Cross Ange: Tenši to rjú no rondo

Cross Ange: Rondo of Angels and Dragons is about a world where citizens are those who can use "mana," where those who cannot are just things without any rights and freedoms, imprisoned and sentenced, e.g., to a lifetime of fighting dragons from another dimension with the help of mechanical robots and other similar deadly dangerous activities, sometimes even to death. However, it is mostly about a princess who has the misfortune of not being able to use mana, and although she does not know it thanks to her maid until a certain point, nothing lasts forever. Eventually, the princess is sentenced to serve her time in one of the women's prisons. In other words, it is pretty much a raw Mecha fantasy adventure set in a girls' prison where instead of gluing paper bags together, the girls fight dragons on giant robots, scheme against each other, make friends, live, and die. It is also about a princess who has lost everything and is forced to fight for her life, trying to survive as best she can. I am not a fan of the Mecha genre (with minor exceptions like Code Geass), and I stopped being friends with big robots that give beatdowns to all sorts of aliens when I saw Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers as a kid, so I rarely commit to something like this at all. The rawness of what I saw in the first two episodes was rather off-putting. However, because of the setting, I could understand. I was not amused by all the ecchi and yuri scenes. However, they are also related to the girls' prison setting (unlike some of my fellow reviewers who renamed it Fap Mecha). I liked the subject matter, which I found relatively interesting, and the fantasy world it is set in, and I also wanted to see how the main character would develop. After the fifth episode, I am now at the point where I am not enjoying it as much, the things I like are not getting as much screen time, and I find it rather boring, so I am quitting. I think it will find fans, but I am not one of them. 4/10.   (01/11/2014)