[quote=@Lurking Shadow]
Hell in Tiberium Sun I can say there is a lot of politics and quasi-religious things in the Brotherhood of Nod in between the power struggles of a splintered faction, murdering the leader of a neutral faction and framing it on your foe, weird green crystals from space, a weird blue orb (also from space and with vague space prophecies), and the time a bald man almost genetically modified all carbon-based life to be tiberium-based instead with the World Altering Missile because of said vague space prophecy. There was so much backstabbing and questionable plot elements, but I loved the cheesy scifi B-movie quality of it.


That aside, I get what you're saying a bit more now. Now to await the next IC post and maybe...maybe do some interactions.
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Oh, I have no intrinsic problems with either politics or supernatural/mystical elements in mecha anime or sci-fi in general. I mean, the Universal Century timline of Mobile Suit Gundam has a substantial amount of political elements and some quasi-mystical elements with the evolution of humans into Newtypes, and it's regarded as the originator of the 'real robot' genre, and holds the same cultural position in the Japanese consciousness as Star Trek does in the western one.
With Gasaraki the problem is more that they tried to include all those elements but didn't really do a good job of tying them all together into the plot, and it ends up feeling like a lot of ideas that were jotted down but not really linked together.