Amuro is here to try and lend some OG weight... oh wait... no no... that's really really bad fanfic writing level crap.
2d. All New Types are weird... cause they're all outcasts... in the bin.
3. Animation Quality Mixed quality of character drawing - Char and the Adults look really good for what was intended - they've really captured the late 70s look. I'm not sure why some of them have been redesigned.
The kids look like it was animated by an entirely different team of grads and look bad.
3b. Why is Jessie from Pokemon here? Surely that should have been the point someone went "This looks a bit crap"
3c. Mobile Suits and Gundam look great.
4. Music: never the Gundam series strong point, but the OP/ED on this is bad bad, one of the worst Gundam and one of the worst OPs on an anime this year.
It's no Zeta put it that way.
The internal music is great as ever.
5. I know it's 13 vs 46 of the old series, and yet, this feels to only really get going in episode 8.
That's not a good flow to a story.
6. Dub: After 2 episodes realised it wasn't worth the effort to watch it subs so switched - and it's ok. No overtly squeaky voice crap.
7. Robot on Head Stupidity Stupid Character Design: that's gonna hurt.
8. The two new leads are really quite unlikeable "Zany kids"!

The more I wrote the more I realised that this isn't just a badly written anime, it's some sub-level fanfic level rubbish.
I kept trying to think of good things but besides the quality anime itself (marred by the utterly childish designs of the kids) there really is very little to recommend it. When I'd rather watch more ZZ over this it's telling... I've had ZZ on the go for nearly a year and picking away at it cause it's so poor, but this might be the worst Gundam yet (well I'll come back on this when I get off UC - cause that's where the 2nd greatest and really bad Gundam is).
The best thing I think of it is you can multi-task with the dub and burn through it.

MAL really needs to do Series and Seasons as separate reviewable thing.
I really don't care for voting a single season, so this is for all of it.
So thanks to Mothers Basement for pointing this one out as worthy of time, as he's right.

KonoSuba is trash. There's no doubt about it... but instead of dumpster trash this is takeaway trash - you know it's bad, but by god it's so enjoyable. It's also actually decidedly quite well observed of humans.

Story is per normal a load of thin nonsense to carry the characters and it knows it, allowing the great characters to do the ... heavy lifting. Again they may be heavy leaning on archetypes but they've got personalities, and do all the heavy lifting.
I don't think I've ever felt my teenage life felt more than by Kazutrash.

It does that rare thing of making you actually care for them.

Art is great, voice acting and dubbing both worth your time.

Fan Service is heavy, but without it you'd lose a lot of the story of awkward humans being awkward.

And if you're one of those self important derpy idiots that cannot accept that humans are always flawed well that's a you problem and must be a joy to be around.

I grew up watching some of the original Anime spin off from the manga in the 90s.
You can still tell that this was written in the good ol' days of manga/anime where it was totally all boobs and gore.
Now what's not to like with that? Well... I'm old and I've seen a lot of other things and this isn't enough to captivate like it did a young boy.

I've got to start with the art direction, which I've seen criticised. It's spot on, capturing the 70s manga style which was much more comic. You can see how the lineage of this traces back to ... original Astroboy/Tetsuwan Atomu.

Story wise, it's really quite faithful to the manga, which is 10/10 spot on as it should be. I despise adaptions (unless done by the original author) where they take huge liberties, and we've seen in more recent times (well apart from the US where they produce the worse crap possible with Rings of Power) where directors are able to keep their ego in check. It's famous for a reason and doesn't need some 3rd rate idiot inserting their own rubbish that needs the z rate hacks at Screen Rate to be bought to justify it.

The whole theory behind it isn't bad - and was an original take back then - it's less so now, so newbies will either hit that they've already seen this, or will really enjoy.

It is definitely worth watching for a piece of re-enacted and righted history (the original series and OVAs deviate wildly from the manga and miss many of the biggest points), so it leans into the mangas message that Humans are weak trash, as we're currently seeing around the world. Ah well...

Life's too short for mediocre anime.
So in my new "If ain't good dump" this is the first to get dumped, and I sat through Devilman Crybaby before this...

This was stuck on my list at some point due to it's above 7 rating, which has in more recent times dropped below 7. This is correct, it's not a Good piece of media, but from my view it's not even a 6 "Fine".

There's nothing wrong with the animation, voice acting, dub etc... it's just... well the story is boring, treads old ground having been done many times before, and lacks nuance. Now sometimes there's enough ... uniqueness elsewhere that these things can be forgiven but as a package this just misses the mark. And for all this, it must be doing something right as it's not a Bad anime.

It may be great for people new to Anime, but it's not for someone in their 4th decade, and looking through the reviews of those that think it's great or bad seems to justify this. All the great reviews are from people who've not reviewed and recent acounts. Will be one of those they look back on and go "oh why did I think so highly".

Thought I'd go through the other Science Adventures, thank god I didn't start with this one or might have been done for the lot - believing that Stein;Gate was a luck out - well, it is to some degrees.

Watched Stein;Gate years ago when it was all the rage and it was great having that weekly release - with everyone talking and discussing online. It's recognised for a reason.

Have since done Robotics and Occultics - neither on the same level but at least enjoyable and watchable.

