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Cross Ange is one of my favorite mecha animes and one of the most underrated. It has great art and great characters. If you love the Amazon trope you'll love this show (and if you don't you might hate it). I really like how the mechas are portrayed; it actually kind of makes sense how they transform between a kind of hoverbike and a giant humanoid robot. Probably a lot more energy efficient.

The characters are portrayed realistically, from the womanizing fighter jock lesbian captain to the main character to the rest. It's awesome. The villain is an intriguing take ... on an evil immortal genius but is otherwise not super important to the story, except for as a villain. In many ways this series is a slice of life military story (at least in its first half), in that sense I don't think the villain is all that important to the show.

Anyway, give the series a chance if you like mecha shows.

I enjoyed Infinite Dendogram. Yes the main character is badly written, but the others make up for it. I didn't care what happened to Ray Starling, but I found all the other characters compelling, from Marie the alleged journalist to Hugo and Franklin to even Nemesis.

It's an enjoyable and light-hearted show, especially if you pretend that someone other than Ray is the main character. Unlike many shonen shows Dendogram doesn't surround Ray with people who worship him--Ray is treated as either a friend or a lovable little brother, a welcome break from "the sun" trope that's been done to death in shonen. ... This is what makes the other characters so compelling and is why they're able to compensate for the shallow tropeyness of Ray.

Assassins Pride is an enjoyable enough show. It's not super good, but not super bad either. It has the usual problems light novel adaptations tend to have (uneven pacing, a plot that isn't resolved, etc). I'd watch a second season if they made one.

I think people are underselling this show. The plot premise is really quite simple: an assassin is hired to investigate if the daughter of a powerful noble house is illegitimate; if she is, he's ordered to kill her. But the reality of murdering a 13 year old girl is too much for our assassin; he decides to ... do everything in his power to help her instead. Making her powerful (both martially and in politics) becomes his revenge on an unjust society.