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[Antioch]

I don't think season 2 had a cliffhanger compared to season 1. It's meant to go either way now, sequel or no sequel, and deliberately had some "happily ever after" themes at the end and a "full circle" theme, too.

One thing that annoys me is why JSDF so OP, and there's powerful magic in this new world, yet that magic is only ever enlisted on the JSDF side. That's basically the author trying to have his cake and eat it at the same time. The baddies are 1-dimensional pure evil to justify their routine slaughter, yet they are just as dumbfounded by the appearance of magic (which is native to their world) as they are by high tech. So they need to be both pure frothing evil dictators, yet somehow not able to utilize the local magic tech whatsoever in their continent-shaking wars that have occurred. That makes no sense at all: many wizards should have flocked to protect their own countries in times of war over the centuries when they were threatened. Another thing is that there's a pretty robust gender divide here. Almost all the baddies are men, and the JSDF allies are women. The only exception is that one evil woman-behind-the-throne person, but she's much like a Disney Evil Queen/Wicked Witch type of character.

It is also quite mind boggling why the SDF seems to have no interest in studying magic AT ALL, they are almost completely apathetic towards its use and basically consider it normal.

[Trapezohedron]

The Author of Gate is known for his right-wing views of wanting to remilitarize Japan again. As such I believe it makes perfect sense that he depicts such as he believes things should be.

As for magic, well... eff if I know :/

[Reelya]

There's also quite a sub-theme where the guys itching to shoot things are the heroes, held back in their pursuit of all that is Just (and explodely) by those useless 'democratic governments' with their busy-body 'elected politicians', and the so-called 'media', shrieking about bullshit like 'human rights violations' and 'invading other countries'. This is another reason the bad guys have to be extra-evil: so that you actually cheer when the army goes off doing extra-judicial killings in a war zone, civilian oversight be damned! And it's very heavy-handed with making you feel like that, with the bad guys torturing cute little girls, and rogue military officers being the only savior.

"We need less civilian oversight on military operation! How else are we going to save the lolis?!?". That's literally the formula they slap you in the face with.

Seriously, the "heroes" in the final few episodes killed WAY more innocent people than the "bad guys" ever did. I mean, they just outright slaughter whole armies of regular joes, to save a very small number of people. Considering that they killed thousands to rescue only a few people, maybe the "critical media" guys have a point about use of excessive force?

[Twinwolf]

I finally started watching Madoka, after most people have given up trying to get me to watch it. Just finished the first episode.

Watch to about episode 3-4, that's generally when people decide if they like the show or not.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

This is where I'm supposed to start dropping random evil ominous laughs right?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Yes. Mwahahahahaha.

[Culise]

I finally started watching Madoka, after most people have given up trying to get me to watch it. Just finished the first episode.

Watch to about episode 3-4, that's generally when people decide if they like the show or not.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

This is where I'm supposed to start dropping random evil ominous laughs right?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Yes. Mwahahahahaha.

[Orange Wizard]

excessive force

Wait, sub-theme? I thought the nationalistic milwank was the whole point of the show.

[Flying Dice]

It is.

That and pedo-baiting, anyways.

[Reelya]

excessive force

Wait, sub-theme? I thought the nationalistic milwank was the whole point of the show.

The specific sub-theme I was referring to was the "stupid civilian leaders/journalists are holding us back" part.

That's a separate issue to the one in the last paragraph where I was pointing out that they wholesale slaughtered the natives, and you can have nationalistic milwank without the anti-government/anti-media part and without the "mass slaughtering people who can't fight back" part. All the other dumb shit in the show is basically to try and wallpaper over the fact that this show is about a high-tech invader killing lots of primitive people without any actual resistance.

[Chevaleresse]

Ooh, someone watching PMMM? And they've managed to go unspoiled? I didn’t think it was possible.

[Flying Dice]

I dunno. The whole "idiot incompetent liberal politicians and media trying to stop le honoroburu miritary from killing people" shows up pretty consistently in milwank. Certainly does from all the major mil-SF authors.

[JoshuaFH]

Mecha shows tend to very nearly always err on the side of "Height of technological progress" and the mechs themselves are therefore always flashy, showy, shiny, and impressive. Are there any mech shows where the mechs themselves are just shitty? Like, just fuckin janky and clanky. Preferably made of literal garbage? I think that'd be interesting.

[Orange Wizard]

Are there any mech shows where the mechs themselves are just shitty? Like, just fuckin janky and clanky. Preferably made of literal garbage? I think that'd be interesting.

That sounds amazing. I don't normally like mecha shows but that would be pretty darn cool.

[Solifuge]

I finally started watching Madoka, after most people have given up trying to get me to watch it. Just finished the first episode.

Watch to about episode 3-4, that's generally when people decide if they like the show or not.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

This is where I'm supposed to start dropping random evil ominous laughs right?

...posting to watch. Even though I was already watching this thread.

[Flying Dice]

Mecha shows tend to very nearly always err on the side of "Height of technological progress" and the mechs themselves are therefore always flashy, showy, shiny, and impressive. Are there any mech shows where the mechs themselves are just shitty? Like, just fuckin janky and clanky. Preferably made of literal garbage? I think that'd be interesting.

Kappa

[Furtuka]

Mecha shows tend to very nearly always err on the side of "Height of technological progress" and the mechs themselves are therefore always flashy, showy, shiny, and impressive. Are there any mech shows where the mechs themselves are just shitty? Like, just fuckin janky and clanky. Preferably made of literal garbage? I think that'd be interesting.

Can't say anything on the actual content due to a lack of personal experience, but some of the works of mechanical designer Makoto Kobayashi might fit the asthetic you're looking for depending on how literal you are being with that description, particularly his designs in Dragon's Heaven.