Dropped after nine episodes and realizing it will be a two cour show. I was never really content with it starting from the first episode already and it's only gotten worse. It feels like a kiddy show when your antagonists invade your base with an ice cream truck. The story's message is also forced and inconsistent, ass pulls are frequent and don't get me started on the amount of teen angst in this show. At least the art is consistent but I'm not a fan of the designs tho. I'm rating it unusually low but the show is not good enough and neither bad enough.

**5/10** I don't care what my average episode rating was (not that I was rating episodes waaaaaaaay back when I started watching this show…three years ago). _Captain Earth_ is just meh. The pacing is screwy. Almost every episode has at least one head-scratcher. There's wasted potential all over the place. But instead of using its potential, the show screwed around with teen angst and spent a ton of time showing mechs "expanding" in an overly complicated space-based linear assembly line…because what we need in mecha anime is definitely mechs that don't make sense. Feels like I can't write a review without tripping over plot holes every five words. I said it in a single-episode comment, but I'll say it again in general: the environment in this show is far too accommodating to the protagonists. Everything always works out _just so_ and they succeed at fixing whatever the problem of the week is. There's always a new prototype Impacter that's not done being tested yet but is available for Teppei or whoever to launch at a moment's notice and use to save the day. I guess you might like (parts of) this show if you're a fan of _deus ex machina_ writing, since there are an awful lot of cases where the perfect gadget (or Akari's hacking skills) _just so happen_ to address the problem at hand. And again, pacing… ugh. This show spends so much time on nonsense, slice-of-life filler that barely even advances the plot. There are tons of long, dialogue-heavy expository scenes that, well… if you know about screenwriting, you know about "show, don't tell". This show tells. A lot. So yeah. Meh. On the plus side, MAL says it took me precisely 1111 days to watch this show, so that's cool I guess.

This is a "safe" mecha anime to watch and by that I mean nothing is really taken over the top like a lot of other mecha anime; however, there are a lot of lackluster mecha fights. Character development is alright, action is so so and plot is decent. Overall, this is a decent mecha series from start to finish.

I don't understand why this show is so low rated. It's a bit stereotypical times but I've found it to be higher quality than most mecha animes out there. It's not the best this season but...