This on the other hand... you hear there's a lot wrong with it and they aren't wrong.
Animation and Voice ... Acting isn't too bad (except the extra squeeeeeeaky voiced kid one. Really wish everyone involved in this stupid little voice thing get in the bin with this crap, it continues to plague anime and makes each unbearable.

The real issue here is the story - it's starts really well... then falls into the "I did it, but I've amnesia!" and then "I did it, but it wasn't really me it was my other personality", and facepalms of crap tropes that should have been assigned to the dustbin of crap that makes your program crap: like time travel (Oh... hey their Stein;Gate... how did you pull that off???)
It then ditches the murder mystery and goes into a sort of crap Super Sentei.
Pacing is well off, story is off, and what it's got is derivative crap.

So bad that when I saw my review this week I couldn't remember anything about it (Bit like Jared Leto's Moebius). So i've got half way through again and gone "oh... it's this one that doesn't ever land", and reduced it another mark.

Oh OP and ED music is unmemorable generic anime.

-1 point because if Chaos;Child is bad, this must be Very Bad.

I always like to have a dig around the reviews to see what others have said and especially in the opposite opinion to see what they think, and then go see what they rate. Normally I find that they like all the utter trash childish anime and have obviously missed the point entirely. Interesting there's a few people in this one that don't fit this and I'm genuinely surprised.

I blitzed this in a day - which is rare, but it was good enough to keep watching.
It's not Bebop, Monster, or Pluto good - but then again what is?
It's also not Iseku trash, which instantly ... means it's better than 95% of anything in the last 10 years.

But why is 91 Days is good?
It is very well written - people act like real people (although driven by plot people do , and there's a good understanding of what people do.
Angelo is broken - and you've got to love a broken protagonist you can actually relate to instead of a boring OP one.
He's got the dead tone of a PTSD burnout and acts like a PTSD burnout.
His friendship wish Corteo feels real.
The reviewers don't like episode 7 - it's called love, and if you don't understand this you've never lost someone you love. Imagine if you'd lost someone they turn up and then you have it within your power to save them? Wouldn't you? A genuine beautiful piece.

It's 12 episodes - I don't need 200 episodes to tell me a 12 episode story. Thank you!
It's well voice acted.
It's well animated and the movement looks great/realistic (except the bonus episode which looks really cheap and doesn't add anything).

So... if you want a grown up action anime this is up there.

There's a lot right with this, but it can't escape the gravity of poor/generic writing that is currently infecting a lot of manga/anime.

For the majority this is probably an anime they will enjoy.
For old discerning gits who've been watching Anime since the 70s... it's all been done before, commits the same problems a lot of the current crop do. Don't expect anything new, expect okish writing, expect OP protagonists that don't have any character arcs or any fear of issues, and reminisce back to the 80s/90s when we had some truly great anime that surpassed it's source (ahem... GITS).

Going to start at the ... big thing it gets right: the world building.
Loads of interesting things to get behind at the beginning and it's dipping into 1800 European etc allows you to make some leaps without having to spell it all out.

The art style works really well - backing up the whole 1800 European, slightly Steampunk thing that's going on.

But, as said the problem is the core: the writing... which is largely Over Powered wish fulfilment rubbish for children or those weak of adulting.

The characters, although all very likeable are all instantly overpowered at the beginning, so you only get fleeting bits of any real danger, and after 5 episodes you realise that it's all good - nobody's gonna die but the bad guy and it's just plain ol' plain old in a new set of clothes.

Ok... Wasted enough time on this already.

After the Lodoss War OVA this is an utter multi-train crash where all the trains contained trash.
I've been trying to get through this for the last 24+ years since it's initial release. Back in the day before the internet made finding this easy it was all dodgy VCDs from some random model shops... and this was always a struggle to find... and then you did and you understood why: it's offensively bad.

I'm struggling to find a nice thing to say about this... except the OP Music: it's surprisingly great - and you'll find yourself humming it around the ... house.

But I know what you're really here for - some more chibi bashing... and my god does it need bashing so this crap goes away and never ever comes back into this type of anime. It's utterly charmless and hugely annoying rubbish that takes up sometimes over half the run time of an episode... for what? I want to cause harm to whichever idiot decided this needed to be there.
I don't have the words to reach the depths to describe quite how backed up a sewerage system this is.
I know much like Fate there's a whole "Chibi Cooking thing" for the painfully short of adult as well... but that's a whole separate series that can be very ignored by anyone who's not a child.

As others mentioned, there is a lot of overlap with the OVA (due to how the OVA is a mix of stories from the LNs/Manga).
So what to do if someone has already covered the same material? You make it better right... right??? right???????
Nooooo, lower quality everything: animation, voice acting (both Japanese and English dub), and somehow make the story bad - upping all the poor aspects.

Unlike the OVA which is the closest thing I've still seen to a proper enacted RPG session (even better than the recent US ones), this ditches that entire feel for a very poor run of the mill 90s fantasy anime.

Someone needs to save everyone a lot of time by removing every ms of Chibi crap from this and reducing the runtime to about 1.5hours. Or just go watch the OVA again, as everything is done better... 8 years earlier.