Zoids Genesis

This is my first review of any anime, so constructive criticism would be welcome. Also, I will try my best not to spoil anything. Zoids Genesis, or ZG for short, has a fairly good plot, and roughly half of the characters do get developed, though that leaves the other half with little to no development or backstory *cough*Seijurou*cough*. The plot starts off smoothly, with a rather…. “mediocre” goal, however, that goal changes as the plot progresses (and the original goal is never achieved). The change in plot however, makes it seem as though there wasn’t a change in plot, because they were basically doing the samething (Fighting the enemy army, Digald). The anime starts off slowly, first couple episodes being kind of a bore. However, the later episodes get pretty intense. One let down, is that when you see someone die, you think there dead. Then at the end of the episode, or a later episode, they are perfectly fine. The action in ZG is… what you’d expect of a Zoids anime, with the benefit of a fight in every episode, though unlike Zoids New Century there is a plot, and each fight has purpose. However, some fights have certain twists, which I aren’t “WOW THAT WAS AWESOME” worthy moments, but are enough to keep your interest. There is a tiny bit of humour. I can name maybe 2 episodes that made me laugh (though I admit, it isn’t exactly easy to make me laugh). So some may find humour in episodes I didn’t, but, the jokes weren’t ALL that. Towards the end however, the last 10 episodes to be specific, I was eagerly anticipating what was coming next (partly because I wanted to see what would happen next, and partly because I just wanted to add this to my ‘Completed’ list). However, there are some, “What the hell is that doing in a Zoids anime?” moments, and some even more, “What the hell just happened?” moments. Overall the anime could be better, but it isn’t downright terrible. Personally, because of nostalgia, and my love for Zoids when I was a child, I was generous and gave it an 8/10. For the sake of this review, I am not going to be so generous. 6/10 Still, I encourage you, if you like(d) Zoids, watch ZG.